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Unmanned

Peraton to expand T&E support to U.S. Navy hypersonic vehicle program - News

May 01, 2019

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Peraton

HERNDON, Va. Officials at the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD) selected Peraton to expand its test and evaluation (T&E) support on the Mission, Maintenance, Future Requirements (MMFR) program for a range instrumentation systems. The contract is valued at $33 million over a five-year period.

Comms

Secure wireless communication capabilities coming to U.S. Army troops starting end of 2019 - News

May 01, 2019

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Raytheon Company

DULLES, Va. U.S. Army officials tasked Raytheon to deliver its new troposcatter communication systems as part of a 10-year, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract worth up to $663 million to ensure troops have access to secure voice and data communications in contested environments.

Comms

ARL is developing biorecognition receptors to improve soldier lethality - News

April 30, 2019

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems U.S. Army Research Laboratory

ADELPHI, Md. U.S. Army researchers are developing biorecognition receptors capable of consistent performance in multidomain environments with the ability to collect real-time assessments of soldier health and performance.

Unmanned

Scanning LIDAR sensors for UAVs unveiled by Cepton Technologies at AUVSI Xponential - News

April 30, 2019

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Cepton Technologies

AUVSI XPONENTIAL 2019--CHICAGO. Cepton Technologies (San Jose, California) unveiled the newest entrant in its SORA family of scanning LIDAR sensors at the AUVSI Xponential trade show: the SORA-P60L, which is aimed at delivering long-range, high-resolution imaging for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

A.I.

Machine learning, AI research consortium launched by Northrop Grumman - News

April 30, 2019

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Northrop Grumman

BALTIMORE. Officials at Northrop Grumman announced the company is launching a new research consortium with universities to advance machine learning and artificial intelligence programs.

Unmanned

USAF demo shows Raytheon's directed energy system engage multiple UASs - News

April 30, 2019

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Raytheon Company

WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, N.M. During a U.S. Air Force (USAF) demonstration, the Raytheon-built advanced high power microwave (HPM) and mobile high energy laser (HEL) systems engaged and defeated multiple unmanned aerial system (UAS) targets.

Radar/EW

Milsource showing Techaya military-grade network switch for mobile mil platforms at AUVSI Xponential - News

April 30, 2019

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems MilSource

AUVSI XPONENTIAL 2019--CHICAGO. MilSource is launching Techaya?s MILTECH 24FO at AUVSI XPONENTIAL; the fiber-optic-enabled Ethernet switch offers as many as 24 ports in an approximate 8? x 4? x 2? footprint. The part is aimed at use in radar installations, electro-optic sensor suites, persistent wide-area surveillance, and signal-intelligence applications.

Radar/EW

U.S. Navy to christen third Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyer - News

April 29, 2019

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems U.S. Navy

BATH, Maine. U.S. Navy officials announced that they will christen its newest Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyer, the future USS Lyndon B. Johnson (DDG 1002), during a ceremony in late April at the General Dynamics-Bath Iron Works shipyard in Bath, Maine.

Radar/EW

F/A-18 Hornet fleet to be equipped with Harris' electronic jammers - News

April 29, 2019

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems L3Harris Technologies

MELBOURNE, Fla. U.S. Navy officials selected Harris Corp. for a $212 million contract modification to supply the next production lot of electronic jammers to protect U.S. Navy and Foreign Military Sales F/A-18 Hornet and Super Hornet aircraft against electronic threats.

Unmanned

Hands-free human-machine interface for unmanned vehicles shown by Charles River Analytics at AUVSI Xponential - News

April 29, 2019

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Charles River Analytics

AUVSI XPONENTIAL--CHICAGO. Intelligent-systems developer Charles River Analytics (CRA -- Cambridge, Massachusetts) is showing a hands-free robot-control human-machine interface (HMI) that it intends to turn into a true support agent for use by military in the field.

Unmanned

Army tasks Phoenix LLC to demo neutron-based nondestructive testing equipment - News

April 26, 2019

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Phoenix LLC

MADISON, Wis. U.S. Army officials selected Phoenix, LLC. to demonstrate neutron-based methods of nondestructive testing utilizing its high flux neutron generators under a $4 million contract.

Unmanned

Army program aims to field small UAV weighing less than 5 pounds - News

April 26, 2019

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Altavian

GAINESVILLE, Fla. Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) officials selected Altavian for the Short Range Reconnaissance Prototype (SRR) contract as a part of the Army's effort to field a next generation unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) weighing less than 5 pounds flown by a single operator.

Comms

NASA study aims to facilitate Free Space Optic satellite networks - News

April 25, 2019

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems NASA

SANFORD, Fla. NASA officials selected PathFinder Digital to study the feasibility of developing a transportable research and test platform to facilitate the design of Free Space Optic (FSO) satellite networks.

Comms

Securing smartphones is goal of USAF contract with Privoro - News

April 25, 2019

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Privoro

CHANDLER, Ariz. Mobile hardware security solutions provider, Privoro, received a U.S. Air Force mobile security prototyping contract via the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) and AFWERX effort to streamline the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) process.

Avionics

FACE-conformant Arm architecture announced for RTOS by Green Hills Software - News

April 25, 2019

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Green Hills Software, Inc.

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. Green Hills Software has completed the certification of conformance for its INTEGRITY-178 Time-Variant Unified Multi Processing (tuMP) real-time operating system (RTOS) for Arm architectures to the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) Technical Standard edition 3.0.