WASHINGTON, 11 April 2013. Leaders of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) propose spending $11.6 billion in federal fiscal year 2014 for procurement and research in military communications, electronics, telecommunications, and intelligence (CET&I) technologies.

ARLINGTON, Va., 8 April 2013. Microelectronics experts at IBM Corp. in Armonk, N.Y., are taking the first steps in a U.S. military research program in electronics thermal management that seeks to design convective or evaporative microfluidic cooling directly into microchip designs and packaging.

MINNEAPOLIS, 8 April 2013. Omnetics Connector Corp. in Minneapolis is introducing the military-grade SureCon 360 miniature high-rel connector for use in harsh environments where size and weight are concerns.

The complexity of aerospace and defense vehicles-manned and unmanned on the ground, at sea, in the air, or in space-continues to grow at a strong pace. Militaries worldwide are increasingly adopting multi-role vehicles capable of performing a wide variety of missions.

DAHLGREN, Va., 1 April 2013. U.S. Navy researchers at the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Dahlgren Division in Dahlgren, Va., needed field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based Ethernet embedded computing boards for a variety of naval weapons research. They found their solution from Orange Tree Technologies Ltd. in Didcot, England.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., 31 March 2013. Embedded computing expert GE Intelligent Platforms in Huntsville, Ala., is joining the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) Consortium, which is in place to develop open standards for avionics systems of the future.

SANTA CLARITA, Calif., 27 March 2013. Vetronics designers at Northrop Grumman Corp. Information Systems sector in McLean, Va., needed an open-architecture mission computer and network switch subsystems for the company's version of the U.S. Army Ground Combat Vehicle (GCV). They found their solution from Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions in Santa Clarita, Calif.

ARLINGTON, Va., 26 March 2013. U.S. military researchers are kicking off an artificial intelligence program to make machine learning capability much more accessible and effective for a wide variety of military weapons and information systems.

NORTH ANDOVER, Mass., 24 March 2013. WIN Enterprises Inc. in North Andover, Mass., is introducing the PL-80480 4U quad Intel Sandy Bridge-EP/Ivy Bridge-EP Xeon aS rackmount computer for embedded control applications.

ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill., 23 March 2013. The U.S. Air Force has selected Cambium Networks’ point-to-point (PTP) 45600 High Capacity Line-of-Sight (HCLOS) radio for its Theater Deployable Communications (TDC PMO) program.

RALEIGH, N.C., 22 March 2013. Beyond Electronics Corp. in Raleigh, N.C., is introducing the OC-3 PCI Mezzanine Card (PMC)-based ATM Network Interface Card (NBC) for technology insertion and systems upgrades in aerospace and defense applications that operate in harsh environments.

FOUNTAIN HILLS, Ariz., 21 March 2013. The military embedded computing industry is stuck temporarily in the economic doldrums because of massive uncertainty over the future U.S. defense budget, federal sequestration, and a 22 percent drop in defense spending during the fourth quarter of 2012, but bad times may not last for long, says report released Wednesday.

KIRKLAND, Wash., 19 March 2013. Silicon Designs Inc. in Kirkland, Wash., is introducing the model 3330 G-Logger low-cost, USB-powered portable data acquisition system with powerful fast Fourier transform (FFT) analysis and display capabilities.

MISSION VIEJO, Calif., 18 March 2013. Holt Integrated Circuits Inc. in Mission, Viejo, Calif., is announcing formal MIL-STD-1553 RT validation of the HI-6130/31 BC/MT/ RT multi-terminal 1553 avionics databus interface.

SAN JOSE, Calif., 18 March 2013. Avago Technologies in San Jose, Calif., is introducing the AFBR-8420Z 100-gigabit CFP2 optical transceiver for high-density 100-gigabit Ethernet and Optical Transport Network (ON).

WASHINGTON, 14 March 2013. Government computer scientists are asking industry for information that could lead to new levels of computational performance with dramatically lower power, space, and cooling requirements than the high-performance computing (HPC) systems of today.

LONDON, 14 March 2013. Worldwide use of Ethernet with motor drives and motion controllers will more than triple in the five years between 2011 and 2016, say market researchers at IHS Inc. in London. Ethernet accounted for 1.8 million new connected nodes in 2011.

SANTA BARBARA, Calif., 13 March 2013. Green Hills Software in Santa Barbara, Calif., is announcing major release of its Integrity Multivisor for trusted mobile devices.

TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla., 12 March 2013. U.S. Air Force aircraft communications experts are scouring industry to find companies able to build replacements for the obsolete CU-2421 antenna coupler for the AN/ARC-211 HF radio that Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, designed for the B-2 stealth strategic bomber aircraft.