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Radar/EW
Military rad-hard designs and big data in space systems - Story
April 28, 2016
In this Q&A with Ricardo Gonzalez Product Line Director, Space Products & Processing at BAE Systems in Manassas, Virginia, he discusses the impact of Department of Defense (DoD) budget cuts on the military space market, design radiation-hardened (rad-hard) components, and how BAE Systems handles big data and reduced SWaP requirements in their space products. Edited excerpts follow.
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Radar/EW
Navy Enhanced Laser Guided Training Rounds contract won by Lockheed Martin - News
April 18, 2016
ARCHBALD, Pennsylvania. Lockheed Martin won a $25.8 million U.S. Navy contract to manufacture and deliver Enhanced Laser Guided Training Rounds (ELGTR) and also refurbish reusable shipping containers and provide the associated technical data, to eventually extend ELGTR production into late 2018.
Cyber
DarkNode appliance used to protect against internal and external cyberattacks - Product
April 14, 2016
Ultra Electronics 3eTI?s DarkNode (3e-636L2) is a Layer 2 industrial information assurance (IA) appliance with a built-in application layer rewall that is designed to protect critical infrastructure facilities from internal or external cyberattacks. Its security platform reports over...
Radar/EW
10 Gb/s ruggedized system for military, aerospace high-bandwidth applications - Product
April 14, 2016
Hercules Unleashed is a 10 Gb/s ruggedized commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) high-density interconnect system from Meritec. The Hercules Interconnection System is embedded in the rugged circular MIL-38999 shell to provide a durable and high bandwidth interconnect suitable for military and ae...
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Multipurpose GPP for configurable systems with low power requirements - Product
April 14, 2016
The IXI Technology configurable IXI-1 multipurpose general-purpose processor (GPP) is an SBC that integrates the high-performance and low-power Intel Atom Quad-Core CPU. An additional FPGA for flexible configuration of multistandard I/O interfaces provides support for the CPU. The accelera...
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Rugged dual-channel 4 GSPS ADC/DAC in 3U form factor - Product
April 14, 2016
The VPX3-530 3U VPX Xilinx Virtex-7 FPGA ADC/DAC card from Curtiss-Wright is designed for defense applications such as signal intelligence (SIGINT), electronic countermeasures (ECM), and radar warning receivers (RWR). The rugged dual-channel 4 gigasamples per second (GSPS) ADC/DAC is packa...
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Manage Ethernet switches with 12 or 24 ports - Product
April 14, 2016
The Connect Tech LINQ/GbE is a rugged managed Ethernet switch box available for 12 or 24 Ethernet ports of 10/100/1000 Mbps. Using the Vitesse switch engine VSC7429, users have access to a range of Layer 2+ switching features, including VLAN support, IPv4/IPv6 multicast, QoS, and link aggr...
Avionics
DoD budget request funds platforms that leverage small form factors - Story
April 14, 2016
Regardless of which military trade show I attend or what military application is being discussed at a show, the common trend is that everything is getting smaller, whether it's GPS systems, avionics computers, unmanned aircraft system (UAV) payloads, etc. This trend bodes well for suppliers to the military of small-form-factor standards such as PC/104, COM Express, or SMARC.
Unmanned
Unmanned aircraft leverage PC/104, COM Express, and other small form factors - Story
April 14, 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.
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PC/104 and small form factors popular in defense electronics systems - Story
April 13, 2016
Thanks to its longevity and modularity, the PC/104 standard continues to be popular with military system designers, especially, as their size, weight, and power (SWaP) requirements continue to shrink.
Radar/EW
U.S. Navy sonobuoy contract won by Sparton & Ultra Electronics joint venture - News
April 05, 2016
COLUMBIA CITY, Indiana & SCHAUMBURG, Illinois. Officials at Sparton Corp. and Ultra Electronics Holdings plc announced their ERAPSCO joint venture won subcontracts from the U.S. Navy worth about $53.7 million to manufacture sonobuoys, to enable greater sensor capability for the Navy in anti-submarine warfare applications.
Radar/EW
One more Littoral Combat Ship ordered by Navy - News
April 01, 2016
WASHINGTON. The U.S. Navy contracted a Lockheed Martin led team one fully funded Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship (LCS). Included in the contract is funding for seaframe construction, testing, and systems integration.
Comms
DoD budget impact on COTS - Story
March 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 our roundtable of industry experts discuss how the slight increase in the Department of Defense?s (DoD?s) overall Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 budget request affects embedded commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) electronics providers. Also discussed are which applications are best bets for COTS, market fluctuations, risk management, and predictions for potential defense budgets under a Clinton or Trump administration.
Comms
NASA budget cuts human exploration, increases CubeSat, R&D dollars - News
March 31, 2016
WASHINGTON. The Obama Administration?s Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 budget request for NASA cuts into human space flight funding while tripling finding for CubeSat, increasing investment in earth sciences, research and development (R&D). The overall budget request of $19 billion is down about $300,000 from FY 2016. Below are some highlights.
Comms
Military open architectures and VITA standards - Story
March 30, 2016
Custom designs and closed architectures are quickly becoming anachronisms, as commonality and interoperability of components are now standard requirements in military programs. More than two decades have passed since the famous commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) initiative hit the U.S. military market, and today common standards and COTS are now essential factors in every defense procurement equation. In this Q&A with Jerry Gipper, Executive Director of VITA ? the trade association behind standards such as VMEbus and VPX, he discusses how the defense community has moved away from custom, roll-your-own designs of embedded systems and is embracing open standards and open architectures in programs such as the U.S. Army?s MORA and VICTORY. He also provides an introduction to a new initiative being developed between VITA and the U.S. Navy, called HOST. Edited excerpts follow.
Radar/EW
Space Fence radar test site opens in New Jersey - News
March 30, 2016
MOORESTOWN, New Jersey. Lockheed Martin officials announced the opening of a Space Fence radar array test site in Moorestown, New Jersey. This facility is representative of the larger Gallium Nitride (GaN)-based system now under construction on the Marshall Islands, specifically Kwajalein Island. The U.S. Air Force Space Fence will monitor objects in space.
Cyber
Cybersecurity market valued at $81.4 billion globally - News
March 29, 2016
LONDON. Analysts at visiongain see the cybersecurity market's global value reaching $81.4 billion in 2016 led by companies such as Northrop Grumman Corp., Lockheed Martin Corp., and Intel. Cybersecurity submarkets included in the analysis are: network security, data security, endpoint security, application security, cloud security; and identity & access management.
Avionics
Army rotorcraft blade control tech developed by Army Research Lab - News
March 28, 2016
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Maryland. U.S. Army researchers at the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) performed a live-fire test on a rotor blade that has individual blade control technology.
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