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Navigation payload elements powered on in GPS III test bed - News

May 30, 2012

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

DENVER. Navigation payload elements of the GPS III Non-Flight Satellite were powered on by the Lockheed Martin team that is producing the satellite system. These navigation elements include advanced atomic clocks that improve GPS accuracy, and the Mission Data Unit, which is the heart of the GPS III navigation payload. The test was completed before the integration of the full Navigation Payload Element.

Comms

Secure smartphones and tablets for defense coming from Samsung and General Dynamics - News

May 29, 2012

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

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. General Dynamics C4 Systems and Samsung are teaming to provide Samsung Approved for Enterprise (SAFE?) smartphones and tablet devices with General Dynamics defense-level information and cyber security technologies. The SAFE tablets and smartphones also have the Samsung Secure Android platform and will a cost-effective commercial technology solution for for military and government agencies, law enforcement and public safety, as well as financial, utility, and other industry personnel who need to be able to browse the Internet and access secure networks.

Avionics

New rugged computer system for avionics, C4ISR released by Kontron - News

May 25, 2012

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

ECHING, Germany. Engineers at Kontron released a new multi-mission rugged computer system called ApexVX -- based on 3U OpenVPX technology -- is designed for avionics and military applications such as precision-guided munitions, mobile military vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles, electronic warfare, and C4ISR.

Avionics

Northrop Grumman's re-engined E-8C Joint STARS passes the test - News

May 24, 2012

Alice Moss Northrop Grumman

Avionics

Avionics upgrade by Boeing for NATO & U.S. AWACS fleet worth $368 million - News

May 24, 2012

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

SEATTLE. U.S. Air Force and NATO officials tasked Boeing to create a new design for modernizing the avionics and flight deck of the U.S. and NATO E-3 707 Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft fleet ? under a $368 million contract.

Comms

New UK submarine class to be designed by BAE Systems for about $516 million - News

May 23, 2012

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

BARROW-IN-FURNESS, United Kingdom. The Royal Navy selected BAE Systems to design the next generation of submarines for the United Kingdom. UK Ministry of Defense officials awarded the first design contracts for the Vanguard replacement program to the main industrial partners, BAE Systems Maritime ? Submarines, Babcock, and Rolls-Royce.

Unmanned

Navy's ONR program brings solid-state laser weapons development - News

May 22, 2012

Alice Moss U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR)

Radar/EW

Rugged FPDP recorders for military airborne, ground, and shipboard applications released by Pentek - News

May 22, 2012

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems Pentek, now part of Mercury

UPPER SADDLE RIVER, N.J. Pentek engineers released a high-speed, multi-channel Serial FPDP recorder family called Talon including a rugged portable and rackmount devices as well as a commercial rackmount version. The systems hit aggregate recording rates as fast as 2 Gbytes per second.

Unmanned

Phalanx weapon system to get overhauled by Raytheon - News

May 21, 2012

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

LOUISVILLE, KY. Raytheon engineers will be upgrading and overhauling nine Phalanx Close-In Weapon Systems for a U.S. Navy contract valued at $57.8 million. Under the contract the company also will produce two SeaRAM anti-ship missile defense systems and provide 20 radar upgrade kits.

Radar/EW

New SBC from Trenton uses Intel dual-processor solution - News

May 18, 2012

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

ATLANTA, GA. A new single-board computer (SBC) for military applications from Trenton Systems ? the BXT7059 -- integrates the Intel Xeon processor E5-2400 family Intel C604 chipset into a dual-processor, PICMG 1.3 design.

Unmanned

New UAS open payload architecture verified in PredatorB/MQ-9 Reaper flight test - News

May 17, 2012

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.

SAN DIEGO. Officials at General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA ASI), SELEX Galileo, and Cobham Aviation Services joined hands in an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) open payload architecture demonstration for the Sovereign Payload Capability Demonstration (SPCD) that took place at GA-ASI?s Gray Butte Flight Operations Facilities in Palmdale, Calif.

Radar/EW

Lockheed Martin demonstrates dual-function Aegis combat system - News

May 16, 2012

Alice Moss Lockheed Martin

Avionics

Rockwell Collins selects INTEGRITY-178B tuMP RTOS for Shadow UAS mission computer - News

May 16, 2012

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems Green Hills Software, Inc.

SANTA BARBARA, CA. Engineers at Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, chose the INTEGRITY-178B Time-Variant Unified Multi Processing (tuMP) multicore operating system from Green Hills Software in Santa Barbara, Calif., for use in their mission computer designed for the RQ-7B Shadow Unmanned Air System (UAS).

Comms

Rugged small form factor router running Cisco IOS released by X-ES - News

May 15, 2012

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems Extreme Engineering Solutions (X-ES)

MIDDLETON, Wis. Cisco officials selected Extreme Engineering Solutions (X-ES) to host the Cisco IOS IP Routing software on the X-ES SFFR, a rugged small form factor router. The router enables mobile ad hoc networking for military and emergency response applications.

A.I.

Army, Raytheon BBN to track metaphors under IARPA research program - News

May 14, 2012

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA)

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Officials at the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, or IARPA, through the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL), selected Raytheon BBN Technologies to create analysis tools and techniques that enable insights into the underlying beliefs and worldviews revealed by metaphors.