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

July 08, 2014

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

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.

Radar/EW

Naval SIGINT application to use RF and IF devices from Mercury Systems - News

July 08, 2014

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

CHELMSFORD, Mass. – July 7, 2014 – Mercury Systems, Inc., won $4.4 million in orders from an unnamed defense prime contractor for their advanced radio frequency (RF) microwave tuner and intermediate frequency (IF) devices for a naval signals intelligence (SIGINT) application.

Unmanned

Persistent Surveillance Center of Excellence created by TCOM for lighter-than-air vehicle payloads - News

July 07, 2014

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

ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. Officials at TCOM announced the creation of a Persistent Surveillance Solutions Center of Excellence (CoE) at its Manufacturing and Flight Testing Facility in Elizabeth City, N.C. The new CoE will include integration testing of platforms, payloads, sensors, and PED technologies in partnership with manufacturers from around the globe to further the development of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) systems.

Radar/EW

Boeing delivers 14th P-8A Poseidon to Navy - News

July 07, 2014

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

SEATTLE. Boeing delivered the 14th P-8A Poseidon aircraft to the U.S. Navy where it becomes part of a squadron based at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Fla. Boeing officials say seven more of the maritime patrol aircraft will be delivered later this year.

Avionics

NASA awards Boeing $2.8 billion contract to develop Space Launch System core stage, avionics - News

July 03, 2014

Boeing

HUNTSVILLE, AL. Prime contractor Boeing has finalized a $2.8 billion contract with NASA to develop the core stage and avionics of the powerful rocket Space Launch System (SLS) intended to launch humans farther into space.

Comms

C4ISR collection and dissemination for the Navy to be enhanced by Lockheed Martin - News

July 02, 2014

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

DENVER. Navy officials tasked Lockheed Martin to enhance how the Navy exchanges its Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) data throughout the space, air, surface, subsurface, and unmanned sensor domains through a contract with the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR) Pacific.

Radar/EW

Navy awards Northrop Grumman $3.6 billion contract for 25 more E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft - News

July 01, 2014

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

FALLS CHURCH, Va. Northrop Grumman won a $3.6 billion Navy contract to produce and deliver 25 new E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft, which would bring the total number of contracted aircraft to 50. The E-2D Advanced Hawkeye is a carrier-based airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) system with upgraded intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities and flight systems.

Unmanned

Blimp-borne JLENS radar preparation completed for Army contingent operations - News

June 30, 2014

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

TEWKSBURY, Mass. Raytheon engineers completed preparation of a blimp-borne radar system -- Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System (JLENS) as a rapidly deployable strategic asset. JLENS was previously used for testing only.

Avionics

Sikorsky to develop Combat Rescue Helicopters for U.S. Air Force - News

June 27, 2014

Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin Company

STRATFORD, CT. The U.S. Air Force has awarded Sikorsky Aircraft with a 1.28 billion Engineering & Manufacturing Development (EMD) contract to develop new combat search and rescue (SAR) helicopters.

Unmanned

Rockwell Collins, NASA to initiate tests to safely integrate UASs into national airspace - News

June 26, 2014

Rockwell Collins

CEDAR RAPIDS, IA. Rockwell Collins has teamed up with NASA to perform risk reduction tests with the end goal to enable unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to safely operate in the national airspace.

Radar/EW

Next two missile defense SBIRS satellites to be built by Lockheed Martin - News

June 25, 2014

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

SUNNYVALE, CA. Lockheed Martin won a U.S. Air Force contract worth about $1.86 billion to finish production of the fifth and sixth Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) satellites, also known as GEO-5 and GEO-6, for the Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS).

Unmanned

Unmanned helicopter to use Ethernet router from Curtiss-Wright - News

June 23, 2014

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

Salt Lake City. Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions won a contract to supply its COTS-based rugged Ethernet Router technology for use on an unmanned helicopter. Under the agreement, Curtiss-Wright will deploy its Parvus DuraMAR 5915 router product, which will enable IP data routing onboard the rotorcraft.

Radar/EW

$1.5 million U.S. Navy order given to Mercury Systems for DRFM jammers - News

June 19, 2014

Mercury Systems

CHELMSFORD, MA. The U.S. Navy gives Mercury Defense Systems a $1.5 million order for advanced Digital RF Memory (DRFM) jammers to fulfill both U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force requirements.

Comms

ViaSat, Inc. to provide Top Secret-level encryption for Panasonic Toughpad - News

June 18, 2014

ViaSat

LONDON. Panasonic and ViaSat, Inc. have collaborated to implement IL2-IL6 Top Secret-level security encryption on the rugged Toughpad FZ-G1 tablet.

Radar/EW

Kelvin Hughes announces Single Mast Solution, radar system for surveillance at Eurosatory 2014 - News

June 18, 2014

Kelvin Hughes

PARIS. Kelvin Hughes is demonstrating their Single Mast Solution (SMS), SharpEye SxV radar, and command and control display software, CxEye, at Eurosatory 2014.