DAHLGREN, Va., 31 May 2012. Night-vision and electro-optics experts at the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division in Dahlgren, Va., are looking to infrared detector designers at SiOnyx Inc. in Beverly, Mass., to fabricate low-cost silicon-based detectors in the short-wave infrared (SWIR) spectrum for night-vision and other infrared sensor applications.

Product Intelligence Report, 30 May 2012. Micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS) and nanotechnology have come a long way over the past several decades, yet the potential of these technologies seems limited only by the imagination. Today MEMS and nanotechnology are fielded in micro gyros for navigation and positioning, microbolometers for infrared imaging, and micro mirrors for steering laser beams.

OTTAWA, 30 May 2012. General Dynamics Canada in Ottawa is introducing the SD8010 rugged display for ground combat vehicles, which can run classified and unclassified information on one display. The ability to run classified and unclassified information on the same screen frees vetronics designers from installing several different displays for classified and unclassified information inside the tight confines of armored combat vehicles such as main battle tanks, armored personnel carriers, self-propelled artillery systems, and military utility vehicles.

CHELMSFORD, Mass., 29 May 2012. Hittite Microwave Corp. in Chelmsford, Mass., is introducing the HMC5850BG small, low-power optical modulator driver for 40- and 100-gigabit-per-second Mach-Zehnder optical modulator driver applications. The Hittite optical modulator driver operates from DC to 30 GHz.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, 26 May 2012. Parvus, a subsidiary of Eurotech, has released tactical fiber optic media support for the DuraNET 1268, a rugged Layer 2 Gigabit Ethernet switch subsystem equipped with ten triple-speed 10/100/1000Mbps ports for connecting IPv4 and IPv6 compatible sensors and computing devices onboard network-centric manned and unmanned vehicles and aircraft.

PROVIDENCE, R.I., 23 May 2012. Meller Optics Inc. in Providence, R.I., is introducing custom-fabricated sapphire windows for installation on the outboard of aircraft to protect sensors from water, wind, and high speed particulates.

POING, Germany, 22 May 2012. Avnet Embedded in Poing, Germany, is introducing the LB121S03-TL03 industrial 12.1-inch LG SVGA TFT display for marine, industrial, and medical applications. The rugged display has a lifetime of at least three years, has a bright LED backlight, a built-in LED backlight driver, and LVDS interface.

QUANTICO MARINE BASE, Va., 18 May 2012. U.S. Marine Corps researchers are asking industry for ideas on developing new non-lethal weapons technologies and materials involving electronic rays, laser beams, chemical agents and even blunt-impact weapons as part of a request for information (RFI M6785412JNLW4) issued Thursday called Non-Lethal Weapons Research and Technology Development ID/IQ.

PORTLAND, Ore., 16 May 2012. the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has given SRC approval for the installation and operation of the Max-Viz, Inc., a designer of enhanced vision systems, EVS-1500 infrared enhanced vision system on several Eurocopter twin-engine helicopter models.

ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill., 15 May 2012. The NexGen Infrared missile warning system (MWS), a system Northrop Grumman Corp. (NYSE:NOC) designed, built and tested protection system for C-17, EC-130J, HC/MC-130J and other Air Force aircraft, was authorized for full rate production by the U.S. Air Force.

SAN JOSE, Calif., 13 May 2012. Combat aircraft designers at the Boeing Co.Defense, Space & Security segment in St. Louis needed helmet-mounted displays for jet fighters. They found their solution from Vision Systems International LLC (VSI) in San Jose, Calif. Boeing awarded VSI a $32 million contract for the Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing System (JHMCS) for U.S. Navy and Air Force jet fighter pilots, as well as for combat aircraft operating in Finland, Australia, Belgium, Canada, and Switzerland.

ARLINGTON, Va., 11 May 2012. Scientists at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va., want to make relevant battlefield imagery available to front-line warfighters in real time using constellations of temporary and inexpensive orbiting satellites that are launched quickly enough to support fast-moving military operations.

SAN DIEGO, Calif., 10 May 2012. The U.S. Navy has placed an order for three additional Northrop Grumman MQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and one ground control station. The order is valued at $25.7 million.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. 8 May, 2012. The U.S. Air Force is investing in a quality control system for the stealth coating on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) aircraft by exercising a $1.5 million option on a SBIR Phase II contract.

CHELMSFORD, Mass., 29 April 2012. Infrared sensors experts at the Raytheon Co. Space and Airborne Systems segment in El Segundo, Calif., needed an advanced sensor processing subsystem for the multi-function image processor in the Raytheon Advanced Distributed Aperture System (ADAS), which provides spherical situational awareness to helicopter crews. They found their solution from Mercury Computer Systems Inc. in Chelmsford, Mass.

WASHINGTON, 25 April 2012. Engineers at Northrop Grumman Corp. in Redondo Beach, Calif., and ATK in Magna, Utah, have completed the center section of the backplane structure that will fly on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

PATUXENT RIVER NAS, Md., 24 April 2012. Engineers from the Northrop Grumman Corp. Aerospace Systems sector in San Diego will develop and build two unmanned helicopters, as well as six MQ-8 Fire Scout unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as part of the vertical take-off and landing tactical unmanned aerial vehicle (VTUAV) endurance upgrade rapid deployment capability, under terms of a potential $262.3 million contract announced Monday.

SAN DIEGO, 22 April 2012. Optical communications experts at the U.S. Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) Systems Center Pacific in San Diego are looking to optical network specialists at Enablence USA Components in Fremont, Calif., to fabricate photonic integrated circuits for advanced high-speed naval optical communications. Enablence USA Components is part of Enablence Technologies Inc. (TSX VENTURE:ENA) headquartered in Toronto.

PHILADELPHIA, 22 April 2012. Helicopter avionics and subsystems experts at the Lockheed Martin Corp. Mission Systems & Sensors (MS2) segment in Owego, N.Y., will perform extensive maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) on cockpit avionics for the U.S. Navy MH-60R Seahawk and MH-60S Knighthawk utility helicopters that are based aboard surface warships.