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    An artist's rendering of a future remotely operated underwater vehicle exploring the deep ocean floor.
    Uncrewed

    Applied Physical Sciences moves forward with new concepts in propulsion for manned and unmanned submarines

    John Keller
    Nov. 20, 2024
    DARPA considers hydro-dynamics, hydro-acoustics, mechanical engineering, naval submarine architectures, and electro-mechanical enabling technologies.
    Dawn Aerospace
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    Commercial Aerospace

    Dawn Aerospace achieves supersonic milestone with rocket-powered aircraft

    Nov. 20, 2024
    Dawn Aerospace says its flight is the first time a civil aircraft has flown supersonic since the Concorde era.
    The AN/SPQ-9B X-band radar that scans the horizon for low-flying anti-ship cruise missiles, enemy ships, and aircraft.
    Test

    Navy taps Leonardo DRS for common frequency generator components for shipboard missile-defense radar

    John Keller
    Nov. 20, 2024
    A common RF frequency generator enables radar units in a network to measure the time it takes for a signal to travel to a target and back.
    Morpheus President Kevin Lausten, D-Orbit VP of Commercial Strategy Matteo Lorenzoni, Morpheus Space CEO Daniel Bock and D-Orbit Sales Specialist Matteo Zeni. Morpheus Space photo.
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    Morpheus Space and D-Orbit partner for in-orbit propulsion demonstration

    Nov. 20, 2024
    The mission, scheduled for early 2025, will utilize D-Orbit’s ION Satellite Carrier to showcase the capabilities of Morpheus Space’s next-generation GO-2 propulsion system.
    Embraer and Indonesia’s PTDI sign MoU to foster collaboration in Commercial Aviation. PTDI was represented by Gita Amperiawan, President Director of PT Dirgantara Indonesia and Embraer was represented by Rodrigo Silva e Souza, Vice President of Marketing for Embraer Commercial Aviation. The MoU was signed in the presence of several Indonesian figures including Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto, Special Presidential Envoy of the Republic of Indonesia Hashim Djojohadikusumo and Chairman of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KADIN) Anindya Bakrie. Embraer photo.
    Commercial Aerospace

    Embraer signs MoU with PTDI to expand commercial aviation collaboration

    Nov. 20, 2024
    The agreement was formalized on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro, attended by Indonesian authorities, Reuters reports.
    Panel-mount connectors from Binder USA are for robotics and automation
    Communications

    Panel-mount connectors for restricted-space applications like robotics and automation introduced by Binder

    Binder-USA
    Nov. 20, 2024
    Another special feature involves the spread positioning pins, which ensure optimal twist protection on the circuit board even before soldering.
    Optical test and measurement

    Radiant Vision Systems

    Nov. 19, 2024
    Radiant's portfolio includes automated imaging systems that critically evaluate light and color in displays, illuminated instruments, interior lighting (ambient cabin light, reading...
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    ProMetric® I16-G-SC Imaging Colorimeter & Integrated Spectrometer
    Test and Measurement

    Radiant Vision Systems Introduces New ProMetric® I16-G-SC Imaging Colorimeter & Integrated Spectrometer

    Radiant Vision Systems
    Nov. 19, 2024
    REDMOND, Wash. – November 19, 2024 Radiant Vision Systems, a leading provider of image-based light and color measurement solutions, announces its new ProMetric® I16-...
    VIAVI Solutions
    Network analyzers

    VIAVI Selected by TDC NET to Enable Network Transformation with Advanced, End-to-End Automated Monitoring Across Complex Domains

    VIAVI Solutions Inc
    Nov. 19, 2024
    Chandler, Ariz., November 19, 2024 – VIAVI Solutions Inc. (VIAVI) (NASDAQ: VIAV) today announced that TDC NET, the largest and most experienced provider of digital infrastructure...
    Network analyzers

    VIAVI Solutions Inc

    Nov. 19, 2024
    VIAVI Solutions is a global leader in communications test and measurement and optical technologies. VIAVI enables customer innovation in industries ranging from communication ...
    Honeywell
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    Communications

