CRANE, Ind., 7 March 2014. Electro-optics experts at the Raytheon Co. Space and Airborne Systems segment in McKinney, Texas, won two contracts late Thursday worth a collective $22.9 million to provide multispectral sensors for U.S. military helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.

WASHINGTON, 7 March 2014. Leaders of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) propose spending $10.67 billion in federal fiscal year 2015 for procurement and research in military communications, electronics, telecommunications, and intelligence (CET&I) technologies.

WARREN, Mich., 6 March 2014. U.S. military aviation experts needed spare electronic circuit cards for the Integrated Helmet and Display Sighting System (IHADSS) of the U.S. Army Boeing AH-64 Apache attack helicopter. They found their solution from Elbit Systems of America LLC in Fort Worth, Texas.

HILLSBORO, Ore., 1 March 2014. Radio-frequency (RF) solutions supplier TriQuint Semiconductor Inc. (Nasdaq:TQNT) and RF Micro Devices Inc. (Nasdaq:RFMD), a designer and manufacturer of high-performance solutions, will merge into a new company with a new name and shared leadership team.

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO, Texas, 28 Feb. 2014. U.S. Air Force cyber researchers are reaching out to industry for ideas on modernizing existing Air Force cryptographic systems with an eye to laying the foundation for the next generation of Air Force cryptographic information security solutions.

ARLINGTON, Va., 27 Feb. 2014. U.S. military software researchers are kicking off a program to improve the reliability and verification of large software programs, as well as to reduce the vulnerabilities of large and complex software programs to the threats posed by computer hackers.

ARLINGTON, Va., 25 Feb. 2014. U.S. military researchers are asking industry to develop software decision aids to plan complex aerial battles that involve manned combat aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), but that offer limited sensor and communications networking.

BINGEN, Wash., 22 Feb. 2014. Insitu introduces version 2.0 of its ICOMC2 common command and control system, enabling a single operator to control multiple unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) with small-footprint, mobile hardware that features an open-architecture design able to be customized with plug-ins and new applications.

PASADENA, Calif., 20 Feb. 2014. U.S deep-space researchers are asking industry for ideas on how to develop space-qualified cameras for CubeSat spacecraft.

PATRICK AIR FORCE BASE, Fla., 16 Feb. 2014. U.S. military researchers are asking for industry's help to develop open-systems software that will enable unattended ground sensors to work together, and increase the flexibility and lower the costs of developing and deploying unattended sensors.

BOULDER, Colo., 15 Feb. 2014. Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. won a $5.8 million contract from the Defense Weather System Directorate at the Space and Missile Systems Center in Los Angeles, Calif., for the production of the Ion Velocity Meter (IVM) under the U.S. Air Force Space Situational Awareness Environmental Monitoring program to fly aboard COSMIC-2, the Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere and Climate-2.

WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, N.M., 14 Feb. 2014. U.S. Army weapons test and evaluation experts are buying obsolescent field-programmable gate array (FPGA) processors to keep systems functioning at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., for as long as possible in today's tight defense budgets.

HERNDON, Va., 11 Feb. 2014. Executives at Consummate Computer Consultants Systems LLC (C3 Systems), a management-consulting firm in Herndon, Va., needed cloud-computing software to help manage various government contracting projects. They found their solution from Deltek Inc. in Herndon, Va.

ARLINGTON, Va., 9 Feb. 2014. U.S. military researchers are considering a program to develop new kinds of digital signal processing (DSP) based on application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) technology for advanced sensors for aircraft and space, as well as for the next generations of military communications systems and electronic warfare (EW).

BIRMINGHAM, U.K., 8 Feb. 2014. Autodesk Inc. completed its acquisition of Delcam, a global supplier of advanced computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) software. Delcam will operate as a wholly-owned, independently-operated subsidiary of Autodesk, with no significant changes planned for Delcam’s business.

BANNOCKBURN, Ill., 6 Feb. 2014. Printed circuit board sales in the U.S. and Canada dropped 1.9 percent in 2013 compared to the previous year, say analysts at IPC - Association Connecting Electronics Industries in Bannockburn, Ill.

MUNICH, 1 Feb. 2014. "We need to pursue initiatives that deliver greater cost efficiencies in a way that maintains and improves our defense capabilities," Raytheon International Inc. CEO John D. Harris II urged at the 50th Munich Security Conference in Munich.

TOBYHANNA, Pa., 30 Jan. 2014. U.S. Army electronics repair and upgrade specialists at Tobyhanna Army Depot in Tobyhanna, Pa., needed display processors for a variety of collaborative visualization applications. They found their solution from Jupiter Systems in Hayward, Calif.

LOS ANGELES AFB, Calif., 29 Jan. 2014. U.S. Air Force missile-defense experts are looking for defense companies with the expertise to develop ground-based advanced data processing for satellite infrared detectors designed to alert authorities to missile launches on Earth.

MENLO PARK, Calif. 27 Jan. 2014. Homeland security experts at SRI International Sarnoff in Menlo Park, Calif., are introducing a high-throughput system for passenger screening and other security-access applications that can screen as quickly as 30 people per minute.

PHOENIX, 25 Jan. 2014. “Heterogeneous computing, the practice of combining multiple processing elements to form hybrid high-performance computing systems,” enables engineers and end users to reap the benefits of multiple types of system technologies, explains Adam Smith, a sales professional at Alpha Data in Denver.

ENGLEWOOD, Colo., 23 Jan. 2014. Strong growth should return to the global motion control market in 2014, after weak sales in 2013, predict analysts at market researcher IHS in Englewood, Colo.

BANNOCKBURN, Ill., 22 Jan. 2014. Electronics manufacturing services (EMS) and original design manufacturers (ODM) markets worldwide will resume growth in 2014 after a decline of about 4.9 percent in 2013, predict analysts at IPC - Association Connecting Electronics Industries in Bannockburn, Ill.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., 21 Jan. 2014. U.S. demand for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) video analytics solutions for processing and communicating full-motion video has increased significantly in the U.S., primarily for counter-terrorism, market analysts say.