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Avionics
Tool crafts embedded display for avionics projects - Product
April 12, 2015
The VAPS XT-178 Version 4.0.1 from Presagis is a safety-critical software package for creating embedded display graphics for avionics projects that are intended for RTCA DO-178 B certification.
Avionics
Mission computer for day or night views - Product
April 12, 2015
The TacView Portable Mission Display (PMD) from Esterline is a compact, self-contained mission computer designed to enhance situational awareness for military, paramilitary, law-enforcement, and civil aircrews.
Radar/EW
Rugged Gigabit Ethernet switch with Cisco IOS router - Product
April 12, 2015
Unmanned system payloads, radar, and signal processing-heavy military applications require fast Ethernet switches that also reduce size, weight, and power (SWaP). The XPand6206 20-Port Gigabit Ethernet switch and Cisco IOS router from Extreme Engineering Solutions (X-ES) does all those thi...
Comms
Ultra-high-density data storage for heavy users - Product
April 12, 2015
Military big data needs require call for high density and Mercury meets that requirement with a modular solution. Mercury’s storage architecture leverages commodity solid-state disks (SSDs), providing tailored capacity with an upgrade path for future requirements.
Avionics
Splunk software to help monitor IT data for F-35 Lightning II - News
April 10, 2015
SAN FRANCISCO. Splunk Inc. Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II program will be using software from Splunk to monitor and analyze IT systems and network behavior for the Autonomic Logistics Information System (ALIS), which supports the F-35.
Avionics
From The Editor
Export reform impact on defense electronics suppliers - Story
April 09, 2015
Over the last two years the Obama Administration has pushed out export reforms that essentially move a number of items from the United States Munitions List (USML) under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) over to the Department of Commerce to make it easier for U.S. defense and satellite suppliers to do business overseas. The reforms like the regulations they aim to change are complicated, but attorneys at Arent Fox, LLP in Washington have put together a review of the reforms with content on how they affect defense electronics suppliers.
Unmanned
Military robotic systems funding steady as the systems continue to save lives - Story
April 09, 2015
U.S. warfighters often sing the praises of unmanned ground vehicles like iRobot's 510 PackBot because it saves lives in areas such as improvised explosive device detection (IED). In this Q&A with Tim Trainer, Vice President, Robotics Products International, iRobot Defense & Security business unit in Bedford, Mass., he discusses how UGVs have impacted the warfighter from a safety and efficiency standpoint and covers the outlook for robotics technology in the military. Edited excerpts follow.
Unmanned
High energy laser from General Atomics finishes beam quality test - News
April 09, 2015
SAN DIEGO. (GA‑ASI) The Gen 3 High Energy Laser System (HEL) from General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. completed beam quality and power measurements of G using the Joint Technology Office (JTO) Government Diagnostic System (GDS). The testing was performed by an independent measurement team under contract to the U.S. Government.
Radar/EW
SIGINT engineering and signal processing company bought by CACI - News
April 08, 2015
ARLINGTON, Va. CACI International Inc. officials announced that the company has acquired LTC Engineering Associates, Inc., in Sarasota, Fla., which provides digital signals processing, cybersecurity, software engineering, signals intelligence (SIGINT), and communications intelligence (COMINT) to the intelligence and Department of Defense (DoD) communities.
From The Editor
Navy veteran Mariana Iriarte joins Mil-Embedded editorial staff - Blog
April 07, 2015
FOUNTAIN HILLS, Ariz. Mariana Iriarte, retired Navy 2nd class Petty Officer, joined the Military Embedded Systems editorial team as Associate Editor last month. Iriarte, who is bilingual in Spanish and English, holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English with a Creative Writing Specialization from Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas.
Radar/EW
DRS and RADA join hands to bring Israeli company's AESA radar to North American market - News
April 07, 2015
ARLINGTON, Va. Officials at DRS Technologies Inc., a Finmeccanica Company, announced that DRS signed a strategic teaming agreement with a radar company named RADA Electronic Industries Ltd. of Netanya, Israel, to bring the its tactical active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar technology into the North American market.
Avionics
Cockpit display multi-touch development tool, VAPS XT 4.1, released by Presagis - News
April 07, 2015
MONTREAL. Presagis officials released the company's next-generation software for Human Machine Interface (HMI) development, dubbed VAPS XT 4.1. The new version has a new multi-touch and gesture development framework that was designed via close work with major airframe manufacturers for use in avionics cockpit displays.
Avionics
Army CH-47F Chinooks get upgraded RNP-RNAV capabilities from Rockwell Collins - News
April 06, 2015
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Rockwell Collins engineers provided a Required Navigation Performance-Area Navigation (RNP-RNAV) upgrade to U.S. Army CH-47F Chinook helicopters already equipped with the company's Common Avionics Architecture System (CAAS).
Unmanned
UAS distribution agreement signed by Northrop Grumman Remotech & AirRobot - News
April 06, 2015
CLINTON, Tenn. Officials at Northrop Grumman subsidiary Remotec Inc. and leaders at AirRobot US have joined hands in a distribution agreement for AirRobot's line of small unmanned aerial systems (UAS). Under this agreement, Remotec will be the sole reseller of these systems to the first responder and law enforcement market in the United States.
Radar/EW
NORAD threat warnings and assessment contract won by Raytheon - News
April 01, 2015
DULLES, Va. Raytheon won a $700 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) to support the organization's threat warnings and assessments at its Cheyenne Mountain Complex.
Radar/EW
Prototype TARDEC controller fueled by Open Architecture processor from Lockheed Martin - News
March 31, 2015
ORLANDO, Fla. Lockheed Martin engineers are providing their Open Architecture Processor as the basis for a new prototype controller for military vehicle active protection systems being developed by experts at the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) at the U.S. Army Detroit Arsenal in Warren, Mich.
Avionics
SYSGO and Curtiss-Wright demo a secure RTOS running on an ARM processor at Aviation Electronics Europe - News
March 26, 2015
MUNICH. Engineers at SYSGO and Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions demonstrated a secure real-time-operating system (RTOS) running on an ARM processor this week at the Aviation Electronics Europe event at SYSGO's booth -- #19. The joint platform combines SYSGO’s DO-178B/C certified hypervisor PikeOS with Curtiss-Wright’s VPX3-1701 Freescale LS1020A dual ARM Cortex-A7 processor-based single board computer (SBC) in an avionics solution.
Comms
Rad-hard 1Mbit EEPROM nonvolatile memory qualification completed by Northrop Grumman - News
March 25, 2015
LINTHICUM, Md. Northrop Grumman engineers completed qualification testing of the company's W28C0108 1Mbit electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM) semiconductor device for radiation-hardened (rad-hard) space applications.
Radar/EW
Space Fence radar construction underway in South Pacific - News
March 24, 2015
KWAJALEIN ATOLL, Marshall Islands. Lockheed Martin and U.S. Air Force officials broke ground on site for the Space Fence radar on Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
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