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Avionics

Digital cockpit design, leveraged for UH-60L Black Hawk upgrade, on display at IDEX - News

February 24, 2015

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

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates. Northrop Grumman Corp. engineers are showcasing the company's digital cockpit solution, which is being leveraged in an upgrade of the U.S. Army's UH-60L Black Hawk helicopters, at the International Defence Exhibition and Conference (IDEX) this week in Abu Dhabi in U.S. pavilion booth 02-A10, stand CS-2. Once upgraded the aircraft will be called the UH-60V.

Radar/EW

Missile defense radar, AN/TPY-2, gets processor upgrade from Raytheon - News

February 23, 2015

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

TEWKSBURY, Mass. Raytheon engineers upgraded the computer processor of the AN/TPY-2 ballistic missile defense radar, which will allow the system to work better during raids and more quickly and accurately discriminate between a missile's warhead, and non-threats such as countermeasures.

Comms

Army M1A2 Abrams tanks to use Palomar BICU displays - News

February 20, 2015

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

CARLSBAD, Calif. U.S. Army officials awarded Palomar Display Products, Inc. a contract to produce and deliver their Biocular Image Control Unit (BICU) displays for Army M1A2 Abrams tanks.

Unmanned

Beam control system from Boeing looks to improve laser weapon accuracy on Navy ships - News

February 19, 2015

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

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Boeing experts have been contracted to design and develop a beam control system that could enable enhanced accuracy for laser weapons on U.S. Navy warships.

Unmanned

New rules/regulations for small unmanned aircraft proposed by FAA - News

February 18, 2015

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

WASHINGTON. Department of Transportation’s (DoT's) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials announced a framework of new regulations that would enable routine use of certain small unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) in today’s airspace, while keeping flexibility to accommodate future technological innovations.

Radar/EW

Navy P-8A to get open systems architecture upgrade from Raytheon - News

February 17, 2015

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

MCKINNEY, Texas. Raytheon engineers will be providing a flexible, application-based architecture (ABA) enhancement for the U.S. Navy's P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft under a $15.5 million system development contract.

Comms

DARPA Fab Lab to improve ship Navy repair and maintenance with 3D printers and other tools - News

February 16, 2015

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

WASHINGTON. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and U.S. Navy officials agreed to locate a fabrication laboratory, also called Fab Lab, at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center (MARMC, pronounced “mar-mack”) in Norfolk, Va., under DARPA’s Manufacturing Experimentation and Outreach Two (MENTOR2) program.

Radar/EW

Due Regard Radar tested onboard Predator B aircraft by General Atomics - News

February 13, 2015

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

SAN DIEGO. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI), officials announced that they flight tested a pre-production Due Regard Radar (DRR), which marks the first functional air-to-air radar on a unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that meets the requirements for “Due Regard” operations in international airspace. Enabling such technology will help in the long run integrate UAVs into international and domestic airspace.

Avionics

Military simulation and training market to show moderate growth over next decade - News

February 12, 2015

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

AMSTERDAM. Analysts at ASD Reports say the global military simulation market should show moderate to strong growth through 2024 in their report titled "The Global Military Simulation and Virtual Training Market 2014–2024." In the report they see the market as have a CAGR of 3.48 percent, mostly driven by procurement of other military equipment such as submarines, aircraft, helicopters, UAVs, cyber security systems, and naval ships.

Avionics

Apache targeting and night vision system sustainment contract won by Lockheed Martin - News

February 11, 2015

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

ORLANDO, Fla. The U.S. Army awarded Lockheed Martin an $82 million performance based logistics (PBL) contract for AH-64 Apache helicopter Modernized Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor (M-TADS/PNVS) system sustainment.

Avionics

V-22 avionics integration, systems and software engineering support contract won by Raytheon - News

February 10, 2015

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

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. The U.S. Navy Air Systems Command awarded Raytheon a contract to support V-22 Osprey avionics integration, systems, testing, and software. Contract work will be executed by Raytheon Intelligence, Information, and Services personnel at its facility in Indianapolis.

Unmanned

NTDS developer Sabtech now called IXI Technology - News

February 10, 2015

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

YORBA LINDA, Calif. Michael Carter CEO and owner of Navy Tactical Data System (NTDS) designer Sabtech, changed the company's name to IXI Technology as part of a strategic approach to designing advanced technology and as a way to enter new industrial markets worldwide.

Comms

Remote GPS receiver from Rockwell Collins works with commercial smartphones and military mobile devices - News

February 10, 2015

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

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa. Engineers at Rockwell Collins have designed a GPS receiver that can plug and play with commercial and military mobile devices -- the Remote Secure Receiver (RSR). Battlefield Airmen Office of the Air Force Special Operations Command officials recently ordered the RSR, which has a small, low=power military Selected Availability Anti-Spoofing Module (SAASM) GPS solution.

Unmanned

Orion spacecraft uses rad-hard ICs from Intersil - News

February 09, 2015

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

MILPITAS, Calif. The first flight of NASA's Orion spacecraft, dubbed uncrewed Exploration Flight Test 1, made use of 16 radiation-hardened (rad-hard) ICs from Intersil Corp.

Comms

Navy Digital Modular Radios get software upgrade from General Dynamics - News

February 06, 2015

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

FAIRFAX, Va. Digital Modular Radios (DMR) for the U.S. Navy are getting upgrades for General Dynamics that are add high-frequency dynamic routing (HFDR) software to turn the four channels of the radio into eight virtual channels.