EAST AURORA, N.Y. Astronics Corporation, provider of technologies for global aerospace, defense, and other mission critical industries, has won contracts by Boeing to supply CorePower aircraft power distribution units and custom-engineered exterior lighting for the MQ-25 unmanned aerial refueling program.

Before any military technology can be fielded, it must undergo a barrage of test and measurement (T&M) scenarios to ensure its operability. The importance of these evaluation systems and their criticality is simple yet profound: The lives of warfighters are dependent on them. In recent years, varying demands and challenges have pushed manufacturers to innovate. Military T&M systems are going digital, becoming software-defined, and are undergoing widespread standardization right alongside so much of the technology used by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) today. This inexorable march then prompts the question of what takes priority with the DoD: ensuring compatibility with reliable legacy systems or moving forward with the wave of standardization?

The CTS-6000 from Astronics Test Systems combines nine instruments into one radio test set to offer fault detection and operational verification of radio communications systems in the factory, at the depot, or deployed in the field. The operational-level test system is designed for use by...

AUSTIN. Astronics Test Systems, Inc. and National Instruments collaborative effort has enabled the release of the Astronics PXIe-6943 Digital Test Instrument, Astronics PXIe-3352 Rubidium Clock Source and Astronics PXIe-1209 Pulse Pattern Generator, as well as the previously announced Astronics PXIe-2461 Frequency Time Interval Counter. The intent of the collaboration is to provide PXI-based instruments with test program set-(TPS-) compatible software for existing VXI instruments.

AUSTIN. National Instruments (NI) and Astronics Test Systems ? a wholly owned subsidiary of Astronics Corporation ? collaborated to introduce the Rubidium/GPS Frequency Standard Test Instrument, PXIe-3352, which combines a rubidium oscillator with a GPS receiver into a one, precision instrument.