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:: February 24, 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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OPINION
:: When high performance really matters in mil-aero: a comparison of ATCA and VPX solutions
By John Long
Communication is critical to today’s military and aerospace industry. The need to communicate actionable information quickly between the command center, troops in the field, unmanned vehicles, and other military assets is giving rise to network-centric warfare. So not surprisingly, today’s mil-aero networks are beginning to look a lot like today’s telecom networks–reliable where intelligent endpoints share real-time information over high bandwidth.
CONTRACT WINS
Army mine-resistant armored vehicles to receive electronics and communications...
| | | :: Harris wins $25 million contract by Northrop Grumman for communications backbone of Army Battle Command System
Highband networking radios from Harris Corp. will form the communications backbone of the U.S. Army's new Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System (IBCS). As a member of Northrop Grumman's IBCS team, Harris will supply its radios to carry critical battle-command information, and will provide system and network engineering services over the five-year life of the program.
:: General Dynamics wins $154 million to support U.S. Army's Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care
General Dynamics Information Technology, a business unit of General Dynamics, won a task order to support the U.S. Army's Program Executive Office, Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS), Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care (MC4) Product Management Office (PMO). The task order is valued at $154 million over five years if all options are exercised.
:: General Dynamics wins $387 million U.S. Army training support
General Dynamics Information Technology, a business unit of General Dynamics, won a contract for Constructive Training Systems support by the U.S. Army's Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation (PEO STRI). The total potential value of this single-award, five-year indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract is $387 million if all options are exercised.
TECHNOLOGY TRENDS
:: Army mine-resistant armored vehicles to receive electronics and communications upgrades
Engineers at Oshkosh Defense in Oshkosh, Wis., are providing command, control, communication, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR) electronics suites for U.S. Army mine resistant ambush protected (MRAP) all-terrain vehicles (M-ATVs) under terms of two contracts totaling $24 million.
:: BAE Systems' computers rocket to the sun aboard NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory
Three BAE Systems space computers have taken flight on a NASA satellite, to study the sun's influence on Earth and near-Earth space. NASA selected the company's RAD750 and RAD6000 computers to handle large amounts of data processing for its Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) in the harsh, high-radiation solar environment.
INDUSTRY INSIGHTS
:: Project Vigilare Command and Control System for the Royal Australian Air Force passes acceptance testing
Officials at Boeing Defence Australia, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company, announced that Project Vigilare, a Network Centric Command and Control System (NC3S) solution for the Royal Australian Air Force, has passed factory acceptance testing. The system, already installed at the Northern Regional Operational Centre (NROC), will undergo on-site acceptance testing in March and operational testing at mid-year, before being accepted by the Commonwealth of Australia.
:: U.S. Army selects Northrop Grumman's 100kW solid-state laser for field tests
The from Northrop Grumman Corp.'s (NYSE:NOC) solid-state laser system – which produces a powerful beam from a continuous wave, electric laser – is joining other speed-of-light weapons demonstrators for field tests at the Army's High Energy Laser System Test Facility (HELSTF), N.M.
:: SAIC to develop U.S. Army aviation crew member simulators
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) won a delivery order from the U.S. Army's Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation (PEO STRI) to develop the first integrated crew member simulators for CH-47 and UH-60 helicopters under the Non-rated Crew Member Manned Module (NCM3) program.
THIS WEEK IN THE MIL-AERO BLOG
:: The 2011 DOD budget is out, and the news is good
Posted by John Keller
The Obama Administration's military budget proposals for next year are out, and I think we can all breathe a collective sigh of relief. The aerospace and defense industry has spent months fretting about President Obama's 2011 defense budget -- more out of uncertainty than fear. It is this proposed budget, far more than the one last year, that gives us our first clear indication of how the Obama Administration plans to treat defense spending, and the verdict is, better than we thought.
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