Military researchers have released a formal solicitation for an effort to develop a medium-altitude, long-endurance UAV for long-term maritime surveillance that can launch and recover from relatively small ships to provide airborne ISR and strike mobile targets anywhere, around the clock.

Airborne weapons experts at the Boeing Co. got the go-ahead last month to start building add-on kits for the U.S. Navy Mark 54 lightweight torpedo that will enable the weapon to glide through the air from altitudes as high as 30,000 feet and enable the Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol jet to attack enemy submarines from long ranges.

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FORT BELVOIR, Va., 1 May 2013. The U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) at Fort Belvoir, Va., is looking to Energy Research Co. (ERCo) of Plainfield, N.J., for the company's laser technology to detect explosives from standoff ranges.

BALTIMORE, 1 May 2013. Electronics thermal management experts at Advanced Cooling Technologies Inc. (ACT) in Lancaster, Pa., have devised a new cooling technique for high-power VPX embedded computing cards that involves embedded heat pipes to enhance heat removal from computer boards.

HIGH WYCOMBE, England, 1 May 2013. Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions in High Wycombe, England, is introducing the XF07-518 analog I/O Express Mezzanine Card (XMC) based on the Xilinx Kintex-7 field-programmable gate array (FPGA) for high-end defense and aerospace applications.

ARLINGTON, Va., 30 April 2013. U.S. government researchers are asking industry for ideas on providing digital technology to infantry squads to enhance the ability of these small warfighter groups to enhance situational awareness, networked communications, and data sharing. An infantry squad is part of a platoon, and involves nine to 13 warfighters.

SUNNYVALE, Calif., 30 April 2013. KRYTAR Inc. in Sunnyvale, Calif., is introducing the model 6010400 compact two-way power divider that operates over the frequency range of 4 to 40 GHz in broadband electronic warfare (EW) systems and complex switch-matrix applications.

ARLINGTON, Va., 29 April 2013. U.S. military researches have awarded the first of what may be several contracts aimed at placing the right mobile software applications into the hands of warfighters for use on rugged smart phones and tablet computers.

EAGLEVILLE, Pa., 29 April 2013. Electro-optics systems integration and engineering specialist Clear Align in Eagleville, Pa., is boosting the company's expertise in quick-turn prototyping for tactical intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) applications with its acquisition of three co-located companies in Hudson, N.H.

NATICK, Mass., 29 April 2013. U.S. Army researchers are reaching out to industry to find companies able to provide or develop a driver for light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that significantly improves the turn-on (rise time) and turn-off (fall time) of a pulsed-illumination system.

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md., 28 April 2013. The U.S. Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Land and Maritime segment at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., will award a three-year contract to Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to provide spare parts for U.S. Army tactical aircraft navigation avionics systems.

BEDFORD, Mass., 28 April 2013. Diversified Technologies Inc. in Bedford, Mass., is introducing the DTI PowerMod solid-state medium voltage DC (MVDC) circuit breakers for military DC power distribution systems and commercial micro-grids.

RICHMOND, B.C., 27 April 2013. MacDonald, Dettwiler, and Associates (MDA; TSX:MDA), a global communications and information company, won contracts totaling $3.2 million (Canadian) with the Government of Canada's Department of National Defence (DND) to provide operations for the east and west coast RADARSAT-2 ground systems.

SAN JOSE, Calif., 27 April 2013. WinSystems, a designer and manufacturer of rugged embedded computer modules, is introducing a line of single-board computers (SBCs) based on the Freescale i.MX 6 family of Cortex-A9 multi-core processors. 

WARREN, Mich., 26 April 2013. U.S. Army vetronics experts needed rugged Gigabit Ethernet switches for Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) armored combat vehicles headed for Afghanistan. They found their solution from Sixnet in Ballston Lake, N.Y.

CHARLOTTE, N.C., 26 April 2013. Shipboard electronics experts at the Northrop Grumman Corp. Electronic Systems sector in Linthicum, Md., needed an integrated embedded digital radio frequency memory (DRFM) system for use in the U.S. Navy's InTop (Integrated Topside) program. They found their solution from Curtiss-Wright Controls Inc. in Charlotte, N.C.

SANTA BARBARA, Calif., 26 April 2013. Green Hills Software in Santa Barbara, Calif., is introducing multicore enhancements to the company's TimeMachine trace-based debugger tool suite for supporting complex interactions of software running on multicore MIPS and Renesas RH850 and V850 processors.

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, 25 April 2013. U.S. Air Force researchers would like to transfer a submicron microwave chip manufacturing process to industry, and establish a domestic open foundry able to meet the needs of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD).