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Air Force launches second Advanced EHF military communications satellite - News

May 07, 2012

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

CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla. Air Force officials launched the second Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF-2) military communication satellite an Atlas V rocket, built by United Launch Alliance (ULA).

Radar/EW

Patriot and JLENS work together to shoot down target during test - News

May 04, 2012

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

TEWKSBURY, Mass. A pair of Raytheon systems with advanced radar capability, -- the Patriot Air and Missile Defense System and the Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System (JLENS) ? worked in concert together to detect, track and take out a test target simulating an enemy cruise missile during a demonstration at the Utah Training and Test Range.

Avionics

Final F-22 Raptor delivered to U.S. Air Force - News

May 03, 2012

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

MARIETTA, Ga. Lockheed Martin officials delivered today the final F-22 Raptor ? 195th overall -- to U.S. Air Force. The delivery was concluded in an official ceremony at Lockheed Martin?s facility in Marietta, Ga., with various government and local officials as well as the Lockheed Martin employees that helped build the F-22 Raptor fleet.

Radar/EW

New XSTAR instrumentation radar system from Star Dynamics and General Dynamics tracks multi-stage missile - News

May 03, 2012

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

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. The XSTAR instrumentation radar system designed by engineers at STAR Dynamics Corp. and General Dynamics C4 Systems completed a demonstration where the radar tracked the multi-stage test missile launch and flight.

Radar/EW

Army orders more counterfire target acquisition radars from Lockheed Martin - News

May 02, 2012

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

Radar/EW

Raytheon Advanced Distributed Aperture System to use Mercury processing systems - News

May 01, 2012

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

CHELMSFORD, Mass. Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems (SAS) officials selected Mercury Computer Systems to provide an advanced sensor processing subsystem for Raytheon?s Multi-function Image Processor (MIP Application-Ready Subsystem (ARS) as well as integration services for Raytheon?s Advanced Distributed Aperture System (ADAS).

Comms

Solar array systems proposals for space electric propulsion systems sought by NASA - News

April 30, 2012

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

WASHINGTON. Officials at NASA's Space Technology Program announced that they are looking for proposals on developing solar array systems that enable future space electric propulsion systems that can travel much further than low Earth orbit.

Comms

ASU to develop warfighter health-monitoring system - News

April 27, 2012

Alice Moss Arizona State University (ASU)

Unmanned

New Navy Fire Scout unmanned helicopter variant being produced by Northrop Grumman - News

April 27, 2012

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

SAN DIEGO. Northrop Grumman engineers are upgrading the Navy Fire Scout unmanned helicopter by using the Bell 407 airframe. This new Fire Scout variant will have enhanced endurance, range, and payload and payload capacity to improve the ship commander's intelligence-gathering needs.

Radar/EW

Saudi fighter jets to get electronic warfare upgrade from BAE Systems - News

April 26, 2012

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

NASHUA, N.H. Engineers at BAE Systems are upgrading the Electronic Warfare (EW) capability of F-15S fighter jets for the Royal Saudi air force today under a $367M contract. The company will install 70 Digital Electronic Warfare Systems (DEWS)/Common Missile Warning Systems (CMWS) for the upgrade.

Cyber

U.S. Army IT contract awarded to General Dynamics - News

April 25, 2012

Alice Moss General Dynamics Information Technology

Unmanned

Autonomous landing system for UH-60 Black Hawks to use thermal management technology from Parker Aerospace - News

April 25, 2012

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

LIBERTY LAKE, WASH. Officials at Sierra Nevada Corp. are using thermal management solutions from Parker Aerospace for the for its Helicopter Autonomous Landing System (HALS) program integration on UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters.

Radar/EW

Navy's 20-year old ATC analog radar system gets digital facelift - News

April 24, 2012

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

MARLBOROUGH, Mass. U.S. Navy officials procured two more Raytheon radar systems to replace obsolete analog air traffic control (ATC) systems with digital technology. Military bases at New River, N.C., and Quantico, Va., will get the new radar systems. This procurement is part of an ongoing effort to upgrade the Navy?s analog ATC radars.

Radar/EW

MEADS X-Band radar starts system-level integration testing - News

April 23, 2012

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

ROME, ITALY. The first Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) Multifunction Fire Control Radar (MFCR) started testing at Pratica di Mare Air Force Base, which is just outside of Rome, Italy. The system-level tests help the system prepare for an intercept flight test later this year. The advanced 360-degree rotating X-band radar finished initial performance tests at a near-field facility at SELEX Sistemi Integrati SpA in Rome. At Pratica di Mare, program engineers will start system-level integration tests using a MEADS battle manager and launcher.