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Unmanned
Air-Launched Missile Target Prototype tested by Lockheed Martin & MDA - News
May 13, 2013
HUNTSVILLE, AL. Lockheed Martin and U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) engineers tested a prototype of the air-launched Extended Medium-range Ballistic Missile (eMRBM) target at the Yuma Proving Ground, AZ.
Unmanned
New 3U OpenVPX solution released by Pixus - News
May 08, 2013
WATERLOO, Ontario. Engineers at Pixus Technologies designed new 3U OpenVPX backplanes that come in a 5-slot mesh topology version and 6-slot device with a distributed topology.
From The Editor
Remembering a friend and mentor - Story
May 07, 2013My girlfriend tells me that I’d light up like a Christmas tree whenever I’d see my friend and former boss, Ron Mastro, retired publisher of Military & Aerospace Electronics magazine. How could anyone not?
Radar/EW
Navy Aegis BMD program to use Mercury Systems signal processing technology - News
May 07, 2013
CHELMSFORD, MA. Mercury Systems won $6.9 million in follow-on orders for the company's signal processing subsystems from Lockheed Martin for the U.S. Navy’s Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) upgrade program.
Unmanned
Hypersonic UAV from Boeing completes longest scramjet-powered flight - News
May 06, 2013
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, CA. The X-51A WaveRider unmanned hypersonic vehicle from Boeing completed the longest air-breathing, scramjet-powered hypersonic flight in known history after flying for three and a half minutes on scramjet power with a top speed of Mach 5.1. The vehicle flew for f more than six minutes total.
Comms
Commonality and reduced SWaP drive vetronics designs - Story
May 03, 2013
Budget cuts and changing strategic priorities have slowed the military vetronics market to one that is flat for the foreseeable future. However, innovation in electronics design has not slowed, as military embedded system suppliers develop creative ways to introduce more commonality in components to navigate the budget-constrained environment and continue to meet reduced Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP) requirements.
Comms
Next-gen GPS operational control system software from Raytheon completes launch readiness exercise - News
May 03, 2013
AURORA, Colo. Raytheon engineers finished the second launch readiness exercise of the next generation Global Positioning System (GPS) operational control system (OCX) for the U.S. Air Force. Exercise 2's completion demonstrates that the OCX software from Raytheon meets mission requirements and is on track for the first GPS III satellite launch.
Cyber
Cloud security and the DoD - Story
May 02, 2013
Cloud computing has demonstrated huge cost savings and operational efficiency benefits for the private sector and now Department of Defense (DoD) IT managers are exploring the concept for enterprise and tactical applications. However, DoD planners are moving much more cautiously to assure they have plugged all the potential cyber security vulnerabilities inherent in something as nebulous as a virtual cloud.
Avionics
Full speed ahead: FACE initiative fosters reuse, cuts costs and delivery time of military avionics systems - Story
May 02, 2013
The Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) Technical Standard aims to hasten delivery and cut costs of military avionics systems via a modular architecture, data models, standard interfaces, and conformance criteria that meld to enable reusable software components and a common operating environment. Our editors recently caught up with Jeff Howington of Rockwell Collins, a FACE Consortium founding member, to find out how the FACE approach will affect the U.S. Army's Common Avionics Architecture System (CAAS) program - and the industry at large.
Comms
NASA human spaceflight facility hardware and software supported by Lockheed Martin - News
May 02, 2013
HOUSTON. NASA selected Lockheed Martin selected NASA for Johnson Space Center development and operations that support human spaceflight under a $166.8 million contract option.
Radar/EW
Military systems controlled by game-style unit - Product
May 01, 2013
Engineers at Ultra Measurement Systems, Inc., in Wallingford, CT, have designed a rugged controller with a game-style form factor familiar to today’s warfighters. The patented handheld Freedom of Movement Control Unit (FMCU) has been used by the Army and Marine Corps, Ground Based Op...
Comms
Secure data transfer for military flight applications - Product
May 01, 2013
Engineers at Physical Optics Corp. (POC) in Torrance, CA, developed an in-flight data loading device/digital recorder, dubbed the Data Transfer System (DTS) with secure cryptographic features. It is an NSA-defined Suite B and FIPS 140-2-approved cryptographic solution that also supports NS...
Comms
Signal acquisition cards for SDR, radar pulse applications - Product
May 01, 2013
Designers at Red Rapids in Richardson, TX, developed a product family called Signal Stream for general-purpose signal acquisition and generation for military applications such as Software-Defined Radio (SDR) and radar pulse receivers/transmitters as well as applications in the medical and...
Unmanned
MEMS-based navigation device for unmanned systems - Product
May 01, 2013
The AHRS-8 navigation sensor from Sparton Corp. in De Leon Springs, FL, is small enough to fit into Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) payloads and to provide stability and navigation capability in environments with high levels of electromagnetic noise. It offers 3D magnetic field measurement a...
Avionics
Flight, mission, and radio management in one box - Product
May 01, 2013
The CMA-4000 Flight and Displays Management System, developed by engineers at Esterline CMC Electronics in Montreal, leverages an open architecture design to include radio control management, mission management, and flight management functions in one 11 lb box.
Radar/EW
RF connectors and VITA 67 - Product
May 01, 2013
New RF connector modules from TE Connectivity in Harrisburg, PA, are designed for rugged embedded computing applications that leverage the OpenVPX architecture. The Multiposition RF connector modules were developed to meet VITA 67.0, 67.1, and 67.2 standards that define the RF connector mo...
From The Editor
Remembering a friend and mentor - Other
April 18, 2013My girlfriend tells me that I'd light up like a Christmas tree whenever I’d see my friend and former boss, Ron Mastro, retired publisher of Military & Aerospace Electronics magazine. How could anyone not? The man had buckets of charisma and when he turned on his high beams, you couldn’t help but smile. The laughs and smiles will stay with me even though I had to say goodbye to him Sunday after he lost his battle with lung and brain cancer. Ron was a month shy of his 71st birthday.
Comms
Raytheon to provide security solution along Jordanian border for DTRA - News
April 17, 2013
DULLES, Va. Raytheon Co. won a Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) border security contract with a value of $35.9 million. Under the contract Raytheon engineers will design, develop, and implement an integrated surveillance system along different parts of the Jordanian border. Raytheon also will provide equipment, training, and maintenance and repair.
Radar/EW
Korean Fighting Falcon aircraft get radar upgrade from Raytheon - News
April 15, 2013
EL SEGUNDO, CA. Republic of Korea officials selected the Raytheon Advanced Combat Radar (RACR) has the country's KF-16C/D Block 52 Fighting Falcon fleet upgrade.
Comms
Small satellite line launched by Boeing - News
April 10, 2013
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO. Boeing engineers are designing new small satellite prototypes, dubbed Phantom Phoenix, that can be manufactured and configured quickly and cost-effectively for specific missions such as intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) and planetary science. Each satellite unit would share flight software, common architecture, ,and simplified payload integration options.
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