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Avionics

EASA certifies militarized H145M helicopter - News

May 18, 2015

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Airbus European Union Aviation Safety Agency

DONAUWÖRTH, Germany. The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has certified Airbus Helicopters’ H145M. Deliveries to the Bundeswher, the German armed forces, of the twin-engine military rotorcraft begin later this year.

Avionics

Cockpit display showing sonic boom over land to be developed by NASA and Rockwell Collins - News

May 15, 2015

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

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa. NASA officials tasked engineers at Rockwell Collins to develop a conceptual cockpit display that will enable a visual representation of sonic boom over the Earth’s surface to reduce the impact on populated areas. Under the two-year contract NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center will lead the research, working with experts at Rockwell Collins’ Advanced Technology Center.

Cyber

Cloud-based security key trend in in Asia-Pacific cyber security market - News

May 14, 2015

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

AMSTERDAM. Analysts at ASD Reports say the demand for cloud-based security solutions is one key trend emerging in the Asia Pacific cyber security market in their report titled "The Key Players in The Cyber Security Market in the APAC Region 2015-2019."

Radar/EW

Agreement signed by Terma and Aselsan to collaborate in radar and EW systems - News

May 14, 2015

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Terma

ISTANBUL. Aselen and Terma signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) during the IDEF’15 exhibition in Istanbul, Turkey. The MoU’s purpose is to generate an agreement that defines areas of collaboration including the transfer of ownership and intellectual property rights from Terma to Aselan of Terma’s F-16 Modular Reconnaissance Pod.

Unmanned

ATACMS missiles contract goes to Lockheed Martin for $174 million - News

May 14, 2015

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Lockheed Martin

DALLAS. The U.S. Army and the United Arab Emirates entered into contract with Lockheed Martin for the production of their Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS), a tactical long-range precision-strike surface-to-surface weapon system. The contract, a Foreign Military Sales, is estimated to be $174 million.

Radar/EW

U.S. Navy's Air and Defense Radar on track, meets performance requirements - News

May 12, 2015

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Raytheon Company

TEWKSBURY, Mass. Raytheon and the U.S. Navy completed a critical design review (CDR) on the AN/SPY-6 (V) Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) for the DDG-51 Flight III ships. The results meet radar performance requirements as well as show they are on schedule, within cost, and on track.

Radar/EW

Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod selected for F-16 fleet in Romanian and Thai Air Force - News

May 11, 2015

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Lockheed Martin

ORLANDO, Fla. The F-16 fleet of the Romanian Air Force (RoAF) and Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) receive an advanced sensor capability. They become the 18th and 19th international customers as they select Lockheed Martin’s Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod (ATP) for their F-16 aircraft.

Avionics

P-8A training system gets first international customer with Australia - News

May 08, 2015

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

The Royal Australian air force (RAAF) purchased a complete training system for the P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft under a contract with Boeing that also covers the sale of four P-8A training systems to the U.S. Navy.

Unmanned

Day one with John McHale at AUVSI - News

May 07, 2015

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems

Unmanned

Flight test completed with sense and avoid technology for UAS - News

May 07, 2015

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Northrop Grumman

ATLANTA. The completion of flight tests of the Multiple Intruder Autonomous Avoidance (MIAA) program was announced during AUVSI Unmanned Systems show in Atlanta. The tests conducted by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratories (AFRL) demonstrated the Department of Defense’s (DOD) Multiple Sensor Integrated Conflict Avoidance (MuSICA), a collision avoidance software.

Radar/EW

B-1 Bomber Scalable Agile Beam Radar - Global Strike unveiled by Northrop Grumman - News

May 07, 2015

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

LINTHICUM, Md.Northrop Grumman Corp. engineers unveiled the Scalable Agile Beam Radar – Global Strike (SABR-GS), which will be used for the U.S. Air Force's B-1B Lancer. The SABR-GS, multi-function, active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar, was developed as an affordable, low risk radar retrofit solution.

Unmanned

UAV COTS-based subsystem solutions announced at AUVSI Unmanned Systems Show - News

May 05, 2015

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

ATLANTA. Announced at the AUVSI Unmanned Systems 2015 show this week were several rugged size, weight and power (SWaP) commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) processing and networking solutions for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) by the Defense Solution division at Curtiss-Wright Defense.

Unmanned

Unmanned aerial system helps in cyclone Pam disaster relief mission - News

May 04, 2015

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Lockheed Martin

OREM, Utah. After the devastation of cyclone Pam, the Vanuatu government and the World Bank contacted Australian operator Heliwest to deploy Lockheed Martin’s Indago, a small unmanned aerial system (UAS). Unmanned systems can provide damage assessment information on disaster relief missions and the Indago collected images over a two-week period that provided the necessary data to operators.

Comms

NASA's SGSS command and control infrastructure integration completed - News

May 04, 2015

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

FAIRFAX, Va. – Implementation, integration, and test of the the Bearer Network and Basic Ground Terminal hardware and software for the NASA Space Network Ground Segment Sustainment (SGSS) program Increment A3 was completed by a team led by General Dynamics.

Unmanned

Live-fire test on guided bullet in EXACTO program completed - News

May 01, 2015

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

Arlington, VA. DARPA Engineers of the Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordnance (EXACTO) program completed a round of live-fire tests on their self-guided bullets that were developed to increase accuracy on dynamic and difficult long-distance targets.