Military
Piper Jaffray reports Driven by major product launches (over 80 phones using Android, compared to Apple with just one phone) and carrier support, Google’s Android operating system has exploded in consumer adoption over the past two quarters. We estimate Android controlled 15% of the smartphone market [...]
Army’s New “Smart Radio” May Revolutionize Communications
Armed with Science reports engineers with the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy are working to build a so-called “universal radio” test-bed this year in Fort Monmouth, N.J. They hope to open the gates of “cognitive radio” development to academia, private industry and other Defense Department organizations.
The Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC) is creating [...]
German Forces Trust in Thales for Software Defined Radio
Thales Deutschland has been awarded contracts to develop VHF/UHF radio module and national waveforms SEM and IdZ for the German Software Defined Radio programme, SVFuA.
Stuttgart / Pforzheim, 16 December 2009 – SVFuA is the German Software Defined Radio (SDR) programme that will bring next generation radio technology to the Bundeswehr, the German Federal Armed Forces. [...]
ONR Awards $9.5M SDR Contract to Raytheon
The award is to Conduct a base study effort in FY 2010 on the development of an open architecture software defined radio system.
Further information is available here.
Navy to develop next-generation JCREW 3.3 IED detection and electronic warfare technologies
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) in Arlington, Va., is issuing a broad agency announcement (BAA 10-003) for the JCREW 3.3 science and technology (S&T) program to improve existing JCREW IED detection and electronic warfare system hardware, software, techniques, and technologies.
First off, ONR scientists are interested in improved JCREW antennas. [...]