Green Hills Software enables secure virtualization for mobile ARM TrustZone technology-based devices
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., 21 Nov. 2009. Green Hills Software Inc. in Santa Barbara, Calif., is releasing its Integrity Virtualization for ARM TrustZone technology in the latest enhanced version of the company's Integrity real-time operating system (RTOS), which is certified by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) to EAL6+.
Universal Display, Flexible Display Center at ASU to supply flexible active-matrix PHOLED display prototypes to U.S. Army
EWING, N.J., 20 Nov. 2009. Universal Display Corp., provider of displays and lighting through its UniversalPHOLED phosphorescent OLED technology, and the Flexible Display Center (FDC) at Arizona State University are jointly fabricating prototype active-matrix PHOLEDs on flexible plastic substrates for the U.S. Army. Universal Display also won a $650,000 U.S. Army Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II Enhancement contract to support this work.
Boeing laser systems destroy UAVs in tests
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., 19 Nov. 2009 Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] experts demonstrated the ability of mobile laser weapon systems to track and destroy small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
VPX embedded computer not to blame for $14 million cost overrun in Marine Corps G/ATOR radar system
LINTHICUM HEIGHTS, Md., 19 Nov. 2009. The U.S. Marine Corps mobile air-defense radar surveillance system called the Ground/Air Task-Oriented Radar (G/ATOR) has had a $14 million cost overrun, but these unanticipated added costs have had nothing to do with VPX embedded computing, for which G/ATOR is an early adopter, say officials of G/ATOR developer Northrop Grumman Corp.
NTS to test advanced arresting gear, electromagnetic aircraft launch system for General Atomics
CALABASAS, Calif., 19 Nov. 2009. National Technical Systems Inc. won contracts by General Atomics (GA) Electromagnetic Systems Division (EMS) of San Diego, Calif., for the performance of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) and environmental testing for the Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG) and the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS).
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NASA's Wise Eye to survey night sky with electro-optics
WASHINGTON, 18 Nov. 2009. NASA officials are on hand at SuperComputing 2009 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Ore. They are discussing the latest NASA aircraft, Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (Wise), which has been fitted with a sunshade and is scheduled to roll to the pad on Friday, Nov. 20, before launching into space to survey the entire sky in infrared light.
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NASA's human-robotic systems communicate with RTI middleware
SUNNYVALE, Calif., 17 Nov. 2009. Real-Time Innovations (RTI) has announced that NASA is using RTI middleware to control a fleet of experimental robots. The NASA Human-Robotic Systems Project is developing four prototype robots at four major research centers. The robots share a network data architecture that uses RTI middleware.
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UAV miniature weapon technology contract won by Boeing
ST. LOUIS, 16 Nov. 2009. Boeing [NYSE: BA] won a $500,000 U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory contract for the first phase of a program to demonstrate miniature weapon technology for use on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV).
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Directed-energy weapons will be the next generation of precision-guided munitions
ARLINGTON, Va., 15 Nov. 2009. Precision guided munitions (PGMs) have become synonymous with the U.S. military in the past two decades, with each new advance in technology increasing the ability to hit a specific target with a single shot while greatly reducing the danger of collateral damage.
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U.K.'s largest, autonomous unmanned aircraft completes initial flight trials
DAYTON, Ohio, 14 Nov. 2009. BAE Systems has flown the largest, fully autonomous unmanned aircraft ever to be built in the U.K. The next-generation autonomous system, MANTIS, completed its maiden flight in Woomera, South Australia. During subsequent flights, MANTIS completed a series of trials demonstrating the capability of the system and the potential of large unmanned systems to support future U.K. Ministry of Defense operational needs.
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Raytheon wins $197 million, serves as electronics system integrator for LPD 17 program
TEWKSBURY, Mass., 13 Nov. 2009. Raytheon Company won a $197 million U.S. Navy contract for life-cycle engineering and support of the LPD 17 class, the Navy's next generation of amphibious warfare ships. The contract includes five options for a total of five years of support. It extends IDS' role as the ship's prime provider of life-cycle engineering and support, originally awarded in 2005.
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ATK wins $100 million for Trident II solid rocket propulsion systems
MINNEAPOLIS, 12 Nov. 2009. Alliant Techsystems won a $100 million contract from Lockheed Martin to produce solid rocket propulsion systems for all three stages of the U.S. Navy's Trident II (D-5) Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM). Under terms of the annual contract, ATK will continue to supply Trident solid rocket propulsion systems to the Trident II (D-5) Missile System Prime Contractor, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company in Sunnyvale, Calif., through calendar year 2013.
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LaserMotive wins NASA's Centennial Challenges program with wireless energy beaming technology
WASHINGTON, 11 Nov. 2009. LaserMotive of Seattle won $900,000 in the 2009 Power Beaming challenge, part of NASA's Centennial Challenges program, for its demonstration of a new wireless energy beaming technology. LaserMotive engineers enabled a robotic device to climb a vertical cable via wireless power transmission, technology that could be used to help power a "space elevator" in the future.
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Quantum ships diesel hybrid vehicles with weapons ring to the U.S. Army for reconnaissance, surveillance, and targeting
IRVINE, Calif., 11 Nov. 2009. Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide Inc. is developing and shipping diesel hybrid vehicles to the U.S. Army's Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) National Automotive Center (NAC), with funding support through the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), and project administration through Alion.
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General Dynamics wins $22 million contract from Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command to design network-centric electronic solution
FAIRFAX, Va., 10 Nov. 2009. General Dynamics Information Technology, a business unit of General Dynamics, won a $22.2 million contract from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command to support the Naval Integrated Tactical Environmental System Next Generation program. General Dynamics will design, develop, integrate, test, and support the deployment of NITES-Next, which displays tailored meteorological and oceanographic products on mission-planning and command-and-control systems.
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TiaLinx Inc. won an Army Phase-II contract for its handheld precision target, motion detection technology
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., 10 Nov. 2009. TiaLinx Inc., a developer of millimeter-wave integrated radio and antenna arrays, won a phase II contract from the Department of Army for development of a miniaturized antenna array at V-band. TiaLinx engineers will incorporate the antenna system into the company's flagship Eagle60 family of products, to improve the performance of these ultra-wideband (UWB), radio-frequency (RF) imaging systems.
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USS New York, made with steel from World Trade Center, commissioned in New York
NEW YORK, 9 Nov. 2009 The Navy's newest ship, the USS New York (LPD 21), was commissioned this weekend at a U.S. Navy ceremony in New York.
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Government agencies come to grips with wind turbine-caused clutter for U.S. radar systems
WASHINGTON, 8 Nov. 2008. Electricity-generating wind turbines are considered an essential part of reducing U.S. reliance on fossil fuels, yet these massive multi-bladed structures can cause big problems for the nation's radar systems that watch for enemy aircraft and threatening weather.
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