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Avionics
Certified MILS demonstrated in Rockwell Collins live, virtual, constructive training exercise - News
May 21, 2015
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa. Rockwell Collins engineers demonstrated Live, Virtual, Constructive (LVC) air combat training flight utilizing production Joint Secure Air combat training System (JSAS) equipment. The form, fit, function production equipment has Multiple Independent Levels of Security (MILS) encryption in the airborne and ground systems.
Avionics
Cockpit display showing sonic boom over land to be developed by NASA and Rockwell Collins - News
May 15, 2015
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa. NASA officials tasked engineers at Rockwell Collins to develop a conceptual cockpit display that will enable a visual representation of sonic boom over the Earth’s surface to reduce the impact on populated areas. Under the two-year contract NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center will lead the research, working with experts at Rockwell Collins’ Advanced Technology Center.
Comms
Unmanned
Last Unmanned Systems show roundup - Blog
May 14, 2015
ATLANTA. The AUVSI Unmanned Systems show that was held in Atlanta last week used to be about the drones or unmanned platforms themselves then it morphed into being about the sensor payloads they carry and the capability these systems bring warfighters. It's still all about the payloads, but it's not just about the warfighter anymore. The event and the industry are moving from a military centric one to one that serves law enforcement, agriculture, weather monitoring, media coverage, and even Hollywood.
Unmanned
Military unmanned systems market more than ever represents a COTS market - Story
May 14, 2015
COTS CONFIDENTIAL. 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 show held this month in Atlanta and the market outlook for these systems.
Cyber
Cloud-based security key trend in in Asia-Pacific cyber security market - News
May 14, 2015
AMSTERDAM. Analysts at ASD Reports say the demand for cloud-based security solutions is one key trend emerging in the Asia Pacific cyber security market in their report titled "The Key Players in The Cyber Security Market in the APAC Region 2015-2019."
Avionics
P-8A training system gets first international customer with Australia - News
May 08, 2015
The Royal Australian air force (RAAF) purchased a complete training system for the P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft under a contract with Boeing that also covers the sale of four P-8A training systems to the U.S. Navy.
Radar/EW
B-1 Bomber Scalable Agile Beam Radar - Global Strike unveiled by Northrop Grumman - News
May 07, 2015
LINTHICUM, Md.Northrop Grumman Corp. engineers unveiled the Scalable Agile Beam Radar – Global Strike (SABR-GS), which will be used for the U.S. Air Force's B-1B Lancer. The SABR-GS, multi-function, active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar, was developed as an affordable, low risk radar retrofit solution.
Comms
NASA's SGSS command and control infrastructure integration completed - News
May 04, 2015
FAIRFAX, Va. – Implementation, integration, and test of the the Bearer Network and Basic Ground Terminal hardware and software for the NASA Space Network Ground Segment Sustainment (SGSS) program Increment A3 was completed by a team led by General Dynamics.
Unmanned
UAV ISR payloads and commercial signal processing webcast at 11am, April 30 - News
April 30, 2015
FOUNTAIN HILLS, AZ. Many Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs) ISR payloads carry sensors for radar, signals intelligence, multi-spectral, hyperspectral, etc., in one platform. Thursday, April 30, experts from the military electronics market discuss how military ISR payloads and sensors are enabled by embedded signal processing technology in a webcast titled "Leveraging Commercial Signal Processing for Unmanned ISR Sensor Payloads."
Unmanned
Hypersonic missile work by Raytheon continues under DARPA contract modification - News
April 29, 2015
TUCSON, Ariz. Under a contract modification from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Raytheon officials will continue its efforts develop and demonstrate technology for enabling air-launched hypersonic boost glide systems under the Tactical Boost Glide (TBG) program.
Radar/EW
Firestorm targeting system digitally guides F-35 aircraft - News
April 24, 2015
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. A United Kingdom Forward Air Controller (FAC) utilized the FireStorm Integrated Targeting System from Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, digitally guided a F-35 Lightning II aircraft using a complete air strike mission thread as part of a ground test and live flight.
Radar/EW
Where is COTS Technology Today, webcast panel, April 21 at 11 am Est - News
April 20, 2015
FOUNTAIN HILLS, AZ. More than 20 years ago then U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry issued his COTS memo, which dictated that all the services use commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) technology wherever and whenever possible. Tomorrow, experts from the military electronics market discuss the impact of that memo on the defense industry two decades later in a webcast titled "Where is COTS Technology Today?"
Avionics
Argentina's C-130 aircraft to get avionics facelift from Rockwell Collins - News
April 20, 2015
RIO DE JANEIRO. The Argentine air force (AAF) announced that it will use the Flight2 avionics system from Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for the country's C-130 upgrade program. Work already started the end of last year with L-3 Platform Integration, prime contractor for the upgrade program, installing equipment on five aircraft.
Radar/EW
Raytheon gets $2 billion to provide Patriot missile defense system to international user - News
April 17, 2015
TEWKSBURY, Mass. Raytheon won a contract worth more than $2.0 billion to provide their Patriot Air and Missile Defense System to an undisclosed international customer.
Comms
New space-designed, waveform processor from Northrop Grumman tested for warfighter communications - News
April 16, 2015
REDONDO BEACH, Calif. Northrop Grumman engineers demonstrated a new space-design protected tactical waveform (PTW) processor that they say improves user data rates by as much as a factor of 20, enhances spectral efficiency by as much as a factor of four and enables bandwidth-on-demand to enhance warfighter communications in contested tactical environments.
Unmanned
Military investment in unmanned systems technology still strong - Story
April 15, 2015
Military's commitment to unmanned aircraft systems continues to be strong.
Comms
SpaceVPX standard ratified by VITA Standards Organization - News
April 14, 2015
FOUNTAIN HILLS, Ariz. Officials at VITA, the trade association, behind the VPX and VME standards, announced that the VITA 78 “SpaceVPX Systems” achieved ANSI recognition as ANSI/VITA 78.00-2015, which completes the VITA and ANSI processes for reaching full recognition under the guidance of the VITA Standards Organization (VSO).
Radar/EW
Rugged, Gigabit Ethernet switch with Cisco IOS router designed by X-ES - News
April 13, 2015
MADISON, Wis. The XPand6206 20-Port Gigabit Ethernet switch and Cisco IOS router from Extreme Engineering Solutions (X-ES) is designed to meet performance and reduced Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP) requirements for military unmanned system payloads, radar, and signal processing heavy applications.
Avionics
Suite offers flexible video, data configurations - Product
April 12, 2015
The HOTLink II suite of products from Great River Technology can set up military and civilian aerospace designers with flexible tools for point-to-point uncompressed digital video transmission.
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