Executive Mosaic is honored to present Roy Azevedo, president of space and airborne systems at Raytheon, as an inductee into the 2020 edition of the Wash100 Award for his efforts to advance defense systems and integrate modern technology into Raytheon’s infrastructure.

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United Launch Alliance has partnered with Airborne Systems and RUAG to support a STEM education program that seeks to expose students and interns to space launch operations.

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Airborne Systems of North America has won a potential five-year, $26.7 million contract to develop a parachute system and provide related reports to the U.S. Marine Corps. The Marine Corps received two proposals for the the Enhanced Multi-Mission Parachute System procurement contract and will obligate $2.3 million on the first delivery order, the Defense Department said Friday. Work will […] More

A new report has named the top manufacturers in the airborne systems surveillance radar industry based on their present and potential sales and revenue, RegistrarDaily reported Monday. The Airborne Systems Surveillance Radar market research provided information on the business, revenue segmentation and products of the companies, as well as their market growth forcast, Nehru Baral writes. Among the […] More

General Dynamics‘ information technology unit has landed a $47 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide support for new and existing shipboard and airborne systems. General Dynamics Information Technology will provide other services such as customization, design, fabrication, modernization, logistics, installation, testing, evaluation and related services through March 2017, Defense Department reported Thursday. The […] More

Airborne Systems has developed a navigation software designed to help military parachutists reach their landing targets, Fedscoop reported Wednesday. Greg Otto writes the Airborne Systems-developed Pilot software is installed on Panasonic-built Toughpad ruggedized tablet attached to the parachute and works to measure distance, altitude and wind speed from the landing target. “[The tablets] cannot be […] More

Lockheed Martin and the Warsaw University of Technology in Poland have wrapped up their collaborative research of new methods to integrate manned and unmanned airborne technologies. The company said Friday it helped university researchers develop software during the Optimizing Unmanned System of Systems research project. The partnership sought to identify techniques to enable aircraft systems […] More

Sierra Nevada Corp. and Israel-based BIRD Aerosystems have agreed to offer airborne missile protection systems to the U.S. Department of Defense, foreign military sales customers and other international commercial clients. BIRD’s family of AMPS platforms complies with the Army’s Modular Open System Approach and works to protect warfighters and aircraft from radar-guided missiles and other […] More

CAES has launched a gallium nitride-based, high-power radio frequency amplifier designed to provide electronic attack capability for SwaP-constrained electronic warfare pods, unmanned aerial vehicles and other airborne systems. The wideband, ruggedized RF amplifier has chill plates to provide liquid flow-through cooling capability and custom GaN packaging to improve heat transfer efficiency, CAES said Wednesday. David […] More

Mercury Systems has received a $3.2 million order to deliver ruggedized memory devices to a prime defense contractor for an effort to develop an advanced airborne military computing system. The company said Thursday the computing system will be equipped with the BuiltSECURE products that include high density secure memory hardware and military-grade solid-state drives. The product suite also consists of selective […] More

Mercury Systems has received a $3.9 million follow-on order from a defense company to produce solid-state drives for use in airborne mission management efforts. Andover, Massachusetts-based Mercury Systems said Thursday it booked the order during the second quarter of its 2018 fiscal year and scheduled to deliver military-grade SSDs to the customer over the next several quarters. The […] More

The U.S. Army has awarded Raytheon a potential five-year, $48 million contract to perform support work on the military branch’s cooperative aviation surveillance sensor and man-portable air defense systems. Raytheon will support AN/UPR-3 CASS and Avenger/Stinger MANPADS along with AN/TPX-57(V)2, AN/TPX-58(V)1, AN/TPX-59 and ADI KIV-77 subassemblies, the Defense Department said Tuesday. The Army Contracting Command will determine funds […] More