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NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND, PATUXENT RIVER, Md. Navy leaders have introduced brand new cockpit simulators for P-8A Poseidon pilots to train on the state-of-the art avionics and weapons computers they will fly with when the new aircraft is deployed to the fleet later this year.
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CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla. The Lockheed Martin-built Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite has been encapsulated into its payload fairing to get ready for a Feb. 16 liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., on an Atlas V launch vehicle.
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MCLEAN, Va. Engineers at QinetiQ will provide the transmission for a hybrid electric drive for the U.S. Army’s Ground Combat Vehicle (GCV) program’s technology development phase.
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SAN DIEGO. Northrop Grumman won a U.S. Air Force $2.7 million contract to integrate two more Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) payloads on two Global Hawk Block 20 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
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MELBOURNE, Fla., The Australian Department of Defense rewarded Harris Corp. in Melbourne, Fla., with a $235 million contract for new radio systems as part of the country’s efforts to modernize its tactical radio program with Type-1 tactical data and voice communications.
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UPPER SADDLE RIVER, N.J. Engineers at Pentek announced the first product from their new Virtex-7 line of FPGA modules called Onyx.
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HERNDON, Va. Officials at the Unified Cross Domain Management Office (UCDMO) selected Raytheon Trusted Computer Solutions' WebShield for use on the version 4.1 baseline list.
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. Officials at Green Hills Software in Santa Barbara, Calif., released a security solution consisting of Suite B-Compliant Security Protocol Toolkits and Device Lifecycle Management (DLM) system, designed by the company’s INTEGRITY Security Services (ISS) business unit.
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa. Officials at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) selected Rockwell Collins for a $5.3 million Phase 2 research contract to increase digital software defined radios (SDRs) capability by a factor of ten over existing technology.
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MILPITAS, Calif. Engineers at BAE Systems Imaging Solutions have designed a high-definition scientific complementary metal oxide semiconductor (sCMOS) image sensor, dubbed the Fairchild Imaging CIS1021. The new component will enable image collection through microscopes or other imaging systems.
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OWEGO, N.Y. Officials at Lockheed Martin Mission Systems and sensors division in Owego, N.Y., selected the LynxOS Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) from LynuxWorks, Inc. as well as the company’s Luminosity Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for with the Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) flown by the United Kingdom.
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NAVAIR, PATUXENT RIVER, Md. U.S. Navy officials have started testing the radar system for an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) called the MQ-4C Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS).
