Industry News

Avionics

Sale of ARINC Aerospace Systems Engineering and Support by Rockwell Collins to Field Aviation Inc. completed - News

March 11, 2015

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems Rockwell Collins

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa. Rockwell Collins, Inc. officials announced completion of the sale of the company's ARINC Aerospace Systems Engineering and Support (ASES LLC) business to Field Aviation Inc., a privately held U.S. company headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Unmanned

Commercial unmanned aircraft to reach $1.27 billion by 2020 say market analysts - News

March 11, 2015

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems

Research analysts at ASD Reports say in a new report that the commercial unmanned aircraft, or drone, market was valued at about $15.22 million in 2014 and that it is expected to grow to $1.27 billion by 2020.

Radar/EW

Patriot router development by Raytheon and Teldat for Poland moves to next phase - News

March 10, 2015

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems Raytheon Company

TEWKSBURY, Mass. Raytheon and TELDAT engineers completed the Critical Design Review (CDR) phase of their effort to co-develop and co-produce advanced militarized routers for the Patriot Air and Missile Defense system for Poland, which validates the TELDAT design's capability to meet all Patriot system requirements and also enables the company to move into the manufacturing and design qualification phase of the program.

Radar/EW

Navy Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program (SEWIP) contract won by Northrop Grumman - News

March 06, 2015

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems Northrop Grumman

LINTHICUM, Md. Northrop Grumman Corp. won the U.S. Navy's Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program (SEWIP) Block 3 contract for developing and manufacturing the next-generation surface electronic warfare system.

Comms

Navy to use IXI Data I/O Converter to link radar, weapons and other systems over Ethernet - News

March 05, 2015

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems IXI Technology

YORBA LINDA, Calif. U.S Navy tasked IXI Technology to provide its advanced Data I/O Converter system where it will convert information from the Naval Tactical Data System (NTDS) to fiber for the AN/SLQ-32(V) shipboard electronic warfare (EW) system. The EW system provides electronic support and countermeasure protection for U.S. and international navies.

Comms

Radiant Mercury contracts for cross domain intel sharing won by Lockheed Martin - News

March 02, 2015

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems Lockheed Martin

DENVER. U.S. Navy officials contracted Lockheed Martin engineers to continue their support of the Radiant Mercury system that enables secure sharing of sensitive data between unclassified and classified security domains.

Radar/EW

Navy Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System tracks and simulates 3 ballistic missile engagements - News

February 27, 2015

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems U.S. Missile Defense Agency

WALLOPS FLIGHT FACILITY, Va. The Missile Defense Agency announced that it launched three short-range ballistic missile targets near-simultaneously from NASA’sWallops Flight Facility. Two U.S. Navy Aegis Ballistic Missile defense (BMD) destroyers then acquired and tracked the targets, while another destroyer also participated in associated operations.

Comms

Australian army to use Joint Fires Observer/Joint Terminal Attack Controller simulator from Rockwell Collins - News

February 26, 2015

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems Rockwell Collins

GEELONG, Australia. Rockwell Collins engineers are providing the Australian army with its mobile Joint Fires Observer (JFO)/Joint Terminal Attack Controller (JTAC) simulator.

Radar/EW

Perimeter of Middle Eastern air base to be secured by E-scan radars from Blighter - News

February 25, 2015

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems Blighter Surveillance Systems

CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom. Officials at Unlimited Technology, Inc., in Chester, Springs, Pa., chose Blighter Surveillance Systems to provide its Blighter B400 Series e-scan radars to help secure the perimeter of a strategic air base in the Middle East.

Avionics

Digital cockpit design, leveraged for UH-60L Black Hawk upgrade, on display at IDEX - News

February 24, 2015

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems Northrop Grumman

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates. Northrop Grumman Corp. engineers are showcasing the company's digital cockpit solution, which is being leveraged in an upgrade of the U.S. Army's UH-60L Black Hawk helicopters, at the International Defence Exhibition and Conference (IDEX) this week in Abu Dhabi in U.S. pavilion booth 02-A10, stand CS-2. Once upgraded the aircraft will be called the UH-60V.

Radar/EW

Missile defense radar, AN/TPY-2, gets processor upgrade from Raytheon - News

February 23, 2015

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems Raytheon Company

TEWKSBURY, Mass. Raytheon engineers upgraded the computer processor of the AN/TPY-2 ballistic missile defense radar, which will allow the system to work better during raids and more quickly and accurately discriminate between a missile's warhead, and non-threats such as countermeasures.

Comms

Army M1A2 Abrams tanks to use Palomar BICU displays - News

February 20, 2015

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems Palomar Display Products

CARLSBAD, Calif. U.S. Army officials awarded Palomar Display Products, Inc. a contract to produce and deliver their Biocular Image Control Unit (BICU) displays for Army M1A2 Abrams tanks.

Unmanned

Beam control system from Boeing looks to improve laser weapon accuracy on Navy ships - News

February 19, 2015

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems Boeing

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Boeing experts have been contracted to design and develop a beam control system that could enable enhanced accuracy for laser weapons on U.S. Navy warships.

Unmanned

New rules/regulations for small unmanned aircraft proposed by FAA - News

February 18, 2015

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

WASHINGTON. Department of Transportation’s (DoT's) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials announced a framework of new regulations that would enable routine use of certain small unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) in today’s airspace, while keeping flexibility to accommodate future technological innovations.

Radar/EW

Navy P-8A to get open systems architecture upgrade from Raytheon - News

February 17, 2015

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems Northrop Grumman

MCKINNEY, Texas. Raytheon engineers will be providing a flexible, application-based architecture (ABA) enhancement for the U.S. Navy's P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft under a $15.5 million system development contract.