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November 2020

 
 
 
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The McHale Report, by militaryembedded.com Editorial Director John McHale, covers technology and procurement trends in the defense and aerospace electronics community.
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The U.S. military is harnessing and exploring algorithms and machine learning, not just on the ground but also 300-plus miles aloft for small-form-factor space applications.
 
 
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BAE Systems has received certification for its Identification Friend-or-Foe (IFF) transponder for the F-22 Raptor from the Department of Defense AIMS program office.
 
 
 
 
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QinetiQ Inc. and Pratt Miller Defense announced the delivery of the first Robotic Combat Vehicle – Light (RCV-L) to the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Ground Vehicle Systems Center (GVSC). The RCV-L is a purpose-built hybrid-electric unmanned ground combat vehicle (UGCV) integrating technology from both organizations.
 
 
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At MilSource, our technical team often get questions on how to more easily manage the “networks” now living and communicating on every mobile military vehicle. Implementation teams and integrators are faced with the daunting task of managing hundreds of networks that are the same set of devices just repeated in every mobile vehicle.
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Model 6350 is an eight-channel A/D and D/A converter system in a rugged small form factor enclosure. Based on the Xilinx Zynq® UltraScale+ RFSoC FPGA, the Model 6350 is very suitable for SIGINT and COMINT, military communications, EW countermeasures, radar transceiver, test and measurement, SATCOM, LiDAR, 5G and LTE wireless applications. Optimized for SWaP (size, weight and power), the Model 6350 measures 3.53” H 5.65” W 9.57” D and weighs in at just under 8 pounds.
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The global market for 5G in defense, measured at $64 million in 2020, will grow to $1.3 billion by at a CAGR [combined annual growth rate] of 57.9%, according to a new study from MarketsandMarkets, "5G in Defense Market -- Global Forecast to 2025."
 
 
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Ah … VME. I first wrote about the VMEbus specification in late 1996; now, in just under a year it will celebrate its 40th anniversary. Not much rust has grown on the open standard in its four decades, as VME-based products are still being designed into military programs today.
 
 
 
 
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Boeing, in partnership with the U.S. Army DEVCOM, AdaCore, CoreAVI, PRESAGIS, and Real-Time Innovations (RTI), will demonstrate an integrated Future airborne Capability Environment (FACE) commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) solution stack covering cockpit displays, graphics systems and data transport connectivity. The webcast, "Accelerating Avionics Design & Testing through FACE Conformance: An Integrated Model by Boeing, U.S. Army & Aerospace Leaders," on December 10, 2020, at 2 pm est., with experts from each organization will cover how this stack enables high mission capability using advanced avionics technologies designed to accelerate RTCA DO-178C DAL A safety certification and FACE conformance. 
 
 
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Aery Aviation, LLC is the Managing Member of a Joint Venture (JV) that has won the five-year U.S. Navy high-endurance electronic warfare jet (HEEWJ) contract by Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIRSYSCOM) for a Firm Fixed Price of $146 million. The contract was awarded to Strategic Airborne Operations JV, LLC, which is a JV between Aery and Mountain Aviation LLC.
 
 
 
 
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Germany, Spain, and France the three driving forces of the NGWS/FCAS program, have entrusted FCMS, Indra, and Thales with the development of a suite of sensors that will aim to equip the Future European Combat Air System.
 
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Immersive Wisdom, Inc., company specializing in real-time geospatial collaboration software platforms, announced that it had been selected to provide a 3D Virtual Operations Center for the Air Force Base of the Future.
 
 
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Modernization efforts that require consolidating multiple proven software systems onto a single intelligent edge platform are difficult. In this webcast on December 1, 2020 at 2 pm Est., subject matter experts from Wind River and AdaCore will demonstrate how you can map your existing architecture to guest operating systems on hypervisors, by using Wind River’s Helix Virtualization Platforms and software development tools from the compiler experts at AdaCore.
 
 
 
 
INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT
 
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The death of VMEbus – a technology used so heavily in military and aerospace applications – has, like the death of Agent 007, been predicted many times for many years, but all those premature death reports have never come to pass. Why?
 
 
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Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. (SPA) received a subcontract from Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) to support the U.S. Navy's endeavors with Advanced Hypersonic Technologies through the Global Deterrence and Defense Department (Code GX) at the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) in Crane, Indiana.
 
 
 
 
 
 
With its line of HPEC systems, Eurotech brings the computational capabilities of a data center to field-deployable applications, incorporating a rugged and fanless thermal management design ideal for use in harsh environments.
 
 
 
 
 
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A team headed by the U.S. Army Research Lab (ARL) announced that it has made a new microwave-radiation sensor with 100,000 times higher sensitivity than currently available commercial sensors, a development that could enable improved thermal imaging, electronic warfare, radio communications, and radar.
 
 
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The global market for military robots is projected to grow from $14.5 billion in 2020 to $24.2 billion by 2025, at a CAGR [combined annual growth rate] of 10.7% over the study period, according to market research from MarketsandMarkets, "Military Robots Market - Global Forecast to 2025."
 
 
 
 
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The integration of real-time data from all of the U.S. armed services and coalition partners will drive greater operational intelligence and more timely and accurate responses for all military operations. This approach is now a formal U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) directive to become a datacentric enterprise integrating information across all sea, land, air, space, and cyberspace domains for operational dominance. A standards-based connectivity framework that enables a global data space can provide a highly adaptable foundation for optimizing this real-time information for Multi-Domain Operations (MDO).
 
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Radar-technology firm Cambridge Pixel has set up an Employee Ownership Trust (EOT) in a move to put the award-winning radar technology firm into the hands of the team of people who work for it, thereby making them the direct beneficiaries of the company’s future success.
 
 
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Martin UAV, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology company, demonstrated the shipboard integration of its V-BAT as well as its maritime capabilities in support of United States Southern Command's (SOUTHCOM) counter-narcotics operations in the Eastern Pacific.
 
 
 
 
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The U.S. Army awarded contracts to nine small businesses and nonprofit research institution partners to continue developing technologies to address military challenges. As part of the Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR), each team will receive up to $1.1 million and will spend between six and 18 months developing a demonstration prototype.
 
 
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NEXEYA France, a HENSOLDT company, has integrated the NATO Link 22 tactical datalink into its embedded naval surveillance and defense combat management system (CMS) LYNCEA.
 
 
 
 
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Back in 1991, U.S. and coalition forces decimated the Iraqi Army in 42 days during Operation Desert Storm. At the time, Iraq had the world’s fifth largest army. Can we do better than 42 days in the future? Yes, with the help of cloud computing and a supercomputer.
 
 
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The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) reported that the U.S. Navy shot down a target meant to mimic an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) over the Pacific Ocean with an SM-3 Block IIA missile, in a demonstration of a possible plan to defend Hawaii.
 
 
 
 
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