Millions to fund shipyard services for U.S. destroyers and frigates
Jan 10, 2006
The U.S. Navy has awarded Bath Iron Works, a subsidiary of General Dynamics, a $64-million contract to provide 'Lead Yard Services' for the DDG 51 Arleigh Burke Class AEGIS Destroyer and the FFG 7 Perry Class Frigate Programs. ...
MIL-STD-1553 bus tools support real-time operating system
Dec 13, 2005
Condor Engineering has announced that its military application programming interface (BusTools/1553-API) is available with support for Green Hills Software's Integrity real-time operating system (OS). ...
A real-time logic debug solution for FPGAs
Dec 13, 2005
First Silicon Solutions has introduced FPGAView, a software package for Tektronix TLA logic analyzers that enables real-time debugging of Altera field-programmable arrays (FPGAs). ...
P-band high-power, medium-pulse transistors unveiled
Dec 13, 2005
The RF Military & Aerospace Division of Advanced Power Technology (APT) has introduced a family of high-power transistors that target P-band pulsed radar applications.
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ALR-95 tactical radar to be installed in Korean Navy P-3 aircraft
Dec 13, 2005
EDO Corporation has been selected by L-3 Communications Integrated Systems to provide its ALR-95 tactical radar electronic support measures (ESM) and surveillance systems for eight P-3 aircraft being purchased by the Republic of Korea Navy. ...
Helicopter gunner simulator to hone in-flight crew skills
Dec 13, 2005
L-3 Communications has announced that its Link Simulation and Training (Link) division has developed a helicopter gunner simulator that can be networked to other simulation systems to provide collective training of in-flight crew skills.
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Consortium to compete for Joint Warfighting Center program
Dec 13, 2005
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) has plans to compete for the U.S. Joint Forces Command's (USJFCOM) Joint Warfighting Center (JWFC) Support Team (JST) procurement. ...
U.S. Navy plans to increase its fleet to 313 vessels by 2020
Dec 13, 2005
The U.S. Navy wants to increase its fleet to 313 ships by 2020, an 11% increase, reversing years of decline in naval shipbuilding and adding dozens of warships designed to defeat emerging adversaries, according to an article that appeared in The New York Times on Dec. 5. ...
Software toolkit equips non-programmers to create computer-based war games
Dec 13, 2005
The U.S. Air Force has engaged Stottler Henke Associates to develop a software toolkit that will enable subject matter experts—instructors, rather than programmers—to create content for computer-based war games. ...
Emergency communications software standards are proven interoperable
Dec 13, 2005
By Steve Grossman, Editor Twenty-two different technology companies participated in a demonstration that confirmed that emergency-communications standardized data messages can be exchanged by different emergency agency software tools. ...
Wideband VCO in 4 mm square package covers 8 GHz to 12.5 GHz
Nov 23, 2005
Hittite Microwave Corporation has introduced a wideband MMIC Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO), their HMC588LC4B that combines the attributes of ultra small size, low phase noise, low power consumption and wide tuning range. ...
SMA-terminated coaxial cables are hand formable
Nov 23, 2005
P1dB has introduced YouForm, a series of high-quality, low-cost, jacketed coaxial cables that are hand-formable and are terminated at each end with stainless-steel SMA connectors. ...
Follow-on contract awarded for anti-jam GPS for JDAM smart bombs
Nov 23, 2005
Harris Corporation has been awarded an $18.2 million follow-on contract by Boeing Integrated Defense Systems to provide Anti-Jam Global Positioning System (AJ GPS) modules for Boeing's Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM). ...
Communications satellite for Indonesia launched from French Guiana
Nov 23, 2005
Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC) has announced that the Telkom-2 commercial communications satellite was successfully launched into its targeted orbit aboard an Ariane 5 rocket on November 16 from the spaceport at Kourou, French Guiana. ...
Laptops armed with a versatile software platform proved invaluable during Katrina
Nov 23, 2005
By Steve Grossman, Editor Everything was down, telephones and cellphones, along with virtually everything else; but for rescuers carrying laptops equipped with Tactica, a server-free communications platform made by F4W Inc., it was quite a different story. ...
