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Comms
GPS satellite ground system upgrade gets Air Force approval - News
December 12, 2016
DENVER. Lockheed Martin's upgrade design the current GPS satellite ground control system got Air Force approval to move forward. The enhancements include new capabilities that will enable the system to operate more powerful and accurate GPS III satellites.
Cyber
Cybersecurity for U.S. power grid contracts won by Raytheon - News
December 05, 2016
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts. Raytheon won multiple contracts from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to research and develop technologies to detect and respond to cyber attacks on the U.S. power grid infrastructure.
Unmanned
Nano-drone company Prox Dynamics bought by FLIR - News
December 01, 2016
WILSONVILLE, Oregon. FLIR Systems, Inc. officials announced today that the company has bought Prox Dynamics AS of Oslo Norway, a developer and manufacturer of nano-class unmanned aerial systems (UAS) for about $134 million in cash. The Prox Dynamics business will become FLIR's Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) line of business operating within the company's Surveillance segment.
Comms
Spectrum management, security, cognitive radio trending in MILCOM market - Story
November 30, 2016
Every month the McHale Report will host an online roundtable with experts from the defense electronics industry ? from major prime contractors to defense component suppliers. Each roundtable will explore topics important to the military embedded electronics market. This month we discuss trends such as software-defined radio (SDR), spectrum management, security, and commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) use in military communications applications with exhibitors from the MILCOM 2016 show held earlier this month in Baltimore.
Comms
Speculating on next DoD secretary - Other
November 30, 2016
President-elect Donald Trump says he wants to hold subordinates accountable if they don?t get results. In this vein, many are watching who he will choose to lead the Department of Defense (DoD) and whether that choice is hawkish, innovative, or more of a status quo operator. As of this writing, Trump seems to be leaning toward re-tired Marine Corps General James Mattis, also known as ?Mad Dog? Mattis.
Comms
President-elect Trump, sequestration, and the COTS market - Other
November 30, 2016
During his campaign for the presidency, Donald Trump promised increased military spending if elected. Now that he has won, many in the defense electronics industry have their fingers crossed that he will follow through.
Radar/EW
Abaco Systems buys 4DSP as well as Technobox I/O product line - News
November 30, 2016
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama. It's been less than a year since Abaco left the GE umbrella when they were acquired by Veritas Capital out of New York City, but they have already started growing through acquisition with two embedded computing additions in the last month, acquiring 4DSP LLC of Austin, Texas as well as acquiring the Micro Mezzanine System (MMS) product line from Technobox in West Berlin, N.J.
Unmanned
Undersea warfare systems market to grow to $11.9 billion by 2026, analysts say - News
November 29, 2016
BANER, India. Market analysts at Absolute Reports say that the global undersea warfare systems market will be valued at $7.1 billion in 2016 and project it to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.36 percent over 2016-2026, to reach $11.9 billion by 2026.
Radar/EW
Thermal management critical to military electronics upgrades - Story
November 29, 2016
With new platforms scarce in today?s budget-constrained defense environment, more funding emphasis has been placed on upgrading the existing electronics suites in avionics, radar, shipboard, and other military applications, which means solving problems such as reducing the heat generated by modern processors in size, weight, and power (SWaP)-constrained environments and managing long-term life cycle costs. In this Q & A with Andy Mason, Head of the Technology Platforms Group at Kontron?s Avionics, Transportation, and Defense division, he discusses the thermal management challenge in embedded computing upgrades and how open architectures and a building block approach that leverages commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) can help manage it across multiple platforms while keeping development costs down. Edited excerpts follow.
Radar/EW
Sonar upgrades to Australian submarines to be provided by Thales - News
November 28, 2016
PARIS, France. Thales engineers will be upgrading Australia?s Collins class submarine sonar systems a design and pre-production contract.
Comms
Penetrator's communications system protected during deep impact test - Other
November 23, 2016
CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom. Space, weapons, and maritime experts from QinetiQ conducted trials at Cambridge University to show that a specially shielded communications system can survive a deliberate impact with Jupiter?s moon Europa.
Avionics
Avionics, radar upgrades coming to Korean F-16s from Lockheed Martin - News
November 21, 2016
FORT WORTH, Texas. Lockheed Martin won a $1.2 billion contract to provide avionics and radar upgrades 134 F-16 fighter jets for the Republic of Korea air force (ROKAF).
Avionics
U.S. Army CH-47F cockpit equipment support contract won by Rockwell Collins - News
November 18, 2016
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa. The U.S. Army awarded Rockwell Collins a follow-on service and support contract for its Common Avionics Architecture System (CAAS) for the Army's CH-47F helicopter fleet.
Unmanned
Northrop Grumman Smart Node Pod demonstrates C4ISR interoperability - News
November 17, 2016
FALLS CHURCH, Va. Northrop Grumman recently demonstrated how its Smart Node Pod -- a small, self-contained, aircraft-mounted system -- can aid in battlefield communications and information-sharing across a wide variety of networks and mission threads. The Smart Node Pod's capabilities were presented during Bold Quest, a coalition demonstration and assessment event sponsored twice yearly by the Joint Staff at the Department of Defense (DoD); Bold Quest 16.2 was conducted in the Savannah, Georgia, area from mid-October through early November.
Avionics
F-22 sustainment contract won by Lockheed Martin - News
November 16, 2016
FORT WORTH, Texas. Lockheed Martin Corp. won a $536 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force for sustaining the F-22 Raptor.
Radar/EW
Autumn acquisitions touch military embedded computing, safety-critical markets - Story
November 16, 2016
Two key acquisitions colored the fall season in the embedded world, both of which will affect military embedded computing applications. One was at the component level, the other at the board and subsystem level, as Qualcomm bought NXP, formerly Freescale, for about $47 billion and then soon after Mercury Systems picked up avionics computer supplier Creative Electronic Systems (CES) for about $38 million.
Comms
Coast Guard Cutters get C4ISR and machinery control systems from Northrop Grumman - News
November 15, 2016
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia. Northrop Grumman Corp. engineers will design C4ISR and machinery control systems (MCS) for the U.S. Coast Guard Offshore Patrol Cutters (OPC) under a contract from Eastern Shipbuilding Group (ESG). As many as 25 OPCs are expected to be built by the Coast Guard to replace its entire fleet of medium endurance cutters.
Radar/EW
XPand4208 includes quad-core Intel Core i7 processors - Product
November 14, 2016
The XPand4208 from Extreme Engineering Solutions (X-ES), designed for avionics and vetronics applications, is a high-performance, expandable, computing and networking platform. The system has qualified under the MIL-STD-810F, DO-160F, MIL-STD-461F environmental, and EMI/EMC standards. This...
Radar/EW
Rugged switch with embedded x86 PC for military vehicles - Product
November 14, 2016
The Themis NanoSWITCH is a size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C)-optimized rugged multi-layer gigabit Ethernet switch with an embedded x86 PC. The NanoSWITCH enables enterprise-level layer 2/3 switching in the rugged environments found in military ground, air, and sea vehicles. Typical ap...
Radar/EW
F-series computing platform designed to meet SWaP requirements in harsh environments - Product
November 14, 2016
Elma Electronic?s S50F computing platform was designed with an Intel Corei7 processor at its foundation. The F-Series of the S50F-Intel Gen 4 Haswell general computing platform is expandable both in terms of I/O options and overall system size for enhanced performance while meeting...
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