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:: March 10, 2010
The Military & Aerospace Electronics newsletter supplements Military & Aerospace Electronics magazine by delivering the highlights of the latest defense, aviation, and space electronics business events. The quick-read newsletter updates engineers and engineering managers with some of the most important contract wins, product announcements, design innovations, and contracting opportunities. Military & Aerospace Electronics is the technology news publication of mil-spec, rugged, high-reliability, and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) design.
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TECHNOLOGY FOCUS
:: A sea change in small electronics
By Courtney E. Howard
Miniaturized electronics are leaving the labs, entering production, and being integrated into military and aerospace system designs. Nanotechnology, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), and nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS)—once only fodder for fantasy and science fiction—has in recent months reached a new milestone. Advancements in microelectronics are helping to reduce the size, weight, cost, and carbon footprint of various military and aerospace electronics in land, sea, air, and space applications.
INDUSTRY INSIGHTS
:: NASA and NOAA launch GOES-P satellite
The latestGeostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-P) lifted off aboard a Delta IV rocket at 6:57 p.m. EST from Space Launch Complex 37 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., on 4 March The new National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellite joins four other similar spacecrafts to improve weather forecasting and monitoring of environmental events.
:: John Law of Eurocontrol to keynote Avionics Europe conference
John Law, surveillance programs manager at Eurocontrol, will keynote the2010 Avionics Europe conference and exhibition to be held March 24 – 25, 2010 at the Air Passenger Terminal in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
CONTRACT WINS AND TECHNOLOGY TRENDS
Airbus looks to DDC for MIL-STD-1553 avionics databus components for A350 jetliner...
| | | :: Power while you walk: Navy researchers to help refine electricity-generating backpack
U.S. Navy researchers are continuing work to develop a quiet, lightweight backpack that generates electricity by tapping into the up-and-down energy people generate when they walk.
:: GTEC secures $10.4 million C4I contract to support U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Global Defense Technology & Systems Inc., a provider of mission-critical, technology-based systems, solutions, and services for national security agencies and programs of the U.S. government, won a $10.4 million contract to continue supporting the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, D.C.
:: Aurora unveils test wing for solar aircraft
Aurora Flight Sciences has completed the fabrication and initial tests of an advanced wing design that could revolutionize solar-powered aircraft. The test wing, having a span of 22 feet and a chord of 15 feet, is built of advanced composite materials and lightweight plastics, and its upper surface is covered with advanced solar cells. The cells convert sunlight into electricity that would be used to power the aircraft and its payloads.
:: Airbus looks to DDC for MIL-STD-1553 avionics databus components for A350 jetliner flight control
Officials at Airbus, the European passenger jet manufacturer in Toulouse, France, needed MIL-STD-1553 avionics databus components for their company's new generation of A350 XWB jetliners. They found their solution from Data Device Corp. (DDC) in Bohemia, N.Y.
:: HP, Route1 selected by U.S. Navy to pilot DEFIMNET, MobiKEY Fusion
HP and Route1 Inc., a security and identity-based services company, are participating in a six-month pilot project to deploy the Route1 DEFIMNET (Defense Identity Management Network) and MobiKEY Fusion devices to the U.S. Navy Reserve.
HOT TOPICS IN THE COMMAND POST COMMUNITY
:: DC small businesses oppose $25 million plan to lure Northrop Grumman
A group of residents, taxpayers, and peace activists gathered in Washington to testify before the Committee on Economic Development on the topic of Northrop Grumman's potential move to D.C.
:: EADS North America releases statement on Northrop Grumman's decision not to bid on U.S. Air Force KC-X contract
EADS North America released the following statement from Ralph D. Crosby, Jr., Chairman of the Board. "Five years ago EADS partnered with Northrop Grumman, as prime, to pursue the U.S. Air Force KC-135 modernization program. Two years ago our team was selected and awarded the contract. Today Northrop Grumman has decided not to submit a bid to the Department of Defense for the KC-X program.
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