    Honeywell and ESA announce public-private partnership for satcom security

    Nov. 19, 2024
    The initiative, supported by the United Kingdom Space Agency, is part of a broader effort to address vulnerabilities in data exchange for critical industries.
    A T-54A multi-engine aircraft sits on the flight line of Corpus Christi Naval Air Station, Texas, last April.
    Communications

    Textron to build 26 T-54A twin-engine aircraft and avionics to help pilots learn to fly multi-engine planes

    John Keller
    Nov. 19, 2024
    T-54A has a pressurized cockpit, side-by-side seating, and will provide instrument and asymmetric engine handling training to student naval aviators.
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    Workshop explores role of AI in space exploration

    Nov. 19, 2024
    The In-Space Physical AI Workshop, hosted by Rice University’s Office of Innovation, brought together more than 200 attendees to discuss AI’s potential to advance scientific discovery...
    A rolling airframe missile (RAM) launcher fires a RIM-116 missile from the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) during combat systems ship qualification trials.
    Sensors

    Navy asks RTX Raytheon for shipboard air-defense missiles with dual-mode guidance in $118.5 million order

    John Keller
    Nov. 19, 2024
    A supersonic, lightweight, quick-reaction, fire-and-forget weapon, the RAM missile attacks enemy helicopters, aircraft, and surface craft.
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    ASML Aero image.
    Commercial Aerospace

    ASML Aero's hydrogen-powered, box-winged eVTOL makes first untethered flight

    Nov. 19, 2024
    It's eight electric rotors are powered by a hydrogen fuel cell buffered through a battery system, which the company claims gives it a range of 620 miles (1,000 km) at a speed ...
    These cross-domain systems are for mission processing, secure storage and authentication, encryption, networking, SATCOM, AI, and data diodes.
    Computers

    Embedded computing systems with cyber security for mission processing introduced by General Micro Systems

    General Micro Systems Inc
    Nov. 19, 2024
    Different from multi-domain Red/Black systems, cross-domain systems link secure classified systems and insecure-often public-systems and networks.
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    Dawn VME Products

    Nov. 18, 2024
    Founded in 1985, Dawn is the industry leader in the design and manufacture of mission critical products based on the VITA™ and PICMG® architectures. Military Rugged. Field Reliable...
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    VPX Cube Enclosures
    Components - Enclosures and chassis

    Dawn 3U OpenVPX Cube Conduction Cooled Enclosures

    Dawn VME Products
    Nov. 18, 2024
    1 to 6 Slot. MIL-STD-810E, DO-160E and MIL-STD-461E. Full environmental sealing for all rugged environments. Up to 400 Watts of 6-channel power.
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    Dawn VME Custom Rear Transition Modules
    I/O boards

    Dawn Custom Rear Transition Modules

    Dawn VME Products
    Nov. 18, 2024
    Dawn custom RTMs can be designed to meet specific requirements, including form factor, I/O interfaces, and signal levels.
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    DEV-4200
    Components - Enclosures and chassis

    Dawn DEV-4200 3U OpenVPX up to 8-Slot Development System

    Dawn VME Products
    Nov. 18, 2024
    To 8-Slots of OpenVPX on 1″ pitch with or without RTM connectors. Available with any backplane topology. Choice of 12H, 5VH or VEN Power Systems.
    Optical coatings/treatments

    Deposition Sciences Inc (DSI)

    Nov. 18, 2024
    Deposition Sciences, Inc, (DSI®), a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin, is a premier supplier of Advanced Materials and Thin Film Coatings. Located in Santa Rosa, ...
    PIC Wire & Cable
    Communications equipment - Microwave communications

    PIC Wire & Cable

    Nov. 18, 2024
      PIC Wire & Cable designs specialty, high-performance interconnect solutions for advanced aerospace and defense applications in rugged environments. We offer customization...
    A Navy fire controlman installs a pump in the Dual Band Radar cooling system during routine maintenance aboard the aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78).
    Sensors

