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Avionics
Autopilot system approaches DO-178-C certification, thereby closing regulatory gap - News
June 11, 2019
STONY MOUNTAIN, Manitoba, Canada. Autopilot maker MicroPilot is nearly done with its five-year effort to achieve DO-178C Design Assurance Level B certification for its upcoming MP2128 HELI3 autopilot, a level of certification that will enable operators of remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to obtain authorization from regulators to conduct missions in higher-risk areas where RPA/UAV operations are prohibited, such as over population centers.
Radar/EW
Radar contract for U.S. Navy won by Saab - News
June 11, 2019
SYRACUSE, N.Y. Saab has received a follow-on order from the U.S. Navy for the Sea Giraffe Multi Mode Radar (MMR) for the Coast Guard?s offshore patrol cutter.
Unmanned
DARPA calls for integration of hypersonic weapons in OpFires Phase 3 - News
June 10, 2019
ARLINGTON, Va. The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has issued a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Phase 3 of the Operational Fires (OpFires) Integrated Weapon System program; Phase 3 seeks a contractor that can integrate ground-launched hypersonic weapon systems.
Radar/EW
USMC to get 30 G/ATOR radar units from Northrop Grumman in $958 million contract - News
June 10, 2019
BALTIMORE. Northrop Grumman Systems has signed a $958 million firm-fixed-price contract with the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) Systems Command the procurement of 30 full-rate production Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar (G/ATOR) units.
Radar/EW
Raytheon and United Technologies to merge - News
June 10, 2019
WALTHAM, Mass. and FARMINGTON, Conn. Military defense prime contractor Raytheon and United Technologies have entered into an agreement to combine in an all-stock merger of equals; following the completion of the transaction, the company will be known as Raytheon Technologies.
Avionics
Optionally piloted technology tested on Black Hawk; Sikorsky says will lead to fully autonomous flights - News
June 07, 2019
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. -- a Lockheed Martin company -- reports that it has tested a technology kit for the first time to operate a Black Hawk helicopter with full-authority, fly-by-wire flight controls. The recent flight, said company officials, was the initial foray of the flight test program for the soon-to-be optionally piloted aircraft.
Unmanned
Unmanned aerial target drone contract worth $31.8 million awarded by USAF to Kratos - News
June 07, 2019
SAN DIEGO. Kratos Defense & Security Solutions' Unmanned Systems Division has received a single-source contract worth $31.8 million for a previously awarded Air Force Subscale Aerial Target (AFSAT) program.
Unmanned
Self-lock connectors for space, high-rel applications shown by Huber+Suhner at IMS 2019 - News
June 06, 2019
INTERNATIONAL MICROWAVE SYMPOSIUM 2019--BOSTON. Swiss connector company Huber+Suhner showed its SMP self-lock connectors at the the International Microwave Symposium (IMS) 2019, held this week in Boston.
Radar/EW
SOSA Consortium voices support for recent tri-service directive on modular open systems - News
June 06, 2019
SAN FRANCISCO. The Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) Consortium, which operates under The Open Group, has thrown its support behind the recent tri-service acquisition memorandum signed by the secretaries of the U.S. military, under which the Army, Navy, and Air Force are directed to include Modular Open Systems (MOSA) standards in all requirements, programming, and development activities for future weapon-system modifications and new-start development programs to the furthest extent possible.
Radar/EW
Amplifier aimed at instrumentation, comms launched at IMS by MACOM - News
June 05, 2019
INTERNATIONAL MICROWAVE SYMPOSIUM 2019--BOSTON. Semiconductor supplier MACOM Technology Solutions has announced a new wideband distributed amplifier, the MAAM-011275-DIE, aimed at use in in test and measurement (T&M) and communications equipment, with broadband frequency coverage from sub-6 GHz to mmW. The company launched the product at the International Microwave Symposium (IMS) 2019, held this week in Boston.
Radar/EW
Unmanned
Boeing invests in UAS services provider Robotic Skies - News
June 04, 2019
CHICAGO. Boeing has announced its investment in Robotic Skies (Alburquerque, New Mexico), a services provider that connects manufacturers and operators of commercial unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) with a global network of more than 170 civil aviation authority-certified repair stations.
Radar/EW
W-band capabilities shown by MACOM at IMS 2019 - News
June 04, 2019
IMS 2019--BOSTON, Mass. MACOM Technology Solutions is demonstrating its W-band capabilities -- aimed at applications in the mmW communications, radar, and passive imaging arenas -- at the International Microwave Symposium (IMS) 2019, held June 4-6 in Boston.
Radar/EW
USAF contract to accelerate GaN/SiC parts' readiness won by Integra Technologies - News
June 04, 2019
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. Integra Technologies has won a two-year contract with the U.S. Air Force to accelerate technology and manufacturing readiness of its thermally enhanced gallium nitride/silicon carbide (GaN/SiC) technology, which is aimed at use in solid-state RF power applications including high-power military radar systems.
Radar/EW
Combat-management system from Raytheon passes final developmental test on U.S. Navy ship - News
June 04, 2019
TEWKSBURY, Mass. Raytheon and the U.S. Navy report that the final developmental test of the latest generation of the Ship Self Defense System (SSDS) integrated combat system (ICS) was performed off the coast of California by the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), in which the Navy's Unmanned Self Defense Test ship simulated a scenario CVN 78 may encounter once deployed.
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