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Avionics
B-1 Bomber avionics displays to get upgrade from Rockwell Collins - News
September 17, 2012
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa. Boeing officials selected Rockwell Collins to deliver high-resolution 6-by-8-inch color cockpit displays for Air Force B-1 Bomber aircraft. The $21 million contract is part of the Air Force’s Integrated Battle Station Program.
Comms
Inertial Navigation System Eurofighter Tranche 3 to be supplied by Northrop Grumman - News
September 12, 2012
POMEZIA, Italy. Officials at Alenia Aermacchi and the Eurofighter Consortium selected Northrop Grumman Corp. to deliver inertial and satellite navigation systems for the Tranche 3 of the Eurofighter Typhoon multirole combat fighter aircraft.
Radar/EW
Rugged video display released by Curtiss-Wright - News
September 10, 2012
LAINDON, United Kingdom. Engineers at Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions (CWCDS), have designed a new rugged widescreen display -- the Skyquest AVDU4300. The 17-inch device has full 1080p resolution and is designed for military and law enforcement applications.
Comms
GPS III first launch exercise completed - News
September 06, 2012
NEWTOWN, PA. Raytheon and Lockheed Martin officials announced that the Air Force’s GPS III satellites’ first launch readiness exercise was completed. The launch readiness exercise, which was completed over a three day period by mission operations personnel, validated the basic satellite’s command and control functions, demonstrated the basic on-console procedures required for space vehicle contacts during the launch and early orbit mission, and tested the software and hardware interfaces.
Comms
MIDS-LVT Link-16 Terminals to be delivered by Data Link Solutions for U.S. and Coalition Forces - News
September 05, 2012
WAYNE, N.J. Data Link Solutions (DLS), a joint venture between BAE Systems and Rockwell Collins, won an $18.5 million contract from the U.S. Navy Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) for the production of Multifunctional Information Distribution System (MIDS) Low Volume Terminals (LVT) for U.S. and Coalition Forces. The MIDS-LVT terminals will enable real-time data communications, navigation, situational awareness, and digital voice -- all in one jam-resistant and crypto-secured package.
Unmanned
From The Editor
Sequestration and COTS - Story
September 04, 2012
Large defense budget cuts are hitting primes hard, but they also mean a boost for COTS providers.
Unmanned
Rugged, wearable computers tailored for the warfighter - Story
September 04, 2012
Designers of rugged mobile computers - tablets, handhelds, and so on -find adaptability and scalability for missions to be as important a requirement as lowering Size, Weight, Power, and Cost (SWaP-C). Meanwhile, embedded engineers continue to look for ways to get rid of the heat generated by high-performance processors.
From The Editor
Military unmanned systems, C4ISR, avionics, and vetronics markets are COTS markets - Story
September 04, 2012
Budget cuts and sequestration are casting a dark cloud over military funding, but market analysts see sunlight for COTS suppliers over the next five years.
Radar/EW
Carbon-fiber chassis meets mil ruggedization and weight issues - Product
September 03, 2012
The RE0412 Rugged Embedded computer from Crystal Group in Hiawatha, IA is protected by a carbon-fiber chassis (patent pending). It weighs only 3.8 lbs. and measures 3.13" high by 10.76" wide with a depth of 8.13". The chassis uses Faraday cage construction techniques that utilize proprieta...
Comms
Optical, rad-hard, SFF transceiver for space - Product
September 03, 2012
High-speed parallel optical communication for space applications is enabled by the latest radiation-hardened component from Ultra Communications in Vista, CA: the X80-Q Fury transceiver. The surface-mount device produces 12.5 Gbps per channel per receiver and has an extended temperature ra...
Comms
SVGA point of load DC-DC converters for space - Product
September 03, 2012
The SVGA Series 10A and 15A POL devices from VPT in Everett, WA are non-isolated, regulated buck DC-DC converters that reduce voltage by a step-down process at the point of use in a distributed power system. There is a big push toward power distributed architectures for space applications,...
Unmanned
Carbon-fiber chassis meets mil ruggedization and weight issues - Product
September 03, 2012
The RE0412 Rugged Embedded computer from Crystal Group in Hiawatha, IA is protected by a carbon-fiber chassis (patent pending). It weighs only 3.8 lbs. and measures 3.13" high by 10.76" wide with a depth of 8.13". The chassis uses Faraday cage construction techniques that utilize proprieta...
Comms
Optical, rad-hard, SFF transceiver for space - Product
September 03, 2012
High-speed parallel optical communication for space applications is enabled by the latest radiation-hardened component from Ultra Communications in Vista, CA: the X80-Q Fury transceiver. The surface-mount device produces 12.5 Gbps per channel per receiver and has an extended temperature ra...
Avionics
GPS and INS in one embedded device - Product
September 03, 2012
Engineers at VectorNav in Texas have developed a navigation device for avionics in manned aircraft and for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) payloads that combines a GPS module with MEMS inertial and pressure sensor technology. The patent-pending VN-200 device enables embedded navigation in co...
Unmanned
Rugged computer for manned and unmanned aircraft - Product
September 03, 2012
The new rugged computer – ONYX – is designed for constrained space applications such as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), ground vehicles, and manned aircraft.
Comms
Voltage Supervisor monitors power supplies in hi-rel space apps - Product
September 03, 2012
Engineers at Aeroflex Colorado Springs developed a new device designed to manage power supplies in components such as DSPs, FPGAs, ASICs, and microprocessors.
Comms
Rugged, small form factor computer released by Versalogic - News
August 29, 2012
EUGENE, OR. Engineers at VersaLogic Corp., have designed a rugged, credit-card sized embedded computer – the Falcon – that uses an Intel Atom E6x0T low-power processor.
Comms
Optical, rad-hard transceiver for space applications released by Ultra Communications - News
August 27, 2012
VISTA, CA. Engineers at Ultra Communications are targeting high-speed parallel optical communications for space applications with their radiation-hardened c X80-Q Fury transceiver. The surface-mount device produces a 12.5 Gbps per channel per receiver and has an extended temperature range of -40 to 100 degrees Celsius.
Radar/EW
Lynx radar's maritime wide area search mode performs anti-piracy operations during Navy test - News
August 24, 2012
SAN DIEGO ? 22 August 2012 ? The Maritime Wide Area Search (MWAS) mode of the Lynx multi-mode radar from General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA ASI) was demonstrated during the U.S. Navy?s Experiment Trident Warrior 2012 (TW12) that took place off the coast of Southern California.
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