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Radar/EW
X-series adds M9290A CXA-m PXIe signal analyzer - Product
November 14, 2016
Keysight has expanded its X-series of signal analyzers with the CXA-m, a PXIe signal analyzer that offers specified performance up to 26.5 GHz. Its measurement capabilities include swept and FFT modes in the same instrument. The testing capabilities of the M9290A CXA-m PXIe signal analyzer...
Radar/EW
3U VPX features processor with mobile Intel QM77 Express chipset for radar applications - Product
November 14, 2016
ADLINK?s rugged 3U VPX 3rd-generation Intel Core i7 processor blade was designed for radar and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) applications. The VPX-3001 Series is a 3U VPX processor blade that features the processor with mobile Intel QM77 Express chipset. It pr...
Radar/EW
Board provides server-grade performance with storage connectivity - Product
November 14, 2016
The Concurrent Technologies TR C4x/msd board ? intended for military, aerospace, transportation, and test markets ? provides server-grade performance with storage connectivity for use in embedded computer applications. The 10G Ethernet dataplane connectivity enables users to bu...
Radar/EW
Qualcomm buys GaN supplier NXP - News
October 31, 2016
SAN DIEGO. Qualcomm Inc., and NXP Semiconductors in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, announced a definitive agreement under which Qualcomm will acquire NXP for $110.00 per share in cash, or about $47 billion.
Radar/EW
FPGAs fuel military electronic warfare, cognitive radio, and radar signal processing innovation - Story
October 31, 2016
Demand for increased signal-processing performance continues to be insatiable among military radar, electronic warfare (EW), and communications integrator especially as the latter two move into cognitive applications. In this Q&A with Rodger Hosking, Vice President and Co-founder of Pentek in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, he discusses how embedded signal-processing can enable cognitive EW and cognitive radio, how FPGAs have revolutionized embedded computing, and how the defense industry is competing for young engineering talent with the behemoths of the commercial world. Edited excerpts follow.
Comms
Army procurement and COTS - Story
October 31, 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 technology and market trends in the U.S. Army sector with exhibitors from the Association of the U.S. Army?s (AUSA) Annual Meeting held earlier this month in Washington. They cover Army unmanned system trends, the service?s approach to commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) procurement, market performance, and other trends.
Comms
DARPA simplifies contracting for those with little or no DoD experience - News
October 30, 2016
ARLINGTON, Virginia. Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) officials are introducing a simpler contracting approach for companies and other entities that have not previously worked with DARPA or had large contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD).
Comms
Landsat spacecraft contract awarded by NASA to Orbital ATK - News
October 30, 2016
WASHINGTON. NASA officials awarded a delivery order under the Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition III (Rapid III) contract to Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles, Virginia, known publicly as Orbital ATK, for the purchase of Landsat 9 spacecraft in the amount of $129.9 million under a five-year, firm fixed-price delivery order.
Comms
Turbine trainer aircraft valued at $32 billion over next decade - News
October 30, 2016
NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland. Analysts at the Teal Group are forecasting a world market for 2,737 turbine trainer aircraft worth about $32.3 billion over the next 10 years, more than 50 percent larger than the 1,876 aircraft worth $19.9 billion delivered in 2006-2015 (all in constant 2016 dollars).
Radar/EW
Radar and software interface supports VITA 49.0 specifications - Product
October 24, 2016
Model 71664 is a member of Pentek?s Cobalt family of XMC modules based on the Xilinx Virtex-6 field-programmable gate array (FPGA). Designed as a multichannel, high-speed data converter, it uses programmable digital downconverters (DDCs) and its PCIExpress output supports the VITA 49...
Radar/EW
Bidirectional optical extender provides optical-electrical bridge by over a mile - Product
October 24, 2016
Avionics Interface Technologies? MIL-STD-1553 Fibre Optic Databus Extender is an optical-electrical bridge for extending a MIL-STD-1553 databus by over a mile in length. The optical extension offers a low-latency mechanism for sending 1553 data through noisy environments and across l...
Radar/EW
DAL-C certifiable XMC 2.0 SBC for aerospace and defense applications - Product
October 24, 2016
Creative Electronics Systems (CES) offers the MFCC-8557, a DAL-C-certifiable XMC 2.0 single-board computer (SBC) for aerospace and defense applications. It is designed to meet the DO-178C/DO-254 certification process and can be delivered with all documentation, certification evidences, and...
Radar/EW
GaN transistors for electronic warfare and communication systems - Product
October 24, 2016
NXP has expanded its family of gallium nitride (GaN) radio frequency (RF) power transistors to include six driver or final-stage amplifiers that have frequency coverage ranging between 1 to 3000 MHz. The additional line of transistors join NXP?s portfolio of RF power transistors aime...
Radar/EW
Rugged embedded computer designed to meet SWaP requirements for C4ISR - Product
October 24, 2016
The RE1218M rugged embedded computer from Crystal Group is designed for workstation and/or storage capability in extreme environments with reduced size, weight, and power (SWaP) requirements. It is targeted at command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and rec...
Radar/EW
Uninterruptible power supply for extreme environments - Product
October 24, 2016
IntelliPower?s bright uninterruptible power supply (UPS) can be manually selected to 120 or 240 volts AC output and functions as a power-conditioning/conversion system with power factor correction for military applications in a rack. IntelliPower systems are designed with circuit boa...
From The Editor
Remembering Joe Pavlat - Story
October 21, 2016
Summer ended with sad news for our OpenSystems Media family when we learned that our friend and coworker, Joe Pavlat, Editorial Director of PICMG Technologies magazine, passed away suddenly at his home in Grass Valley, California. He was only 63 years old.
Radar/EW
Leveraging FPGAs for military comms, webcast: Oct 12 @ 12 noon Est - News
October 07, 2016
FOUNTAIN HILLS, Arizona. Embedded computing experts are gathering next week on Wednesday, Oct 12, at 12 noon Est., for a webcast titled "FPGAs: A Game Changer for Military Communications." The speakers will cover how FPGAs enable software defined radio (SDR) and satellite communication system designers to develop open-architecture, configurable board-level FPGA solutions for use in current and new systems. The webcast is hosted by Military Embedded Systems online and OpenSystems Media.
Cyber
Avionics
Certifying COTS avionics hardware to DAL A is common sense - Story
September 29, 2016
Modern avionics systems continue to become more complex for not only military aircraft, but also commercial aircraft adapting the latest digital cockpits. This complexity and demand for increased performance has placed more pressure on industry and the civil safety certification authorities for aviation worldwide to develop processes for certifying commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware to highest safety certification level ? Design Assurance Level (DAL) A. In this Q&A with Paul Hart, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions, he discusses the objections from the civil aviation authorities to this concept as well as the benefits that occur from certifying COTS hardware to DO-254 DAL A, its similarities to certifying software to DO-178C, and how it might apply to unmanned aircraft. Edited excerpts follow.
Comms
SDR tech deployed throughout military, but design challenges remain - Story
September 29, 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 cover software defined radio (SDR) technology and its current use in the military electronics market and its future outlook.
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