MELBOURNE, Fla., 18 May 2011. Harris Corp., an international communications and information technology company, won a $19 million order from an undisclosed nation in Asia for an integrated tactical communications system to deliver command and control in various missions. Per the new contract, Harris engineers are delivering and integrating the company’s Falcon III and Falcon II tactical radios and related equipment, intended to deliver advanced situational awareness capabilities to forces at all levels.

SEATTLE, 14 May 2011. The floating Sea-based X-band Radar (SBX) will start its maintenance and upgrade program with Boeing in Seattle. SBX is an ocean-going radar that identifies, tracks, and assesses the flight characteristics of ballistic missile threats. It provides an advanced capability to the overall ballistic missile defense system for the U.S.

MELBOURNE, Fla., 12 May 2011. Harris Corp., an international communications and information technology company, has received a $10 million order to provide RF-310M-HH multiband, handheld software-defined radios to a central Asian nation in support of interoperable secure communications with coalition partners.

MELBOURNE, Fla., 10 May 2011. Harris Corp., an international communications and information technology company, won a $19.9 million order from the U.S. Army for Falcon II AN/VRC-104(V)(3) radio systems. The Falcon II systems provide high-frequency communications in multiple variants of Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles (MRAPs).

HUNT VALLEY, Md., 4 May 2011. AAI Test & Training in Hunt Valley, Md., is developing an electronic warfare (EW) simulator for a U.S. Air Force facility at Robins Air Force Base, Ga., that tests U.S. electronic warfare technology for performance and compatibility. AAI will deliver an EW simulator that mimics military electromagnetic conditions that U.S. electronic warfare systems might encounter on combat missions. AAI will deliver the EW simulator that generates radio waves to the Air Force EW Avionics Integration Support Facility (EWAISF), which is part of the Aerospace Sustainment Directorate at Robins Air Force Base, under terms of a $9.7 million contract, which was announced Monday.

BOCA RATON, Fla., 4 May 2011. Imperx Inc. in Boca Raton, Fla., is introducing the CoaXPress high-speed point-to-point serial communications link for high-resolution digital still-image and video cameras in aerospace and defense applications. The CoaXPress camera interface provides six gigabits per second and offers a coax cable slip ring for 360-degree camera rotation. The camera interface can help systems integrators achieve real-time image acquisition. It transmits video and connects cameras to frame grabbers through a standard 75-ohm coaxial cable. The interface also provides a 20-megabit-per-second uplink for communications and control.

ARLINGTON, Va., 3 May 2011. Military communications experts in the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) in Arlington, Va., are asking industry to develop technology for the next generation of military tactical data links to replace or augment existing data links like Link-16, the Multifunction Advanced Data Link (MADL) and Cooperative Engagement Capability-Data Distribution System (CEC-DDS). ONR released a broad agency announcement (ONRBAA11-021) late last week for the Advanced Tactical Data Link (ATDL) program to develop tactical data link technology to complement existing military data links to coordinate Navy weapons and sensors among manned and unmanned aircraft, surface ships, submarines, and ground forces.

Technology focus, 1 May 2011. For network-centric operations to succeed on today’s digital battlefield, efficient, reliable, and real-time communications are crucial to deliver the right information to the right person at the right time. The antenna is one of the most important, if not often overlooked, component of aerospace and defense systems. Military applications combine the need for high performance and reliability with some of the hardest environmental conditions.

ROCHESTER, N.Y., 29 April 2011. The Harris Corp. RF Communications Division in Rochester, N.Y., will supply the U.S. Army with Falcon II AN/VRC-104(V)(3) high-frequency radios for the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) armored combat vehicle under terms of a $20.4 million contract announced this week. The AN/VRC-104 radio is a version of the Harris The AN/PRC-150(C) radio configured for military vehicle communications applications that provides 150 Watts of high-frequency single-sideband (HF SSB) communications, and 60 Watts of very-high-frequency, frequency-modulated (VHF-FM) radio communications.

