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Curtiss-Wright to upgrade USMC Amphibious Assault Vehicle with Cisco IOS-based Parvus solutions - News

January 20, 2015

PHOENIX, AZ. Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions announced at the Embedded Tech Trends conference that they have received a contract from Strategic Communications, LLC to supply its switch subsystems and rugged network routers to support the U.S. Marine Corps’ AAVC-7 Amphibious Assault Vehicle (AAV) upgrade.

Unmanned

Japan wants Global Hawk and E-2D Advanced Hawkeye to be its eyes in the sky - News

January 19, 2015

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

REDONDO BEACH, Calif. Japan, looking to enhance its intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), selected Northrop Grumman's E-2D Advanced Hawkeye airborne early warning aircraft and an unmanned aircraft platform, the RQ-4 Global Hawk.

Comms

GET Engineering announces new Virtual Navy communications system - News

January 16, 2015

GET Engineering

SAN DIEGO. GET Engineering Corporation has announced the launch of Virtual Navy Tactical Data Systems (V-NTDS), a new communications system to replace traditional NTDS. The new V-NTDS is designed to reduce development and deployment costs by removing the need for NTDS adapters and costly cables for NTDS communication.

Avionics

AIA annual forecast: defense spending still dangerously low - News

January 15, 2015

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems Aerospace Industries Association (AIA)

WASHINGTON. Officials at the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) released their annual “Year End Review and Forecast” for the aerospace industry and AIA President and CEO Marilyn Blakey cautioned that the downward spiral of defense spending and government investment in research and development (R & D) will lead to a “dangerous decline in our highly skilled aerospace and defense workforce.

Comms

Rad-hard, power IC supplier, International Rectifier, acquired by Infineon Technologies - News

January 15, 2015

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

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. Officials at Infineon Technologies AG in Munich, Germany announced that the company has completed its purchase of radiation-hardened (rad-hard), power semiconductor provider International Rectifier, in El Segundo, Calif., for about $3 billion.

Unmanned

Navy underwater drone gets major upgrade with COTS tech - News

January 14, 2015

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems Phoenix International Holdings, Inc.

Phoenix International Holdings, Inc. engineers finished an upgrade of the U.S. Navy’s Deep Drone remotely operated vehicle (ROV) which is capable of submerging to a depth of 8,000 feet. The upgrade consisted of installing a new umbilical, sonar, LED lighting system, high definition camera, an updated frame, and a new foam pack.

Comms

Open source software platform released by Lockheed Martin - News

January 13, 2015

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

HERNDON, Va. Lockheed Martin software engineers have created a platform for easing big data analysis for developers and non-developers and are open sourcing the project on GitHub, a well-known web-based hosting service.

Comms

Military radio & networking market to embrace commercial tech - News

January 09, 2015

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

According to market analysts procurement of military radio systems will shrink along with troop levels, but funding for improved C4ISR capability should increase as the Department of Defense (DoD) looks to leverage commercial smartphone and networking technology to develop multifunctional communications equipment.

Comms

General Dynamics, Raytheon awarded U.S. Air Force contract for RGNext joint venture - News

January 09, 2015

General Dynamics Raytheon Company

DULLES, Va. General Dynamics and Raytheon have been awarded the U.S. Air Force’s $1.5 billion, single-award contract to operate, maintain, and sustain launch ranges in a joint venture called Range Generation Next (RGNext).

Unmanned

Measure and PrecisionHawk join forces for commercial UASs - News

January 08, 2015

PrecisionHawk

WASHINGTON. PrecisionHawk and Measure have teamed together to provide commercial drone services. The partnership will deliver customers enhanced access to advanced aerial data analysis, gathering, and processing through Measure’s Drone as a Service offering.

Unmanned

Army ATACMS upgrade contract won by Lockheed Martin - News

January 07, 2015

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

DALLAS, Jan. 7, 2015 – Lockheed Martin won a $78 million contract to upgrade the Army's Tactical Missile System (ATACMS).

Avionics

F-35 JSF Air Combat Training contract won by Cubic - News

January 05, 2015

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

SAN DIEGO. Cubic Corp. won a series of contracts from Lockheed Martin Aeronautics to develop and add enhancements to the F-35 fighter jet's Air Combat Training System (ACTS).

Avionics

KC-46 tanker program has first flight - News

December 31, 2014

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

EVERETT, Wash. U.S. Air Force and Boeing Defense, Space & Security personnel finished the KC-46 tanker test program's first flight over Washington state this month. The plane, a Boeing 767-2C, will get its military systems after certification.

Comms

Commercial space companies selected by NASA for collaborative partnerships - News

December 30, 2014

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

NASA officials chose four U.S. companies to work with the agency via unfunded partnerships to produce new space capabilities that can be made available to the U.S. government and other users. These partnerships will build on the NASA's commercial spaceflight initiatives to leverage NASA technological expertise into new applications.

Unmanned

Missile-defense, radar blimp now operational above Maryland - News

December 29, 2014

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

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. U.S. Army personnel sent up a blimp armed with a new cruise-missile and drone-fighting radar system from Raytheon for operation above rural Maryland. The system, known as JLENS (Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor) , has two helium-filled aerostats, or tethered blimps, that float about 10,000 feet above the ground and are equipped with radars.