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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md., 9 June 2013. U.S. Army researchers say they would like to develop an open-systems standard to enable the Army to develop or buy off the shelf distributed aperture satellite communications antennas for mounting on vehicles for on-the-move communications.

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.

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.

MIDDLETOWN, Ohio, 7 June 2013. NuWaves Ltd. in Middletown, Ohio, is introducing the NuPower NW-BSSPA-10W-1.0-2.5 Xtender bidirectional L- and S-band power amplifier module for use with half-duplex RF transceivers running constant-envelope waveforms.

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md., 6 June 2013. U.S. Army chemical defense experts needed additional chemical-detection devices to help protects troops or emergency responders from chemical warfare agents and toxic industrial chemicals. They found their solution from Smiths Detection in Edgewood, Md.