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Radar/EW

Software drivers developed enables VxWorks users to support Intel Xeon DMA engine, 40Gbe - News

June 04, 2018

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

ASHBURN, Va. Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions engineers designed a solution for High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC) systems that deal with intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) applications based on the Wind River VxWorks real-time operating system (RTOS).

Comms

Army awards two contracts to Charles River Analytics for systems-faults analysis - News

June 04, 2018

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

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Intelligent-systems developer Charles River Analytics has won two follow-on contracts from the U.S. Army that will use Charles River's FIGARO probabilistic programming language to manage the energy and supply resources needed to train, move, and sustain forces and systems in military operations.

Unmanned

U.S. Navy chooses Naval Strike Missile for over-the-horizon targets - News

June 04, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Kongsberg Defense & Aerospace Raytheon Company

WASHINGTON. The U.S. Navy has picked the Naval Strike Missile (NSM), made by Raytheon and partner Kongsberg Gruppen (Kongsberg, Norway), to fulfill the need for littoral combat ships and future frigates to have an over-the-horizon missile.

Radar/EW

Acoustic weapon locator in Japan to get batteries from Lincad - News

June 01, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Lincad

SURREY, England. Custom U.K. battery maker Lincad recently won a new contract from Japan's Sojitz Aerospace Corporation to supply batteries for the HALO (Hostile Artillery Locator) used by the Japanese Ministry of Defense.

Comms

NASA names U.S. companies to work on space resource collection projects - News

June 01, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems NASA

WASHINGTON. NASA has selected 10 companies to conduct studies and advance technologies -- especially those that currently exist on earth that could be converted to future space exploration capabilities at a lower cost -- to collect, process, and use space-based resources that will be used on upcoming missions to the moon and Mars.

Avionics

Rockwell Collins to provide its Panorama display for the CC-295 flight simulator - News

May 31, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems CAE USA Collins Aerospace

OTTAWA, Ontario. CAE officials tapped Rockwell Collins for its Panorama collimated display for the CC-295 full-flight simulator (FFS) that CAE will deliver in support of the Royal Canadian Air Force?s Fixed-Wing Search and Rescue (FWSAR) program.

Unmanned

FLIR Systems selected to support Army quad-level surveillance, reconnaissance capabilities - News

May 31, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems FLIR Systems, Inc.

WILSONVILLE, Ore. U.S. Army officials selected FLIR Systems, Inc. to deliver its FLIR Black Hornet Personal Reconnaissance Systems (PRS). The $2.6 million order will support quad-level surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities in the Army?s first batch order for the Soldier Borne Sensor (SBS) program.

Unmanned

The Military Digital Convergence Converged digital processing enables next-generation military platforms - News

May 31, 2018

Mercury Systems

ANDOVER, Mass. Commercial digital convergence has created converged media, information systems, smartphones and autonomous vehicles. Digital convergence now has a proven roadmap behind it and is enabling new technology breakthroughs in processing domains everywhere.

Comms

DARPA issues call for novel approaches for systems used in military missions - News

May 31, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will hold Virtual Proposers Days on June 6 and 7, 2018, to provide information about the Tactical Technology Office (TTO) goals and areas for intended investment in advance of a mid-June release of the 2018 Disruptive Capabilities for Future Warfare Broad Agency Announcement (BAA). The event will also enable companies and individuals to meet with TTO program managers to discuss concepts for advanced research, development, and demonstration of systems for military missions. Registration for the Proposers Days closes June 1 at noon EDT.

Avionics

Rockwell Collins radar, choice of Canadian air force fleet, will not impact existing avionics - News

May 31, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Cascade Aerospace Collins Aerospace

OTTAWA, Ontario. Aerospace engineering firm Cascade Aerospace (Abbostford, British Columbia) has chosen Rockwell Collins to install a modern weather radar system for the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) C-130H fleet. The radar system will include the WXR-2100 MultiScan and the new MFD-255 and MFD-268 multifunction displays.

Comms

ARL engineers create third arm to stabilize, distribute weapon load - News

May 30, 2018

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

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) engineers created a third arm for the warfighter in order to stabilize a soldier's weapon.

Comms

Communications companies partner for C5I task order for Navy - News

May 30, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Smartronix MacAulay-Brown, Inc.

DAYTON, Ohio and HOLLYWOOD, Md. IT and national-security firms MacAulay-Brown (MacB) and Smartronix are set to partner on a tactical and remote command, control, communications, computers, collaboration, and intelligence (C5I) Edge Systems (TARCES) task order for the U.S. Navy.

Comms

NATO chooses Airbus for major comms contract - News

May 30, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Airbus

BRUSSELS. The NATO Communications and Information (NCI) Agency has awarded Airbus a contract worth ?40 million ($46.4 million) for the delivery of the first phase of the new NATO Communications Infrastructure Project; the contract also includes options for future phases of the project worth up to ?50 million ($58.02 million).

Comms

USS Manchester becomes 12th littoral combat ship in U.S. Navy fleet - News

May 29, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. The USS Manchester, the U.S. Navy's latest Independence-class littoral combat ship (LCS), was commissioned on Saturday, May 26, at the New Hampshire State Pier.

Comms

Cyber warfare key factor in U.S. defense satellite market growth - News

May 29, 2018

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems

SANTA CLARA, Calif. Frost & Sullivan analysts are predicting the U.S. defense satellite market to reach $30.3 billion by 2023, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10.3 percent.