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Curtiss-Wright's enhanced rugged LCD touchscreens for airborne surveillance platforms launched at ALEA - News

July 22, 2014
PHOENIX, AZ. Curtiss-Wright Corporation announced at the Airborne Law Enforcement Association (ALEA) show an enhanced and improved family of rugged touchscreen LCD displays designed for use onboard airborne surveillance platforms.
Comms

International Space Station mission planning support to be provided by Lockheed Martin - News

July 22, 2014
ROCKVILLE, Md. As part of team ld by SGT, Inc., in Greenbelt, Md., Lockheed Martin engineers will provide mission and flight crew operations support to NASA for the International Space Station (ISS) and other future human space exploration programs.
Avionics

F-35 Gen III Helmet Mounted Display System delivered for software integration to Lockheed Martin - News

July 21, 2014
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa. Lockheed Martin officials received delivery of the Rockwell Collins ESA Vision Systems, LLC, Gen III Helmet Mounted Display System (HMDS) for software integration into the F-35 Lightning II jet fighter. The helmet will be integrated into Low Rate Initial Production 7 for the F-35 program.
Unmanned

Advanced Cockpit GCS for unmanned aircraft demonstrated by GA-ASI at Farnborough Air Show - News

July 17, 2014
FARNBOROUGH, United Kingdom. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) engineers demonstrated the company's Advanced Cockpit Block 50 ground control station (GCS) at the Farnborough Air Show this week at the company’s stand in Hall 2 (Stand A-9).
Radar/EW

Patriot radar gets digital processor upgrades from Raytheon - News

July 16, 2014
LONDON. Raytheon won a $235.5 million contract to provide Radar Digital Processor (RDP) kits for upgrading the Patriot Air and Missile Defense System for the U.S. and two partner nations.
Comms

International Rectifier introduces new rad-hard DC-DC converters for satellite applications at NSREC - News

July 15, 2014
PARIS. Engineers at International Rectifier announced the release of the M3G120 Series of 40W radiation-hardened (RAD-Hard) 120V input DC-DC converters at the Nuclear Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC) in Paris this week. The products will support a variety of digital and analog satellite power systems requiring as long as 15 years or more of mission life such as space stations and NASA’s Orion MPCV (Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle) programs.
Comms

New RadHard-By-Design products released by Aeroflex at NSREC 2014 - News

July 15, 2014
PARIS. Aeroflex Microelectronic Solutions - HiRel engineers expanded their RadHard-by-Design (RHD) Analog Function Series family with four new products -- Quad Op Amps, Quad Comparators, Analog Multiplexers, and A to D/D to A converter. The devices are specifically developed for spacecraft designers involved in work on LEO, MEO, GEO, HEO, or Deep Space missions with specific radiation requirements. They made the announcement this week at the Nuclear Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC) in Paris.
Comms

New CurveMaster Curve Tracer product released by HILEVEL Technology at NSREC - News

July 15, 2014
PARIS. HILEVEL Technology, Inc. officias introduced the a new compact model of their CurveMaster Curve Tracer at the Nuclear Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC) in Paris this week. The product has as many as 2,048 pins and DC parametrics.
Avionics

Crane Aerospace, Rockwell Collins to provide ATRU, HSCU for Embraer E2 E-Jet family - News

July 14, 2014
PARIS. Crane Aerospace & Electronics Power Solutions unit has teamed up with Rockwell Collins to provide the Auto-Transformer Rectifier Unit (ATRU) to provide reliable power conversion for the Horizontal Stabilizer Control Unit (HSCU) supplied to Embraer aircraft manufacturer. This was announced at the Nuclear Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC) in Paris.
Comms

Aeroflex announces flight-ready, next-generation microprocessors at NSREC - News

July 14, 2014
PARIS. Engineers at Aeroflex Microelectronic Solutions - HiRel in Colorado Springs, Colo. announced the availability of two next generation UT699E and UT700 LEON 3FT-based microprocessors at the Nuclear Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC) this week in Paris. The UT699E is in production with prototypes available for the UT700 and production planned for the second half of this year.
Comms

Navy's third MUOS satellite begins its final testing preparation at Lockheed Martin - News

July 11, 2014
SUNNYVALE, Calif.. Lockheed Martin engineers finished environmental testing of the U.S. Navy’s third Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite. Trials cleared included thermal vacuum, which validated performance in simulated space conditions. The satellite is now in final check out.
Avionics

DoD, industry partners plan to lower the cost of 5th gen F-35s by 2019 - News

July 10, 2014
WASHINGTON. The Department of Defense (DoD) has announced an agreement to reduce the price of the F-35 Lightning II 5th generation fighter to the equivalent of the 4th generation fighters by 2019.
Radar/EW

Aegis Combat System successfully completes three NIF-CA exercises - News

July 09, 2014
USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53). The U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin have teamed up to test the Baseline 9 Aegis Combat System. The exercises included the longest-range engagement ever tested with a Standard Missile-6 (SM-6).
Comms

Rockwell Collins engineers to develop new antenna technology for DARPA - News

July 08, 2014
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa. Officials at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) tasked Rockwell Collins engineers to develop new electronically scanned array (ESA) antenna technology as part of DARPA's Arrays at Commercial Timescales (ACT) program.