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Unmanned

Hydrogen-powered Phantom Eye UAV makes its first medium speed taxi test - News

March 14, 2012

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

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. The Phantom Eye High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) completed its first medium-speed taxi test. The test took place at Edwards Air Force Base in cooperation with officials at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center. Phantom Eye reached speeds of as fast as 30 knots while ground personnel relayed directions and data using Boeing?s Common Open-mission Management Command and Control (COMC2) system.

Avionics

New avionics-focused business unit formed by Curtiss-Wright Controls - News

March 13, 2012

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

CHARLOTTE, N.C. Officials at Curtiss-Wright Controls, Inc. in Charlotte, N.C., have restructured their Integrated Sensing business to focus more on avionics and global aerospace applications. The group is now called the Avionics & Electronics (CWC-AE) division, which will be based in Christchurch, United Kingdom.

Radar/EW

Tomahawk missile's weapons system gets hardware and software upgrade - News

March 12, 2012

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

PHILADELPHIA. Engineers at Lockheed Martin are upgrading the Tomahawk Land Attack missile?s weapon-control system software and hardware. The Tactical Tomahawk Weapon Control System, or TTWCS), TTWCS gives firing units the ability to control, prepare, and launch Tomahawk missiles and is one of the three main components that make up the Tomahawk Weapons System.

Comms

U.S. Special Forces to use small, lightweight night vision goggles from L-3 - News

March 09, 2012

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

NEW YORK CITY. U.S. Navy officials are ordering Binocular Night Vision Devices (BNVD) from the L-3 Communications Warrior Systems ? Insight Technology business unit for operators in the U.S. Special Operations Command. The BNVD is smaller and more lightweight than typical night vision goggles.

Radar/EW

Space Fence radar already tracking objects in Earth orbit - News

March 08, 2012

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

MOORESTOWN, N.J. A Space Fence radar prototype ? designed by Lockheed Martin engineers ? is in the process of tracking orbiting space objects. The radar system development, which is an Air Force program, will improve space situational awareness for the U.S.

Radar/EW

Lynx radar simulation tool released by GA-ASI - News

March 07, 2012

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

SAN DIEGO. Engineers at General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA ASI) unveiled a new radar training tool called the Tactical Airborne Reconnaissance Simulator (TARS). TARS enables operators of Lynx Multi-mode Radar systems to train via a software-based tool on a laptop computer.

Radar/EW

Electronic jamming without friendly force interference demo to be performed by Raytheon for DARPA - News

March 06, 2012

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

TEWKSBURY, Mass. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) selected Raytheon engineers to enable warfighters to conduct jamming operations with minimal control and communication interference with friendly forces.

Avionics

Navigation system for CH-53K helicopter gets software upgrade from Northrop Grumman - News

March 05, 2012

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

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. Engineers at Northrop Grumman will be modifying software for the LN-251 embedded GPS/fiber-optic inertial navigation system (INS) that flies on the CH-53K Super Stallion helicopter. The work is for a Navy Phase II contract awarded by officials at the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) in Patuxent River, Md.

Radar/EW

OpenVPX board released by Eurotech at Embedded World - News

March 02, 2012

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

NUREMBERG, Germany. Engineers at Eurotech released their first OpenVPX board at the Embedded World show in Nuremberg, Germany this week. The CPU-111-10 is a rugged 6U VPX single-board computer (SBC) that has a quad-core Intel L5408 Xeon processor and 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch in rugged conduction and convection-cooled versions.

Avionics

Fixed price avionics certification solution offered by LDRA - News

March 01, 2012

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

NUREMBERG, Germany. Officials at LDRA created fixed price services group for avionics DO-178B/C and DO-254 certification. The new LDRA division -- LDRA Certification Services (LCS) -- was announced this week at the Embedded World show in Nuremberg, Germany.

Avionics

GNAT Pro 7.0 Ada language tool released by Adacore - News

March 01, 2012

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

NUREMBERG, Germany. AdaCore officials released the latest version of their Ada development environment tool ? GNAT Pro 7.0 this week at the Embedded World show in Nuremberg, Germany. The new version implements and supports the upcoming Ada language revision ? Ada 2012.

Comms

CompactPCI multi-display controller with AMD Radeon GPU tech announced by MEN Mikro - News

March 01, 2012

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems MEN Mikro Elektronik

NUREMBERG, Germany. A new 3U CompactPC multi-display controller -- the G214 -- that can manage six displays simultaneously was announced by officials at MEN Mikro Elektronik Gmbh at the Embedded World show in Nuremberg, Germany this week. The new device leverages the AMD Radeon E6760 General Purpose Processor (GPU) running at 600 megahertz.

Comms

Com Express carrier board with PC/104 expansion bus released by Connect Tech - News

March 01, 2012

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems Connect Tech, Inc.

NUREMBERG, Germany. Engineers at Connect Tech released the Com Express Carrier, a carrier board for small form factor applications that has expansion capability for PC/104 and PC/104-Express. Connect Tech announced the board this week at the Embedded World show in Nuremberg, Germany.

Avionics

Requirements traceability tasks automated with test management extension from Visure - News

February 29, 2012

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

NUREMBERG, Germany. Engineers at Visure Solutions in Madrid, Spain integrated test management into its new IRQA requirements engineering tool. The new feature enables validation of requirements for safety-critical software designers involved in military and commercial avionics DO-178B certification and other mission-critical applications. The IRQA tool automates requirements traceability with tests that provide proof points necessary for regulatory certification. Visure is demonstrating their Test Management Extension in Hall 4, Stand 418 at Embedded World this week.

Comms

SymTA/S 3.1 and TraceAnalyzer 3.1 announced by Symtavision - News

February 29, 2012

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

NUREMBERG, Germany. Engineers at Symtavision announced at Embedded World in Nuremberg, Germany the latest versions of their SymTA/S 3.1 and TraceAnalyzer 3.1 tools for verifying, optimizing and planning embedded real-time systems.