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Raytheon unveils major enhancements to Patriot missile command and control capability

PARIS, 19 June 2013. This was a big week at the Paris Air Show in Le Bourget, France, for the international Patriot missile program and its prime contractor Raytheon as the company announced major upgrades to the ground-to-air missile and won a big U.S. Army contract for additional improvements.

DRS Tactical Systems to provide rugged in-vehicle computers in $455 million contract

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md., 19 June 2013. Rugged computer designers at DRS Tactical Systems Inc. in Melbourne, Fla., will build a variety of vehicle-mounted command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) equipment under terms of a potential $455 million U.S. Army contract announced Tuesday.

Navy chooses rugged Ethernet switch from GE for MQ-8 Fire Scout unmanned helicopter

Navy chooses rugged Ethernet switches from GE for MQ-8 Fire Scout unmanned helicopter

PATUXENT RIVER NAS, Md., 18 June 2013. U.S. Navy aircraft experts needed rugged Ethernet switches for the Northrop Grumman MQ-8 Fire Scout unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). They found their solution from GE Intelligent Platforms in Huntsville, Ala.

3U VPX PowerPC-based embedded computer for aerospace and defense introduced by Kontron

ECHING, Germany, 18 June 2013. Kontron in Eching, Germany ins introducing the VX3240 3U VPX PowerPC processor board to meet challenges of size, weight & power and cooling (SWaP-C) requirements for constrained environments in military, aerospace, and transportation embedded computing applications.

A/D converter and D/A converter engine on 3U OpenVPX card introduced by Curtiss-Wright

HIGH WYCOMBE, England, 17 June 2013. Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions in High Wycombe, England, is introducing the VPX3-530 dual channel A/D converter and D/A converter engine packaged on a 3U OpenVPX card for space-constrained embedded digital receiver applications deployed in harsh defense and aerospace environments.

Downloadable software for logic design in small FPGAs offered by Lattice Semiconductor

HILLSBORO, Ore., 16 June 2013. Lattice Semiconductor Corp.in Hillsboro, Ore., is introducing Lattice Diamond v2.2 field-programmable gate array (FPGA) logic design software , as well as and iCEcube2 (v2013-03) design software for the Lattice iCE40 family of FPGAs.

Navy orders embedded computers and data converters from Aitech for LCAC landing vessels

PANAMA CITY, Fla., 13 June 2013. U.S. Navy landing craft designers are looking to Aitech Defense Systems Inc. in Chatsworth, Calif. to provide 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.

Millions of dollars awarded for thousands of FPGAs going into F-35 Joint Strike Fighters

PATUXENT RIVER NAS, Md., 12 June 2013. The Lockheed Martin Aeronautics segment in Fort Worth, Texas will provide 83,169 field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) from Xilinx Inc. in San Jose, Calif., for military planes under terms of a $104.7 million contract modification announced this week.

Rugged handheld computers -- smartphone, pocket PC, and tablet -- introduced by Tulip

QUAKERTOWN, Pa., 12 May 2013. Tulip Development Laboratory Inc. in Quakertown, Pa., is introducing three rugged hand-held field computers -- a rugged smartphone, a rugged pocket PC, and a rugged tablet computer -- for use in harsh environments.

BAE Systems chooses embedded computing from Curtiss-Wright for Bradley vetronics

SANTA CLARITA, Calif., 11 June 2013. Vetronics designers at the BAE Systems Land & Armaments segment in Santa Clara, Calif., needed rugged embedded computing for the latest version of the U.S. Army M2A3 Bradley Fighting Vehicle. They found their solution from Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions in Santa Clarita, Calif.

Air Force considers new custom ASIC to handle wideband RF phased array beamforming

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, 11 June 2013. U.S. Air Force researchers are reaching out to industry to find companies with the technical expertise to design a custom application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) able to function as a powerful digital phased array RF beamformer.

6U OpenVPX embedded server based on 4th generation Intel Core i7 introduced by Mercury

CHELMSFORD, Mass., 11 June 2013. Mercury Systems Inc. is introducing the rugged Ensemble series 6U OpenVPX HDS6502 high-density server (HDS) module based on 4th generation Intel Core i7 processors, which were unveiled last week.

Lockheed Martin to make COTS upgrades to submarine sonars in $29.4 million contract

WASHINGTON, 10 June 2013. Submarine sonar experts at the Lockheed Martin Corp. Mission Systems and Training segment in Manassas, Va., will upgrade submarine signal processing equipment on the U.S. Navy submarine fleet with commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) computers under terms of a $29.4 million contract modification announced Friday.

COM Express embedded computing board based on 4th Gen Intel Core i7 introduced by Kontron

ECHING, Germany, 10 June 2013. Kontron in Eching, Germany, is introducing the COMe-bHL6 COM Express basic computer-on-module based on the 4th generation Intel Core i7/i5/i3 and Celeron processors for surveillance and security, medical imaging, industrial process control, digital signage, and similar applications.

6U VPX and VME computer boards based on 4th Gen Intel Core i7 introduced by Curtiss-Wright

ASHBURN, Va., 9 June 2013. Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions in Ashburn, Va., is introducing two embedded computing products based on the 4th generation Intel Core i7 processor, which was unveiled last week.

LynuxWorks introduces real-time software support for 4th Gen Intel Core i7 processor

SAN JOSE, Calif., 8 June 2013. Real-time software specialist LynuxWorks Inc. in San Jose, Calif., is introducing support of the 4th Generation Intel Core i7 and i5 processor families for the company's major product lines, including LynxOS, LynxOS-178, and LynxSecure.

Navy names five electronics distributors to supply aerial weapons parts over next five years

RIDGECREST, Calif., 7 June 2013. U.S. Navy aerial weapons experts are looking to five electronics distributors to complete for the opportunity to supply a wide variety of high-reliability electronic components for aerial weapons deployment, research, and development.

3U VPX single-board computer based on 4th generation Intel Core i7 introduced by GE

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., 7 June 2013. GE Intelligent Platforms in Huntsville, Ala., is introducing the SBC326 rugged 3U VPX single board computer with the quad-core 4th generation Intel Core i7 processor for constrained environments such as manned and unmanned vehicles.

Several embedded computing modules based on 4th Gen Intel Core i7 introduced by X-ES

MIDDLETON, Wis., 6 June 2013. Extreme Engineering Solutions Inc. (X-ES) in Middleton, Wis., is introducing 3U VPX, 6U VPX, XMC, 3U CompactPCI, 6U CompactPCI, 6U VME, and COM Express single board computers based on the 4th generation Intel Core i7-4700EQ processor.

Conduction-cooled CompactPCI embedded computing chassis introduced by Curtiss-Wright

ASHBURN, Va., 6 June 2013. Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions in Ashburn, Va., is introducing the CompactPCI D2D 7-slot 3/4 air transport rack (ATR) conduction-cooled chassis to help engineers develop 3U CompactPCI-based embedded computing systems in demanding SWAP-C constrained military, aerospace, and first-responder applications.