WASHINGTON, 7 April 2013. Airborne weapons experts at the Boeing Co. got the go-ahead last week to start building add-on kits for the U.S. Navy Mark 54 lightweight torpedo that will enable the Navy P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol jet to launch these weapons from altitudes as high as 30,000 feet and attack enemy submarines from long ranges.

FOUNTAIN HILLS, Ariz., 22 March 2013. The aerospace embedded computing industry is stuck temporarily in the economic doldrums because of massive uncertainty over the future U.S. defense budget, federal sequestration, and a 22 percent drop in defense spending during the fourth quarter of 2012, but bad times may not last for long, says report released this week.

HERNDON, Va., 18 May 2013. Officials at the U.S. Coast Guard Aviation Logistics Center plans to transform a prototype CN235 aircraft into an HC-144A maintenance training unit, based on the Airbus Military CN235 tactical airlifter.

CANOGA PARK, Calif., 17 May 2013. The X-51A WaveRider hypersonic vehicle achieved the longest supersonic combustion ramjet-powered flight--flying full duration and achieving both mission success and aviation history on May 1.

By Chip Downing, Senior Director of Aerospace & Defense, Wind River

ALAMEDA, Calif., 16 May 2013. The Northrop Grumman X-47B unmanned aircraft achieved a catapult launch from the deck of the USS George H.W. Bush carrier, the first of its kind in aviation history. This marks a very proud day for Wind River knowing that the VxWorks real-time operating system is a key technology for this aircraft, developed as part of the Navy’s Unmanned Combat Air System Carrier Demonstration (UCAS-D) program.

BOHEMIA, N.Y., 16 May 2013. ITT Exelis (NYSE:XLS) won a contract by Raytheon U.K. and the Canadian Department of National Defence to deliver anti-jam GPS antenna arrays for several Canadian airborne military platforms.

IGNY, France, 7 May 2013. HGH Infrared Systems, a global provider of 360-degree thermal imaging systems, has unveiled its Spynel-S high-resolution system for wide-area surveillance.