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Comms
PC/104 OneBank carrier for SoC modules - Product
January 31, 2016
Sundance’s EMC-DP is a PCIe/104 OneBank Carrier for a Trenz-compatible system-on-chip (SoC) module and has expansion room for a VITA57.1 FMC LPC I/O board. It also has I/O pins, using a 100-way Samtec RazorBeam connector system.
Unmanned
Sensor fusion delivers navigation to UAV applications - Product
January 31, 2016
KVH engineers developed the GEO-FOG 3D inertial navigation system (INS), which is based on the company’s Fiber Optic Gyro (FOG)-based 1750 inertial measurement unit (IMU).
Radar/EW
Seven-slot system with integrated single board computer - Product
January 31, 2016
Engineers at 4DSP designed the VPX167 as a 3U-based VPX system with as many as seven slots that is VPX standard (VITA 46) compliant. It offers modular architecture in a small and ruggedized form factor suitable for most electronic warfare (EW) applications.
Radar/EW
UAV autopilot simulation has 3-D option - Product
January 31, 2016
Aimed at unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), MicroPilot’s True Hardware in the Loop (trueHWIL•) offers integrators and researchers a UAV autopilot simulator.
Comms
Presidential politics and defense electronics - Story
January 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 discuss the how the presidential election will impact the defense electronics market, if sequestration will last, and get our panelists to make some predictions on the election.
From The Editor
Remembering the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion - Blog
January 29, 2016
Televisions were rolled into classrooms at our high school when the news spread about the crash of the Challenger Space Shuttle. We watched the coverage all day, the launch, the explosion, and President Reagan’s speech. Seeing the pictures of Christa McAulliffe on the news casts yesterday morning that were commemorating the 30th year anniversary of her death along with 6 NASA astronauts when their spacecraft disintegrated moments after liftoff, brought it all back.
Avionics
Intel integrating Wind River subsidiary even more in 2016 - Blog
January 29, 2016
Earlier this month Fortune magazine reported that Wind River's run as it's own brand under the Intel umbrella will end as the company absorbs it completely. The news is not surprising as Intel is finishing up it's acquisition of FPGA-maker Altera and doing away with that brand as Altera is becoming Intel the Programmable Solutions Group (PSG).
Radar/EW
Military spectrum management & EW challenges driving wireless monitoring tech - Story
January 29, 2016
Designers in the military RF world are faced with evolving challenges such as sharing bandwidth in a crowded spectrum and electronic warfare threats that can adapt faster than legacy EW systems can respond. In this Q&A with Nick Balon, General Manager for CRFS, he discusses how multi-node networks are enabling high-performance spectrum monitoring and how kits that leverage software defined radio (SDR) can reduce latencies when tracking electronic intelligence (ELINT) signals. Edited excerpts follow.
Comms
C4ISR market to reach $119 billion by 2019 - News
January 29, 2016
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. The global market for command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) related products is growing as nations focus on filling the gaps in their C4ISR capabilities, say analysts at Frost & Sullivan. They estimate that C4ISR procurement will reach $119 billion by 2019.
A.I.
DARPA looks to interface human brain with digital world - News
January 29, 2016
ARLINGTON, Virginia. DARPA officials have created a new program that looks to develop an implantable neural interface that would provide unprecedented signal resolution and data-transfer bandwidth between the human brain and the digital world. They are also looking for partners to help them on this quest, hosting an overview of the program, dubbed Neural Engineering System Design (NESD), next week. DARPA anticipates investing up to $60 million in the NESD program over four years.
Unmanned
Tomahawk cruise missile seeker test completed by Raytheon - News
January 18, 2016
TUCSON, Arizona. Raytheon completed a captive flight test of a seeker designed to enable Tomahawk Block IV cruise missiles to engage moving targets on sea or land.
Radar/EW
NAVAIR Advanced Airborne Sensor testing continuing on Navy P-8A Poseidon - News
January 07, 2016
PATUXENT RIVER, Maryland. Navy personnel are continuing the integration and testing of the Naval Air Systems Command's (NAVAIR's) first Advanced Airborne Sensor (AAS), dubbed the APS-154, aboard the P-8A Poseidon aircraft. Testing will confirm that the P-8A and AAS can operate safely and efficiently together.
Avionics
DoD to procure 78 C-130J Super Hercules under multiyear contract - News
January 04, 2016
MARIETTA, Georgia. U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) officials announced that more than $1 billion in funding for the first 32 aircraft under a a C-130J Multiyear II contract. The overall contract, valued at about $5.3 billion, provides 78 Super Hercules aircraft to the U.S. Air Force (30 MC-130Js, 13 HC-130Js and 29 C-130J-30s) and the U.S. Marine Corps (six KC-130Js). The U.S. Coast Guard will also have an option to acquire five HC-130Js under the contract.
Comms
Assembling atom-sized pieces for micromachines goal of DARPA A2P program - News
December 31, 2015
ARLINGTON, Virginia. DARPA officials are looking to develop technologies and processes to build nanometer-scale pieces whose dimensions are near the size of atoms—into systems, components, or materials that are at least millimeter-scale in size. The big hurdle to this goal is that many common materials, when fabricated at nanometer-scale, exhibit unique and attractive “atomic-scale” behaviors but lose them when they are built at product scale dimensions such as a few centimeters. So DARPA launched the Atoms to Product (A2P) program and chose ten groups to go and solve this challenge.
Radar/EW
Tactical ISTAR contract won by Elbit Systems for Asia-Pacific nation - News
December 30, 2015
HAIFA, Israel. Elbit Systems Ltd. won a contract to provide an airborne, intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance (ISTAR) solution to an unnamed Asia-Pacific country.
Unmanned
DARPA unmanned VTOL aircraft program for small ships won by Northrop Grumman - News
December 29, 2015
ARLINGTON, Virginia. A team lead by Northrop Grumman Corp. won phase 3 of the DARPA Tactically Exploited Reconnaissance Node (TERN) program, which will enable small-deck ships such as destroyers and frigates to have their own unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) to run intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) missions around the clock.
Avionics
Boeing gets second crew mission to International Space Station - News
December 29, 2015
HOUSTON. NASA officials ordered its second post-certification mission from Boeing Space Exploration as part of an effort to establish regular crew missions to launch from the United States to the International Space Station (ISS).
Radar/EW
Intel's acquisition of FPGA-maker Altera completed - News
December 28, 2015
SANTA CLARA, California. Intel Corp. officials announced today that the company completed its acquisition of FPGA-maker Altera Corp., which will now operate as an Intel business unit dubbed the Programmable Solutions Group (PSG). Altera's FPGAs are used by military systems designers in electronic warfare, radar, and other signal-processing intensive applications.
Radar/EW
Air Force radar support program won by BAE Systems - News
December 28, 2015
WASHINGTON. BAE Systems won a U.S. Air Force Instrumentation Radar Support Program (IRSP) contract to give multiple agencies a wide range of radar support services. IRSP provides services across the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Department of Energy, NASA, and at least seven foreign governments.
Unmanned
Navy Shipboard Laser Weapon System Demonstrator contract won by Northrop Grumman - News
December 23, 2015
REDONDO BEACH, California. Northrop Grumman won a contract from the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) U.S. Navy to design, produce, integrate, and support shipboard testing of a 150-kilowatt-class solid state (electric) laser weapon system. The contract, dubbed Laser Weapon System Demonstrator (LWSD), will have three phases.
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