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Radar/EW

X-ES releases Freescale QorIQ-based 6U OpenVPX processor module - News

July 12, 2013

Brandon Lewis - Technology Editor, Embedded Computing Design Extreme Engineering Solutions (X-ES)

MIDDLETON, WI. Extreme Engineering Solutions (X-ES) has released a 6U OpenVPX processor module based on Freescale QorIQ T4240/T4160 Systems on Chip (SoCs), the XCalibur1840. The XCalibur1840’s Power Architecture e6500-based processors include 1.8 GHz dual-threaded cores and the AltiVec Single-Instruction, Multiple-Data (SIMD) engine for high-performance control and data plane processing tasks.

Unmanned

X-47B UAS completes first arrested landing aboard aircraft carrier - News

July 11, 2013

Brandon Lewis - Technology Editor, Embedded Computing Design U.S. Navy

NORFOLK, VA. The U.S. Navy successfully conducted an arrested landing of an X-47B Unmanned Aerial System UAS aboard the U.S.S. H.W. Bush on Wednesday. The X-47B UAS departed from Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland before landing on the U.S.S. H.W. Bush off the coast of Virginia.

Comms

Rad-hard ultra low dropout linear regulator released by Intersil at NSREC - News

July 10, 2013

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

SAN FRANCISCO. Engineers at Intersil Corp. in Milpitas, CA announced a new radiation-hardened (rad-hard) ultra low dropout linear regulator -- the ISL75052SEH -- at the Nuclear Space and Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC) in San Francisco this week. The device is single output LDO that is specified for an output current as high as 1.5A.

Radar/EW

New SPARC-based microprocessors announced by Aeroflex Colorado Springs at NSREC - News

July 09, 2013

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

SAN FRANCISCO. Engineers at Aeroflex Colorado Springs released new microprocessors this week at the Nuclear Space and Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC) in San Francisco. The products – UT699E and the UT700 – have more performance on a 130-nanometer CMOS process.

Comms

Rad-hard SSRAM devices in flow-through and pipeline modes announced by Aeroflex Colorado Springs at NSREC - News

July 09, 2013

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

SAN FRANCISCO. Radiation-hardened (rad-hard) synchronous static random access memory (SSRAM) devices for flow-through and pipeline mode by Aeroflex Colorado Springs engineers at the Nuclear Space and Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC) held this week in San Francisco.

Comms

ARC-210 airborne radio demonstrates MUOS satellite signal reception in Rockwell Collins tests - News

July 08, 2013

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

CEDAR RAPIDS, IA. The ARC-210 advanced networking airborne V/UHF radio from Rockwell Collins received its first Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite signal during a series of tests held at the company's Poway, CA, facility.

Comms

Enhanced Polar System Control and Planning Segment review completed by MILSATCOM and Northrop Grumman - News

July 05, 2013

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

MCLEAN, VA. Northrop Grumman Corp. engineers performed the preliminary design review and software requirements and architecture review for the Polar System (EPS) Control and Planning Segment (CAPS). The system enables space-enabled, secure communications capabilities for polar users in support of national objectives. EPS CAPS provides telemetry and control, cryptographic planning and mission planning for the EPS payload.

Unmanned

Persistent Surveillance software package to be built by Raytheon for NAVAIR - News

July 03, 2013

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

DULLES, VA. Officials at the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) selected Raytheon to produce an integrated multi-INT system for safeguarding forward deployed forces. The Persistent Surveillance System Cross Domain Solution (PSS CDS) provides warfighters with an advantage by enabling a complete picture of impending threats, from classified and unclassified sources.

Comms

Third SBIRS satellite payload deployed to Air Force by Lockheed Martin - News

July 02, 2013

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

SUNNYVALE, CA. The third of four highly elliptical earth orbit (HEO) satellite payloads was delivered by Lockheed Martin to the U.S. Air Force for the Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS).

Cyber

DornerWorks to develop space-qualified hypervisor for DARPA - News

June 28, 2013

Brandon Lewis - Technology Editor, Embedded Computing Design DornerWorks

GRAND RAPIDS, MI. The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) has awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase 1 contract to DornerWorks to study hypervisors capable of supporting virtualization in satellite payloads. DornerWorks will work off of the open-source ARLX Hypervisor project, a flight-certifiable ARINC 653 partitioning environment that is based off of the Xen hypervisor and runs real-time Linux in each domain.

Unmanned

GA-ASI Predator B variant to comply with NATO airworthiness standards - News

June 27, 2013

Brandon Lewis - Technology Editor, Embedded Computing Design General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.

SAN DIEGO. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI) is undertaking an Independent Research And Development (IRAD) effort to produce a variant of the Predator B Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) that complies with the airworthiness requirements of the U.S. Air Force and other anticipated NATO customers. The UAS will be a multinational certifiable platform based on the Block 5 Predator B and Advanced Cockpit Ground Control Station (GCS), and featuring enhanced capabilities for integration into domestic and international airspace.

Avionics

Army helicopter maintenance contract awarded to Lockheed Martin - News

June 26, 2013

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

DALLAS. Lockheed Martin won an aircraft maintenance and logistics contract from the U.S. Army Contracting Command at Redstone Arsenal, AL, to deliver field and sustainment-level maintenance for U.S. Army helicopters.

Radar/EW

Littoral combat ship (LCS) mine countermeasure mission package integrated by Northrop Grumman - News

June 25, 2013

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

BETHPAGE, N.Y. Northrop Grumman Corp. won a Navy contract worth $28 million for engineering and production planning services for surface warfare and mine countermeasures mission module components that will be deployed from, and be integrated with, the littoral combat ship (LCS).

Comms

WIN-T Increment 2 continues to use Parvus Ethernet switches - News

June 24, 2013

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

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. Parvus Corp., a Eurotech subsidiary, won follow-on orders from General Dynamics C4S, the prime contractor for the U.S. Army’s Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) program. Parvus Ethernet switches have bene used in the WIN-T tactical network for about four years. Deliveries for the latest follow-on orders - valued at $4.8 million -- are expected to happen over the next 3-5 months.

Radar/EW

Cambridge Pixel sensor fusion technology integrated with Hyperstar C2/ABI system - News

June 21, 2013

Brandon Lewis - Technology Editor, Embedded Computing Design Cambridge Pixel

CAMBRIDGE, UK. Engineers at Suritec have integrated the Cambridge Pixel SPx Fusion video and display software into the Hyperstar Command & Control (C2) Activity-Based Intelligence (ABI) system. SPx fusion enables fusing primary radar video tracks with Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) and Automatic Identification System (AIS) data from ship and aircraft transponders. This capability will improve target validation and reduce information on the operator display of the Hyperstar system.