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Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2008	In Brief Navy and Marine Corps lead BAE Systems precision-targeted weapon development program... Raytheon to modernize F-15E radar... Lockheed Martin wins contract for U.S. Air Force Self-Awareness Space Situational Awareness... etc.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2010	Herley Wins Contract to Provide Microwave Assemblies for Navy P-8A Aircraft Electronics Herley will deliver microwave assemblies for the P-8A, the U.S. Navy's newest maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft.
National Defense June 2006 Robert H. Williams	Navy Surveillance Aircraft Achieves Test Milestone Wind-tunnel tests for the Navy P-8A multi-mission maritime aircraft went off without a hitch at an Air Force test facility, says the Boeing Company.
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Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2008 John McHale	Incoming! Precision Guidance Keeps Munitions on Target Lasers, global positioning systems, and other modern technologies have made hitting fixed targets with missiles and bombs extremely efficient. Now defense experts are designing systems to hit targets on the move and beyond line of sight.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2009	Rugged FPGA for Aerospace and Military Embedded Systems Introduced by Xilinx The Virtex-5Q family of field-programmable gate arrays is for aerospace and military embedded systems involving secure military communications, electronic warfare, aircraft avionics and vetronics, radar technology, and missiles.
National Defense July 2012 Antoine Martin	Promising Outlook for Navy's Unmanned Aviation The U.S. Navy has ambitious plans to deploy new families of unmanned aircraft over the next decade.
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National Defense June 2011 Dave Berganini	Viewpoint: MEADS Passes the Value Test The Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) rose to the top. That's a compliment to the tri-national board of governors that oversees the program and to the NATO project management agency that is executing it.
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Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2004	In Brief Northrop Grumman submits bid for WATCHKEEPER Battlefield Intelligence... Aeroflex partners with TestMart... Anteon to support Army forces command modularity coordination centers... etc.
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National Defense October 2013 Valerie Insinna	Navy's New Drones Taking Center Stage The Navy finally is developing its own custom unmanned air systems, with the service planning on fielding four new aircraft in the next few years.
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Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2006 Ed Walsh	The Next Step for Shipboard Electronics Growth of the U.S. Navy's fleet of surface warships and submarines is riding on systems innovation and new technologies to introduce open-systems solutions for network-centric warfare, ballistic-missile defense, and other capabilities for the 21st century maritime warfare.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006 J.R. Wilson	Military and Commercial Avionics Draw From the Same Technology Well The increasing imperative for the military to be able to adopt and adapt new technologies has led to a dramatic push for new, avionics-specific industry standards for power, form factors, and interfaces that will apply to military as well as commercial aviation.
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Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2007 Courtney E. Howard	Aided by Electronics It is a busy time for technology companies and defense organizations in the electronic warfare and signals intelligence industry.
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Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2007 John McHale	Track It, Destroy It The key to any successful missile-defense shield is the ability of the sensors to track the missile accurately. Recent missile tests prove that an effective missile-defense shield is closer than ever before.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2009	In Brief Rockwell Collins and L-3 deliver Block I modernization for Navy E-6B... QinetiQ North America to support Air Force space operations... Barco extends avionics offering with generation head-up display from Saab... etc.
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Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2004	Product applications Boeing uses Green Hills software for unmanned combat air system... Lockheed Martin picks Curtiss-Wright to integrate radar components... Boeing picks Thales for 7E7 cockpit displays... etc.
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Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2008 John McHale	Lockheed Martin Selects Embedded Computers From GE Fanuc for Air-Defense System Engineers from Lockheed Martin's Radar Systems selected commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) electronics technology from GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms for the Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) program.
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