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Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2005 John McHale	Software investment key for test and measurement equipment designers Military purchasers of test and measurement equipment, as in other markets, are demanding higher performance at lower costs and with greater ease of use. Outsourcing is one solution that many are turning to more and more.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2005	In Brief AP Labs & Parker Hannifin sign teaming agreement... Army buys more SINCGARS radios... Air Force taps Anteon for weapons systems software... Navy awards $93 million for surface ship engineering... BAE Armaments lands combat vehicle upgrade contract...
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2005 John McHale	AUVSI show: AeroVironment test-flies liquid-hydrogen-powered UAV The Global Observer, a liquid-hydrogen-powered unmanned aerial vehicle, will be able to operate at altitudes to 65,000 feet for more than a week without refueling and with a flexible payload-carrying capacity of as much as 1,000 pounds.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2005 John Keller	Navy looks into how to control next-generation autonomous unmanned aircraft U.S. Navy experts are redesigning the unmanned aerial vehicle control station of the future -- to accommodate new technologies and futuristic pilotless aircraft, and to reduce military manning levels by introducing more machine autonomy.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2005 John Keller	Rockwell Collins to tackle survivable battle management communications for U.S. nuclear forces U.S. Air Force experts, working under terms of a $351.9 million contract from the Air Force Electronic Systems Center at Hanscom Air Force Base, are asking Rockwell Collins to design and build survivable communications paths for coordinating U.S. strategic nuclear forces.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2005 John McHale	Aonix hard-real-time Java technology useful for command and control Aonix engineers have demonstrated hard-real-time Java that reaches the run-time efficiency of C, which makes it able to meet the needs of command-and-control applications.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2005 Ben Ames	Tactical military communications spending to grow to $5.7 billion by 2010 Immediate operational needs for ground forces fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, with the transformation of the force structure to adopt network-centric warfare, is driving U.S. military forces to spend billions of dollars on digital tactical military communications.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2005	Army picks Harris radio for Stryker brigade Matrix, a portable, battery-operated munitions control system allows soldiers to identify an appropriate target and select a proper defensive attack from a remote location. It is designed for firebase and landing-zone security, and both infrastructure and check-point protection.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2005	Labarge makes cables for Raytheon missile The Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW) system, a glide weapon that uses global positioning satellite information to find its target, will rely on the cables to carry electronic data signals throughout the weapon.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2005	Boeing picks BAE Systems for actuator controls The actuator controls are for the 777, a twin-engine, twin-aisle passenger jet smaller and more fuel efficient than the classic 747.
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