The U.S. Army has chosen two companies for a one-year program to develop, prototype, and test a next-generation handheld electro-optical system to enable infantry soldiers, Marines, and joint terminal attack controllers to acquire, locate, identify, and designate targets quickly for air strikes or artillery attacks.

U.S. Air Force researchers are asking industry to develop high-performance, radiation-hardened MWIR SCA that can operate at high operating temperatures for persistent-surveillance satellites.

U.S. Air Force space electronics specialists are considering a research program on cyber security for orbiting satellites and satellite ground-control equipment, and trying to determine the level of expertise and capability in defense companies and universities.

Radiation-hardened electronics advance with emerging standards and expanding markets.

WASHINGTON, 1 June 2013. The U.S. General Services Administration has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) on behalf of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), to solicit lease proposals for the rehabilitation and adaptive reuse of NASA's historic Hangar One, at Moffett Federal Airfield (MFA) in the NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif.

BLACKSBURG, Va., 23 May 2013. VPT Inc. in Blacksburg, Va., is introducing the SVR series of radiation-hardened DC-DC power converters, point of load converters, and EMI filters for space applications in low Earth orbit (LEO), medium Earth orbit (MEO), geostationary orbit (GEO), deep space, and launch vehicles.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., 20 May 2013. U.S. government researchers from a variety of agencies will brief industry in August on their new business opportunities for the coming year. Briefings will be 19-21 Aug. at the Hotel Albuquerque at Old Town in Albuquerque, N.M.

MUNICH, 20 May 2013. Rohde & Schwarz in Munich is introducing the FSW50 signal and spectrum analyzer for testing transmitters and components such as those used in radar applications and satellite and military communications systems.

WESTFORD, Mass., 13 May 2013. Custom MMIC in Westford, Mass., is introducing the CMD164, 165, and 173 distributed amplifiers, and the CMD166 driver amplifier, in die form for military and space applications, wideband communication systems, point-to-point and point-to-multipoint radios, microwave radio and VSAT, telecom infrastructure, test instrumentation, and fiber optics.

HOLLYWOOD, Fla., 6 May 2013. Executives of HEICO Corp. in Hollywood, Fla., are boosting their company's expertise in missile defense and commercial aviation with their acquisition of Reinhold Industries Inc. in Santa Fe Springs, Calif.

STONY BROOK, N.Y., 23 April 2013. Designers at the U.S. Missile Defense Agency at Fort Belvoir, Va., needed anti-counterfeiting technology to mark original parts at the time of manufacture to confirm that the component is authentic. They found their solution from Applied DNA Sciences, Inc. in Stony Brook, N.Y.

SAN DIEGO, 15 April 2013. U.S. Navy communications experts are asking engineers at Comtech EF Data Corp. in Tempe, Ariz., to design an advanced satellite communications (SATCOM) processor to boost data rates among surface warships, submarines, and shore communications installations.

ABU DHABI, U.A.E., 13 April 2013. Avionics International Advisory Board Members—all experienced, knowledgeable, and high-level aviation executives and avionics experts—have issued a call for papers for the 2014 conference program, to be held 18-19 March 2014 in Abu Dhabi.

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.

WASHINGTON, 5 April 2013. U.S. Navy researchers needed 3U VPX embedded computing systems to support a variety of research programs and system prototyping for space and maritime military applications. They found their solution from 4DSP LLC in Austin, Texas.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla., 3 April 2013. Botanical researchers at the NASA Kennedy Space Center, Fla., needed DC-DC converter power supplies and electromagnetic interference (EMI) filters for a prototype celestial plant garden on the International Space Station. They found their solution from Crane Aerospace & Electronics in Redmond, Wash.

Spacecraft designers at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., needed a radiation-hardened space digital processor to demonstrate laser communications relay technology to establish optical communications between geosynchronous satellites and Earth. They found their solution from SEAKR Engineering Inc. in Centennial, Colo.

U.S. Air Force officials are kicking off a project to develop a future infrared sensor payload for a commercial satellite.

Crystek Corp. in Fort Myers, Fla., is introducing the CVCO55CXT-4812- 4812 coaxial resonator oscillator (CRO) for applications such as digital radio equipment, fixed wireless access, satellite communications (SATCOM) systems, and base stations.