Print PDF LONDON, 13 Jan. 2012. The military helicopter modernization, upgrade, and retrofit market—commonly referred to as MRO, or maintenance, repair, and overhaul–will reach a value of $3.98 billion in 2012, according to a new report from Visiongain. The strains of recent operations combine with tighter budgets and a need to maintain a qualitative advantage [...]
Print PDF CHELMSFORD, Mass., 13 Jan. 2012. The Mercury Federal Systems subsidiary of Mercury Computer Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:MRCY), a provider of commercially developed, application-ready intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) subsystems, provided its onboard real-time image processing and storage subsystems to the Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) for the U.S. Air Force’s Gorgon Stare (GS) persistent surveillance [...]
Print PDF GEORGETOWN, Texas, 12 Jan. 2012. AirBorn Inc., a manufacturer of electronic components for the aerospace, avionics, defense, energy, medical, and automotive industries, has acquired AESCO Electronics, a full-service electronics manufacturer and distributor with divisions in Ohio and Massachusetts. With the acquisition, AirBorn is forming AirBorn Electronics Inc., a new division headed by AESCO President Roger Engle that will [...]
Print PDF Albuquerque, N.M., 12 Jan. 2011. U.S. Air Force researchers are working with high-energy laser weapons experts at TAU Technologies LLC in Albuquerque, N.M., to develop technologies that eventually may lead to 100-kilowatt laser weapons mounted to the skin of jet bombers and other combat aircraft to defend against missiles, unmanned combat aircraft (UCAV), [...]
Print PDF LOS ANGELES AFB, Calif., 12 Jan. 2012. Navigation satellite designers at the Lockheed Martin Corp. Space Systems Co. in Newtown, Pa., outside Trenton will build the third and fourth Global Positioning System (GPS) III navigation and guidance satellites under terms of a $238.5 million contract awarded Wednesday by the U.S. Air Force Space [...]
Print PDF TALLAHASSEE, Fla., 12 Jan. 2011. The Florida Capitol hosted Space Day this week, marking the first such event since NASA’s space shuttle program came to a close. Space industry leaders and advocates from across Florida discussed the importance of Florida’s aerospace industry, while Florida senators are working both to diminish the economic impacts [...]
Print PDF HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif., Jan. 11, 2012. The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has begun work on a four-month NASA contract to develop a mission concept study for solar electric propulsion technologies. From Transcom ISP, post Boeing begins NASA solar electric propulsion study Transcom Divisions : ISP, Satcoms, Imgtank, Askbill, Onbored, Bacardi, Domains, VOIP, Support [...]
Print PDF SAN DIEGO, 11 Jan. 2012. Advanced Digital Logic Inc. officials have changed the name of the company to reflect its significantly expanded product lines. Now ADL Embedded Solutions Inc., the company offers system design and integration services, including enclosure, cabling, and thermal solution design, as well as value-added services to embedded customers. “We’re [...]
Print PDF CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., 11 Jan. 2012. NASA has contracted a.i. solutions Inc. of Lanham, Md., to provide integrated services for the preparation and launch of NASA’s next generation of scientific and exploration spacecraft under the agency’s Launch Services Program (LSP). The Expendable Launch Vehicle Integrated Support 2 (ELVIS 2) contract, valued at up to $138.1 [...]
Print PDF AMBLER, Pa., 11 Jan. 2012. MEN Micro Inc. in Ambler, Pa., is introducing the XM51 PowerPC-based rugged computer-on-module (COM) for mission-critical, harsh-environment, industrial, medical engineering, and mobile embedded computing applications. The Freescale QorIQ-based CPU board offers speeds as fast as 1.5 GHz via multi-core processing, and is based on the space-saving ESMexpress standard [...]
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