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Executive Watch 2009 P6
Navy approaches industry for ideas on how to counter directed energy weapons
ARLINGTON, Va., 1 Oct. 2009. The U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) in Arlington, Va., is interested in receiving research proposals on the best technologies for Counter Directed Energy Weapons (CDEW) to protect Navy and Marine Corps ships, submarines, aircraft, and other weapons from directed-energy weapons.
Navy looks to DRS to provide radar signal processor for anti-air warfare and ballistic missile defense
ARLINGTON, Va., 30 Sept. 2009. Officials of the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) in Arlington, Va., are awarding a $7.1 million contract to The DRS Technologies C3 Systems segment in Gaithserburg, Md., for the Navy's Common Signal Processor (CSP) technology demonstrator for radar signal processing.
Army asking industry for presentations on military night vision systems for vetronics-on-the-move surveillance
FORT BELVOIR, Va., 29 Sept. 2009. U.S. Army night vision systems experts are trying to find defense companies able to design and build vehicle-mounted mobile electro-optical vetronics systems that are able to search the surrounding area while the vehicles are moving.
Boeing projects $400 billion market for new airplanes in China
BEIJING, 28 Sept. 2009 Boeing [NYSE: BA] detailed its 2009 market update for commercial airplanes for China region, forecasting a requirement for 3,770 new airplanes valued at $490 billion over the next 20 years. Over the forecast period, China is and will remain the largest market outside the U.S. for new commercial airplanes.
UAV-based airborne radar system capable of foliage penetration to be built by Syracuse Research
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md., 27 Sept. 2009. U.S. Army researchers are looking to radar system experts at Syracuse Research Corp. in North Syracuse, N.Y., to build a foliage-penetrating radar for airborne radar applications on the Boeing A-160 Hummingbird unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
Naval Weapons Station enhances perimeter security with RAPIDGate Program, biometric technology
PORTLAND, Ore., 26 Sept. 2009. Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach Detachment Corona has adopted, for its safety-critical application, the RAPIDGate Program to increase security and streamline access for the thousands of vendors, suppliers, service providers and contractors who access the installation.
DHS launches technology program to detect weapons and contraband from inside shipping containers
WASHINGTON, 25 Sept. 2009. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials in Washington are asking industry for ideas on how to design a small, inexpensive, and unobtrusive electronic sensor for inside standard intermodal shipping containers that would detect and warn of dangerous weapons and contraband during a typical 21-day sea voyage.
Electronic warfare and information warfare support is aim of Navy RFP issued this week
WASHINGTON, 24 Sept. 2009. Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington are looking for a defense contractor to provide expertise and support for as long as five years for integration and test of advanced electronic warfare (EW) and information warfare (IW) systems on Navy ships and aircraft.
3U VPX embedded computing specified for M1A2 Abrams vetronics computer upgrades
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., 23 Sept. 2009. Vetronics designers at General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) in Sterling Heights, Mich., needed 3U VPX single board computers, graphics processors, disk subsystems, and switches for a project to boost the performance and shrink the size of embedded computing in the U.S. Army's M1A2 Abrams main battle tank. They found their solution from GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms in Charlottesville, Va.
Securing the RTOS and other software in software defined radio
FORT MEADE, Md., 22 Sept. 2009. Designers of software defined radio (SDR) systems under the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) program are generating millions and millions of lines of code -- all of which must be certified by the National Security Agency (NSA) at Fort Mead, Md., before it can be deployed.
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