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Comms
Two new rad-hard ICs from Texas Instruments enable power savings - News
July 30, 2012
DALLAS. Engineers at Texas Instruments have developed two new radiation-hardened ICS ? a floating point digital signal processor (DSP) and a 16M SRAM ? that produce power savings and improve FPGA efficiency.
Avionics
Certifying and securing UASs for civilian airspace is more about rules than technology - Story
July 27, 2012
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials have started clearing the way for UASs to enter national airspace, causing a stir about how to assure they are just as safe and secure as manned aircraft.
Unmanned
Smarter sensor processing for UAS payloads - Story
July 27, 2012
UAS payload designers are packing more and more processing capability behind the sensor, enabling more data filtering at the sensor level so only the most important information gets to the commanders in the field, cutting down on communication bottlenecks.
From The Editor
Unmanned aircraft are coming to a sky near you - Story
July 27, 2012
People are not good at change, but one is coming. Though there are still a lot of questions surrounding the use of UAVs in civilian settings, don't be surprised if before long Jimmy is visiting an empty cockpit.
Radar/EW
G/ATOR radar system sent to Wallops Island for developmental testing - News
July 27, 2012
BALTIMORE. The Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar (G/ATOR) from Northrop Grumman was delivered to Surface Combat Systems Center (SCSC) Wallops Island in Virginia for the beginning developmental test phases. system The final and third phase of developmental test and AN/TPS-80 G/ATOR?s operational assessment will be performed in Yuma, Ariz.
Comms
NSA certification for Soldier Radio Waveform granted on Harris Falcon III AN/PRC-117G multiband manpack radio - News
July 25, 2012
MELBOURNE, Fla. Harris Corp. engineers achieved National Security Agency Type-1 certification allowing them to implement the Soldier Radio Waveform (SRW) in the company?s Falcon III AN/PRC-117G multiband manpack tactical radio.
Radar/EW
F-15E Radar Modernization Program gets green light to begin LRIP 2 - News
July 24, 2012
ST. LOUIS. The F-15E Radar Modernization Program (RMP) ? led by Boeing -- was granted approval from the Air Force to begin Low Rate Initial Production 2 (LRIP 2) of 10 APG-82(V)1 Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar systems.
Comms
New rad-hard DC-DC converter released by International Rectifier - News
July 23, 2012
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. Engineers at International Rectifier released the GHP2815S radiation-hardened (rad-hard) DC-DC converter for space applications. The low voltage, 15V/8A single output device is designed for extended operation in extreme environments such as geostationary earth orbit satellites and deeps space probes.
Avionics
Navy gets second P-8A maritime patrol aircraft from Boeing - News
July 20, 2012
SEATTLE. The U.S. Navy received the second production P-8A Poseidon aircraft from Boeing. The P-8A is one of 13 low rate initial production (LRIP) maritime patrol aircraft being built for the Navy. The aircraft, which will replace the venerable P-13 aircraft performs anti-surface warfare anti-submarine warfare, as well as intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR).
Unmanned
Rugged AdvancedTCA for C4ISR applications - Product
July 19, 2012
Engineers at SANBlaze Technology?s Defense Solutions Group have come up with a rugged AdvancedTCA solution for C4ISR applications such as shipboard, ground, and airborne battle management and communications systems. They have dubbed it the Rugged Compute Platform for Tactical Ops, or...
Radar/EW
RF signal analysis products from D-TA leverage 10 GbE for SIGINT applications - Product
July 19, 2012
Two new software radio solutions from engineers at D-TA Systems Inc., called RFvision-1 and RFvision-2, help enable sensor-independent processing for SIGnals INTelligence (SIGINT), RF spectrum monitoring; ELectronic INTelligence (ELINT); COMmunications INTelligence (COMINT), RF test and me...
Cyber
New GrammaTech code analysis tool works with millions of lines of code - Product
July 19, 2012
Engineers at GrammaTech designed a new tool for code analysis that includes a Google Earth-like zooming feature that enables users to zoom in on individual lines of code in systems that contain as much as 20 million lines of code.
Radar/EW
Small Diameter Bomb II from Raytheon engaged and destroyed target - News
July 19, 2012
WHITE SANDS, N.M. The GBU-53/B Small Diameter Bomb II (SDB II) from Raytheon Missile Systems in Tucson, Ariz., engaged and hit a moving target as part of a flight test at the White Sands Missile Range, N.M. The SDB II is designed to take out moving targets in hazardous weather and through battlefield obscurants.
Comms
Rad-hard switching regulator with adjustable voltage range released by MS Kennedy - News
July 18, 2012
MIAMI. Engineers at MS Kennedy in Liverpool, N.Y., featured their MSK 5058RH radiation-hardened (rad-hard) step-down switching regulator controller at the Nuclear Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC), held this week in Miami. The devices operate from 200 KHz to 2.0 MHZ and is a high efficiency .25 integrated switch.
From The Editor
COTS is a bad word in rad-hard community - Blog
July 18, 2012
MIAMI. Often a rad-hard supplier this week at the Nuclear Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC) in Miami would tell me his product is available off-the-shelf, but cringed at the notion that it would ever be considered COTS or commercial-off-the-shelf.
Avionics
F-22 avionics display sustainment contract awarded to Rockwell Collins - News
July 18, 2012
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa. Rockwell Collins won a three-year, $8.8 million contract to provide the U.S. Air Force and Lockheed Martin and sustainment services for avionics displays on 187 F-22 fighter aircraft.
Comms
VPT's SVGA point of load DC-DC converters for space get DLA drawings - News
July 18, 2012
MIAMI. Engineers at VPT in Everett, Wash., announced at the Nuclear Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC) this week in Miami that the Defense Logistics Agency issued Standard Microcircuit Drawings (SMDs) for the company?s SVGA Series point of load DC-DC converters for space radiation environments.
Comms
Aeroflex Voltage Supervisor enables power supply monitoring in hi-rel FPGAs, DSPs, ASICS, and microprocessors - News
July 17, 2012
MIAMI. Aeroflex Colorado Springs is showcasing their new Voltage Supervisor at the Nuclear Space and Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC) in Miami this week. The line, which has four products, enables users to reduce circuit quantity and complexity for monitoring and sequencing power supplies in systems that use microprocessors, ASICS, DSPs, and FPGAs used in high reliability (HiRel) environments.
Comms
Rad-hard reconfigurable microprocessor solution announced by ATMEL - News
July 17, 2012
MIAMI. Engineers at Atmel Corp. in Rousset, France announced a SPARC V8-based, radiation-hardened (RAD Hard) microprocessor -- Atmel ATF697FF -- that can be reconfigured for space applications on-the-fly. ATMEL officials made the announcement this week at the Nuclear Space and Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC) in Miami.
Unmanned
Stalker UAS powered by lasers extends its flight time by 48 hours - News
July 16, 2012
PALMDALE, CA. Engineers at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works and LaserMotive in Kent, WA., joined hands to demonstrate the how a laser can power a Unmanned Aerial System for extended periods of time. During the demonstration a LaserMotive laser powered Stalker Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) to an extended flight time of more than 48 hours ? a 2,400 percent increase in flight duration.
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