EMMA HELFRICH, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Northrop Grumman Corporation signed cooperative agreements with LIG Nex1 and Huneed as the company develops its Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System – Korea (JSTARS-K) solution for the Republic of Korea’s Joint Moving Target Surveillance and Control Aircraft (JMTSCA) requirement.

AVIATION MAINTENANCE MAGAZINE

Boeing and Taikoo (Shandong) Aircraft Engineering Co. (STAECO) announced plans to create additional capacity for the market-leading 737-800 Boeing Converted Freighter (BCF) to help meet continued strong market demand.

EMMA HELFRICH, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

VORAGO Technologies introduced two new radiation-hardened microcontrollers, the Arm Cortex-M4 VA41628 and VA41629, built to provide flexibility in space-based missions for aerospace and defense.

EMMA HELFRICH, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Thales and CS Group have combined their complementary expertise to offer a high-performance, resilient, and cybersecure navigation system. The system comprises Thales's TopAxyz inertial navigation unit, which has performed in civil aviation.

LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

Mission-critical software provider Aptima has won a contract with the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to build and develop a library of artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled pilot agents that will match the AI with pilot trainees in scenarios that target the trainees' skill-building needs.

AVIATION MAINTENANCE MAGAZINE

Trimec Aviation, a certified FAA Part 145 Repair Station (#18TR248C), continues to build on its Gulfstream maintenance expertise with a recent GIV STC model add-on installation of the Becker Avionics Audio Management Unit 6500.

EMMA HELFRICH, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Ascent AeroSystems and Autonodyne have collaborated to create comprehensive autonomous drone solutions. Both companies were recently announced as finalists for the AUVSI 2021 XCELLENCE Awards — Ascent AeroSystems for Hardware and Systems Design and Autonodyne for Software Design and Coding.

EMMA HELFRICH, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

The Indonesian Air Force has joined a list of customers that have selected Collins Aerospace for its C-130H Hercules military transport aircraft modernization effort. Serving as a contractor to GMF, Collins Aerospace will provide its Flight2 avionics solution that transforms dated analog controls into a modern digital glass cockpit.

LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

Collins Aerospace and several partners report a successful multi-domain operation (MDO) demonstration at September's The Open Group FACE and SOSA Consortia Technical Interchange Meeting (TIM) to highlight the benefits of an open systems architecture for avionics.

EMMA HELFRICH, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Collins Aerospace, in collaboration with General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc., Parry Labs, Tektonux and Palantir Technologies, conducted a multi-domain operation (MDO) demonstration at the recent Open Group Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) and Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) Consortia Technical Interchange Meeting to highlight open systems architecture benefits.

EMMA HELFRICH, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

An unmanned air vehicle (UAV) demonstrated airborne recovery during the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agemncy (DARPA) Gremlins program’s latest flight test deployment last month.

EMMA HELFRICH, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

In order to combat the complications brought on by operating in GPS-degraded environments, Black Sage has announced the Goshawk Long Range electronic warfare (EW) Jammer designed as a directional non-kinetic effector.

EMMA HELFRICH, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Collins Aerospace demonstrated a new directional communication system designed for small platforms such as unmanned aerial systems (UAS) operating in contested environments.

EMMA HELFRICH, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

AeroVironment, Inc. introduced the Mantis i45 N, a multi-sensor nighttime imaging payload compatible with Puma 2 AE, Puma 3 AE, and Puma LE small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).

RAMBUS

PUFs are mixed-signal circuits which rely on variations unique to a specific chip to self-generate a digital “fingerprint.” Most PUFs require a “helper-data” image that is generated during the initial digitization process, also known as Enrollment.

ONE STOP SYSTEMS (OSS)

The current generation of AI compute platforms fail to integrate and optimize high performance computing with compact, rugged form factors. They force program managers to trade performance for rugged design or vice versa.