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.

WASHINGTON, 11 April 2013. The proposed U.S. Department of Defense budget for fiscal year 2013 would cut military procurement and research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) spending by 11.3 percent over this year's request, according to budget documents released Wednesday.

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, 11 April 2013. Navigation and guidance experts at AOSense Inc. in Sunnyvale, Calif., are building experimental navigation-system-on-a-chip that combines traditional, solid-state, and atomic inertial guidance technology to reduce the U.S. military's reliance on Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite guidance for advanced munitions, mid- and long-range missiles, and other weapons.

WASHINGTON, 10 April 2013. In a surprise development after nearly half a year of grim projects, fiscal cliffs, and sequestration, the proposed fiscal year 2014 U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) came out today, and the budget actually is up $1.2 billion over last year's budget submission.

SUNNYVALE, Calif., 10 April 2013. Embraer Defense and Security engineers have selected Connext DDS (Data Distribution Service) from Real-Time Innovations (RTI) for the software development of its KC-390 military transport aircraft mission computer.

TAUNTON, Mass., 10 April 2013. The ProtecD@R Network (KG-202) data-at-rest encryptor by General Dynamics C4 Systems in Taunton, Mass., has received Top Secret certification by the National Security Agency (NSA) at Fort Mead, Md.

HONOLULU, 9 April 2013. Electro-optical sensor designers at the BAE Systems Spectral Solutions segment in Honolulu are developing a prototype laser-based mine- and obstacle-detection system to help Navy and Marine Corps forces avoid threats on invasion beaches.

FAIRFAX, Va., 9 April 2013. General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems in Fairfax, Va., has completed the critical design review for the Knifefish surface-mine countermeasure unmanned underwater vehicle (SMCM UUV), and is beginning to develop the UUV's hardware and software.

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.

SAN DIEGO, 8 April 2013. Military communications experts at the Northrop Grumman Corp. Information Systems segment in San Diego will upgrade the software and hardware in the U.S. Navy Next Generation Command and Control Processor (NGC2P) under terms of an $80 million Navy contract announced Friday.

MASSY, France, 6 April 2013. Engineers at the NATO System Test and Validation Facility in Glons, Belgium, have validated the NATO Air Command and Control System (ACCS) from ThalesRaytheonSystems against a list of operational requirements following eight weeks of extensive testing.

QUINCY, Mass., 5 April 2013. Bluefin Robotics in Quincy, Mass., has begun at-sea trials of a deep-diving unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) that may help U.S. military researchers develop networked sonar technologies to detect and track quiet enemy submarines.

WASHINGTON, 4 April 2013. Airborne weapons experts at the Boeing Co. got the go-ahead Wednesday to start building add-on kits for the U.S. Navy Mark 54 lightweight torpedo that will enable the weapon to glide through the air from altitudes as high as 30,000 feet and enable the Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol jet to attack enemy submarines from long ranges.

ARLINGTON, Va., 3 April 2013. U.S. Navy researchers are taking the first steps toward a tactical laser weapon mounted on a humvee-like maneuverable combat vehicle to protect moving U.S. Marine Corps task forces from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), cruise missiles, and other weapons that are difficult to pick up on radar.

PORT HUENEME, Calif., 2 April 2013. U.S. Navy shipboard weapons technicians are making an urgent request to electronic parts distributors to provide recently discontinued 1.5-volt Virtex II field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) from Xilinx Inc. in San Jose, Calif.

PATUXENT RIVER NAS, Md., 2 April 2013. Combat helicopter designers at Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. in Fort Worth, Texas, are making preparations to build 25 new combat helicopters for the U.S. Marine Corps under terms of a $13.1 million contract announced Monday.

PATUXENT RIVER NAS, Md., 2 April 2013. U.S. Navy officials are edging closer to a final decision on choosing a contractor to build a next-generation carrier-based unmanned surveillance and fighting aircraft.

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.

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, 31 March 2013. Aircraft and avionics experts from the U.S. Air Force and the Boeing Co. have performed the first test flight of a completely updated version of the F-15 Eagle jet fighter with 21st century avionics and flight-control systems.