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DARPA Fab Lab to improve ship Navy repair and maintenance with 3D printers and other tools - News

February 16, 2015

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

WASHINGTON. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and U.S. Navy officials agreed to locate a fabrication laboratory, also called Fab Lab, at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center (MARMC, pronounced “mar-mack”) in Norfolk, Va., under DARPA’s Manufacturing Experimentation and Outreach Two (MENTOR2) program.

Radar/EW

Due Regard Radar tested onboard Predator B aircraft by General Atomics - News

February 13, 2015

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.

SAN DIEGO. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI), officials announced that they flight tested a pre-production Due Regard Radar (DRR), which marks the first functional air-to-air radar on a unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that meets the requirements for “Due Regard” operations in international airspace. Enabling such technology will help in the long run integrate UAVs into international and domestic airspace.

Avionics

Military simulation and training market to show moderate growth over next decade - News

February 12, 2015

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

AMSTERDAM. Analysts at ASD Reports say the global military simulation market should show moderate to strong growth through 2024 in their report titled "The Global Military Simulation and Virtual Training Market 2014–2024." In the report they see the market as have a CAGR of 3.48 percent, mostly driven by procurement of other military equipment such as submarines, aircraft, helicopters, UAVs, cyber security systems, and naval ships.

Avionics

Apache targeting and night vision system sustainment contract won by Lockheed Martin - News

February 11, 2015

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

ORLANDO, Fla. The U.S. Army awarded Lockheed Martin an $82 million performance based logistics (PBL) contract for AH-64 Apache helicopter Modernized Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor (M-TADS/PNVS) system sustainment.

Avionics

V-22 avionics integration, systems and software engineering support contract won by Raytheon - News

February 10, 2015

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

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. The U.S. Navy Air Systems Command awarded Raytheon a contract to support V-22 Osprey avionics integration, systems, testing, and software. Contract work will be executed by Raytheon Intelligence, Information, and Services personnel at its facility in Indianapolis.

Unmanned

NTDS developer Sabtech now called IXI Technology - News

February 10, 2015

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

YORBA LINDA, Calif. Michael Carter CEO and owner of Navy Tactical Data System (NTDS) designer Sabtech, changed the company's name to IXI Technology as part of a strategic approach to designing advanced technology and as a way to enter new industrial markets worldwide.

Comms

Remote GPS receiver from Rockwell Collins works with commercial smartphones and military mobile devices - News

February 10, 2015

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

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa. Engineers at Rockwell Collins have designed a GPS receiver that can plug and play with commercial and military mobile devices -- the Remote Secure Receiver (RSR). Battlefield Airmen Office of the Air Force Special Operations Command officials recently ordered the RSR, which has a small, low=power military Selected Availability Anti-Spoofing Module (SAASM) GPS solution.

Unmanned

Orion spacecraft uses rad-hard ICs from Intersil - News

February 09, 2015

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

MILPITAS, Calif. The first flight of NASA's Orion spacecraft, dubbed uncrewed Exploration Flight Test 1, made use of 16 radiation-hardened (rad-hard) ICs from Intersil Corp.

Comms

Navy Digital Modular Radios get software upgrade from General Dynamics - News

February 06, 2015

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

FAIRFAX, Va. Digital Modular Radios (DMR) for the U.S. Navy are getting upgrades for General Dynamics that are add high-frequency dynamic routing (HFDR) software to turn the four channels of the radio into eight virtual channels.

Radar/EW

Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) mine countermeasures and surface warfare mission packages orders placed by Navy with Northrop Grumman - News

February 05, 2015

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

BETHPAGE, N.Y. U.S. Navy officials ordered two more Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) mission packages from Northrop Grumman Corp. -- one for mine countermeasures and one for surface warfare .

Comms

Navys Ship to Shore Connector (SSC) program to use Sensor Interface Unit from North Atlantic Industries - News

February 04, 2015

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

BOHEMIA, N.Y. Engineers at L-3 Maritime Systems are using the rugged Sensor Interface Unit (SIU35) from North Atlantic Industries (NAI) for the the U.S. Navy’s Ship to Shore Connector (SSC) program's data acquisition unit system. The SSC is the follow on to the Navy’sLanding Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) vehicle, which is nearing the end of its run.

Unmanned

British army SCOUT SV program to use Ethernet switches, video servers, data servers from GE Intelligent Platforms - News

February 03, 2015

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems GE Intelligent Platforms, Inc.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. General Dynamics UK awarded GE Intelligent Platforms with $100 million in orders for open architecture, embedded computing subsystems that General Dynamics UK will use onboard the British army’s SCOUT Specialist Vehicle (SV) platforms.

Radar/EW

APG-83 Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR) production Taiwan F-16s set to begin - News

February 03, 2015

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

BALTIMORE. Northrop Grumman engineers are beginning work on the APG-83 Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR) has after receiving its first production order from prime Lockheed Martin.

Radar/EW

Navy electronic warfare tech on U.S. and Australian E/A-18 missions get upgrade - News

February 02, 2015

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

ARLINGTON, Va. DRS Technologies Inc. won access to an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to produce and deliver as many as 180 Joint Tactical Terminal-Receivers (JTT-R) electronic warfare missions for U.S. Navy and Australian EA-18G, aircraft. The JTT-R is an ultra-high-frequency receiver that delivers near real-time, over the horizon threat data for situational awareness and assessment, targeting, mission planning, threat avoidance, and communications.

Comms

Pixus Technologies releases ATCA shelf with 40GbE backplane for military applications - News

January 30, 2015

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

WATERLOO, Ontario. Engineers at Pixus Technologies released a new 6U AdvancedTCA (ATCA) SlotSaver Shelf, called the PXS0640, that adds two slots of payload card usage and features a 40GBASE-KR4 backplane for 40GbE performance.