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Aerospace and defense connector users demanding more capability, smaller size, more EMI protection
Product intelligence -- Here's the good news for aerospace and defense connector suppliers: there's a growing need for your products. Here's the bad news: systems integrators want more capability, higher bandwidth, increased ...
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Secure information storage designers have a wealth of options available for aerospace and defense applications
Technology focus -- Military and aerospace applications often involve intricate networks of advanced sensors, each gathering a wealth of data. More information is being gathered than ever before on the digital battlefield, ...
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Breakthroughs in inertial sensors to augment GPS will guide future of precision-guided munitions
Special report -- Putting a smart bomb through a window during the first Persian Gulf War was just the beginning. Next up: smart bullets for infantry weapons, GPS receivers built into the soldier's boot, eliminating enemy ...
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Sensor fusion technologies blend data fusion with conventional computing in new mainstream design approaches
Once considered as futuristic, difficult, and elusive and artificial intelligence, multisensor fusion is coming into its own as a standard approach of processing signals from a wide variety of sensors, and making sense of incomplete and ...
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Product lifecycle management is adopting software tools
Organizations within the military and aerospace realm increasingly are adopting product lifecycle management (PLM) software tools, as the benefits include reduced time to market, improved end-product quality, reduced prototyping and iteration ...
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Software defined radio communications: a spectrum of possibilities for military communications on the road to cognitive radio
Special report -- Software defined radio technology, which fuels the U.S. Joint Tactical Radio System program, has become a worldwide phenomenon moving well beyond U.S. military programs. Meanwhile designers are already looking ...
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Power electronics for military alternative energy could promote space radar and space propulsion
Technology trends -- Government, industry, and academia officials continue to invest heavily in military alternative energy sources for defense and aerospace applications -- ranging from military solar power and laser power to algae oil.
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Air Force plan to cut its JTRS military radio program may acknowledge developments in private industry
Viewpoint -- The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) plan to upgrade military radio communications by injecting software defined radio (SDR) technology into land, sea, and airborne RF transceivers ...
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Distributed power and space applications are major trends in power integrated circuits
Product intelligence -- Designers of high reliability power integrated circuits say they are concentrating primarily on space power applications, rather than on the military, because many of even the most demanding military ...
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Military information security command opens for business at Lackland AFB
Cyber security update -- The U.S. Air Force ended two years of confusion and controversy Aug. 18 by designating the 24th Air Force at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, as its official operational cyber security center, consolidating ...
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Warfighters call for innovative, responsive, and reliable vetronics in combat vehicles
Special report -- Today's warfighters require an ever-increasing amount of electronics systems to meet various mission objectives. At the same time, military ground vehicles, the warfighters who operate them, and the electronics ...
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UAV aircraft and crowded civil air space: is it safe out there?
Viewpoint -- Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) eventually will have to share the same civil air space with private and commercial aircraft. The potential of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is simply too big to consider otherwise. ...
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Military A/D and D/A converters come to grips with a complex, network centric world
Technology focus -- Analog to digital (A/D) converter and digital to analog (D/A) converter designers are struggling to keep pace with an RF spectrum burdened with wireless PDA users, broadband Internet surfers, traditional ...
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ITAR compliance: ignorance of defense export regulations is no excuse
Special report -- Navigating the labyrinth of defense export compliance with regard to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations -- better known as ITAR -- is difficult for many companies regardless of their size. Those ...
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Unmanned vehicle applications for airborne use eyed for warfare, law enforcement, forest fires
Special report The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for military applications is more important that it has ever been, and government leaders are sharing ideas with UAV designers to broaden their use not only in wartime ...
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Video analytics and image fusion are key tools in intelligence and surveillance
Technology focus -- Today's video security technology can provide impressive detailed surveillance in many ways, but system integrators are still looking for better ways of interpreting the detailed night and day images these ...
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Warship radar technology designers set sights on next-generation Navy cruiser
Program focus -- The Lockheed Martin Corp. Maritime Systems & Sensors (MS2) segment in Moorestown, N.J., and Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems in Tewksbury, Mass., are preparing for the expected release of the U.S. Navy's ...
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The unmanned crossover land vehicle from Black-I Robotics is designed to fill the gap between currently developed large and small UGVs.
The time has come for military ground robots
Special report -- Unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) technology has been in development for decades, but the Army's Future Combat Systems program and the need to keep military personnel out of harm's way are building momentum like ...
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Electronics cooling depends on innovative approaches to thermal management
Technology focus -- Electronic thermal management must become a top priority to systems designers who are used to boosting electronic system performance by adding ever-more transistors. The need for computer cooling and CPU ...
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Systems engineers seek to equip military systems with the latest electronic enclosures, backplanes, and chassis
Technology focus -- Architecting a system isn't what it used to be. Increased system complexity and system requirements bring new challenges that involve preplanning and innovation, especially when it comes to innovations ...
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Seismic processing, embedded computers, advanced batteries highlight SAIC tsunami warning buoys
Technology case study -- Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) in San Diego is designing tsunami-warning ocean buoys for the People's Republic of China that feature GPS satellite positioning technology, advanced ...
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Military hard drive manufacturers balance the benefits of spinning-media and solid-state data storage
Product intelligence report -- Military hard drive manufacturers used to believe the military data storage industry was moving to solid-state data storage. Traditional military hard drives made from spinning magnetic media ...
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