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Radar/EW
Half-brick front end module for use in demanding space-constrained applications - Product
January 21, 2015
Designers looking for a power module for tight fits in military and commercial aviation applications can consider the PFC-375 from Astrodyne Power Supplies, a half-brick COTS AC/DC power module with an output voltage of 375 V.
Comms
COTS ATCA platforms for satcomm - Product
January 21, 2015
Experts at Radisys have designed their commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) ATCA platforms for mobile voice and data satellite-communications. Recent installations include the Iridium upgrade of the ground-station infrastructure associated with its next generation global satellite constellation...
Comms
Oscillator designed to handle ultra-low-phase noise - Product
January 21, 2015
Crystek’s CVCO55CC-1690-1690 voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) operates at 1,690 MHz with a control voltage range of 0.3 V to 4.7 V. This VCO features a typical phase noise of -120 dBc/Hz at 10 KHz offset and has excellent linearity. Output power is typically +2.5 dBm. The VCO R...
Avionics
MIL-STD protocol ICs feature user-allocated SRAM - Product
January 21, 2015
The 3.3V CMOS HI-613x device from Holt Integrated Circuits offers a single- or multi-function interface between a host processor and MIL-STD-1553B bus. Each IC contains a bus controller, a bus monitor terminal, and two independent remote terminals; any combination of the contained 1553 fun...
Comms
More military rescue radios ordered by Air Force - News
January 21, 2015
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. The U.S. Air Force ordered another 336 Combat Survivor Evader Locator (CSEL) radios from Boeing, who will also upgrade the system’s global base station network.
Unmanned
Japan wants Global Hawk and E-2D Advanced Hawkeye to be its eyes in the sky - News
January 19, 2015
REDONDO BEACH, Calif. Japan, looking to enhance its intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), selected Northrop Grumman's E-2D Advanced Hawkeye airborne early warning aircraft and an unmanned aircraft platform, the RQ-4 Global Hawk.
Comms
ITAR & EAR fines are hefty - Story
January 15, 2015Recent export reforms to the U.S. Department of State’s (DoS’s) International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) are expected to make it easier for the U.S. companies to compete globally as the reforms will enable previous ITAR-protected items to be exported to 36 more countries. However, companies continue to slip up and find themselves saddled with multi-million dollar fines that could be avoided with better due diligence and training of personnel from management on down. Below are some recent violations of the ITAR and the Department of Commerce's (DoC's) Export Administration Regulations (EAR) I found on U.S. government websites.
Avionics
AIA annual forecast: defense spending still dangerously low - News
January 15, 2015
WASHINGTON. Officials at the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) released their annual “Year End Review and Forecast” for the aerospace industry and AIA President and CEO Marilyn Blakey cautioned that the downward spiral of defense spending and government investment in research and development (R & D) will lead to a “dangerous decline in our highly skilled aerospace and defense workforce.
Comms
Rad-hard, power IC supplier, International Rectifier, acquired by Infineon Technologies - News
January 15, 2015
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. Officials at Infineon Technologies AG in Munich, Germany announced that the company has completed its purchase of radiation-hardened (rad-hard), power semiconductor provider International Rectifier, in El Segundo, Calif., for about $3 billion.
Unmanned
An insatiable need for ISR - Story
January 15, 2015
While U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) funding for Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) remains flat due to sequestration and budget cuts, there is an insatiable need for ISR throughout the services to enable mission success.
Radar/EW
COTS procurement, 20 years after the Perry Memo - Story
January 15, 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 effect of the memo former U.S. Secretary of Defense William Perry issued in 1994 essentially directing all DoD to use commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products wherever and whenever possible.
Unmanned
Navy underwater drone gets major upgrade with COTS tech - News
January 14, 2015
Phoenix International Holdings, Inc. engineers finished an upgrade of the U.S. Navy’s Deep Drone remotely operated vehicle (ROV) which is capable of submerging to a depth of 8,000 feet. The upgrade consisted of installing a new umbilical, sonar, LED lighting system, high definition camera, an updated frame, and a new foam pack.
Comms
Open source software platform released by Lockheed Martin - News
January 13, 2015
HERNDON, Va. Lockheed Martin software engineers have created a platform for easing big data analysis for developers and non-developers and are open sourcing the project on GitHub, a well-known web-based hosting service.
From The Editor
The proliferation of COTS acronyms - Blog
January 12, 2015
More than two decades have passed since Secretary of Defense William Perry issued the “COTS memorandum,” dictating that the military must procure commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) technology. Since that time in 1994 we’ve seen budget cuts, defense buildups, sequestration, three presidents and a plethora of COTS acronym spinoffs.
Comms
Military radio & networking market to embrace commercial tech - News
January 09, 2015
According to market analysts procurement of military radio systems will shrink along with troop levels, but funding for improved C4ISR capability should increase as the Department of Defense (DoD) looks to leverage commercial smartphone and networking technology to develop multifunctional communications equipment.
Unmanned
Army ATACMS upgrade contract won by Lockheed Martin - News
January 07, 2015
DALLAS, Jan. 7, 2015 – Lockheed Martin won a $78 million contract to upgrade the Army's Tactical Missile System (ATACMS).
Avionics
F-35 JSF Air Combat Training contract won by Cubic - News
January 05, 2015
SAN DIEGO. Cubic Corp. won a series of contracts from Lockheed Martin Aeronautics to develop and add enhancements to the F-35 fighter jet's Air Combat Training System (ACTS).
Avionics
KC-46 tanker program has first flight - News
December 31, 2014
EVERETT, Wash. U.S. Air Force and Boeing Defense, Space & Security personnel finished the KC-46 tanker test program's first flight over Washington state this month. The plane, a Boeing 767-2C, will get its military systems after certification.
Comms
Commercial space companies selected by NASA for collaborative partnerships - News
December 30, 2014
NASA officials chose four U.S. companies to work with the agency via unfunded partnerships to produce new space capabilities that can be made available to the U.S. government and other users. These partnerships will build on the NASA's commercial spaceflight initiatives to leverage NASA technological expertise into new applications.
Unmanned
Missile-defense, radar blimp now operational above Maryland - News
December 29, 2014
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. U.S. Army personnel sent up a blimp armed with a new cruise-missile and drone-fighting radar system from Raytheon for operation above rural Maryland. The system, known as JLENS (Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor) , has two helium-filled aerostats, or tethered blimps, that float about 10,000 feet above the ground and are equipped with radars.
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