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Avionics

Northrop Grumman, U.S. Navy develop aerial refueling system for E-2D Advanced Hawkeye - News

September 05, 2014

MELBOURNE, Fla. Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Navy have been working on developing an aerial refueling system for E-2D Advanced Hawkeyes, and have successfully conducted the preliminary design review.

Unmanned

Boeing, U.S. Army demonstrate HEL MD on military vehicle - News

September 04, 2014

Boeing

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. Boeing and the U.S. Army recently demonstrated the abilities of the High Energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator (HEL MD) in rough maritime conditions at Elgin Air Force Base in Florida.

Comms

General Dynamics UK to provide 589 SCOUT SV platforms to the UK army - News

September 03, 2014

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

SOUTH WALES, UK. General Dynamics UK won a contract worth about $5.76 billion from the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) to provide 589 SCOUT Specialist Vehicle (SV) platforms to the British army to add capability to the Armored Cavalry within Army 2020.

Radar/EW

CIRCM system from Northrop Grumman completes Army flight testing on Black Hawk helicopter - News

September 02, 2014

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

ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill. The Common Infrared Countermeasures (CIRCM) system from Northrop Grumman demonstrated its capabilities on a UH-60M Black Hawk helicopter during a round of Army testing.

Unmanned

New MicroTCA.1-compliant chassis from VadaTech for rugged applications - News

August 28, 2014

VadaTech

Henderson, NV. VadaTech has released MicroTCA.1-compliant chassis and modules for air-cooled rugged applications.

Unmanned

RQ-4 Global Hawk showcases expanded mission capabilities - News

August 27, 2014

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

SAN DIEGO. – The U.S. Air Force RQ-4 Global Hawk Wide Area Surveillance Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) demonstrated its ability to operate with an expanded variety of intelligence exploitation ground stations and collect mission data in multiple places during tests this summer.

Radar/EW

Space debris tracking site to be established by Lockheed Martin and Electro Optic Systems in Australia - News

August 26, 2014

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

CANBERRA, Australia. Lockheed Martin and Electro Optic Systems Pty Ltd., are joining hands to develop a new space object tracking site in Western Australia to provide a more detailed picture of space debris for government and commercial customers.

Radar/EW

Dual 4GSPS transceiver card from Curtiss-Wright shipping for C4ISR applications - News

August 25, 2014

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

ASHBURN, Va. Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions began volume production shipment of its VPX3-530 dual channel ADC/DAC engine. The rugged low-latency transceiver module’s 12-bit ADC can be configured with either two 4 GSPS channels or four 2 GSPS channels. It also has two channels of 14-bit DAC data conversion at up to 5.6 GSPS on a single 3U OpenVPX card.

Unmanned

U.S. Air Force completes flight test of Raytheon's upgraded HARM Control Section Modification - News

August 22, 2014

Raytheon Company

TUCSON, Ariz. The U.S. Air Force has flight tested Raytheon’s upgraded High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missile (HARM). The upgraded HARM Control Section Modification (HCSM) is more accurate, which reduces potential collateral damage.

Unmanned

Vicor announces new MIL-COTS PRM regulator - News

August 21, 2014

Vicor has released its new PRM regulator (MPRM48NF480M500A00), which provides power density gains over the previous generation.

A.I.

DARPA SyNAPSE program develops low-power, brain-like chip - News

August 20, 2014

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

WASHINGTON. Researchers funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have developed a computer chip with an architecture inspired by the neuronal structure of the brain that requires only a fraction of the electrical power of conventional chips. Defense applications where electrical power is limited such as mobile robots and remote sensors would benefit from the energy savings of the chip, which uses 100 times less power for complex processing than current devices.

Radar/EW

Navy uses maritime test bed from Lockheed Martin to demo analytical capabilities - News

August 19, 2014

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

SAN DIEGO. Lockheed Martin engineers used a new advanced maritime test bed to demonstrate how continually evolving technologies such as predictive analytics and data fusion can be used by the Navy to share intelligence quickly and securely – even in limited bandwidth naval settings.

Unmanned

Navy, Northrop Grumman demonstrate integrated manned & unmanned flight operations at sea - News

August 18, 2014

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

ATLANTIC OCEAN. Northrop Grumman engineers and the U.S. Navy personnel conducted a demonstration of manned, unmanned aircraft teaming during a a series of cooperative flights from the aircraft carrier, USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), using an X-47B Unmanned Air System (UCAS) and an F/A-18 Hornet.

Comms

3D Systems acquires American Precision Prototyping, Machining to expand aerospace presence - News

August 15, 2014

3D Systems

ROCK HILL, S.C. 3D Systems has acquired sister companies American Precision Prototyping (APP) and American Precision Machining (APM), providers of rapid prototyping and advanced manufacturing, engineering services, and product development.