Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

News, views and contacts from the global Army industry

02 October 2014

Industry News UAE requests HIMARS launchers from US The US Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) has notified Congress of a potential foreign military sale (FMS) of high-mobility artillery rocket system (HIMARS) launchers and associated equipment to the UAE. US to supply additional UH-72A Lakota helicopters to Thailand The US Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) has notified Congress of a potential foreign military sale (FMS) of UH-72A Lakota helicopters and associated equipment to Thailand. UK Army's Watchkeeper UAS conducts first flight in Afghanistan The UK Army's Watchkeeper unmanned aircraft system (UAS) has successfully completed its first operational flights from Camp Bastion, Afghanistan. Tata Power and Honeywell team up for TALIN production in India Tata Power's strategic engineering division (SED) has signed a licensing agreement to domestically manufacture Honeywell Aerospace's tactical advanced land inertial navigator (TALIN). Press Releases Hesco Armor - Protecting the Protectors  HESCO® products have been protecting the brave servicemen and women of the United States military for more than 20 years, and now, Hesco brings that protection to the heroes of law enforcement after Hesco Bastion, Inc. completed the purchase of a controlling interest in Reed Composite Solutions (RCS), a specialist manufacturer of ballistic resistant body armor. MilDef to Attend 2014 Future Forces Exhibition  MilDef will be attending the 2014 Future Forces exhibition from 15 - 17 October 2014 at the PVA Expo centre in Prague, the Czech Republic. ICP Electronics Australia Announces ICP DAS's Industrial 5-Port and 8-Port Unmanaged IP67 Ethernet Switch with Optional PoE Functionality ICP Electronics Australia announces ICP DAS's NS-205/8PSE-IP67 and the NS-205/8-IP67 Series of IP67 unmanaged ethernetswitches designed for industrial applications in harsh environments. Backplane Systems Technology Releases IP65 Rated Short-Depth 1U Rackmount 17in LCD KVM Backplane Systems Technology has released their Short-Depth IP65 1U Rackmount 17in TFT LCD KVM Switch available with one, eight or 16 ports. ICP Electronics Australia Announces ICPDAS's HRT-711 Modbus/TCP to HART Protocol Gateway ICP Electronics Australia has released ICP DAS's new HRT-711-Modbus / TCP to HART Protocol Gateway which is specially designed for the master device of HART protocol. White Papers What Makes Our Boot Better? Technical performance - this is more than just a tagline to us. It is our most important core... Big Data over Limited Networks This paper examines the emergence of Big Data repositories and the particular problems that are encountered when these data sources need to be transmitted over limited military... Sharing Data over Challenging Military Networks This paper describes the challenges for sharing data in deployed environments and how they are then complicated by the performance of the available military networks in ensuring a consistent... Speed Up Data Transfer Case Study: Australian Department of Defence The Australian Department of Defence (DoD) has undertaken field trials to deploy Microsoft SharePoint 2010 into their tactical... ATR COTS Platform Derived from successfully deployed ground mobile and fixed-wing fast jet and UAV applications, Elma Electronic's aluminium ½ ATR to ARINC 404A is ideally suited to the exacting demands of Open VPX....