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Avionics

Army mobile ATC tower systems to be provided by Sierra Nevada - News

March 16, 2012

John McHale - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems Sierra Nevada Corporation

SPARKS, Nev. U.S. Army officials tasked engineers at Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) to produce ten Mobile Tower Systems (MOTS), and engineering and logistics services under a $56 million contract. AN/MSQ-135 MOTS is slated to replace the Army AN/TSW-7A Air Traffic Control (ATC) tower.

Comms

Cloud computing solution from Lockheed Martin UK being adopted by UK Cabinet office to create Cloudstore - News

March 16, 2012

John McHale - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems Lockheed Martin

BETHESDA, Md. Officials at the United Kingdom Cabinet Office chose G-Cloud computing services from Lockheed Martin UK across its government organizations and departments. The agreement will be dubbed CloudStore and will run for about six to nine months, with a potential for rolling contract extensions.

Cyber

Northrop Grumman to boost DoD cybersecurity - News

March 15, 2012

Alice Moss Northrop Grumman

Comms

Marines order Falcon III manpack radios from Harris - News

March 15, 2012

John McHale - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems Harris Corporation

ROCHESTER, N.Y. U.S. Marine Corps officials needing voice and mobile data network technology for their expeditionary operations placed a $64 million order with Harris for the company?s Falcon III AN/PRC-117G multiband manpack radios, antennas, vehicular amplifier adapters, and field support.

Unmanned

Hydrogen-powered Phantom Eye UAV makes its first medium speed taxi test - News

March 14, 2012

John McHale - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems Boeing

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. The Phantom Eye High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) completed its first medium-speed taxi test. The test took place at Edwards Air Force Base in cooperation with officials at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center. Phantom Eye reached speeds of as fast as 30 knots while ground personnel relayed directions and data using Boeing?s Common Open-mission Management Command and Control (COMC2) system.

Avionics

New avionics-focused business unit formed by Curtiss-Wright Controls - News

March 13, 2012

John McHale - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems Curtiss-Wright

CHARLOTTE, N.C. Officials at Curtiss-Wright Controls, Inc. in Charlotte, N.C., have restructured their Integrated Sensing business to focus more on avionics and global aerospace applications. The group is now called the Avionics & Electronics (CWC-AE) division, which will be based in Christchurch, United Kingdom.

Radar/EW

Tomahawk missile's weapons system gets hardware and software upgrade - News

March 12, 2012

John McHale - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems Lockheed Martin

PHILADELPHIA. Engineers at Lockheed Martin are upgrading the Tomahawk Land Attack missile?s weapon-control system software and hardware. The Tactical Tomahawk Weapon Control System, or TTWCS), TTWCS gives firing units the ability to control, prepare, and launch Tomahawk missiles and is one of the three main components that make up the Tomahawk Weapons System.

Comms

U.S. Special Forces to use small, lightweight night vision goggles from L-3 - News

March 09, 2012

John McHale - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems

NEW YORK CITY. U.S. Navy officials are ordering Binocular Night Vision Devices (BNVD) from the L-3 Communications Warrior Systems ? Insight Technology business unit for operators in the U.S. Special Operations Command. The BNVD is smaller and more lightweight than typical night vision goggles.

Radar/EW

Space Fence radar already tracking objects in Earth orbit - News

March 08, 2012

John McHale - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems Lockheed Martin

MOORESTOWN, N.J. A Space Fence radar prototype ? designed by Lockheed Martin engineers ? is in the process of tracking orbiting space objects. The radar system development, which is an Air Force program, will improve space situational awareness for the U.S.

Radar/EW

Lynx radar simulation tool released by GA-ASI - News

March 07, 2012

John McHale - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.

SAN DIEGO. Engineers at General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA ASI) unveiled a new radar training tool called the Tactical Airborne Reconnaissance Simulator (TARS). TARS enables operators of Lynx Multi-mode Radar systems to train via a software-based tool on a laptop computer.

Radar/EW

Electronic jamming without friendly force interference demo to be performed by Raytheon for DARPA - News

March 06, 2012

John McHale - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems Raytheon Company

TEWKSBURY, Mass. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) selected Raytheon engineers to enable warfighters to conduct jamming operations with minimal control and communication interference with friendly forces.

Avionics

Navigation system for CH-53K helicopter gets software upgrade from Northrop Grumman - News

March 05, 2012

John McHale - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems Northrop Grumman

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. Engineers at Northrop Grumman will be modifying software for the LN-251 embedded GPS/fiber-optic inertial navigation system (INS) that flies on the CH-53K Super Stallion helicopter. The work is for a Navy Phase II contract awarded by officials at the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) in Patuxent River, Md.

Radar/EW

OpenVPX board released by Eurotech at Embedded World - News

March 02, 2012

John McHale - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems Eurotech Group

NUREMBERG, Germany. Engineers at Eurotech released their first OpenVPX board at the Embedded World show in Nuremberg, Germany this week. The CPU-111-10 is a rugged 6U VPX single-board computer (SBC) that has a quad-core Intel L5408 Xeon processor and 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch in rugged conduction and convection-cooled versions.

Avionics

Fixed price avionics certification solution offered by LDRA - News

March 01, 2012

John McHale - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems LDRA Technology

NUREMBERG, Germany. Officials at LDRA created fixed price services group for avionics DO-178B/C and DO-254 certification. The new LDRA division -- LDRA Certification Services (LCS) -- was announced this week at the Embedded World show in Nuremberg, Germany.

Avionics

GNAT Pro 7.0 Ada language tool released by Adacore - News

March 01, 2012

John McHale - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems AdaCore

NUREMBERG, Germany. AdaCore officials released the latest version of their Ada development environment tool ? GNAT Pro 7.0 this week at the Embedded World show in Nuremberg, Germany. The new version implements and supports the upcoming Ada language revision ? Ada 2012.