HUNTSVILLE, Ala., 18 June 2013. U.S. Army officials are buying 30 Russian-designed medium lift and military attack helicopters for use in Afghanistan. These helicopters perform particularly well in the hot weather and high altitude of Afghanistan.

PARIS, 17 June 2013. Radioelectronic Technologies holding company in Moscow is introducing the SINS-SP2 avionics navigation system this week at the Paris Air Show in Le Bourget, France. The SINS-SP2, which helps determine the location of an aircraft in the absence of satellite navigation and communications with ground-based services, is part of the Russian Sukhoi Su-35S multrole jet fighter.

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.

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala., 16 June 2013. U.S. Army helicopter avionics experts needed electro-optical sensors for the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter. They found their solution from Intevac Photonics Inc. in Santa Clara, Calif.

FORT BELVOIR, Va., 14 June 2013. U.S. Army counter-landmine experts are looking to Non-Intrusive Technology Inc.(NIITEK) in Dulles, Va., to provide a ground-penetrating radar system for a test program to detect improvised explosive devices (IEDs) buried in roadways.

PATUXENT RIVER NAS, Md., 14 June 2013. U.S. Navy leaders are ordering 99 V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft from the Bell-Boeing Joint Project Office in Amarillo, Texas, for the U.S. Air Force and Marine Corps under terms of a $4.9 billion contract modification announced this week.

YORBA LINDA, Calif., 14 June 2013. Sabtech Industries in Yorba Linda, Calif., is introducing the PowerNet ATDS Bridge system to help aerospace and defense communications applications extend Airborne Tactical Data Systems (ATDS) serial (MILSTD-188-203-1A, Appendix D2) data communications over a network.

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.

IRVINE, Calif., 13 June 2013. Executives of Geotest-Marvin Test Systems Inc. in Irvine, Calif., are changing their company's name to Marvin Test Solutions to strengthen the company's association to The Marvin Group, known for its 50-year history in aerospace and its focus on test solutions, company officials say.

FORT EUSTIS, Va., 12 June 2013. U.S. Army helicopter avionics experts say they plan to ask Sierra Nevada Corp. in Sparks, Nev., to integrated and test a prototype synthetic-vision system on a Sikorsky UH-60 helicopter that is designed to help helicopter pilots land safely in zero-visibility conditions.

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.

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.

WASHINGTON, 11 June 2013. U.S. Navy expeditionary warfare experts will brief industry on 25 June 2013 on upcoming contracting opportunities to help Navy and Marine Corps warfighters operate more effectively in operations between sea and shore that involve stealthy troop insertion by submarine.

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.

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.

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.

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.

QUANTICO, Va., 10 June 2013. U.S. Marine Corps leaders are reaching out to industry to find companies able to build an add-on inverter to Humvee light vehicles to supply AC power to Marines in the field for operating electronic systems and recharging batteries.

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.