LITLINGTON, England, 29 April 2011. Cambridge Pixel Ltd. in Litlington, England, is introducing the HPx-200 high-performance PCI-based primary radar-acquisition card -- a radar acquisition and processing tool to help build server and client display systems. The HPx-200 interfaces to many kinds of primary radar signals with analog and digital radar video inputs, trigger, and azimuth (ACP/ARP and parallel data) signals. Capturing one or two channels of video at speeds as fast as 50 MHz using 120-bit A/D converters, the HPx-200 uses a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) for pre-processing the radar video before transferring to the client software via the PCI bus.

WASHINGTON, 24 April 2011. U.S. intelligence experts will brief industry on a program to develop holographic 3D displays to help geographical intelligence analysts process massive quantities of dynamic 3D data for prolonged periods without fatigue, and without special 3D glasses. Industry day briefings for the Synthetic Holographic Observation (SHO) program will be from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on 2 June in the Washington, D.C. area.

MELBOURNE, Fla., 23 April 2011. U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) officials placed a $7.6 million order with Harris for the procurement Harris of Falcon III AN/PRC-117G multiband manpack radio systems, which will enable video, e-mail, and collaborative chat for deployed warfighters.

TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla., 23 April 2011. The MONAX 3G wireless communications system from Lockheed Martin was demonstrated to Air Force officials with the 3rd Combat Communications Group at Tinker Air Force Base (AFB), Okla. The system enables commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) smartphone applications to be accessed anywhere on military installations.

MOORESTOWN, N.J., 21 April 2011. U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin engineers have installed the Aegis Combat System aboard two new Navy destroyers, USS Gravely (DDG 107) and USS Jason Dunham (DDG 109). The Aegis Combat Systems are certified as fully operational through Combat Systems Ship Qualification Trials, during which the ships' Aegis Combat Systems were evaluated for combat-readiness via comprehensive surface, subsurface, and anti-air warfare exercises, including manned raids and electronic attack scenarios, as well as testing of the systems' tactical data link and air defense capabilities.

ARLINGTON, Va., 20 April 2011. Microelectronics scientists at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va., are reaching out to industry to find new ways of blending electronic, photonic, and micro-electro mechanical systems (MEMS) components on one silicon integrated circuit. The goal is to develop microelectronics technology for optoelectronic microsystems such as transceivers for telecommunications, coherent optical systems for laser radar (LADAR) sensors and communications, optical arbitrary waveform generators, and multi-wavelength imagers with integrated image processing and readout circuitry.

DURHAM, N.C., 18 April 2011. Emrise Corp., a multi-national manufacturer of defense, aerospace, and industrial electronic devices and communications equipment, won an order for approximately $1.6 million (1 million pounds Sterling) to manufacture custom radio-frequency (RF) devices for an international military program. A major international military systems integrator and longstanding EMRISE customer awarded the contract, according to a company spokesperson. Shipments of the custom RF devices are expected to begin in the fourth quarter of this year and be completed in 2013.

KAUAI, Hawaii, 16 April 2011. An intermediate range ballistic missile was tracked and engaged by the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system using data from a remote AN/TPY-2 radar during a test off the coast of Hawaii.

SUNNYVALE, Calif., 10 April 2011. CTT Inc. in Sunnyvale, Calif., is introducing a solid-state RF and microwave power amplifier that operates from 6 to 18 GHz for wideband electronic warfare jamming applications on surface ships and aircraft, as well as for next-generation jamming designs. The gallium nitride (GaN) -based power amplifier is a monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) with efficiency, high operating temperature range, and small size, CTT officials say.

FORT BELVOIR, Va., 8 April 2011. U.S. Army researchers are reaching out to industry to find companies able to undertake a quick-turnaround program to build standoff chemical-detection capability to pinpoint explosives concealed on standing, walking, or running people from ranges as long as a football field. The Army Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate (NVESD) at Fort Belvoir, Va., issued a sources-sought notice Wednesday (solicitation number: HYPERSPECTRALRFI) for mature hyper-spectral imaging technology to detect explosives concealed on approaching people. The Army wants fieldable capability within a year.