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TI's DDR memory linear regulator for space applications featured at NSREC - News

July 13, 2016

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems

PORTLAND, Ore. During the 2016 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC), Texas Instruments (TI) introduced the double-data-rate (DDR) memory linear regulator, the TPS7H3301-SP, for space applications.

Radar/EW

U.S. Army's Apache helicopter receives radar upgrades - News

July 13, 2016

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems LONGBOW LLC

ORLANDO, Fla. LONGBOW LLC engineers will upgrade the U.S. Army?s Apache helicopter with the company?s LONGBOW Fire Control Radar (FCR) under a contract worth an estimated $89.8 million.

Comms

Electronic assembly order placed with Cobham Semiconductor Solutions - News

July 12, 2016

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Cobham

PORTLAND, Ore. At the Nuclear Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC) this year, Cobham officials announced the company has received a $13 million order for electronic manufacturing services to aid in a processing project.

Unmanned

NASA's Juno aircraft equipped with Cobham's battery unit arrives at destination - News

July 11, 2016

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Cobham NASA

PORTLAND, Ore. Cobham officials announced at this year's Nuclear Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC) that NASA?s Jupiter Near-polar Orbiter (Juno) spacecraft launched with the company's Battery Electronics Unit (BEU), providing a balance of power cells autonomously to a Lithium Ion (Li-Ion) battery. Juno arrived at its destination, Jupiter, after a five-year journey.

Unmanned

Predator C Avenger gets FAA experimental certificate - News

July 11, 2016

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

FARNBOROUGH, United Kingdom. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA?ASI), officials announced that its company-owned Predator C Avenger unmanned aircraft system (UAS) received a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)-issued Experimental Certificate (EC), enabling it to perform routine operations in the U.S. National Airspace System (NAS). The announcement was made this week at the Farnborough International Air Show.

Unmanned

Passive radar system is integrated on GA-ASI's Predator B - News

July 08, 2016

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.

SAN DIEGO. Raytheon Deutschland GmbH and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA?ASI) engineers will integrate the Advanced Radar Detection System (ARDS) ? an Electronic Support Measure (ESM) system for passive radar monitoring ? on a standard pod that will be mounted on the centerline hard point of GA-ASI?s unmanned aerial system (UAS), the Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper.

Radar/EW

U.S. Navy begins live fire testing preparations for Raytheon's AN/SPY-6(V) radar - News

July 07, 2016

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Raytheon Company

TEWKSBURY, Mass. U.S. Navy officials at the Pacific Missile Range testing facility in Hawaii received Raytheon?s AN/SPY-6(V) Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) array, which is now in preparation for live target testing in early July.

Radar/EW

Command and control system contract won by MicroTech - News

July 07, 2016

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems MicroTech

VIENNA, Va. Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic officials in Charleston, South Carolina tasked MicroTech to deliver command and control (C2) systems and support services under an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract valued an estimated $750 million.

Radar/EW

General Dynamics to continue developing Virginia Payload Modules for submarines - News

July 06, 2016

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems General Dynamics Electric Boat

GROTON, Conn. U.S. Navy officials modified an existing contract with General Dynamics Electric Boat - a subsidiary of General Dynamics - to continue to develop the Virginia Payload Module (VPM). The contract's estimated value is $116 million.

Comms

Common data link split radio system contract won by Cubic - News

July 06, 2016

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Cubic

SAN DIEGO. Cubic's business division, Cubic Mission Solutions (CMS), will provide the U.S. Navy Space and Naval Systems Warfare (SPAWAR) Systems Center Pacific command with switchable Common Data Link (CDL) split Above and Below Decks radio systems to support sustainment of the AN/USQ-167 Common Data Link System (CDLS).

Comms

CPI to provide research efforts in vacuum electronics for DARPA program - News

July 05, 2016

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

PALO ALTO, Calif. The Microsystems Technology Office of the Defense at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) selected the Microwave Power Products Division of Communications & Power Industries LLC (CPI) for the first phase of the High Power Amplifier Using Vacuum Electronics for Overmatch Capability (HAVOC) program to research revolutionary approaches to vacuum electronics.

Unmanned

Collaborative Autonomous Systems Laboratory opened by Boeing - News

July 05, 2016

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Boeing

ST. CHARLES, Mo. Boeing?s Collaborative Autonomous Systems Laboratory officially opened to focus on developing, maturing, and validating autonomous and multi-vehicle collaboration technologies. Researchers will test next-generation hardware and software of autonomous air, sea, and land vehicles in order to have them work more effectively as a team.

Comms

Company officials restructure ThalesRaytheonSystems joint venture - News

July 01, 2016

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Thales Raytheon Company

WALTHAM, Mass. Thales and Raytheon officials restructured their joint venture company, ThalesRaytheonSystems, to focus only on NATO agencies and NATO member nations for delivery of the Command and Control System, Theatre Missile Defense, and Ballistic Missile Defense (ACCS).

Radar/EW

LVC demonstration completed by Rockwell Collins in France, U.K., and U.S. - News

July 01, 2016

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Rockwell Collins

TOULOUSE, France. Engineers from Rockwell Collins completed a Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) demonstration where they connected simulators and aircraft in the U.K., France, and the U.S.

Comms

SDR tech drives military mobile computing market growth - News

June 30, 2016

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

ELMHURST, Illinois. Increased requirements for software defined radio (SDR) technology will contribute to the growth of the global military mobile computing systems market over the next five years, according to analysts at Technavio in Elmhurst, Illinois. They forecast the market to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of more than 7 percent by 2020.