Safety Certification and Security
DO-178B, DO-178C, DO-254
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NASA’s Juno aircraft equipped with Cobham’s battery unit arrives at destination
PORTLAND, Ore. Cobham officials announced at this year's Nuclear Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC) that NASA’s Jupiter Near-polar Orbiter (Juno) spacecraft launched with the company's Battery Electronics Unit (BEU), providing a balance of power cells autonomously to a Lithium Ion (Li-Ion) battery. Juno arrived at its destination, Jupiter, after a five-year journey.
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Predator C Avenger gets FAA experimental certificate
FARNBOROUGH, United Kingdom. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI), officials announced that its company-owned Predator C Avenger unmanned aircraft system (UAS) received a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)-issued Experimental Certificate (EC), enabling it to perform routine operations in the U.S. National Airspace System (NAS). The announcement was made this week at the Farnborough International Air Show.
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Passive radar system is integrated on GA-ASI's Predator B
SAN DIEGO. Raytheon Deutschland GmbH and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI) engineers will integrate the Advanced Radar Detection System (ARDS) – an Electronic Support Measure (ESM) system for passive radar monitoring – on a standard pod that will be mounted on the centerline hard point of GA-ASI’s unmanned aerial system (UAS), the Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper.
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U.S. Navy begins live fire testing preparations for Raytheon's AN/SPY-6(V) radar
TEWKSBURY, Mass. U.S. Navy officials at the Pacific Missile Range testing facility in Hawaii received Raytheon’s AN/SPY-6(V) Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) array, which is now in preparation for live target testing in early July.
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Command and control system contract won by MicroTech
VIENNA, Va. Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic officials in Charleston, South Carolina tasked MicroTech to deliver command and control (C2) systems and support services under an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract valued an estimated $750 million.
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General Dynamics to continue developing Virginia Payload Modules for submarines
GROTON, Conn. U.S. Navy officials modified an existing contract with General Dynamics Electric Boat - a subsidiary of General Dynamics - to continue to develop the Virginia Payload Module (VPM). The contract's estimated value is $116 million.
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Common data link split radio system contract won by Cubic
SAN DIEGO. Cubic's business division, Cubic Mission Solutions (CMS), will provide the U.S. Navy Space and Naval Systems Warfare (SPAWAR) Systems Center Pacific command with switchable Common Data Link (CDL) split Above and Below Decks radio systems to support sustainment of the AN/USQ-167 Common Data Link System (CDLS).
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CPI to provide research efforts in vacuum electronics for DARPA program
PALO ALTO, Calif. The Microsystems Technology Office of the Defense at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) selected the Microwave Power Products Division of Communications & Power Industries LLC (CPI) for the first phase of the High Power Amplifier Using Vacuum Electronics for Overmatch Capability (HAVOC) program to research revolutionary approaches to vacuum electronics.
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Collaborative Autonomous Systems Laboratory opened by Boeing
ST. CHARLES, Mo. Boeing’s Collaborative Autonomous Systems Laboratory officially opened to focus on developing, maturing, and validating autonomous and multi-vehicle collaboration technologies. Researchers will test next-generation hardware and software of autonomous air, sea, and land vehicles in order to have them work more effectively as a team.
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Company officials restructure ThalesRaytheonSystems joint venture
WALTHAM, Mass. Thales and Raytheon officials restructured their joint venture company, ThalesRaytheonSystems, to focus only on NATO agencies and NATO member nations for delivery of the Command and Control System, Theatre Missile Defense, and Ballistic Missile Defense (ACCS).
Mariana Iriarte, Technology Editor
John McHale, Editorial Director
Mariana Iriarte, Technology Editor
Mariana Iriarte, Technology Editor
Mariana Iriarte, Technology Editor