Military & Aerospace Electronics – Military technology …

WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, N.M., 14 Feb. 2014. U.S. Army weapons test and evaluation experts are buying obsolescent field-programmable gate array (FPGA) processors to keep systems functioning at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., for as long as possible in today's tight defense budgets.

The Army Mission Installation and Contracting Command (MICC) at White Sands Missile Range announced plans earlier this month to buy 300 Xilinx Spartan IIE FPGAs from electronics distributor Avnet Corp. in Richardson, Texas. Xilinx introduced the Spartan II FPGA family in early 2000, and the technology is nearly 14 years old.

DENVER, 14 Feb. 2014. Software engineers at the Lockheed Martin Corp. Information Systems & Global Solutions segment in Denver are developing an open-systems software planner that integrates air operations and missile defense systems to enable Air Force experts to visualize and understand dynamic global situations.

MELVILLE, N.Y., 14 Feb. 2014. Comtech PST Corp. in Melville, N.Y., is introducing the model MC858109-600 gallium nitride (GaN) amplifier for X-band radar applications. The AB linear design operates over the 8.5-to-10 GHz frequency range.

THE MIL & AERO BLOG, 13 Feb. 2014. Well, there's good news and there's bad news. First the bad news: I'm stuck today due to the severe winter weather sweeping through the South and up the East Coast. The good news is we might be seeing something of an industry turnaround in the military electronics business, which has been on its back for months.

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md., 13 Feb. 2014. U.S. Army researchers are notifying industry to be ready for a formal solicitation later this month to develop a security system able to detect traces of explosives, poisons, or other chemical materials left behind from a person's hands.

YORBA LINDA, Calif., 13 Feb. 2014. Data communications specialist Sabtech in Yorba Linda, Calif., is introducing the Super Swift PCI Express processor board that can operate aboard Navy ships and submarines with Navy Tactical Data System (NTDS) data, or as a stand-alone computer or system co-processor.

SAN DIEGO, 12 Feb. 2014. Military communications experts at Data Link Solutions LLC in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, won a long-delayed contract Tuesday for a major data communications system upgrade that will enhance the ability of Navy surface warships to exchange text and imagery data with aircraft and ground forces.

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala., 12 Feb. 2014. U.S. Army aviation experts will brief industry early next month on upcoming contracting opportunities involved in moving the Army's aviation research closer to useful and deployable technologies.