Industry News

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.

Unmanned

Market for target UAVs to reach $6.2 billion by 2022; defense sector will see highest growth - News

May 04, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems

SEATTLE. The global market for target drones -- or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) used in the training of anti-aircraft crews -- is projected to grow from $3.79 billion in 2016 to $6.20 billion by 2022, at a combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.55 percent during the forecast period, according to research from MarketsandMarkets.

Cyber

General Dynamics Mission Systems acquires division of Advatech Pacific, expands cyber portfolio - News

May 04, 2017

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

FAIRFAX, Va. Officials at General Dynamics Mission Systems (GDMS) announced the acquisition of the electronics and communications division of Advatech Pacific that designs and manufactures tactical, cyber-secure and cross-domain products for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and international military customers.

Cyber

Cubic to continue training support for British army's weapon simulator systems - News

May 04, 2017

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Cubic

SAN DIEGO. British army officials tasked Cubic Global Defense, a business unit of Cubic Corp., to continue support and repair services to the Area Weapons Effects Simulator (AWES) at Salisbury Plain Training Area (SPTA) in the United Kingdom and at the British Army Training Unit Suffield (BATUS) in Alberta, Canada. The contract is worth an estimated $35 million.

Comms

Vector Space Systems flight-tests model of satellite-launch vehicle using 3-D printed part - News

May 04, 2017

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Vector Space Systems

TUCSON, Ariz. Vector Space Systems has announced a successful test launch of the P-19H engineering model of its Vector-R launch vehicle, the initial flight of several upcoming launches that will enable Vector to evaluate critical technologies and functions of its family of Vector launch vehicles.