LONG BEACH, Calif., 6 July 2011. Cockpit avionics and other electronics systems on the B-1 Lancer Bomber are getting an upgrade from Boeing [NYSE: BA] under a $99.5 million contract with the U.S. Air Force. Upgraded systems include the forward cockpit's vertical situation display unit as well as the integrated data link and central integrated test system located in the aft cockpit. All three modifications will be performed concurrently from late next year through 2019 in a single modification named the Integrated Battle Station.

RONKONKOMA, N.Y., 6 July 2011. UltraVolt Inc. in Ronkonkoma, N.Y., is introducing -I5 and the -I10 options to the company's high-voltage power supply line. The -I5 and -I10 Options are available today on the UltraVolt AA series and High Power C series, yet in the future will be available on other UltraVolt product lines. The interfaces are for connecting the high-voltage power system to computers and programmable logic controllers (PLC) that run 0 to 5-volt DC and 10-volt DC signals and controls.

ASHBURN, Va., 4 July 2011. Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing (CWCEC), a business group of Curtiss-Wright Controls and a designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX, OpenVPX, and CompactPCI products for the rugged aerospace and defense applications, has introduced the VPX6-490 GPU Application Accelerator, its first general-purpose graphics processing unit (GPGPU), multi-core engine.

PARIS, 25 June 2011. The first Airbus Military A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) -- to be operated by the Royal Australian air force -- will use avionics displays from Barco in Kortrijk, Belgium. The A330 MRTT's cockpits are equipped with Barco's CHDD-268 Cockpit Head Down touch screen displays and PU-2000 multi-capability processing units.

PARIS AIR SHOW BLOG, 21 June 2011. Thales officials unveiled a cockpit design with only one touch-screen display that takes up the entire flight deck and is intuitive like an iPad or iPhone. Company officials demonstrated the display this week at the Paris Air Show.

PARIS, 21 June 2011. Aircraft electronics designers at ECE, a Zodiac Aerospace company in Paris needed power control and power conditioning components for the electrical power distribution system on the Airbus A350XWB passenger jetliner. They found their solution from Crane Aerospace & Electronics Power Solutions in Fort Walton Beach, Fla. ECE selected Crane to supply the Crane Transformer Rectifier Units (TRUs) on the Electrical Power Distribution Systems (EPDS) on the Airbus A350XWB long-range widebody jets.

FREMONT, Calif., 16 June 2011. Themis Computer in Fremont, Calif., is introducing the XV2 6U VME single-board computer based on the Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor for military and commercial applications involving embedded computing, data storage, and communications. The XV2 is based on the 1.73 GHz low-power Xeon L5518 microprocessor and Intel’s 3420 chipset. The L5518 memory controller supports ECC, and the board's memory is expandable to 24 Gigabytes of DDR III memory. The basic XV2 comes with 3 gigabytes of DDR III memory, 4 Gigabit Ethernet ports, five SATA II ports, four SAS ports, eight USB 2.0 ports, and two XMC/PMC slots.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa 15 June 2011. Transport Canada (TC) certified the Rockwell Collins Pro Line Fusion avionics system on Global Vision flight deck from Bombardier Aerospace. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) are expected to certify the avionics later this year.

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif., 10 June 2011. General Micro Systems Inc. (GMS) in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., is introducing the S822-D small, rugged computer for vetronics in combat vehicles, avionics in aircraft, and other aerospace and defense applications that require embedded computing capability in harsh conditions, as well as in confined and complex spaces. The optional rugged sunlight-readable, boot-kickable, 1024-by-768-pixel, eight-wire touch-screen display has modes for night vision and blackout for covert operations, and works with gloves, cleans easily and resists scratches.

PARIS, 8 June  2011. An Advanced Power Load Management System (APLMS) for small aircraft is being introduced by TE Connectivity in Harrisburg, Pa., at the Paris Air Show June 20–26 at their booth in Hall 2B, Stand 52. The system partners embedded microcontrollers and software together to manage automated power via data bus communication and control.

CHELMSFORD, Mass., 26 May 2011. Mercury Computer Systems Inc. in Chelmsford, Mass., is introducing a general-purpose graphics processing unit (GPGPU) product based on the NVIDIA Fermi architecture, and a 10 Gigabit Ethernet real-time sensor interface module for radar signal processing applications that must detect and track many small fast-moving targets in harsh operating conditions. These embedded computing products for radar processing are the 6U OpenVPX standard form factor.

