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Comms
Marines order Falcon III manpack radios from Harris - News
March 15, 2012
ROCHESTER, N.Y. U.S. Marine Corps officials needing voice and mobile data network technology for their expeditionary operations placed a $64 million order with Harris for the company?s Falcon III AN/PRC-117G multiband manpack radios, antennas, vehicular amplifier adapters, and field support.
Unmanned
Hydrogen-powered Phantom Eye UAV makes its first medium speed taxi test - News
March 14, 2012
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. The Phantom Eye High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) completed its first medium-speed taxi test. The test took place at Edwards Air Force Base in cooperation with officials at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center. Phantom Eye reached speeds of as fast as 30 knots while ground personnel relayed directions and data using Boeing?s Common Open-mission Management Command and Control (COMC2) system.
Avionics
New avionics-focused business unit formed by Curtiss-Wright Controls - News
March 13, 2012
CHARLOTTE, N.C. Officials at Curtiss-Wright Controls, Inc. in Charlotte, N.C., have restructured their Integrated Sensing business to focus more on avionics and global aerospace applications. The group is now called the Avionics & Electronics (CWC-AE) division, which will be based in Christchurch, United Kingdom.
Comms
3D handheld display for warfighters - Product
March 13, 2012
Leveraging 3D film technology from 3M, engineers at IEE in Irvine, CA, developed a 4.8-inch handheld control display unit for warfighters that does not require 3D glasses.
Avionics
MC-130J avionics to DO-178B tool from Presagis - Product
March 13, 2012
Managing avionics safety certification challenges is a costly and time-consuming procedure, whether it is in military or commercial aircraft.
Comms
New control unit provides Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) for military ground vehicles - Product
March 13, 2012
Leveraging Intel Atom-based processing technology, engineers at Aitech Defense Systems in Chatsworth, CA, are able to provide a rugged, lightweight, control unit for military ground vehicles.
Avionics
MEMS-based attitude heading reference system for helicopters - Product
March 13, 2012
Engineers at Northrop Grumman Corp. are improving helicopter navigation with a new Micro-Electromechanical Systems (MEMS)-based Attitude and Heading Reference System (AHRS), called the LCR-300.
Comms
SDR enabled by Virtex-7 FPGA modules from Pentek - Product
March 13, 2012
FPGAs are a game changer for many signal-processing applications and especially for Software-Defined Radio (SDR).
Comms
New crypto tool suite provides authenticated software security for embedded products - Product
March 13, 2012
Officials at Green Hills Software in Santa Barbara, CA, released a security solution consisting of Suite B-Compliant Security Protocol Toolkits and Device Lifecycle Management (DLM) system, designed by the company's INTEGRITY Security Services (ISS) business unit.
Radar/EW
Tomahawk missile's weapons system gets hardware and software upgrade - News
March 12, 2012
PHILADELPHIA. Engineers at Lockheed Martin are upgrading the Tomahawk Land Attack missile?s weapon-control system software and hardware. The Tactical Tomahawk Weapon Control System, or TTWCS), TTWCS gives firing units the ability to control, prepare, and launch Tomahawk missiles and is one of the three main components that make up the Tomahawk Weapons System.
Comms
U.S. Special Forces to use small, lightweight night vision goggles from L-3 - News
March 09, 2012
NEW YORK CITY. U.S. Navy officials are ordering Binocular Night Vision Devices (BNVD) from the L-3 Communications Warrior Systems ? Insight Technology business unit for operators in the U.S. Special Operations Command. The BNVD is smaller and more lightweight than typical night vision goggles.
Radar/EW
Space Fence radar already tracking objects in Earth orbit - News
March 08, 2012
MOORESTOWN, N.J. A Space Fence radar prototype ? designed by Lockheed Martin engineers ? is in the process of tracking orbiting space objects. The radar system development, which is an Air Force program, will improve space situational awareness for the U.S.
Radar/EW
Lynx radar simulation tool released by GA-ASI - News
March 07, 2012
SAN DIEGO. Engineers at General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA ASI) unveiled a new radar training tool called the Tactical Airborne Reconnaissance Simulator (TARS). TARS enables operators of Lynx Multi-mode Radar systems to train via a software-based tool on a laptop computer.
Avionics
New aircraft platforms get cut back, opening the door for avionics retrofits that leverage COTS hardware and software - Story
March 07, 2012
Military cockpits - from helicopters to cargo jets to fighter aircraft - will be depending on open architecture designs and Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) hardware and software to keep them flying beyond the next decade as DoD budgets scale back on new platforms. Meanwhile, industry and government experts formed a consortium to enable affordable, platform-agnostic avionics.
Avionics
FY 2013 DoD budget request shrinks, but avionics retrofits get dollars - Story
March 07, 2012
As fiscal year budgets continue to decline, retrofitting with COTS products looks to be a sign of the times.
From The Editor
Radar/EW
Electronic jamming without friendly force interference demo to be performed by Raytheon for DARPA - News
March 06, 2012
TEWKSBURY, Mass. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) selected Raytheon engineers to enable warfighters to conduct jamming operations with minimal control and communication interference with friendly forces.
Avionics
Navigation system for CH-53K helicopter gets software upgrade from Northrop Grumman - News
March 05, 2012
WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. Engineers at Northrop Grumman will be modifying software for the LN-251 embedded GPS/fiber-optic inertial navigation system (INS) that flies on the CH-53K Super Stallion helicopter. The work is for a Navy Phase II contract awarded by officials at the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) in Patuxent River, Md.
Radar/EW
OpenVPX board released by Eurotech at Embedded World - News
March 02, 2012
NUREMBERG, Germany. Engineers at Eurotech released their first OpenVPX board at the Embedded World show in Nuremberg, Germany this week. The CPU-111-10 is a rugged 6U VPX single-board computer (SBC) that has a quad-core Intel L5408 Xeon processor and 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch in rugged conduction and convection-cooled versions.
Comms
PICMG frustration motivates European embedded vendors to form new standards consortium - Other
March 01, 2012
Frustrated buy what they say were long standards development processes within PICMG [PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group], leaders of different European embedded computing vendors formed a new standards consortium called the Standardization Group for Embedded Technologies or SGET, which was announced this week at the Embedded World show in Nuremberg, Germany. Founding member companies of SGET include Advantech, congaec, Data Modul, Kontron, MSC, and SECO.
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