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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.
Radar/EW
Electronic warfare for NRL to be developed by Mercury Systems - News
February 12, 2013
CHELMSFORD, MA. Officials at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Tactical Electronic Warfare Division (TEWD) selected Mercury Systems to supply advanced mixed signal digital receivers for prototype electronic warfare uses on airborne and surface shipboard applications. The award is a 3-year indefinite quantity/indefinite delivery (IDIQ) contract potentially worth as much $16.7 million.
Radar/EW
Radar, electronic warfare steadier parts of military market - Story
February 11, 2013
With the impending U.S. military footprint reduction, radar and electronic warfare technology are increasingly important in providing ISR capabilities to the warfighter.
Radar/EW
Fast processors, FPGAs fuel radar/EW signal processing performance - Story
February 11, 2013
Radar and Electronic Warfare (EW) designers' thirst for more and more data is driving innovation at the signal processing level as embedded computing suppliers work magic with FPGAs and processors to create intelligent, fast sensor networks.
Unmanned
Liquid-hydrogen powered Phantom Eye UAS finishes taxi tests - News
February 11, 2013
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE. The Phantom Eye liquid hydrogen-powered unmanned aircraft system (UAS) from Boeing finished taxi testing at getting ready for its second flight. During the taxi testing the UAS demonstrator aircraft sat atop its launch cart and reached speeds as fast as 40 knots, or about 46 miles per hour.
Radar/EW
Coprocessor solution improves FPGA efficiency - Product
February 10, 2013
Dubbed “Anemone acceleration technology,” a coprocessor floating-point signal processing solution from BittWare in Concord, NH, mitigates FPGA programming challenges by offloading C-language processing tasks from an FPGA. The FPGA handles all the I/O interfacing, memory, protoc...
Radar/EW
New SFF device proves multivendor OpenVPX interoperability - Product
February 10, 2013
OpenVPX has promised that the “Open” part meant that VPX systems from different suppliers could be interoperable and work in one system – preventing integrators from being tied to one vendor. The new SigPro 1 Small Form Factor (SFF) acquisition system that combines OpenVP...
Radar/EW
VICTORY-compliant rugged switch enables vetronics networks - Product
February 10, 2013
Combining a 16-port GbE network switch with a high-performance vehicle management computer, the rugged Digital Beachhead vehicle networking system from Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions enables users to quickly introduce VICTORY-compliant network hardware into military ground vehic...
Radar/EW
Next-gen radars: Seeing through the clutter - Story
February 07, 2013
Next-generation radar systems are improving accuracy in high-clutter environments such as littoral waters, wind farm locations, and slow-moving ground objects ? and at faster than ever speeds, reducing the sensor to shooter cycle.
Avionics
VectorNav IMU used in Autopilot solutions from Unmanned Innovations - News
February 06, 2013
DALLAS, TX. Engineers at Unmanned Innovation and VectorNav Technologies joined hands to integrate VectorNav's VN-100 iniature, calibrated MEMS-based, surface-mount measurement unit (IMU) into Unmanned Innovation's os-Series Autopilots. The autopilots enable rapid prototyping for helicopter, fixed-wing,, multi-rotor, and custom configuration Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs).
Comms
MIDS cryptographic module to be developed by ViaSat - News
February 05, 2013
CARLSBAD. ViaSat won a contract from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) for the design, development, and production of a cryptographic module (LCM) for the Multifunctional Information Distribution System (MIDS) Low Volume Terminal (MIDS-LVT) Block Upgrade 2. SPAWAR officials awarded the contract on behalf of the MIDS Program Office (MPO) (JPEOJTRS10).
Avionics
Partnership to deliver 1553 technology on FPGA-based ComExpress modules - News
January 30, 2013
SAN DIEGO. Officials at Sealevel Systems, Inc. and Sital Technology LTD, joined hands to manufacture and deliver MIL-STD-1553 IP cores, board-level products, and components as well as custom computer designs for avionics and military applications. The companies made the announcement at the AFCEA West show in San Diego this week.
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