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Radar/EW
G/ATOR Radar System finishes government testing - News
April 09, 2013
WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. Northrop Grumman's AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar (G/ATOR) system finished two phases of government developmental testing at the U.S. military's Surface Combat Systems Center (SCSC) and already has moved into the next phase of developmental testing to prepare for the future operational assessment with the U.S. Marine Corps.
Radar/EW
X-band and S-band radars for Cobra Judy Replacement program complete live-launch tests - News
April 08, 2013
TEWKSBURY, MA. Raytheon engineers completed first tests of the radars for the Conra Judy Replacement (CJR) program against the launch of a live rocket. The X- and S-band radars that were integrated on the USNS Howard O. Lorenzen (T-AGM 25) acquired and tracked each stage of an Atlas V rocket that was launched from Cape Canaveral and then collected all the associated data.
Comms
U.S. Navy taps Northrop Grumman for NGC2P tactical data link processor upgrade - News
April 05, 2013
SAN DIEGO. Northrop Grumman has been contracted $80 million to enhance the Next Generation Command and Control Processor (NGC2P), a shipboard tactical data link communications processor that provides real-time combat information about friendly and enemy activity. The five-year indefinite quantity, indefinite delivery award was issued January 9th by the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR), San Diego. The contract also contains a two-year option worth an additional $15 million.
Radar/EW
NASA UAVSAR nears mission completion, prepares for Global Hawk port - News
April 04, 2013
WASHINGTON. The NASA Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR) is concluding a month-long scientific mission over the Americas this week, studying questions that range from the dynamics of Earth’s crust to the carbon cycle. The imaging system departed from the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, CA, on March 7 aboard a NASA C-20A piloted aircraft, and has conducted research studies over Arizona, the U.S. Gulf Coast, and Central and South America. The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, CA built and manages the UAVSAR.
Avionics
Radar/EW
Navy's electronic warfare ship defense system to be upgraded by Lockheed Martin - News
April 02, 2013
SYRACUSE, NY. Lockheed Martin won a $57 million contract to modernize the U.S. Navy’s electronic warfare defenses for anti-ship missile threats. Lockheed Martin engineers will upgrade the AN/SLQ-32(V)2 system that is on all U.S. cruisers, aircraft carriers, destroyers and other warships that have the capability to determine if the electronic sensors from potential enemies are stalking the ship.
Avionics
Linux GUI bus analyzer released by AIT - News
March 29, 2013
OMAHA, NE. The Flight Simulyzer (F-SIM) avionics databus protocol analyzer has been released for Linux Operating Systems by Avionics Interface Technologies (AIT). F-SIM is a Graphical User Interface (GUI) bus analyzer for analyzing, configuring, and controlling data from ARINC 429, ARINC 664/AFDX, and MIL-STD-1553 buses. It has been tested in CentOS Linux, Debian, and Ubuntu environments.
Radar/EW
Radar design software enhanced by MathWorks - News
March 28, 2013
NATICK, MA. The MathWorks Phased Array System Toolbox has been updated with MATLAB and Simulink to accelerate modeling and simulation of radar systems. The Phased Array System Toolbox is an end-to-end tool for modeling radar data processing or phased array systems using array perturbations, broadband arrays, and polarization. The enhancements in Release 2013a (R2013a) allow developers to model more complex scenarios.
Radar/EW
Radar technology from Cassidian to be provided to Canadian air force - News
March 27, 2013
UNTERSCHLEISSHEIM, Germany. Cassidian engineers will be equipping Royal Canadian air force airfields with new airport surveillance radars. Canadian contracting authority Public Works and Services Canada officials tasked Cassidian with delivering seven of its ASR NG airport surveillance radars to enhance flight safety on Canadian airbases and to improve military aviation integration into civil air traffic.
Radar/EW
Advanced high-res sensors produced for Hawk Air Defense System by Northrop Grumman - News
March 26, 2013
ROLLING MEADOWS, IL. Northrop Grumman Corp. engineers developed the Fourth Generation Tracking Adjunct Sensor (4G TAS), which is the latest upgrade to the company's high-resolution electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) sensors that are used for the Hawk air defense system. The sensors detect and track low, fast targets in day and night conditions and passes them on to the Hawk's fire control radar.
Cyber
Cyber security lab opened by General Dynamics in Maryland - News
March 25, 2013
COLUMBIA, MD. Officials at General Dynamics Fidelis Cybersecurity Solutions announced the opening of a new facility focused on enabling public and commercial sector users to prevent, contain, and analyze cyber attacks. Network defense and forensics services experts from General Dynamics are based at the new lab.
Comms
Espionage prompts NASA foreign lockout - News
March 22, 2013
WASHINGTON. NASA has issued a temporary lockdown of facilities and research databases to foreign nationals following the arrest of Chinese national Bo Jiang, a former contractor at the agency's Langley Research Center. The security review comes amidst allegations of physical and cyber espionage between the United States and China.
Comms
USAF Theater Deployable Communications program to use Cambium HCLOS radio - News
March 21, 2013
ROLLING MEADOWS, IL. The United States Air Force (USAF) has selected Cambium Networks’ Point-To-Point (PTP) 45600 High Capacity Line-of-Site (HCLOS) radio to replace the legacy Radio Frequency Module (RFM) in its Theater Deployable Communications (TDC PMO) program. A General Dynamics program, the TDC PMO is a communications network using Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) technology to afford rapid and secure transmission of information between wireless, wireline, or satellite systems.
From The Editor
Budget cuts push Hagel to review Obama defense strategy - News
March 21, 2013
WASHINGTON. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has ordered a reevaluation of the defense strategy announced 14 months ago by President Barack Obama. Responding to budget cuts that went into effect on March 1, Hagel spokesman George Little says the Defense Secretary intends to “examine the choices” underlying the current strategy in order to "define the major decisions that must be made in the decade ahead to preserve and adapt our defense strategy."
Radar/EW
Rugged rackmount & shelfmount computers, video wall controller from Trenton meet CE & UL requirements - News
March 20, 2013
ATLANTA, GA. Engineers at Trenton Systems have designed a new series with computing system configuration options that ease UL and CE certification compliance in industrial computing and video wall controller applications for military, facility security, and other markets.
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A-29 Super Tucano aircraft delivered to Uruguayan Air Force by Embraer
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C-27J maritime patrol aircraft to be supplied to Saudi Arabia by Leonardo
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SRC wins contract under Missile Defense Agency SHIELD program
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Senseeker Machining Company Acquires Axis Machine
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IT infrastructure award announced by U.S. Air Force
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Cybersecurity certification level 2 announced by Spectra Defense Technologies
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Network-modernization contract for U.S. Space Force won by CACI International
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Air Force installation to begin M2M comms across systems, infrastructure
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Armored 6x6 vehicles delivered to German armed forces by Patria
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