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Unmanned
Excalibur precision guided projectile to begin LRIP - News
February 20, 2013
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates. Raytheon engineers will produce Excalibur Increment Ib precision-guided projectiles under a U.S. Army fiscal year 2012 contract. This contract -- worth $56.6 million -- marks the beginning of Excalibur Ib low-rate initial production (LRIP).
Avionics
F-35 carrier variant production model completes first sortie - News
February 19, 2013
FORT WORTH, Texas. Lockheed Martin's first F-35C carrier variant production model -- also known as CF-6 -- completed its first sortie. Once the jet fighter is delivered later this year, it will be assigned to U.S. Navy Fighter Attack Squadron 101 (VFA-101) located at Eglin AFB, FL.
Radar/EW
Electronic warfare for NRL to be developed by Mercury Systems - News
February 12, 2013
CHELMSFORD, MA. Officials at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Tactical Electronic Warfare Division (TEWD) selected Mercury Systems to supply advanced mixed signal digital receivers for prototype electronic warfare uses on airborne and surface shipboard applications. The award is a 3-year indefinite quantity/indefinite delivery (IDIQ) contract potentially worth as much $16.7 million.
Radar/EW
Radar, electronic warfare steadier parts of military market - Story
February 11, 2013
With the impending U.S. military footprint reduction, radar and electronic warfare technology are increasingly important in providing ISR capabilities to the warfighter.
Radar/EW
Fast processors, FPGAs fuel radar/EW signal processing performance - Story
February 11, 2013
Radar and Electronic Warfare (EW) designers' thirst for more and more data is driving innovation at the signal processing level as embedded computing suppliers work magic with FPGAs and processors to create intelligent, fast sensor networks.
Unmanned
Liquid-hydrogen powered Phantom Eye UAS finishes taxi tests - News
February 11, 2013
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE. The Phantom Eye liquid hydrogen-powered unmanned aircraft system (UAS) from Boeing finished taxi testing at getting ready for its second flight. During the taxi testing the UAS demonstrator aircraft sat atop its launch cart and reached speeds as fast as 40 knots, or about 46 miles per hour.
Radar/EW
Coprocessor solution improves FPGA efficiency - Product
February 10, 2013
Dubbed “Anemone acceleration technology,” a coprocessor floating-point signal processing solution from BittWare in Concord, NH, mitigates FPGA programming challenges by offloading C-language processing tasks from an FPGA. The FPGA handles all the I/O interfacing, memory, protoc...
Radar/EW
New SFF device proves multivendor OpenVPX interoperability - Product
February 10, 2013
OpenVPX has promised that the “Open” part meant that VPX systems from different suppliers could be interoperable and work in one system – preventing integrators from being tied to one vendor. The new SigPro 1 Small Form Factor (SFF) acquisition system that combines OpenVP...
Radar/EW
VICTORY-compliant rugged switch enables vetronics networks - Product
February 10, 2013
Combining a 16-port GbE network switch with a high-performance vehicle management computer, the rugged Digital Beachhead vehicle networking system from Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions enables users to quickly introduce VICTORY-compliant network hardware into military ground vehic...
Radar/EW
Next-gen radars: Seeing through the clutter - Story
February 07, 2013
Next-generation radar systems are improving accuracy in high-clutter environments such as littoral waters, wind farm locations, and slow-moving ground objects ? and at faster than ever speeds, reducing the sensor to shooter cycle.
Avionics
VectorNav IMU used in Autopilot solutions from Unmanned Innovations - News
February 06, 2013
DALLAS, TX. Engineers at Unmanned Innovation and VectorNav Technologies joined hands to integrate VectorNav's VN-100 iniature, calibrated MEMS-based, surface-mount measurement unit (IMU) into Unmanned Innovation's os-Series Autopilots. The autopilots enable rapid prototyping for helicopter, fixed-wing,, multi-rotor, and custom configuration Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs).
Comms
MIDS cryptographic module to be developed by ViaSat - News
February 05, 2013
CARLSBAD. ViaSat won a contract from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) for the design, development, and production of a cryptographic module (LCM) for the Multifunctional Information Distribution System (MIDS) Low Volume Terminal (MIDS-LVT) Block Upgrade 2. SPAWAR officials awarded the contract on behalf of the MIDS Program Office (MPO) (JPEOJTRS10).
Avionics
Partnership to deliver 1553 technology on FPGA-based ComExpress modules - News
January 30, 2013
SAN DIEGO. Officials at Sealevel Systems, Inc. and Sital Technology LTD, joined hands to manufacture and deliver MIL-STD-1553 IP cores, board-level products, and components as well as custom computer designs for avionics and military applications. The companies made the announcement at the AFCEA West show in San Diego this week.
Avionics
F-35 carrier variants complete first ever in-flight dual refueling - News
January 23, 2013
NAVAL AIR STATION PATUXENT RIVER, Md., Jan. 22, 2013 - The F-35C Lightning II carrier variant test aircraft completed its first refueling with a KC-130 Hercules from Lockheed Martin in a flight above Patuxent River, Md.
Radar/EW
InfiniBand generating buzz in military radar, ISR applications - Other
January 22, 2013
LONG BEACH, CA. Speakers at the Embedded Tech Trends (ETT) this week in Long Beach, CA, are touting the benefits of InfiniBand switched fabric for high performance embedded computing (HPEC) applications such as radar and electronic warfare.
Radar/EW
Sensors, bandwidth drive military systems design, says VITA exec - Other
January 21, 2013
LONG BEACH, CA. Sensor technology and the need for greater bandwidth is driving military electronics designs, especially in radar and electronic warfare applications, said Ray Alderman, Executive Director of VITA. During the opening of Embedded Tech Trends (ETT) conference on board the Queen Mary, which is permanently anchored in Long Beach, CA, Alderman also added that sensor development will thrive despite the uncertainty of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) budget.
Unmanned
Methods for embedding GPS on small UAVs and radios being developed by DARPA, Rockwell Collins - News
January 16, 2013
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa. Engineers at Rockwell Collins and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are embedding GPS navigation capability onto radios and even small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The work is being done as part of DARPA’s Dynamics Enabled Frequency Sources (DEFYS) initiative. Under this program DARPA created small electronic oscillators and Rockwell Collins eningeers are testing the miniature clocks on GPS radios.
Comms
Sikorsky CH-53K Helicopters to use area microphone preamplifier from Cobham - News
January 15, 2013
PRESCOTT, AZ. Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. officials ordered Model 265-005 Area Microphone Preamplifiers from Cobham for use on CH-53K Super Stallion Heavy Lift Helicopters operated by the U.S. Marine Corps.
Radar/EW
Army orders small, hand held targeting system from Northrop Grumman - News
January 14, 2013
APOPKA, FL. Northrop Grumman won an Army contract to deliver Hand Held Precision Targeting Devices (HHPTDs) to the U.S. Army. The targeting system weighs less than 5.5 pounds and enables a greater degree of precision than prior systems.
Radar/EW
New radar for Fire Scout UAV Wide-Area Search operations to be provided by Telephonics - News
January 09, 2013
SAN DIEGO. Northrop Grumman chose Telephonics Corp. in Long Island, N.Y., for a multimode maritime radar system for the U.S. Navy's MQ-8B Fire Scout vertical takeoff and landing tactical unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
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