SEALY, Texas, Jan. 26, 2012. BAE Systems has received three delivery orders from the U.S. Marine Corps, totalling more than $148 million, for continued support of Caiman Multi Theater Vehicles (MTV).

PATUXENT RIVER NAS, Md., 26 Jan. 2012. U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) military aircraft purchases continued to roll along on Wednesday, with a U.S. Navy order of 15 Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet carrier-based jet fighter-bombers under terms of a $687.5 million contract modification.

PATUXENT RIVER NAS, Md., 25 Jan. 2012. U.S. Navy leaders are buying five models of the Navy's most advanced carrier-based maritime patrol aircraft, the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye from the Northrop Grumman Corp. (NYSE:NOC) Aerospace Systems segment in Bethpage, N.Y., under terms of a $781.5 million contract modification announced Tuesday. Officials of the Naval Air Systems Command at Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Md., are ordering the advanced radar surveillance aircraft as part of Lot 4 of the E-2D low-rate initial production program.

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, 24 Jan. 2012. Aircraft manufacturers at the Boeing Co. Commercial Airplanes segment in Long Beach, Calif., will build five C-17 Globemaster III military cargo jets for the U.S. Air Force under terms of a $693.4 million contract modification announced Monday from the Air Force Aeronautical Systems Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio.

ROCHESTER, NY, January 23, 2012. Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) has received $4.8 million in orders from the U.S. Department of Defense for Falcon III® AN/PRC-152A handheld and AN/PRC-117G manpack tactical radios.

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, 22 Jan. 2012. Systems designers at Lockheed Martin Corp. in Eagan, Minn., are moving ahead with a U.S. Air Force-sponsored project to develop and demonstrate a green hybrid small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that runs on renewable energy as part of the second phase of the Air Force Small Unmanned Renewable enerGy long Endurance Vehicle (SURGE-V) program. Lockheed Martin won a $1.1 million contract Friday for development and ground demonstration of the integrated power system and payload into a SURGE-V aircraft.

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md., 20 Jan. 2012. Scientists at the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command's communications-electronics center (CERDEC) at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., are developing an intelligence and surveillance system called Vigilant Pursuit to reduce the time it takes soldiers in the field to identify and attack important targets. Vigilant Pursuit is a platform-agnostic system, CERDEC officials say. It combines human intelligence and signals intelligence to help soldiers identify persons of interest and other mobile targets while in the field.

GEORGETOWN, TEXAS, Jan. 14, 2012. AirBorn Inc., a Texas-based manufacturer of
electronic components and provider of value-added solutions for multiple industries, today
announced the acquisition of AESCO Electronics, a full-service electronics manufacturer and
distributor with divisions in Ohio and Massachusetts.

FORT BELVOIR, Va., 19 Jan. 2012. Biological warfare experts at the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency(DTRA) at Fort Belvoir, Va., are asking industry for ideas on developing a handheld devices for front-line warfighters that are able to identify and characterize infectious disease agents and biothreats to protect deployed military forces from biological warfare agents and emerging infectious diseases that are occur naturally occurring result from bio-terrorism attacks.

MELBOURNE, Fla./ROCHESTER, N.Y., Jan. 18, 2012. Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), an international communications and information technology company, has received orders totaling $10.7 million from the Federative Republic of Brazil for Falcon III® VHF Combat Net Radios and Falcon III Secure Personal Radios (SPR) to support a wide range of mission requirements.

BETHESDA, Md., 18 Jan. 2012. Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) is acquiring Procerus Technologies, maker of autopilot, targeting, and payload technologies for micro unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) based in Orem, Utah. Procerus customers include domestic and international governments, as well as industry and academic institutions. The company’s Kestrel autopilot system, among the smallest and lightest full-featured micro autopilot system, is well suited for surveillance and reconnaissance applications.

MANCHESTER, N.H., 17, Jan., 2012. BAE Systems has received a $21.7 million indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity order for Head Mounted Displays from the U.S. Army Program Executive Office Soldier.

COCOA BEACH, Fla., 17 Jan. 2012. Embedded computing experts—who have gathered to discuss industry advancements and challenges at Embedded Tech Trends 2012 held in Cocoa Beach, Fla., by VITA Technologies officials—debate myriad issues, but generally seem to agree on the much-anticipated U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) budget. “It’s a crapshoot” is the general consensus.

TEWKSBURY, Mass., Jan. 16, 2012. Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has been awarded a $51.3 million contract to upgrade Patriot Advanced Capability-2 missiles to the Guidance Enhanced Missile-Tactical (GEM-T) configuration. The U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM), Redstone Arsenal, Ala., issued the contract as a follow-on to AMCOM's Patriot missile continuous technology refreshment program initiated in 2000.

ARLINGTON, Va., 15 Jan. 2012. Information security experts at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in Arlington, Va., are asking for industry's help in developing ways to blend biometrics into U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) cyber security systems without installing new hardware. The intent is no only to save time and money, but also to help bolster existing DOD computer security that relies primarily on requiring uses to type in long and complex passwords.

GEORGETOWN, TEXAS, Jan. 14, 2012. AirBorn Inc., a Texas-based manufacturer of
electronic components and provider of value-added solutions for multiple industries, today
announced the acquisition of AESCO Electronics, a full-service electronics manufacturer and
distributor with divisions in Ohio and Massachusetts.

WATERLOO, Ontario, Jan. 14, 2012. Raytheon Canada Limited has been awarded a Technology Demonstration Program for its Next Generation High Frequency Surface Wave Radar (HFSWR) by the Canadian Department of National Defense, Defense Research and Development Canada (DRDC).

LONDON, 13 Jan. 2012. Visiongain's analysis indicates that the military helicopter modernization, upgrade, and retrofit market—commonly referred to as MRO, or maintenance, repair, and overhaul--will reach a value of $3.98 billion in 2012, according to a new report from Visiongain. The strains of recent operations combine with tighter budgets and a need to maintain a qualitative advantage are driving the upgrade and retrofit of existing helicopter platforms. 

SAN DIEGO, 13 Jan. 2011. Executives of Advanced Digital Logic Inc., a San Diego-based provider of turn-key embedded systems, industrial single-board computers, peripherals, and accessories, are changing their company's name to ADL Embedded Solutions Inc. to reflect the company's expanding capabilities in enclosures, cabling, and thermal management, and other value-added services for embedded computing systems designers.