UPPER SADDLE RIVER, N.J., 23 May 2011. Pentek Inc. in Upper Saddle River, N.J., is introducing its Cobalt A/D converter and D/A converter boards in the 6U and 3U CompactPCI form factors, which can give system designers access to Pentek's signal-acquisition technology featuring Xilinx Inc. Virtex-6 field programmable gate array (FPGA). All Pentek CompactPCI signal-acquisition Cobalt boards have dedicated direct-memory-access (DMA) channels and memory buffers for each I/O stream, multichannel multiboard synchronization, and customizable Virtex-6 FPGA for digital signal processing.

TAIPEI, Taiwan, 22 May 2011. Advantech Industrial Computer in Taipei, Taiwan, is introducing the HPC-7280 2U rugged rackmount computer server for severe-environment industrial computing applications such as surveillance, database processing, firewalls, networking, and data processing. The rugged server supports form factors ranging from ATX, to CEB, to EATX, and features eight 3.5-inch SAS/SATA hot-swap hard drives with a maximum capacity of 16 terabytes.

LITTLETON, Mass., 20 May 2011. Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems in Littleton, Mass., is introducing the Hybricon RME9CC 12-slot 3U OpenVPX forced-air conduction-cooled electronics chassis for military embedded computing applications. The rackmount enclosure removes heat from as much as 75 Watts per slot, and accommodates 3U 1-inch-pitch circuit cards and rear transition modules, and comes with a high-speed switch fabric that moves data as fast as 6.25 gigabits per second.

NASHUA, N.H. 13 May 2011. Ajit Patel, marketing manager for Intel Corp. in Santa Clara, Calif., leads a webcast on Intel's 2nd Generation Core i7 microprocessor and how it is enabling new and powerful generations of digital signal processing (DSP) for aerospace and defense applications like electronic warfare, radar and sonar processing, signals intelligence, and surveillance. This so-called "Sandy Bridge" processor is ideal for signal processing, and offers from four to 20 times the performance of the AltiVec technology it is replacing. The webcast will be held on May 24 at 3 pm Est on the Military & Aerospace Electronics website.

CHELMSFORD, Mass., 12 May 2011. Mercury Computer Systems in Chelmsford, Mass., is introducing 3U VPX and 6U VPX digital signal processing (DSP) boards for electronic warfare and signals intelligence (EW/SIGINT) applications. The OpenVPX computer boards combine several technologies that help detect, spoof, and defeat enemy electronic transmissions from radar to trigger signals for improvised explosive devices (IEDs).

GUELPH, Ontario, 6 May 2011. Connect Tech Inc. in Guelph, Ontario, is introducing a line of Qseven carrier boards for compact computing applications in soldier-wearable systems, mobile entertainment, kiosks, digital signing, and gaming. ConnectTech's Qseven is an off-the-shelf, multi-vendor, computer-on-module that blends common PC components. ConnectTech's Qseven carrier boards offer options that range from light and low cost to full PCI-104 and PCI Express/104 embedded computing systems.

BROCKTON, Mass., 4 May 2011. SIE Computing Solutions Inc. in Brockton, Mass., is introducing the SIE 734 VITA 58 chassis for mission-critical embedded computing systems that must operate in extreme conditions, such as armored combat vehicles and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The chassis meets maintenance requirements level 2 and 2-plus of the VITA 58 industry standard for interoperable electronics packaging. The SIE 734 chassis integrates with electronics components ranging from PC/104 to OpenVPX, and facilitates convection-, conduction-, and liquid-cooling in rugged aerospace and defense applications such as military communications, aircraft electronics, and armored combat vehicles.

SAN JOSE, Calif., 3 May 2011. Officials at Green Hills Software in Santa Barbara, Calif., announced a new business unit called INTEGRITY Security Services (ISS), based around the company's INTEGRITY real-time operating system (RTOS). The unit will focus on  the security and management of devices, software, networks and content in the embedded computing and special-purpose computing market. Company officials are showcasing this technology this week at the — Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose, Calif., at booth #916.