    Navy asks RTX Raytheon to continue support for discontinued Dual-Band Radar as successor EASR comes online

    John Keller
    Nov. 18, 2024
    The Navy's DBR dual-band radar combines S-band and X-band radars for a range of environments, and offers an open-architecture software design.
    Axiom Mission 3 (Ax-3), the third all-private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission was sent into space with SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft. NASA photo.
    Commercial Aerospace

    FAA announces it aims to streamline commercial space launch licensure

    Jamie Whitney
    Nov. 18, 2024
    The agency says it anticipates commercial launches to double by 2028. FAA says 148 licensed launches in the last fiscal year.
    The Navy destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) fires the Naval Strike Missile during a recent at-sea exercise.
    Sensors

    Navy looks to Kongsberg for land- and sea-based fifth-generation precision-strike and anti-ship Naval Strike Missile

    John Keller
    Nov. 18, 2024
    The NSM is a fifth-generation long-range, precision-strike missile that offers strike capability against heavily defended land and sea targets.
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    Uncrewed

    Swift announces its SULE uncrewed aircraft flies above 55,000 feet

    Nov. 18, 2024
    The solar-powered SULE is designed for extended missions, including applications in environmental monitoring, disaster response, and defense.
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    NASA selects Southwest Research Institute to build trio of coronagraphs for NOAA space weather program

    Nov. 18, 2024
    Once operational, the coronagraphs will provide critical data to NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center, which issues forecasts, warnings, and alerts that help mitigate space ...
    ADK-1592 development kit interfaces Holt's HI-1592 radiation-hardened transceiver with a 1553 protocol controller or FPGA
    Computers

    Kit to interface radiation-hardened transceiver with MIL-STD-1553 databus in satellites introduced by Holt

    Holt Integrated Circuits
    Nov. 18, 2024
    The HI-1592 is latchup-immune and proven to withstand a single-event upset (SEU) with an LET of at least 67.7 MeV-cm2/mg, and is radiation tolerant.
    The Mine Countermeasure Unmanned Surface Vessel (MCM-USV) is recovered aboard the littoral combat ship USS Manchester (LCS 14) during a test in June 2021.
    Sensors

    Textron to build mine warfare unmanned surface vessel (USV) with high-temperature superconducting magnets

    John Keller
    Nov. 15, 2024
    The MSPDS surface counter-mine system locates and detonates acoustic and magnetic influence mines, and capitalizes on MAGNUSS enabling technologies.
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    Commercial Aerospace

    Electra enveils EL9 hybrid aircraft with ultra-short takeoff capability

    Nov. 15, 2024
    Electra's EL9 features a hybrid-electric propulsion system and "blown lift" technology, which enables takeoffs and landings in spaces the size of a soccer field.
    BETA Technologies
    BETA Technologies image.
    Commercial Aerospace

    BETA announces first flight of Vt.-manufactured aircraft

    Nov. 15, 2024
    BETA's Alia conventional takeoff and landing (CTOL) aircraft manufactured at its 200,000-square-foot production facility, Caleb Revill writes for Flying.
    Pendulum FTR-210R test instrument offers time reference and rubidium frequency for PNT
    Test

    Time reference and rubidium frequency gear for position, navigation, and timing (PNT) introduced by Pendulum

    Pendulum Instruments Inc
    Nov. 15, 2024
    Optional integrated independent frequency calibrator guarantees GPS traceability, and the system generates traceable calibration reports.
    Database management

    Mayer Group ERP

    Nov. 14, 2024
    Selecting and implementing ERP software can be a daunting task. Mayer Advantage was designed to simplify this task with a quick, no pressure evaluation process and a FIXED FEE...
    The Raider supercomputer is part of the DOD High Performance Computing Modernization Program at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.
    Computers

    Air Force researchers eye artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning for advanced target tracking

