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Radar/EW
AN/TPY-2 radar from Raytheon delivered to Missile Defense Agency - News
March 19, 2013
TEWKSBURY, MA. Raytheon officials delivered their eighth AN/TPY-2 radar to the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to serve in terminal mode as the fire control radar in the U.S. Army's Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense system.
Comms
Trance 3 Typhoon fighter enters electromagnetic testing - News
March 18, 2013
LONDON. Officials at BAE Systems announced the they single seat fighter -- the Tranche 3 Typhoon -- has begun electromagnetic testing. EMC testing will last about eight weeks, then the single-seat no 116 aircraft will undergo avionics testing before moving to engine ground runs.
Avionics
Air Force endorses F-16 cockpit Center Display Unit from Raytheon - News
March 14, 2013
INDIANAPOLIS. Air Force officials endorsed the Center Display Unit (CDU) from Raytheon Technical Services Company LLC (RTSC) as the F-16 cockpit's primary flight reference (PFR). The Air Force also awarded Raytheon a contract to produce the first 100 CDUs. Full-rate production of these displays is already underway.
Unmanned
Navy orders more Fire Scout unmanned helicopters from Northrop Grumman - News
March 13, 2013
SAN DIEGO. Northrop Grumman won a U.S. Navy contract valued at more than $71 million to build six more next-generation Fire Scout unmanned helicopters. The Fire Scout endurance upgrade, dubbed the MQ-8C and based on Bell Helicopter's 407, will enable ship commanders to have greater range, endurance, and payload capacity over the current Fire Scout MQ-8B variant.
From The Editor
Military not deploying to trade shows - Story
March 12, 2013
Outside of Special Forces and unmanned trade shows, attendance at industry events has scaled back with DoD budgets.
Avionics
Military avionics designs embrace common standards and TRLs - Story
March 12, 2013
The task of improving situational awareness for military pilots in a tough budget climate with little development funding available requires designers to use open architectures and common standards to keep costs down. This trend also has fueled the enthusiasm behind the FACE Consortium, which promises long-term potential savings of billions of dollars by enabling software reuse across multiple avionics platforms.
Avionics
Virtual F-15SA pilot training to be provided to Saudi pilots by Lockheed Martin - News
March 12, 2013
ORLANDO, Fla. Lockheed Martin won a $253 million contract agreement to begin designing ground-based maintenance training systems for Royal Saudi Air Force F-15SA pilots as part of the country’s F-15SA upgrade program.
Radar/EW
Three rugged displays in one chassis for extreme environments - Product
March 11, 2013
Looking to meet needs for larger screen space in a reduced rack-mount form factor, Chassis Plans designers in San Diego created the TFX-9 trifold rack-mount LCD monitor that provides enhanced situational awareness via its three screens. The rugged monitor comes in a 2U form factor with wid...
Radar/EW
ISR video enabled by rugged encoder - Product
March 11, 2013
Engineers at Haivision in Lake Forest, IL have leveraged their commercial video encoding technology into a rugged chassis called the Makito Air for airborne and mobile Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) applications. Makito Air enables encoding of video and metadata trans...
Comms
Digital table tracks sensor data for battlefield commanders - Product
March 11, 2013
The touch-screen and easy-to-use interfaces of digital tablets enhance situational awareness, improve communication, and enable more efficient decision making for those on the move.
Comms
Secure military communications in 4 GHz spectrum - Product
March 11, 2013
Now that the U.S. military, civilian agencies, and NATO countries have exclusive rights to the 4 GHz spectrum for mobile and fixed communications, they need solutions in this range that can operate securely in harsh environments. Engineers at Cambium Networks in Rolling Meadows, IL are mee...
Comms
Air Force Infrared surveillance satellites contract won by Lockheed Martin - News
March 06, 2013
SUNNYVALE, CA. Lockheed Martin won a $284.4 million fixed-price Air Force contract to supply long lead parts for the fifth and sixth Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) satellites that are in the Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) missile warning constellation.
Avionics
FACE Edition 2.0 avionics standard approved and published - News
March 04, 2013
DAYTON, OH. Officials at the Open Group announced that the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE™), Edition 2.0, -- has been unanimously approved and published by organization's Governing Board. The FACE standard essentially enables software applications that have the common FACE API to have portability across multiple avionics platforms -- from rotary wing to fixed wing to unmanned aircraft.
Avionics
First MH-60 Digital Cockpit completed for Australian Romeo helicopter - News
March 04, 2013
AVALON, Australia. Lockheed Martin engineers finished the 400th Common Cockpit avionics suite for the U.S. Navy’s MH-60 Seahawk helicopter program. The digital cockpit will be integrated on the first of 24 MH-60R (Romeo) anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare helicopters to be procured by the Royal Australian navy through the U.S. Government’s Foreign Military Sales program.
Radar/EW
UK MOD Mode 5 Identification Friend or Foe system capability completes trials - News
March 01, 2013
HARLOW, England. Raytheon UK and Thales UK engineers conducted over-the-air Mode 5 Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) interoperability tests at Raytheon's Matching Green test range. The trials used the Thales TSA1412 Interrogator and Raytheon UK's IFF4810 Transponder, which also is the standard fit SIFF (Successor IFF) product, that features the Mode 5-enabled upgrade.
Comms
DoD GPS cost savings program to be continued by Rockwell Collins - News
February 27, 2013
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa. Rockwell Collins won a Defense Production Act (DPA) Title III Program from the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manufacturing and Industrial Base Policy to continue to the next phase of the Low Cost Military GPS program.
Cyber
CodeSonar Visualization gets new enhancements to help detect code defects - News
February 26, 2013
NUREMBERG, Germany. Engineers at GrammaTech, Inc., announced today at Embedded World in Nuremberg new enhancements their CodeSonar product's software architecture visualization features. They include a new treemap view that enables users to more easily see the hierarchical structure of code in a information-dense form. This view also uses colorization to highlight the density of defects in modules so users can identify the code's most problematic parts.
From The Editor
AUSA Winter Symposium a slow show in 2013 - Other
February 21, 2013
FORT LAUDERDALE, FL. It looks like the AUSA Winter Symposium's last visit to Fort Lauderdale is going out with a whimper rather than a roar. Like many other military trade shows in the U.S. this annual gathering near the Florida beaches saw a serious decline in business as the Department of Defense cuts back on travel in anticipation of sequestration and other budget cuts.
Unmanned
Excalibur precision guided projectile to begin LRIP - News
February 20, 2013
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates. Raytheon engineers will produce Excalibur Increment Ib precision-guided projectiles under a U.S. Army fiscal year 2012 contract. This contract -- worth $56.6 million -- marks the beginning of Excalibur Ib low-rate initial production (LRIP).
Avionics
F-35 carrier variant production model completes first sortie - News
February 19, 2013
FORT WORTH, Texas. Lockheed Martin's first F-35C carrier variant production model -- also known as CF-6 -- completed its first sortie. Once the jet fighter is delivered later this year, it will be assigned to U.S. Navy Fighter Attack Squadron 101 (VFA-101) located at Eglin AFB, FL.
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