VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif., 29 Jan. 2013. A Boeing-led [NYSE: BA] team, working with the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, has returned the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system to testing with a flight test.

HAIFA, Israel, 28 Jan. 2013. Elbit Systems Ltd. (NASDAQ:ESLT) engineers are developing advanced features for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) under a contract with the Israel Ministry of Defense (IMOD).

JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, N.J., 27 Jan. 2013. U.S. Navy radar experts needed 6U VME single-board computers based on Freescale MPC7447A/7448 processors with AltiVec technology for radar systems aboard the littoral combat ships USS Little Rock (LCS 9) and USS Sioux City (LCS 11). They found their solution from Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions in Ottawa.

BLOOMFIELD, N.J., 26 Jan. 2013. The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is looking into the development of a small satellite navigation payload to augment the global positioning system (GPS) program.

NAVAL AIR STATION PATUXENT RIVER, Md., 25 Jan. 2013. Two Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT]  F-35C Lightning II carrier variant test aircraft refueled together with a Lockheed Martin KC-130 Hercules in the sky above Patuxent River, Md. recently.

QUINCY, Mass., 25 Jan. 2013. Marine scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington needed unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) to help develop low-frequency broadband (LFBB) payload technology and support basic and applied research in undersea warfare. They found their solution from UUV specialist Bluefin Robotics in Quincy, Mass.

ULM, Germany, 24 Jan. 2013. The German Navy has selected the TRS-4D naval radar by Cassidian for use in its F125 class frigates. The radar will provide them with reconnaissance and surveillance capabilities.

THE MIL & AERO VIDEO BLOG, 22 Jan. 2013. The DARPA Upward Falling Payloads program, or UFP, envisions non-lethal weapons like distracting light strobes, blinding lasers, and electronic warfare jammers that are forward-deployed beneath the ocean and launched into the middle of an adversary's naval battle group to cause surprise, confusion, and more, as John Keller reports this week in the Mil & Aero Video Blog.

LONG BEACH, Calif., 21 Jan. 2013. The market for military electronic is being driven by sensor technology, and it's time for sensor-processing systems designers to do something about it, says Ray Alderman, executive director of the VITA embedded computing trade organization.

SAN DIEGO 20 Jan. 2013. U.S. Navy command and control experts needed a company to upgrade the service's Next Generation Command and Control Processor (NGC2P) -- a tactical data link communication processor that provides warfighters with critical real-time information about friendly and enemy activity during combat operations.

WASHINGTON, 19 Jan. 2013. Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. [NYSE: UTX], and Boeing [NYSE: BA] have signed a teaming agreement to submit a joint proposal in response to the U.S. Army Aviation Applied Technology Directorate solicitation for the Army's joint multi-role (JMR) technology demonstrator (TD) phase 1 program.

DALLAS, Texas, 18 Jan. 2013. Lockheed Martin’s [NYSE: LMT] family of Joint Light Tactical Vehicles (JLTV) has completed a top-to-bottom government design review.

ARLINGTON, Va., 17 Jan. 2013. Underwater munitions experts at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va., will brief industry about a new program to pre-deploy sensors or non-lethal weapons on the ocean floor that can rise to the surface at a moment's notice to surprise naval adversaries from 8 a.m. to noon on 25 Jan. 2013 at the DARPA Conference Center, Room 01-200, 675 N. Randolph St., in Arlington Va.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., 17 Jan. 2013. Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] has been awarded a contract to sustain the ground control segment for the global positioning system (GPS) satellite constellation.

Ontario, Canada, 16 Jan. 2013. General Dynamics Land Systems Canada has been awarded two contracts for the production of light armored vehicles (LAVs).

NASHUA, N.H., 15 Jan 2012. Skyler Frink discusses DARPA's testing of the LS3 quadruped robot and the technology behind it in this week's Military & Aerospace Electronics Report.

FAIRFAX, Va., 12 Jan. 2013. Boeing [NYSE: BA] will continue helping improve situational awareness for U.S. Navy surface combat ships under a $46 million exercised option of its Ship's Signal Exploitation Equipment (SSEE) Increment F contract.

ARLINGTON, Va., 10 Jan. 2013. Officials of the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., needed software and systems engineering services to support CECOM’s Software Engineering Center (SEC). They found their solution from the BAE Systems Intelligence and Security sector in Arlington, Va.

Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., 10 Jan. 2013. Cross Match Technologies, Inc., a provider of biometric identity management products, has released two new versions of its Mobile Essentials software development kit (SDK) that integrates its Verifier Mw wireless handheld fingerprint scanner with Android and Blackberry smartphones.