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NASA in Transition
In May we were once again given the opportunity to go to the Kennedy Space Center to participate in the pre-launch and launch of the STS-125, the Shuttle mission to service the HubbleRead More...
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"Time For This Nation ... "
"...time for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement..." President John F. Kennedy, May 25, 1961 On April 15th, 2010 President Obama had aRead More...

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VMETRO Deploys Storage System on Navy Helicopter VMETRO has shipped data recording solutions to the Radar Systems Division of Telephonics, a wholly owned subsidiary of the GriffonRead More...

Foster Home at Last?
At the end of last summer I commented that people were once again ringing the death knell for conferences. I held off writing this month’s column until we returned from MILCOM so IRead More...

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Mercury Delivers Aegis Weapon System Upgrade for Lockheed Martin Mercury Computer Systems has delivered on an initial order and received a follow-on order from Lockheed Martin for theRead More...

End of Summer Thoughts
COTS Journal is in its tenth year and next month we’re planning to do some analysis of the market we serve. So this month in preparation I’ve been doing some retrospective thinkingRead More...

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GE Fanuc Secures 3U VPX Order from GD Land Systems GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms, a unit of GE Enterprise Solutions, today announced that it had secured an order from GeneralRead More...

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ITT Awarded JTRS Support Contract ITT has been awarded a $22.9 million contract for Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio Systems (SINCGARS) Software In-Service Support (SwISS)Read More...

May I have Another Bowl of Porridge, MILCOM?
Another great MILCOM.... I had severe misgivings about this year's MILCOM. Downtown Boston is not very enticing for locals to do day trips. The facility was small, leaving manyRead More...

Space: The New Frontier
Space: The New Frontier Well, 2009 is now behind us. And for those of us who generate revenue mostly from the military embedded market, it's been a much better year than for thoseRead More...

Onward and Up the Complexity Curve
Here we are at 2010. Here's wishing you a happy and prosperous year ahead. While we may not have flying cars and manned spaceships exploring Saturn's moons quite yet, 2010 certainlyRead More...

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Northrop Grumman Demos Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR) Aboard F-16 Northrop Grumman in conjunction with the U.S. Air Force has successfully completed a series of demonstrationRead More...

OpenVPX: Hurdles and Relay Races
With the Winter Olympics now in full swing, forgive my application of Summer Olympics metaphors, but here goes. OpenVPX faces a number of hurdles ahead this year to move from itsRead More...

It’s a Sandal That’s a Boot
Late last month, Jeff Child, COTS Journal’s Editor-in-Chief, and I made our annual trek to AUSA Winter. Once again, the AUSA conference was very interesting and showcased that allRead More...

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GE Intelligent Platforms Lands Contract for AH-64D Apache Simulator GE Intelligent Platforms has received an order for automatic video trackers valued at approximately $1.7 millionRead More...

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