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SÃO JOSÉ DOS CAMPOS, Brazil, 13 May 2012. Engineers at Aircraft manufacturer Embraer S.A. in São José Dos Campos, Brazil, are moving ahead with their company's project to develop the midsize Legacy 500 business jet with taxi runs and the beginning of ground vibration tests in anticipation of the first flight scheduled for this fall.

ARLINGTON, Va., 11 May 2012. Scientists at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va., want to make relevant battlefield imagery available to front-line warfighters in real time using constellations of temporary and inexpensive orbiting satellites that are launched quickly enough to support fast-moving military operations.

PHILADELPHIA, 22 April 2012. Helicopter avionics and subsystems experts at the Lockheed Martin Corp. Mission Systems & Sensors (MS2) segment in Owego, N.Y., will perform extensive maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) on cockpit avionics for the U.S. Navy MH-60R Seahawk and MH-60S Knighthawk utility helicopters that are based aboard surface warships.

GREENSBORO, N.C., 10 April 2012. The business aviation community is preparing for a new jet aircraft entry this year, with the expected type and production certification of the eight-seat HondaJet light business jet aircraft, which is designed to be fast, high-flying, quiet, and fuel-efficient.

TECHNOLOGY FOCUS, 30 March 2012. The adoption of secure real-time operating systems (RTOSs) and related embedded computing security software tools for military embedded systems continues to grow, driven by increased security threats and concerns, real and perceived. Many pundits agree that the need to protect information, especially critical and classified data, as well as the computing and data storage systems on which it resides, has never been greater.

TECHNOLOGY FOCUS, 30 March 2012. The adoption of secure real-time operating systems (RTOSs) and related embedded computing security software tools for military embedded systems continues to grow, driven by increased security threats and concerns, real and perceived. Many pundits agree that the need to protect information, especially critical and classified data, as well as the computing and data storage systems on which it resides, has never been greater.

PRODUCT INTELLIGENCE, 26 March 2012. Embedded computing designers for demanding digital signal processing (DSP) subsystems in aerospace and defense applications like radar, electronic warfare (EW), and signals intelligence (SIGINT), are making broad use of I/O mezzanine modules in the XMC and FMC form factors, yet engineers are worrying that tomorrow's applications -- and even some of today's -- are finding modern mezzanine modules inadequate for the task.

Businesses and professionals in the avionics industry have weathered an economic storm and emerged, in many cases, stronger and wiser. “Our industry (aerospace) made it through the worst recession since WWII,” recognizes Richard Aboulafia, vice president of analysis at Teal Group. The commercial market is now investing in the aerospace product and the future looks bright, especially for Airbus and The Boeing Company. Industry analysts anticipate 2012 to be a year of recovery, bringing a wealth of new orders for manned and unmanned aircraft, as well as myriad modern avionics.

TECHNOLOGY FOCUS, 23 Feb. 2012. Aerospace and defense professionals, in the quest to do more with less, have turned their attentions to infusing systems new and old with robust, capable, and efficient microprocessors. A wealth of high-performance computing options exist, however, causing systems architects and systems integrators to take pause and closely consider all alternatives when selecting silicon.

WASHINGTON, 21 Feb. 2012. The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) budget for research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) would continue its decline next year if Congress approves the DOD's fiscal 2013 request for $69.65 billion for military-related research. Next year's Pentagon RDT&E request is down nearly 14 percent from recent-year peak spending of $80.92 billion in 2010, according to DOD budget documents.

PRODUCT INTELLIGENCE, 21 Feb. 2012.There’s one thing all electronics need, and that’s power. Power supplies and converters are important parts of the system they inhabit, and as such need to meet rigorous standards lest the entire system shut down for want, or excess, of power. Systems integrators who are looking to purchase power supplies and converters need to weigh reliability, weight, power and cost carefully.

WASHINGTON, 20 Feb. 2012. The U.S. Air Force's plan to upgrade the Lockheed Martin C-5 Galaxy cargo jet with new avionics and new engines is among the top defense systems upgrades and technology-insertion priorities for the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) 2013 budget request submitted to Congress last week. The Air Force C-5M Super Galaxy project is part of the $14.44 billion that DOD officials plan to spend for systems upgrades and technology insertion next year, according to DOD budget documents.

PRODUCT INTELLIGENCE, 9 Feb. 2012. CompactPCI has been a staple of many military computers for more than fifteen years. The venerable computer bus interconnect was ratified in 1995, and is still used today in applications where size and cost matter more than moving huge volumes of data.

TECHNOLOGY FOCUS, 8 Feb. 2012. Systems designers and systems integrators have openly admitted to treating connectors as something of an afterthought in years past. Today, however, connectors are often a central focus and concern for engineers championing efficient, effective, and innovative electronic systems for aerospace and defense applications.

SPECIAL REPORT, 7 Feb. 2011. Despite budget cutbacks and a lack of support, U.S. military officials have pushed through upgrades and technology insertion for the nation's land- and sea-based atomic missiles, as well as for the nuclear arsenal's multi-layer command-and-control systems.

LOS ANGELES, 31 Jan. 2012. I hear a lot about upcoming hard times in the defense and commercial aviation sectors, so imagine my surprise this past week when saw reports that the Pentagon bought 25 sophisticated combat aircraft, and commercial airlines bought 275 commercial passenger jets. That's orders for 300 advanced-technology aircraft. In one week. Worth tens of billions of dollars.

SAN DIEGO, 27 Jan. 2012. Military electronics industry experts are optimistic for the continued health in military electronics spending for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR); command, control, computers, and intelligence (C4I), unmanned vehicles, and electronic warfare (EW) in the upcoming fiscal year 2013 budget request for the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), which is scheduled for public release and submission to Congress on 13 Feb.

Jan. 4, 2012 By Chris Murray.

When it comes to a sound certification practice, commercial and military avionics are light years ahead of the pack. DO-178 certification, first introduced in the 1980s, represents the gold-standard, requiring companies to comply with software processes that mandate requirements traceability, software architecture and coding guidance, comprehensive testing of all code, and the production of certifiable products. Both commercial and military industries boast the healthiest record on system safety. And, largely due to these processes, projects such as the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) are recognized for the highest levels of design and safety integrity.