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Comms
Software-defined radio kit integrates with module SDR-PM 402 - Product
June 09, 2016
SDR-KIT 980B is designed to integrate 9.8 GHz X-band software-defined radio (SDR) transmitter-receiver systems with the processor module SDR-PM 402 for various applications. Ancortek?s SDR processor module SDR-PM 402 is compatible with this SDR-RF 980B module. The graphic user interf...
Radar/EW
VPX power supplies employs series of control features - Product
June 09, 2016
SynQor?s VPX power supplies are compliant with VITA 62, MIL-STD-704, and MIL-STD-461 for 28 V-in systems. The VPX-3U-DC28P-002 power supply has a maximum total output power of 500 W. It has overcurrent, overvoltage, and overtemperature protection. The system ? which employs cur...
Radar/EW
Signal acquisition for various applications - Product
June 09, 2016
The Red Rapids Model 277 signal converter can supply either raw analog/digital converter (ADC) samples or complex samples produced by the embedded digital down converter, which features a tuning resolution of Fs/223 and 10 selectable octave sub-bands in addition to the full-output bandwidt...
Radar/EW
COTS, GaN, cybersecurity flavor spring trade shows - Story
June 09, 2016
Attendees and exhibitors at trade shows I attended this spring - regardless of the show's subject matter or location - wanted fewer product pitches and more technology demonstrations, education on new technology, and more commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) solutions and open standards. The three shows - Aviation Electronic Europe in Munich, International Microwave Symposium (IMS) in San Francisco, and Xponential in New Orleans - reflected these trends.
Unmanned
Unmanned aircraft leverage PC/104, COM Express, and other small form factors - Story
June 08, 2016
Unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) continue to shrink in size, as do their payloads, requiring system designers to leverage small-form-factor, embedded-computing standards like PC/104, COM Express, and others.
Radar/EW
Family of GaN-based modular, non-ITAR amplifiers - Product
May 31, 2016
The Teledyne Microwave Solutions family of gallium nitride (GaN)-based modular, non-International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) amplifiers is a smaller form factor threshold for the 0.1 GHz to 6.0 GHz frequency range. The line consists of five GaN wideband amplifier models that meet t...
Unmanned
More payload interoperability key for UAS platforms - Story
May 31, 2016
Unmanned aircraft system (UAS) designers are enabling payload interoperability and leveraging COTS avionics, processing, and materials technology to meet demanding military requirements but also to enable applications in agriculture, oil and gas, and fire prevention. In this Q&A with Peter Klein, Director of UAS Programs for the Airborne Business Unit of Elbit Systems of America, he discusses these trends as well as Department of Defense (DoD) funding for unmanned platforms. Edited excerpts follow.
Unmanned
Loitering, airborne ISR goal of Raytheon-UVision teaming - News
May 31, 2016
TUCSON, Arizona. Raytheon Co. and UVision officials signed a teaming agreement to work together on developing small, loitering airborne solutions. As part of the agreement, Raytheon engineners will adapt the UVision Hero-30 remotely-operated lethal loitering airborne system for U.S. military requirements.
Unmanned
Sensor processing, commercial drone applications, COTS use hot at Xponential unmanned systems show - Story
May 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 the unmanned systems market and trends at the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International?s (AUVSI) Xponential show held this month in New Orleans, which focused on this technology.
Radar/EW
Space DC-DC converter market to have CAGR of 4.7 percent by 2020 - News
May 31, 2016
VANCOUVER, Washington. Analysts at Markets and Markets say the DC-DC converter market for space should grow from $213.2 million in 2015 to $268.2 million by 2020, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.70 percent by 2020.
Comms
Defense Sciences Office (DSO) announces office-wide Proposers Day for late June - News
May 31, 2016
ARLINGTON, Virginia. DARPA officials announced that the agency's Defense Sciences Office (DSO) is sponsoring a two-day Proposers Day, June 22-23, to give information to potential proposers on the objectives of a DSO Office-wide Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) anticipated to be published soon.
Radar/EW
Electronic warfare market to valued at $25.36 billion by 2021, analysts say - News
May 30, 2016
VANCOUVER, Washington. Analysts at Markets and Markets say they see the electronic warfare (EW) market reaching USD $25.36 billion by 2021 with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.29 percent during the forecast period.
Radar/EW
DARPA GXV-T program seeks smarted, faster armored ground vehicles with eight contracts - News
May 30, 2016
ARLINGTON, Virginia. Officials at DARPA have launched a program to improve the U.S. military ground vehicle resistance to armor-piercing weapons that does not reduce speed and mobility or increase development and deployment costs. under the program, dubbed Ground X-Vehicle Technology (GXV-T) program, DARPA officials awarded contracts to eight organizations.
Radar/EW
Railgun system from General Atomics demonstrated at Army Maneuver and Fires Integration Experiment - News
May 05, 2016
SAN DIEGO. General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) officials demonstrated its Blitzer electromagnetic railgun system at the U.S. Army's Fires Center of Excellence annual Maneuver and Fires Integration Experiment (MFIX)last month at Ft. Sill in Lawton, Oklahoma.
Unmanned
Certifiable Predator B from GA-ASI finishes fuselage integrity testing - News
May 05, 2016
SAN DIEGO. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA?ASI), officials announced that the company completed fuselage structural integrity testing of its Certifiable Predator B (CPB) unmanned aircraft system (UAS).
Radar/EW
Air Force ARTS program contract won by Textron Systems - News
May 02, 2016
HUNT VALLEY, Maryland. Textron Systems Electronic Systems won an $11 million order from the U.S.Air Force for 12 Advanced Radar/Electronic Warfare Test Station (ARTS) Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) systems to support the B-1B Lancer strategic bomber fleet.
Avionics
Safety critical COTS avionics, military avionics trends - Story
April 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 our roundtable of industry experts discuss avionics design trends, safety certification of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) components and the buzz on the floor at the Aviation Electronics Europe show held last week in Munich, Germany.
Avionics
OpenGL SC 2.0 for shader programmable safety critical graphics released by Khronos - News
April 29, 2016
MUNICH, Germany. Officials at the Khronos Group consortium announced the availability of the OpenGL SC 2.0 specification for bringing programmable graphics to systems that require system safety certification such as commercial and military avionics systems as well as automotive safety systems. Khronos officials made the announcement at the Aviation Electronics Europe show held last week in Munich.
Radar/EW
DDC to buy Maxwell Microelectronics, expanding rad-hard business - News
April 29, 2016
BOHEMIA, New York. Officials at Data Device Corporation (DDC) announced that the company entered into an agreement to acquire the microelectronics group from Maxwell Technologies, Inc. in San Diego. DDC, already a player in the space electronic market, just increased their market share significantly by adding Maxwell?s space-qualified microelectronics solutions for satellites and spacecraft.
Cyber
Military training and simulation spending to increase, analysts say - News
April 29, 2016
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California. Industry analysts say that spending by the Department of Defense (DoD) on training and simulation is expected to increase throughout the fiscal years defense plan (FYDP) to make up for the previous years? training shortfalls. Frost & Sullivan researcher forecast a 1.7 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) through 2020 for this sector. making it essentially a flat market once adjusted for inflation..
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