Avionics Design
 
 
The Avionics Design monthly E-newsletter from the editorial staff of mil-embedded.com covers hardware and software avionics designs and certification issues in the commercial and military avionics markets in the U.S. and Europe via the Military Embedded Systems partnership with Aviation Maintenance magazine and the Aviation Electronics Europe show.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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JOHN MCHALE, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR
 
In this podcast with Mike Blades, Research Director, North America, for Frost and Sullivan, he discusses the two different markets for counter-UAV technology -- commercial and defense -- the types of solutions popular within each market, how the defense industry is developing counters for the counter-UAV solutions, and more. This podcast is sponsored by the Avionics and Flight Ops show, the premier conference and exhibition for the international avionics and aviation electronics community.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR
 
The global market for military avionics, estimated at approximately $32.77 billion in 2018, is expected to grow to $37.90 billion by 2025, a combined annual growth rate of 2 percent during the forecast period, according to a research report from Market Forecast titled "Global Military Avionics Market to 2025."
 
 
 
 
 
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MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR
 
The constant push for increased bandwidth requirements mean that avionics engineers must continually design connectors that handle ever-higher data rates. As connector designs focus more squarely on data rates, all kinds of users are asking for the most cutting-edge technology - all within a small package.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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BEAU PAISLEY, ARM & TAMMY CARTER, CURTISS-WRIGHT DEFENSE SOLUTIONS
 
Serial algorithms can be evolved to a scalable, multithreaded, multiprocess implementation using ubiquitous and well-established high-performance computing (HPC) programming frameworks such as OpenMP and MPI. Such techniques are used in compute-intensive defense, aerospace, and industrial applications.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR
 
Lockheed Martin has announced a collaboration with data analytics firm SAS that aims to deliver next-generation analytics across Lockheed Martin's F-35, C-130J, and LM-100J military and civil aircraft programs.
 
 
 
 
 
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MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR
 
DARPA officials are moving forward with Phase II of the OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program, which envisions small-unit infantry forces using small UASs and/or small unmanned ground systems (UGSs) in swarms of 250 robots or more to accomplish diverse missions in complex urban environments.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
AVIATION MAINTENANCE MAGAZINE
 
Big Data, ATM, Next-Gen, SESAR, Harmonization, Aviation System Block Upgrade. All around us, technology is racing forward. Aviation has always been one of the leaders of that race. Nowhere is that more apparent than in the avionics, aviation electronics and ATC end of the business.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Mercury Systems
 
 
 
 
 
 
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LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR
 
Universal Avionics -- in concert with the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research Engineering Development Center (AMRDEC), Prototype Integration Facility (PIF), and prime contractor Redstone Defense Systems -- has completed a project to integrate an IFR [Instrument Flight Rules]-capable flight management system (FMS)...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY  EDITOR
 
Canadian government and Boeing officials are amending a previous performance-based logistics (PBL) contract to support the Royal Canadian Air Force's (RCAF) fleet of CH-147F Chinooks.
 
 
 
 
 
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AVIATION MAINTENANCE MAGAZINE
 
If you want to see the best of the best in aviation maintenance, then you want see the Aerospace Maintenance Competition presented by Snap-on. The three-day event, which kicked off April 10 at MRO Americas, brings professional and student maintenance teams from around the world together to test their skills and aptitude.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR
 
Officials at Mercury Systems announced that its facilities in Huntsville, Alabama, Cypress and Oxnard, California, West Lafayette, Indiana, and Geneva, Switzerland received the Aerospace Standard 9100D (AS9100D) certification, which adds to the existing AS9100C and/or ISO 9001 certifications...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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AVIATION MAINTENANCE MAGAZINE
 
Every year experts release their thoughts on what the aviation industry, and our segment of it, will do during the coming years. As we have seen time and time again, sometimes they are right. And sometimes they are not.
 
 
 
 
 
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MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR
 
Thales officials signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA to support development of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) traffic management (UTM) concepts, which will allow Thales to engage with NASA to refine the UTM concept architecture supporting drone integration into the U.S. National Air Space (NAS).
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR
 
At the the Navy League Sea Air Space Maritime Exposition, Systel, Inc. officials announced they were selected to support the U.S. Navy Naval Air Systems Command MQ-8C Fire Scout program with rugged, SWaP optimized high density computing servers.
 
 
 
 
 
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MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR
 
State Department officials approved a possible Foreign Military Sale (FMS) to Germany of MQ-4C Triton Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) for an estimated cost of $2.50 billion.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR
 
The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center's Agile Combat Support Directorate recently awarded a $195,000 contract to military-equipment vendor Spotlight Labs to test a device the company calls the SPYDR, which is designed to immediately alert T-6 aircrew of low oxygen in the bloodstream...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR
 
Rockwell Collins will upgrade the U.S. Air Force's T-1A Jayhawk trainer fleet with the company's Pro Line 21 avionics suite as part of a contract awarded to Field Aerospace. Rockwell Collins, working with Field Aerospace, Nextant Aerospace, Flight Safety International and others, will supply the avionics system...
 
 
 
 
 
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LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR
 
Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works has won a $247.5 million cost-plus contract from NASA to design, build, and flight test the Low-Boom Flight Demonstrator, an X-plane designed to make supersonic passenger air travel a reality.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
IVAN STRAZNICKY, CURTISS-WRIGHT DEFENSE SOLUTIONS
 
A new, higher-performance era of VPX (VITA 46) computing was launched in January - at the Embedded Tech Trends (ETT) 2018 Conference in Austin, Texas - with the announcement that Gen 5 VPX data rates will run on today's standard VPX connector. The initial Gen 5 VPX protocols are expected to be 100 Gigabit Ethernet (100G-KR4) and Infiniband EDR [enhanced data rate]. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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