MANSFIELD, Mass., 27 May 2012. Murata Power Solutions Inc. in Mansfield, Mass., is introducing the OKX series of miniature non-isolated single-output DC-DC converters for point-of-load applications in military embedded systems involving field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and digital signal processors (DSPs).

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.

ECHING, Germany, 25 May 2012. Kontron introduced the high-performance 3U CompactPCI processor board CP3003, based on the 3rd generation Intel Core processor technology. Kontron’s first Quad-Core 3U CompactPCI processor board provides customers with processing performance and 3D graphics performance.

UPPER SADDLE RIVER, N.J., 24 May 2012. Pentek Inc. in Upper Saddle River, N.J., is introducing the Talon family of high-speed, multi-channel Serial FPDP turnkey rugged data recorders for capturing streaming sources such as live transfers from sensors or data from other computers aboard aircraft, ground vehicles, ships and submarines, and other harsh-environment applications.

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.

WIXOM, Mich., 22 May 2012. Leaders of military and industrial digital I/O specialist Acromag Inc. in Wixom, Mich., are boosting their company's expertise in VME I/O and embedded computing with their acquisition this month of Xembedded LLC in nearby Ann Arbor, Mich.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., 21 May 2012. GE Intelligent Platforms has unveiled the SBC325, a rugged single-board computer (SBC) based on 3rd Generation Intel Core quad-core processor technology.

NASHUA, N.H., 18 May 2012. Military & Aerospace Electronics today is unveiling its iPhone app for Military & Aerospace Electronics online content, which is updated daily, seven days a week. With the new iPhone app, readers can access the latest content posted to the Military & Aerospace Electronics Website at www.militaryaerospace.com, as well as view the latest videos, easily and in a format convenient to the iPhone screen.

ASHBURN, Va., 18 May 2012. Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions in Ashburn, Va., is introducing the XF07 family of rugged Express Mezzanine Cards (XMCs) based on the Xilinx Kintex-7 field-programmable gate array (FPGA) for military embedded systems that do not require the largest Xilinx Virtex 7 high-end FPGAs.

GAINESVILLE, Ga., 17 May 2012. Trenton Technology Inc. in Gainesville, Ga., is introducing the BXT7059 dual-processor PICMG 1.3 single-board computer for military, aerospace, industrial automation, and telecommunications applications. The BXT7059 has the Intel Xeon processor E5-2400 family, formerly code named Sandy Bridge-EN, as well as the Intel C604 chipset.

SANTA BARBARA, Calif., 17 May 2012. Rockwell Collins has selected the INTEGRITY-178B tuMP multicore operating system by Green Hills Software, a provider of high assurance operating systems, for use in their mission computer for the RQ-7B Shadow Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV).

NEWPORT, R.I., 16 May 2012. U.S. Navy underwater weapons experts needed a PC/104-based stackable embedded computer for a prototype torpedo designed by experts at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) in Newport, R.I. They found their solution from VersaLogic Corp. in Eugene, Ore.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., 16 May 2012. GE Intelligent Platforms in Huntsville, Ala., is introducing the GRA112 3U VPX rugged graphics board for demanding graphical applications that require a general-purpose graphics processing unit (GPGPU), such as intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), radar, and sonar.

MIDDLETON, Wis., 15 May 2012. Extreme Engineering Solutions (X-ES) in Middleton, Wis., is introducing the XPedite5205 PCI mezzanine card (PMC) embedded router module hosting Cisco IOS IP Routing software for mobile ad hoc networking for military and emergency response.

BILLERICA, Mass., 14 May 2012. GE Intelligent Platforms in Huntsville, Ala., is establishing a High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC) Center of Excellence (CoE) at the company's advanced software development center in Billerica, Mass. The company's HPEC CoE will focus powerful, flexible intelligent systems for military and aerospace embedded computing, company officials say.

CHELMSFORD, Mass., 12 May 2012. Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY), a provider of ISR and EW subsystems based in Chelmsford, Mass, has released StreamDirect, a method for delivering streams of sensor data to specialized coprocessors such as general purpose graphics processing units (GPGPUs).

MANSFIELD, Mass., 11 May 2012. Murata Power Solutions Inc. in Mansfield, Mass., is introducing the UWE series 100-to-120-Watt eighth-brick DC-DC converters for embedded computing applications and instrumentation subsystems. The open frame isolated DOSA-compatible power electronics devices provide an efficiency of typically 91.5 percent, which requires no forced-air cooling in most applications.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., 11 May 2012. GE Intelligent Platforms announced their new rugged single board computer (SBC) based on 3rd Generation Intel Core quad core processor technology.

ORLANDO, Fla., 10 May 2012. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials have selected five technology firms from a group of 20 to compete for future task orders through its new Tactical Communications (TACCOM) program. Lockheed Martin [NYSE:LMT] is among the five to compete for TACCOM tasks in all five of the program's core areas. The two-year program has three option years and a potential ceiling value of $3 billion for all awardees.