HIGH WYCOMBE, England, 17 June 2013. Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions in High Wycombe, England, is introducing the VPX3-530 dual channel A/D converter and D/A converter engine packaged on a 3U OpenVPX card for space-constrained embedded digital receiver applications deployed in harsh defense and aerospace environments.

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.

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.

FORT EUSTIS, Va., 12 June 2013. U.S. Army helicopter avionics experts say they plan to ask Sierra Nevada Corp. in Sparks, Nev., to integrated and test a prototype synthetic-vision system on a Sikorsky UH-60 helicopter that is designed to help helicopter pilots land safely in zero-visibility conditions.

PATUXENT RIVER NAS, Md., 12 June 2013. The Lockheed Martin Aeronautics segment in Fort Worth, Texas will provide 83,169 field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) from Xilinx Inc. in San Jose, Calif., for military planes under terms of a $104.7 million contract modification announced this week.

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.

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, 11 June 2013. U.S. Air Force researchers are reaching out to industry to find companies with the technical expertise to design a custom application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) able to function as a powerful digital phased array RF beamformer.

SAN JOSE, Calif., 8 June 2013. Real-time software specialist LynuxWorks Inc. in San Jose, Calif., is introducing support of the 4th Generation Intel Core i7 and i5 processor families for the company's major product lines, including LynxOS, LynxOS-178, and LynxSecure.

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.

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.

ASHBURN, Va., 6 June 2013. Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions in Ashburn, Va., is introducing the CompactPCI D2D 7-slot 3/4 air transport rack (ATR) conduction-cooled chassis to help engineers develop 3U CompactPCI-based embedded computing systems in demanding SWAP-C constrained military, aerospace, and first-responder applications.

AUSTIN, Texas, 5 June 2013. Xplore Technologies Corp. in Austin, Texas, is introducing the iX104C5-M2 rugged tablet computer for military and government applications.

SEATTLE, 4 June 2013. Agilent experts in aerospace and defense and wireless communications, including test components and systems, microwave and communications, and mobile broadband gathered at IMS 2013 in Seattle to connect to industry and work on solutions to challenges, technical and business issues.

WASHINGTON, 4 June 2013. U.S. government researchers are preparing to asking industry to develop advanced facial-recognition technology able to identify people not only using incomplete, erroneous, and ambiguous data, but also that accounts for aging, pose, illumination, and expression.

STEVENAGE, England, 4 June 2013. Aeroflex Ltd. in Stevenage, England, is introducing wide-bandwidth RF signal generators and analyzers in PXI format for RF component and wireless device testing to standards such as WLAN 802.11ac.

WASHINGTON, 3 June 2013. Researchers from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in Washington will brief industry by webinar this month on the department's research and development strategy for aviation security.

HALSTENBEK, Germany, 3 June 2013. TEWS Technologies in Halstenbek, Germany, is introducing the TPMC685 standard single-width 32 bit PCI mezzanine card (PMC) for applications in aerospace and defense, process control, simulation, test, and transportation.

TDK-Lambda Americas Inc. in San Diego is introducing the iQG series of DC-DC converters for intermediate or distributed bus power architectures in applications.

Designers at RF and microwave integrated circuit specialist Plextek RF Integration in Great Chesterford, England, needed simulation software for their high-frequency circuit and MMIC designs.