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Lockheed Martin demos land/air/sea autonomous systems - News

May 10, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Lockheed Martin

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas. Lockheed Martin recently held a demonstration at its Missiles and Fire Control facility in Grand Prairie, Texas, to show the capabilities of its all-weather quadrotor unmanned aerial system (UAS), its new real-time 3-D reconstruction software, and the company's ongoing developments in military and commercial autonomous vehicles.

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Phoenix International releases data storage system at Xponential 2017 - News

May 10, 2017

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Phoenix International Systems

DALLAS. Officials at Phoenix International Systems introduced the Phalanx II rugged Network Attached Storage (NAS) data storage system, at this year's Xponential, the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International?s (AUVSI) conference .

Unmanned

Elbit Systems of America showcases UAS capabilities at Xponential 2017 - News

May 10, 2017

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Elbit Systems of America

DALLAS. Officials at Elbit Systems of America, LLC, showcased unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) capabilities at the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International?s Xponential 2017.

Unmanned

Miniature UAS announced, U.S. government customer delivery revealed - News

May 09, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems AeroVironment, Inc.

MONROVIA, Calif. Unmanned aircraft system (UAS) design/build company AeroVironment has introduced its new Snipe Nano Quad -- a miniature (Class 0), field-rugged UAS designed to support close-range intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) missions -- and announced that the initial delivery of 20 Snipe systems to a U.S. government customer took place in April.

Unmanned

Coast Guard national-security cutter completes deployment with UAS ISR - News

May 09, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Insitu

BINGEN, Wash. Unmanned systems and software company Insitu and the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Stratton have collaborated on a six-week deployment, the first time that a Coast Guard cutter used a small unmanned aerial system (sUAS) for an entire patrol.

Comms

Boeing, Air Force demo airborne networking system - News

May 09, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Boeing

ARLINGTON, Va. Boeing and the U.S. Air Force recently completed developmental flight testing on the Boeing-developed Talon HATE airborne networking system, which enables secure communications between multiple aircraft and ground stations.

Unmanned

Carnegie Robotics & Swift Navigation showcase Duro, a GNSS receiver at Xponential 2017 - News

May 09, 2017

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Carnegie Robotics, LLC

DALLAS. Carnegie Robotics LLC and Swift Navigation partnered to develop their first joint product, Duro, a ruggedized version of Swift Navigation?s Piksi Multi dual-frequency RTK GNSS receiver. The release of the product was made at this year's Xponential, the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International?s (AUVSI) conference.

Unmanned

Air Force X-37B space plane lands after record-breaking 718 days in orbit - News

May 08, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems NASA

NASA KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. The Air Force X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle mission 4 (OTV-4) unmanned, reusable space plane landed at NASA?s Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility on May 7, 2017, after an unprecedented 718 days on-mission.

Radar/EW

NAVAIR taps LCR Embedded Systems to support JEAT EW program - News

May 08, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems LCR Embedded Systems

NORRISTOWN, Pa. LCR Embedded Systems has been chosen by Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) to supply LCR's 3U VPX solution to support the NAVAIR Joint Electronic Advanced Technology (JEAT) program.

Avionics

First F-35B assembled outside the U.S. rolls off the line in Italy - News

May 08, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Lockheed Martin

CAMERI, Italy. Lockheed Martin has announced that the first short take-off/vertical landing version of the F-35 combat aircraft (the F-35B) ever assembled outside of the U.S. recently rolled out of its Final Assembly and Check Out (FACO) facility in Italy.

Avionics

Curtiss-Wright releases VPX3-152 SBC for avionics applications at Xponential 2017 - News

May 08, 2017

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Curtiss-Wright

DALLAS. Officials at Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions released its newest member of the DO-254 DAL A safety certifiable COTS single board computers (SBC) family at this year's Xponential, the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International?s (AUVSI) conference in Dallas, Texas. The VPX3-152 is a rugged 3U OpenVPX board that features NXP's QorIQ T2080 multicore SOC.

Comms

Defense Logistics enterprise IT contract won by General Dynamics - News

May 08, 2017

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems General Dynamics Information Technology

FAIRFAX, Va. Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) officials selected a business unit of General Dynamics, General Dynamics Information Technology, to support the DLA?s J6 Enterprise Technology Services program. The multiple award, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract has a potential ceiling value of approximately $6 billion for a five-year base period with three option years.

Radar/EW

IARPA launches program focusing on rapid analysis of emerging nano-electronics - News

May 08, 2017

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA)

WASHINGTON. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity officials launched a new program, the Rapid Analysis of Various Emerging Nano-electronics (RAVEN), which focuses on developing tools to rapidly image current and future integrated circuit chips.

Avionics

Market study: Avionics market to be worth $92.85 billion worldwide by 2022 - News

May 05, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems

VANCOUVER, Wash. The global avionics market is projected to grow from $62.22 billion in 2016 to $92.85 billion by 2022, at a combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.90 percent over that time frame, according to a report from MarketsandMarkets.

Avionics

U.S. Air Force takes on-time delivery of first KC-10 CLS aircraft - News

May 05, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems L3 Technologies

NEW YORK. Communications and aerospace contractor L3 Technologies announced that it has delivered the first KC-10 aircraft under the U.S. Air Force (USAF) contractor logistics support (CLS) contract.