PATUXENT RIVER NAS, Md., 18 June 2013. U.S. Navy aircraft experts needed rugged Ethernet switches for the Northrop Grumman MQ-8 Fire Scout unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). They found their solution from GE Intelligent Platforms in Huntsville, Ala.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., 18 June 2013. U.S. Army officials are buying 30 Russian-designed medium lift and military attack helicopters for use in Afghanistan. These helicopters perform particularly well in the hot weather and high altitude of Afghanistan.

ECHING, Germany, 18 June 2013. Kontron in Eching, Germany ins introducing the VX3240 3U VPX PowerPC processor board to meet challenges of size, weight & power and cooling (SWaP-C) requirements for constrained environments in military, aerospace, and transportation embedded computing applications.

PARIS, 17 June 2013. Radioelectronic Technologies holding company in Moscow is introducing the SINS-SP2 avionics navigation system this week at the Paris Air Show in Le Bourget, France. The SINS-SP2, which helps determine the location of an aircraft in the absence of satellite navigation and communications with ground-based services, is part of the Russian Sukhoi Su-35S multrole jet fighter.

MONTREAL, 17 June 2013. Worldwide commercial aviation demand for small- and medium-sized commercial jets will be for 12,800 deliveries from 2013 to 2032, generating more than $646 billion in sales revenues, according to the Bombardier Aerospace Commercial Aircraft Market Forecast released Friday in anticipation of this week's Paris Air Show in Le Bourget, France.

MONTREAL, 17 June 2013. Worldwide business aviation demand will be for 24,000 business aircraft worth about $650 billion between 2013 and 2013, according to the Bombardier Aerospace Business Aircraft Market Forecast released Friday in anticipation of this week's Paris Air Show in Le Bourget, France.

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala., 16 June 2013. U.S. Army helicopter avionics experts needed electro-optical sensors for the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter. They found their solution from Intevac Photonics Inc. in Santa Clara, Calif.

PATUXENT RIVER NAS, Md., 14 June 2013. U.S. Navy leaders are ordering 99 V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft from the Bell-Boeing Joint Project Office in Amarillo, Texas, for the U.S. Air Force and Marine Corps under terms of a $4.9 billion contract modification announced this week.

IRVINE, Calif., 13 June 2013. Executives of Geotest-Marvin Test Systems Inc. in Irvine, Calif., are changing their company's name to Marvin Test Solutions to strengthen the company's association to The Marvin Group, known for its 50-year history in aerospace and its focus on test solutions, company officials say.

FORT EUSTIS, Va., 12 June 2013. U.S. Army helicopter avionics experts say they plan to ask Sierra Nevada Corp. in Sparks, Nev., to integrated and test a prototype synthetic-vision system on a Sikorsky UH-60 helicopter that is designed to help helicopter pilots land safely in zero-visibility conditions.

PATUXENT RIVER NAS, Md., 12 June 2013. The Lockheed Martin Aeronautics segment in Fort Worth, Texas will provide 83,169 field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) from Xilinx Inc. in San Jose, Calif., for military planes under terms of a $104.7 million contract modification announced this week.

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, 11 June 2013. U.S. Air Force researchers are reaching out to industry to find companies with the technical expertise to design a custom application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) able to function as a powerful digital phased array RF beamformer.

CHELMSFORD, Mass., 11 June 2013. Mercury Systems Inc. is introducing the rugged Ensemble series 6U OpenVPX HDS6502 high-density server (HDS) module based on 4th generation Intel Core i7 processors, which were unveiled last week.

ECHING, Germany, 10 June 2013. Kontron in Eching, Germany, is introducing the COMe-bHL6 COM Express basic computer-on-module based on the 4th generation Intel Core i7/i5/i3 and Celeron processors for surveillance and security, medical imaging, industrial process control, digital signage, and similar applications.

SAN JOSE, Calif., 8 June 2013. Real-time software specialist LynuxWorks Inc. in San Jose, Calif., is introducing support of the 4th Generation Intel Core i7 and i5 processor families for the company's major product lines, including LynxOS, LynxOS-178, and LynxSecure.

RIDGECREST, Calif., 7 June 2013. U.S. Navy aerial weapons experts are looking to five electronics distributors to complete for the opportunity to supply a wide variety of high-reliability electronic components for aerial weapons deployment, research, and development.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., 7 June 2013. GE Intelligent Platforms in Huntsville, Ala., is introducing the SBC326 rugged 3U VPX single board computer with the quad-core 4th generation Intel Core i7 processor for constrained environments such as manned and unmanned vehicles.

MIDDLETOWN, Ohio, 7 June 2013. NuWaves Ltd. in Middletown, Ohio, is introducing the NuPower NW-BSSPA-10W-1.0-2.5 Xtender bidirectional L- and S-band power amplifier module for use with half-duplex RF transceivers running constant-envelope waveforms.

RIDGECREST, Calif., 6 June 2013. U.S. Navy missile experts needed specialized replacement batteries for U.S. military stockpiles of the Raytheon AGM-88B High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missile, better-known as HARM. They found their solution from EaglePicher Technologies LLC in Joplin, Mo.