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Lockheed Martin receives full rate production contract for SEWIP Block 2 systems - News

October 11, 2016

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Lockheed Martin

SYRACUSE, N.Y. U.S. Navy officials awarded Lockheed Martin an initial $148.9 million contract for full rate production of Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program (SEWIP) Block 2 systems. The contract includes four additional option years and the company will provide additional systems to upgrade the AN/SLQ-32 systems on U.S. aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers, as well as other warships.

Radar/EW

Logos & Raytheon partner to deliver multi-intelligence sensors for ISR applications - News

October 11, 2016

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Logos Technologies Raytheon Company

MCKINNEY, Texas. Logos Technologies and Raytheon have teamed up to provide multi-intelligence, sensor systems to address intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) requirements.

Cyber

GPS Military Code security certification completed by L-3 Communications - News

October 10, 2016

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems

NEW YORK. Officials at L-3 Communications completed certification process for the company?s next-generation Military Code (M-Code) GPS User Equipment. The development and certification of this technology was performed under the Air Force Military GPS User Equipment (MGUE) program led by the GPS Directorate within the Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) at Los Angeles Air Force Base.

Avionics

U.S. Army's UH-60 displays units scheduled to be serviced by 2020 - News

October 10, 2016

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Rockwell Collins

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa. U.S. Army officials selected Rockwell Collins to service the MFD-268C4 multi-function display (MFD) units for the UH-60M Black Hawk fleet. The follow-on indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract spans over five years and will service up to 2,160 units.

Radar/EW

Leveraging FPGAs for military comms, webcast: Oct 12 @ 12 noon Est - News

October 07, 2016

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

FOUNTAIN HILLS, Arizona. Embedded computing experts are gathering next week on Wednesday, Oct 12, at 12 noon Est., for a webcast titled "FPGAs: A Game Changer for Military Communications." The speakers will cover how FPGAs enable software defined radio (SDR) and satellite communication system designers to develop open-architecture, configurable board-level FPGA solutions for use in current and new systems. The webcast is hosted by Military Embedded Systems online and OpenSystems Media.

Cyber

Assured mission-critical cloud computing across blue and gray networks - News

October 07, 2016

Sally Cole - Senior Editor, Military Embedded Systems

Cyber

Embedding computing and the cloud - News

October 07, 2016

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

Comms

U.S. Army's WIN-T Increment 1 Network deploys with PacStar's IQ-Core software - News

October 06, 2016

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems PacStar

PORTLAND, Ore. At this year?s Association of the United States Army (AUSA) meeting, PacStar officials announced that U.S. Army?s Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) has deployed with the company?s IQ-Core software, an intuitive communications management software platform. Officials explain, this will unify the management of the Army deployed nodes, speeding up setup, configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting.

Cyber

U.S. Navy cybersecurity research and support contract won by Raytheon - News

October 06, 2016

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Raytheon Company

DULLES, Va. U.S. Navy officials selected Raytheon for a cybersecurity research and support contract worth an estimated $98 million for cyberspace science, research, engineering and technology integration.

Radar/EW

3U power supply combines XMC mezzanine slot expansion and 6-port PCIe switch - News

October 06, 2016

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

WASHINGTON. At the annual Association of the United States Army (AUSA) meeting, Curtiss-Wright?s Defense Solutions division introduced the 3U embedded power supply that also delivers system I/O expansion without increasing slot count. The PSU3-THOR power supply combines dual XMC mezzanine slot expansion and a 6-port PCI Express (PCIe) Gen2 switch into a 3U VPX slot unit.

Comms

Synturian product family of control and collaboration tech introduced at AUSA by Textron Systems - News

October 05, 2016

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Textron

WASHINGTON. Officials at Textron Systems Unmanned systems introduced the Synturian ? part of the Ground Control Station (GCS) family of products. It is a family of multi-domain control and collaboration technology that enables enhanced situational awareness.

Radar/EW

Secure rackmount server introduced by Mercury Systems at AUSA - News

October 04, 2016

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Mercury Systems

WASHINGTON. Mercury Systems, Inc. introduced a rackmount secure server for the defense market at the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) this year. The ATX-class servers are designed to drive mission processing, sensor processing, and cybersecurity applications.

Radar/EW

U.S. Army's AH-64E Apache helicopter to receive sensor upgrades - News

October 03, 2016

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Lockheed Martin

ORLANDO, Fla. Lockheed Martin engineers will upgrade the Modernized Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor (M-TADS/PNVS) on the AH-64E Apache helicopter under a U.S. Army contract worth an estimated $49.3 million.

Comms

USAF new command and control facility to receive support from SAIC - News

September 30, 2016

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems SAIC

MCLEAN, Va. Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SSC) Pacific officials placed a tasked order with Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) to provide technical engineering and installation services to support a command and control facility (C2F) for the U.S. Air Force.

Unmanned

Interoperable tech opportunities growing in U.S. UAS market, analysts say - News

September 29, 2016

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

SAN ANTONIO, Texas. The U.S. military, looking to minimize training requirements, is channeling funding toward platform upgrades and autonomy especially in unmanned aircraft systems (UASs), say analysts at Frost & Sullivan. The U.S. Air Force wants to upgrade its UAS programs by deploying an open architecture, ensuring standards-based modularity to enable plug and play sensors and implementing quick hardware and software upgrades, according to Frost & Sullivan.