U.S. Navy command and control experts needed a company to upgrade the service's Next Generation Command and Control Processor

U.S. Navy designers needed single-board computers and embedded computing Ethernet networking cards for a signals intelligence (SIGINT) system for Special Operations Forces called the Joint Threat Warning System (JTWS).

U.S. Navy landing craft designers needed rugged single-board computers and other embedded computing components for command, control, communications, computers, and navigation (C4N) equipment aboard the Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) amphibious assault vessel. They found their solution from Aitech Defense Systems Inc. in Chatsworth, Calif.

U.S. Air Force officials are surveying industry to find companies able to design a new space-ground link system (SGLS) modem to replace outdated SGLS modem technology for the AN/FRC-178 antenna ground station.

Military researchers released a formal industry solicitation for a new initiative to demonstrate advanced electronics cooling techniques for high-performance embedded computing (HPEC) and RF monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) power amplifiers with convective or evaporative microfluidic cooling built directly into electronic devices and packaging.

I wonder who remembers the days when military high-performance embedded computing (HPEC) involved PowerPC microprocessors with Alti-Vec technology, or before that the Intel i860 digital signal processor.

TUALATIN, Ore., 1 March 2013. VersaLogic Corp., which provides rugged industrial computers for embedded control and industrial control, has moved its headquarters from Eugene, Ore., to the Portland, Ore., metro area.

AMBLER, Pa., 1 March 2013. MEN Micro Inc. in Ambler, Pa., is introducing the BC50I rugged modular box computer based on the AMC Embedded G-Series microprocessor for applications in demanding environments such as surveillance, robotics, machine control, and commercial vehicles.

U.S. Navy radar experts needed 6U VME single-board computers based on Freescale MPC7447A/7448 processors with AltiVec technology for radar systems aboard the littoral combat ships USS Little Rock (LCS 9) and USS Sioux City (LCS 11).

FORT BELVOIR, Va., 28 Feb. 2013. U.S. Army researchers are surveying industry to find companies able to build ground-based wide-area infrared search and track (IRST) sensors that can track unmanned aerial drones, as well as humans on foot, art ranges as far as several kilometers.

ASHBURN, Va., 28 Feb. 2013. Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions in Ashburn, Va., is adding an event analysis tool to the company's CHAMP-AV8 Continuum Insights 5.1 suite of software design and development tools.

TAIPEI, Taiwan, 27 Feb. 2013. AAEON Technology in Taipei, Taiwan, is introducing the ACP-2153 15-inch touch-screen rugged panel computer for non-protruding or sink-in display requirements in industrial automation, factory automation, smart buildings, home automation, utility, and energy applications.

WIRRAL, England, 27 Feb. 2013. LDRA in Wirral, England, is introducing software tools to help programmers comply with the recently announced MISRA C:2012 guidelines for safety-critical software.

NUREMBERG, Germany, 26 Feb. 2013. The PC/104 Consortium, the embedded computing organization that maintains specifications supporting the PC/104 form factor, has approved enhancements to the PCI/104-Express and PCI Express/104 specifications, with provisions for PCI Express Generation 2 and Generation 3.

PANAMA CITY, Fla., 26 Feb 2013. U.S. Navy shipboard electronics experts will look to A & J Manufacturing Co. in Tustin, Calif., to provide mil-spec electronic equipment enclosures and related equipment for the Multiple Vehicle Communications Systems (MVCS) on two new littoral combat ships (LCS).

ARLINGTON, Va., 26 Feb. 2013. U.S. Navy researchers needed improvements to a hovering unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) to continue investigations in untethered inspection of ship hulls below the water line. They found their solution from Bluefin Robotics Corp. in Quincy, Mass.

ARLINGTON, Va., 25 Feb. 2013. Thales USA in Arlington, Va., has completed the acquisition of the Visionix helmet-mounted display (HMD) and InterSense motion tracking businesses formerly owned by Gentex Corp. in Zeeland, Mich., and is operating the combined acquisitions as Thales Visionix Inc.,a wholly-owned subsidiary of Thales.

GENEVA, 25 Feb. 2013. Creative Electronic Systems SA (CES) in Geneva is introducing the VCP-2864 3U OpenVPX JPEG 2000 Codec module with Xilinx Kintex-7 field-programmable gate array (FPGA) and two JPEG 2000 compression engines for JPEG 2000 and H.264 compression and decompression, as well as raw capture for HD video and still images.

ARLINGTON, Va., 22 Feb. 2013. Two U.S. research organizations have been chosen to participate in a military electronic warfare (EW) project to find ways to detect and counter digitally programmable radar systems that have unknown behaviors and agile waveform characteristics.