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All-electric satellite from Boeing meets critical design review - News
August 06, 2013
EL SEGUNDO, CA. – The electric-powered 702 Small Platform (702SP) from Boeing passed its critical design review, enabling the new program to place two satellites into assembly, integration, and testing. The 3- to 8-kilowatt satellite started on its 702 product line last spring as a more simple design that could be built more quickly while costing and weighing less than traditional satellites. Its all-electric propulsion reduces the spacecraft’s mass and maximizes its available payload.
Radar/EW
F-16 AESA radar upgrade to use Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR) from Northrop Grumman - News
August 05, 2013
LINTHICUM, MD. The Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR), designed by Northrop Grumman engineers will be used by Lockheed Martin for the U.S. Air Force and Taiwan F-16 Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) upgrade and modernization programs.
Radar/EW
Rugged display computer enables synthetic aperture sonar - Product
July 31, 2013
The MAGIC1 rugged display computer from GE Intelligent Platforms in Huntsville, AL, provides processing capability for signal processing intensive applications such as radar, sonar, and image processing.
Comms
Spacecraft radiation monitoring enabled by Teledyne device - Product
July 31, 2013
The Micro Dosimeter (P/N UDOS001) from Teledyne Microelectronic Technologies in Los Angeles is a compact hybrid microcircuit that directly measures Total Ionizing Dose (TID) absorbed by an internal silicon test mass.
Comms
SPARC-based microprocessors for space applications - Product
July 31, 2013
Engineers at Aeroflex Colorado Springs improved performance in a 130 nanometer CMOS process with their new microprocessors – the UT699E and the UT700. The UT699E is an enhanced version of the company’s UT699.
Comms
Air Force Distributed Mission Operations Network contract won by Northrop Grumman - News
July 31, 2013
ORLANDO, FL. Northrop Grumman Corp. won a U.S. Air Force contract to continue delivering network and integration services under the Distributed Mission Operations Network (DMON) 2.0 service contract. The DMON allows dissimilar aircraft platforms scattered across the globe to train and interoperate together in a realistic virtual environment.
Unmanned
UAS payloads get smarter sensors, enhanced imagery in smaller packages - Story
July 31, 2013
Requirements for smart sensors that can see further and produce high-quality imagery in small, low-weight packages are driving Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) payloads development. Designers of these systems also face challenges such as balancing reduced Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP) requirements while increasing performance, uncertain Department of Defense funding priorities, and data link bandwidth limitations.
Unmanned
UAS military market evolves beyond U.S. - Story
July 31, 2013
UAS platforms will be an important part of the nation's future defense strategy, but with the war in Afghanistan winding down, there is uncertainty regarding military UAS requirements.
Radar/EW
Long-range surveillance radar -- 3DELRR -- demonstrated to Air Force by Lockheed Martin - News
July 29, 2013
SYRACUSE, N.Y. Lockheed Martin engineers completed a demonstration of its prototype Three-Dimensional Expeditionary Long-Range Radar (3DELRR)-range for the U.S. Air Force. It will replace the Air Force's AN/TPS-75 air search radar and become the principal long-range, ground-based sensor for detecting, identifying, and reporting airborne targets.
Unmanned
Navy gets upgraded Fire Scout - News
July 24, 2013
SAN DIEGO. Northrop Grumman officials delivered the first upgraded MQ-8 Fire Scout Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) to the Navy this month to prepare for ground and flight testing.
Radar/EW
E-2D Advanced Hawkeye production contract by Northrop Grumman - News
July 23, 2013
BETHPAGE, N.Y. Northrop Grumman Corp. won a $113.7 million advance acquisition contract from the U.S. Navy for five full-rate production Lot 2 E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft long-lead materials and related support.
Comms
Rad-hard ultra low dropout linear regulator released by Intersil at NSREC - News
July 10, 2013
SAN FRANCISCO. Engineers at Intersil Corp. in Milpitas, CA announced a new radiation-hardened (rad-hard) ultra low dropout linear regulator -- the ISL75052SEH -- at the Nuclear Space and Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC) in San Francisco this week. The device is single output LDO that is specified for an output current as high as 1.5A.
Radar/EW
New SPARC-based microprocessors announced by Aeroflex Colorado Springs at NSREC - News
July 09, 2013
SAN FRANCISCO. Engineers at Aeroflex Colorado Springs released new microprocessors this week at the Nuclear Space and Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC) in San Francisco. The products – UT699E and the UT700 – have more performance on a 130-nanometer CMOS process.
Comms
Rad-hard SSRAM devices in flow-through and pipeline modes announced by Aeroflex Colorado Springs at NSREC - News
July 09, 2013
SAN FRANCISCO. Radiation-hardened (rad-hard) synchronous static random access memory (SSRAM) devices for flow-through and pipeline mode by Aeroflex Colorado Springs engineers at the Nuclear Space and Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC) held this week in San Francisco.
Comms
ARC-210 airborne radio demonstrates MUOS satellite signal reception in Rockwell Collins tests - News
July 08, 2013
CEDAR RAPIDS, IA. The ARC-210 advanced networking airborne V/UHF radio from Rockwell Collins received its first Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite signal during a series of tests held at the company's Poway, CA, facility.
Comms
Enhanced Polar System Control and Planning Segment review completed by MILSATCOM and Northrop Grumman - News
July 05, 2013
MCLEAN, VA. Northrop Grumman Corp. engineers performed the preliminary design review and software requirements and architecture review for the Polar System (EPS) Control and Planning Segment (CAPS). The system enables space-enabled, secure communications capabilities for polar users in support of national objectives. EPS CAPS provides telemetry and control, cryptographic planning and mission planning for the EPS payload.
Unmanned
Persistent Surveillance software package to be built by Raytheon for NAVAIR - News
July 03, 2013
DULLES, VA. Officials at the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) selected Raytheon to produce an integrated multi-INT system for safeguarding forward deployed forces. The Persistent Surveillance System Cross Domain Solution (PSS CDS) provides warfighters with an advantage by enabling a complete picture of impending threats, from classified and unclassified sources.
Comms
Third SBIRS satellite payload deployed to Air Force by Lockheed Martin - News
July 02, 2013
SUNNYVALE, CA. The third of four highly elliptical earth orbit (HEO) satellite payloads was delivered by Lockheed Martin to the U.S. Air Force for the Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS).
Avionics
Army helicopter maintenance contract awarded to Lockheed Martin - News
June 26, 2013
DALLAS. Lockheed Martin won an aircraft maintenance and logistics contract from the U.S. Army Contracting Command at Redstone Arsenal, AL, to deliver field and sustainment-level maintenance for U.S. Army helicopters.
Radar/EW
Littoral combat ship (LCS) mine countermeasure mission package integrated by Northrop Grumman - News
June 25, 2013
BETHPAGE, N.Y. Northrop Grumman Corp. won a Navy contract worth $28 million for engineering and production planning services for surface warfare and mine countermeasures mission module components that will be deployed from, and be integrated with, the littoral combat ship (LCS).
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