JOHN MCHALE, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR

BAE Systems won a contract from the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (MOD) to develop its Striker II Helmet Mounted Display (HMD) for the Royal Air Force (RAF) Typhoon fleet.

JOHN MCHALE, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR

Leaders of defense organizations in Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom signed a trilateral Collaboration Agreement to deliver the concept phase requirements of a next generation combat aircraft for the Global Combat Air Program (GCAP).

LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

BAE Systems reports that its new vehicle-management computer (VMC) has been successfully flight-tested on the F-35 Lightning II stealth combat aircraft, with the trial demonstrating a technology upgrade for all three F-35 variants that is aimed at boosting computer performance and addressing obsolescence issues.

LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

Virtual-reality hardware/software provider Varjo won a contract to provide head-mounted display (HMD) technology for the U.S. Army’s Reconfigurable Virtual Collective Trainer (RVCT) Air Program.

JOHN MCHALE, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR

BAE Systems selected Collins Aerospace to provide the Large Area Display technology for cockpits of future Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft. BAE Systems engineers will use the ultra-high-definition Large Area Display (LAD) as part of its rapid capability development program, Project Medulla, which sees it investing in future technologies for use across its combat air portfolio, including Eurofighter Typhoon.

DAN TAYLOR, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR 

Boeing is presenting its F-15EX fighter aircraft to the Polish government as a potential candidate for a U.S. Department of Defense Foreign Military Sales program, the company announced in a statement.

AVIATION MAINTENANCE

An Erickson S-64F Air Crane helicopter was certified by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for night vision goggle (NVG) operation on April 6, 2023. The approval is a key component of Erickson’s integrated NVG program, which aims to offer customers increased flexibility and expanded operational capabilities.

AVIATION MAINTENANCE

President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Michael G. Whitaker to serve as Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration. Michael G. Whitaker is currently the chief operating officer of Supernal, a Hyundai Motor Group company designing an electric advanced air mobility (AAM) vehicle.

CRITICAL I/O

This new whitepaper explore the use of a high speed Ethernet RDMA interconnect between a GPU system and NVMe based storage system. Combined with Critical I/O’s StoreEngine and StorePak NVMe 3U VPX modules and built-in recording software, this approach moves data directly to and from GPU memory with high efficiency and ultra-low latency.

OMNETICS CONNECTOR CORPORATION

Military and commercial space applications such as satellite payloads and positioning systems continue to put pressure on designers for highly reliable interconnect technology that can meet stricter reduced size, weight, and power (SWaP) requirements as well as signal-integrity performance demands.