Radar & Electronic Warfare
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Pentek
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
JOHN MCHALE, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR
 
The latest Department of Defense (DoD) fiscal year (FY) 2019 budget request is $686.1 billion, an increase of about five percent over the FY 2018 request. This is outstanding news for the warfighters, as they will get more support from a technology standpoint than during recent years where budget cuts and sequestration were the rule. Embedded commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) electronics suppliers will find it pleasing too, as the budget request provides funding for avionics; intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR); electronic warfare (EW); and radar applications.
 
 
 
 
 
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MARK LITTLEFIELD, KONTRON
 
The VPX form factor is used today for a wide range of applications and deployed environments. Applications vary from rail management systems to active electronically scanned array (AESA) radars on high-performance fighter aircraft, and environments vary from lab-benign (or near-lab conditions like wide-body jets) to tracked vehicles and unpressurized bays in high-altitude unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Annapolis Micro Systems
 
 
 
 
 
 
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LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR
 
Research and development laboratory HRL Laboratories is working with DARPA to develop the next generation of gallium nitride (GaN) transistors with dramatically improved linearity and reduced power consumption for use in electronic devices in such applications as radio communications and radar.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
JERRY CHANG, MERCURY SYSTEMS
 
Electronic warfare (EW) technologies, normally deployed in ground, naval and airborne platforms, provide a strategic and tactical advantage in the modern battlefield. At the same time, modern military forces continue to transition from conventional weapons to precision-guided weapons (PGW), with enhanced strike capabilities.
 
 
 
 
 
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LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR
 
Raytheon has completed a program and technical review for its Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor (LTAMDS) with the U.S. Army; LTAMDS is intended to eventually replace the AN/MPQ-65A Patriot radar.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Mercury Systems
 
 
 
 
 
 
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LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR
 
Lockheed Martin reports that the group of systems that enables the disparate elements of the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) to function as a complete global defense network has completed an overhaul and modernization project.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
MICHAEL WALMSLEY, TE CONNECTIVITY
 
These days, multifunction radars handle functions from surveillance to jamming to fire control, and can track multiple targets in both short- and long-range threats. That means one thing for your active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar design--you need a lot more signal processing power. As digital processing speeds increase, data converters are implemented closer to the antenna, driving size and weight reductions.
 
 
 
 
 
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LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR
 
Harris Corp. has won a contract modification worth $161 million to supply the next production lot of electronic jammers to protect U.S. Navy and Australian F/A-18 Hornet and Super Hornet aircraft against electronic threats.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR
 
Lockheed Martin has moved onto a next-phase contract with the U.S. Army's Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) to continue maturing the Modular Active Protection Systems (MAPS) controller base kit hardware and software...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR
 
U.S. and Polish officials formalized agreements for Poland to purchase Lockheed Martin's Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) missiles and related support equipment and Raytheon's Patriot from the U.S. Army.
 
 
 
 
 
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MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR
 
Thales engineers have integrated Interface Concept's ComEth4510a, a 6U OpenVPX Gigabit and 10/40 Gigabit L3+ Ethernet switch and IP Router in a radar application.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Abaco Systems
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR
 
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is holding the first annual Electronics Resurgence Initiative (ERI) Summit from July 23-25, 2018 in San Francisco, California.The three-day event will bring together those most impacted by the coming inflection in Moore's Law, including senior representatives from the commercial sector, defense industrial base, academia, and government.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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