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Avionics

Surface mount VN-300 GPS/INS device joins industrial line of inertial sensors - News

April 30, 2015

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems VectorNav

DALLAS. Officials at VectorNav Technologies released a surface mount version of their VN-300 Dual Antenna GPS-aided Inertial Navigation System (GPS/INS). The VN-300 surface mount device (SMD) joins the industrial line of inertial sensors: the VN-100 IMU/AHRS and VN-200 GPS/INS surface mount and rugged modules. The modules will be on display at AUVSI in Atlanta, GA from May 5-7, 2015.

Unmanned

UAV ISR payloads and commercial signal processing webcast at 11am, April 30 - News

April 30, 2015

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

FOUNTAIN HILLS, AZ. Many Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs) ISR payloads carry sensors for radar, signals intelligence, multi-spectral, hyperspectral, etc., in one platform. Thursday, April 30, experts from the military electronics market discuss how military ISR payloads and sensors are enabled by embedded signal processing technology in a webcast titled "Leveraging Commercial Signal Processing for Unmanned ISR Sensor Payloads."

Unmanned

Hypersonic missile work by Raytheon continues under DARPA contract modification - News

April 29, 2015

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

TUCSON, Ariz. Under a contract modification from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Raytheon officials will continue its efforts develop and demonstrate technology for enabling air-launched hypersonic boost glide systems under the Tactical Boost Glide (TBG) program.

Unmanned

Agreement enables camera stabilization on Raytheon's targeting systems with Northrop Grumman's LN-200 IMU - News

April 28, 2015

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Northrop Grumman Raytheon Company

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. In an agreement between Northrop Grumman Corp. and Raytheon, Northrop Grumman will supply its LN-200 Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) to Raytheon for its optical targeting systems.

Comms

U.S. Army body armor system reaches final stages of evaluations - News

April 27, 2015

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Mission Ready Solutions

VANCOUVER, B.C. Company officials at Mission Ready Services Inc. announced that its Next Generation Body Armor System has reached the final stages of prototyping and user evaluations.

Radar/EW

Firestorm targeting system digitally guides F-35 aircraft - News

April 24, 2015

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

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. A United Kingdom Forward Air Controller (FAC) utilized the FireStorm Integrated Targeting System from Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, digitally guided a F-35 Lightning II aircraft using a complete air strike mission thread as part of a ground test and live flight.

Unmanned

U.S. Navy unmanned aircraft autonomously refuels in flight - News

April 23, 2015

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR)

NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND, PATUXENT RIVER, Md. – Over the coast of Maryland and Virginia in the Atlantic Test Ranges, the Navy’s Unmanned Combat Air System program completed a test objective of an Autonomous Aerial Refueling (ARR) of an unmanned aircraft, the X-47B.

Unmanned

Swarm of small UAVs are used in Navy's LOCUST demonstrations - News

April 22, 2015

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR)

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. Officials at the Office of Naval Research (ONR) announced a recent demonstration of the Low-Cost UAV Swarming Technology (LOCUST) Program. The exercise demonstrated technology of cooperative swarming of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

Cyber

Cybersecurity; prevention, detection, and remediation addressed in new Raytheon tool suite - News

April 21, 2015

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Raytheon Company

DULLES, Va. Raytheon officials released their SureView suite this week. The new solution tackles cybersecurity by combining human and machine knowledge to prevent, detect, and respond to cyber attacks.

Radar/EW

Where is COTS Technology Today, webcast panel, April 21 at 11 am Est - News

April 20, 2015

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

FOUNTAIN HILLS, AZ. More than 20 years ago then U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry issued his COTS memo, which dictated that all the services use commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) technology wherever and whenever possible. Tomorrow, experts from the military electronics market discuss the impact of that memo on the defense industry two decades later in a webcast titled "Where is COTS Technology Today?"

Comms

U.S. Marine Corps P-19R firefighting vehicle enters production phase - News

April 20, 2015

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems Oshkosh Defense

OSHKOSH, Wis. Production and deployment phase begins for the P-19 Replacement (P-19R) Aircraft Rescue Fire Fight (ARFF) vehicle. The U.S. Marine Corps selected Oshkosh Defense, LLC. in May 2013 for the P-19R contract.

Unmanned

U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy complete testing of Air-to-Air Missile - News

April 20, 2015

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems U.S. Air Force

TUCSON, Ariz. U.S. Air Force completes operational testing for the Advance Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM), the AIM-120D. Following suit, the U.S. Navy finished its initial operational capability (IOC) on the missile.

Avionics

Argentina's C-130 aircraft to get avionics facelift from Rockwell Collins - News

April 20, 2015

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

RIO DE JANEIRO. The Argentine air force (AAF) announced that it will use the Flight2 avionics system from Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for the country's C-130 upgrade program. Work already started the end of last year with L-3 Platform Integration, prime contractor for the upgrade program, installing equipment on five aircraft.

Radar/EW

Raytheon gets $2 billion to provide Patriot missile defense system to international user - News

April 17, 2015

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

TEWKSBURY, Mass. Raytheon won a contract worth more than $2.0 billion to provide their Patriot Air and Missile Defense System to an undisclosed international customer.

Comms

New space-designed, waveform processor from Northrop Grumman tested for warfighter communications - News

April 16, 2015

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

REDONDO BEACH, Calif. Northrop Grumman engineers demonstrated a new space-design protected tactical waveform (PTW) processor that they say improves user data rates by as much as a factor of 20, enhances spectral efficiency by as much as a factor of four and enables bandwidth-on-demand to enhance warfighter communications in contested tactical environments.