BARROW-IN-FURNESS, United Kingdom. The Royal Navy selected BAE Systems to design the next generation of submarines for the United Kingdom. UK Ministry of Defense officials awarded the first design contracts for the Vanguard...

UPPER SADDLE RIVER, N.J. Pentek engineers released a high-speed, multi-channel Serial FPDP recorder family called Talon including a rugged portable and rackmount devices as well as a commercial rackmount version. The systems...

MONTREAL, 14 May 2012. Business jet aircraft specialist Bombardier in Montreal is introducing the Bombardier Flight Deck app for the Apple iPad tablet computer. Bombardier Flight Deck manages documents and enables general...

Posted by John Keller People warned me that when I reached a certain age I'd look out at a once-familiar world and see nothing that I recognized. Well, it's happened. Acceptable social behavior today is a shock and a mystery....

BILLERICA, Mass., 14 May 2012. GE Intelligent Platforms in Huntsville, Ala., is establishing a High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC) Center of Excellence (CoE) at the company's advanced software development center in...

John McHale, Editorial Director, OpenSystems Media — May 2, 2012 The $391 million in production orders result from two contract options for a total of 33 AN/TPQ-53 (Q-53) counterfire target acquisition radars – formerly known...

NASHUA, N.H., 11 April 2012. The staff of Avionics Intelligence invites avionics professionals to take part in a free Webinar on Thurs., 26 April at 11 am EDT. Register today at...

WASHINGTON. Officials at NASA\'s Space Technology Program announced that they are looking for proposals on developing solar array systems that enable future space electric propulsion systems that can travel much further than...

MARLBOROUGH, Mass. U.S. Navy officials procured two more Raytheon radar systems to replace obsolete analog air traffic control (ATC) systems with digital technology. Military bases at New River, N.C., and Quantico, Va., will...

SÃO JOSÉ DOS CAMPOS, Brazil, 9 April 2012. Aircraft manufacturer Embraer S.A. in São José Dos Campos, Brazil will supply one additional new Embraer E170 passenger jet to Japan Airlines (JAL) in Tokyo under terms of a $38...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., 10 April 2012. NASA has selected United Launch Services LLC of Englewood, Colo., to launch the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites-R and –S ( GOES-R and GOES-S). The GOES-R and GOES-S...

TEWKSBURY, Mass. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) officials tasked Raytheon engineers with developing next-generation Gallium Nitride devices bonded to diamond substrates – or Thermally Enhanced Gallium Nitride...

SPECIAL REPORT, 2 April 2012. Rugged smartphone technology is joining forces with information security, anti-tamper technology, and secure cloud computing to create manageable battlefield communications infrastructure that is...

WARREN, Mich., 30 March 2012. U.S. Army vetronics researchers are canvassing industry to see which companies might be able to provide glasses-free 3D display technology, or autostereoscopic displays, and to determine if the...

SAN JOSE, Calif., 28 March 2012. InHand Electronics Inc. in Rockville, Md., is introducing the 1.5-pound Hydra-T3 rugged tablet computer for military, medical, or other industrial or commercial uses. The rugged tablet is...

PRODUCT INTELLIGENCE, 26 March 2012. Embedded computing designers for demanding digital signal processing (DSP) subsystems in military embedded systems like radar, electronic warfare (EW), and signals intelligence (SIGINT), are...