    John Keller
    Nov. 14, 2024
    Project seeks to help first responders find people in disaster areas based on last known location from their cell phones and other personal devices.
    Boeing
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    Commercial Aerospace

    Boeing forecasts air cargo traffic to double in the next 20 years

    Jamie Whitney
    Nov. 14, 2024
    Emerging markets are driving growth, as is e-commerce and shifting supply chains.
    Sailors load a MK 48 torpedo aboard the Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Annapolis.
    Sensors

    Navy asks Lockheed Martin for updated MK 48 submarine-launched sonar-guided torpedoes in $245.4 million deal

    John Keller
    Nov. 14, 2024
    MK 48 torpedo is aboard Los Angeles-, Virginia-, and Seawolf-class attack submarines, as well as Ohio-class ballistic- and cruise-missile submarines.
    Altair image.
    Altair image.
    Uncrewed

    Altair partners with Moya Aero to advance uncrewed electric cargo aircraft

    Nov. 14, 2024
    Through Altair’s platform, Moya Aero aims to improve design efficiency, reduce development time, and lower prototyping and testing costs.
    This fall, Electra announced the successful flight demonstrations of its hybrid-electric Ultra Short prototype for military stakeholders. The demonstrations, held at Marine Corps Air Facility Quantico and at Felker Army Airfield at Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia, showcased the aircraft’s dual-use capabilities for logistics operations in austere environments. Electra photo.
    Commercial Aerospace

    NASA taps Electra to design electric commercial aircraft of the future

    Nov. 14, 2024
    Space agency is backing the development of a new generation of aircraft in order to help decarbonize the aviation industry, Jack Daleo writes for Flying.
    The Silvius StreamCaster LITE 5200 (SL5200) MANET communications module links several unmanned vehicles
    Communications

    MANET radio module for communications networking among several uncrewed vehicles introduced by Silvius

    Nov. 14, 2024
    The Silvius MN-MIMO waveform can link hundreds of nodes in any environment, and enables operators to connect several different unmanned vehicles.
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    Condor GR5S-AD2000
    Graphics/imaging boards

    EIZO Releases High-Performance 3U OpenVPX Video Graphics and GPGPU Card Featuring NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation Embedded GPU

    EIZO Rugged Solutions
    Nov. 13, 2024
    ● EIZO’s Condor GR5S-AD2000 3U VPX card is designed with a chip-down NVIDIA RTX™ 2000 Ada Generation embedded GPU ● This SOSA-aligned 3U VPX module features 8 GB GDDR6 graphics...
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    White Papers

    SOSA™ VNX+: Small Form Factor for Vehicle-Based Applications

    Nov. 13, 2024
    VNX+ is a new small form factor standard for severely SWaP-constrained high-performance vehicle-based sensor processing applications. With its small size, ruggedness, and high...
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    Commercial Aerospace

    FAA seeks industry input to upgrade aging airport radar systems

    Jamie Whitney
    Nov. 13, 2024
    Industry feedback is sought on acquisition strategies, including a potential shift to radar data as a service. Under the service model, the FAA would obtain data feeds from private...
    The Anduril Pulsar is an AI-enabled family of software-defined electromagnetic warfare systems for counter-UAV missions.
    Uncrewed

    Marines pick two companies for counter-UAV electromagnetic warfare systems to defeat enemy uncrewed aircraft

    John Keller
    Nov. 13, 2024
    Marines will pay the companies $15.5 million up-front, and will pay each company for subsequent delivery orders as other funding becomes available.
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    Communications

    Sony, Astro Digital sign deal to launch laser-linked satellites

    Nov. 13, 2024
    Astro Digital, which will provide the satellite bus, will integrate Sony’s Lasercom terminal.
    An E-2D Advanced Hawkeye lands on the flight deck of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) last September.
    Computers

    Northrop Grumman to continue work on upgrade to cockpit avionics and mission computer of E-2D aircraft

    John Keller
    Nov. 13, 2024
    Avionics upgrade is to replace the current E-2D integrated navigation, controls, display systems, and tactical mission computer and display systems.