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Military services look to advanced electronics
"Turning dumb bombs into smart bombs" is the way program personnel at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory's Munitions Directorate describe their efforts to create a new family of small, low-cost, precision-guided weapons.
Making it through the heat
Single-board computer vendors are looking to solve the challenge of managing the heat from high-power processors, while keeping the costs of their products as low as possible, and building them rugged enough for even the harshest of operating environments.
Systems designers should take care when specifying plastic parts in military electronics
On the deck of a ship, with the sun blazing and the air laden with salt spray and exhaust fumes, weapons operators activate the ship's fire-control computer and a surface-to-air missile.
DARPA focuses on organic LEDs in new effort to improve military displays
BEAVERTON, Ore. — Light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, represent a display technology that has fallen into disuse since it launched the era of digital watches and other consumer electronics 30 years ago. Today it is getting a fresh look from military researchers.
DY 4 Systems' STEP program upgrades old avionics on RAF Tornado
KANATA, Ontario — Engineers at DY 4 Systems Inc. of Kanata, Ontario, used their System Technology Enhancement Program (STEP) to upgrade the U.K. Royal Air Force Tornado aircraft's missile management system. DY 4 officials claim their STEP program provides a bridge for old avionics designs to run on commercial-off-the-shelf COTS) hardware.
Electronics work, but kill missile fails: next NMD test set for October
WASHINGTON — Leaders of the U.S. Department of Defense are scheduling a fourth National Missile Defense (NMD) interceptor evaluation for October, after a missile test failed July 8.
Globalstar moves into military, civilian markets in wake of Iridium demise
SAN JOSE, Calif. — With the impending demise of the Iridium satellite network for mobile satellite services to fulfill U.S. military needs, leaders of Globalstar Government Services LLC of San Jose, Calif., have moved to fill the void — and picked up several civilian government agencies as customers in the process.
In Brief
IBM to fab Alpha microprocessor; Sun Microsystems helps Raytheon design computers for new Navy destroyer; DARPA eyes high-temperature superconductors for new RF components; and more
Sanders uses uncooled IR camera on Micro Air Vehicle
NASHUA, N.H. — Engineers at Sanders, a Lockheed Martin Company in Nashua, N.H., demonstrated a night vision imaging sensor using uncooled focal plane array technology. Most military-quality IR focal plane arrays require special cooling devices.
VITA board experts push for their own reliability standard
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Members of the VME International Trade Association, a printed circuit board industry trade advocate in Scottsdale, Ariz., are formulating a standard for measuring product reliability.
DARPA, Air Force search for a better way to steer military lasers
WRIGHT PATTERSON AFB, Ohio - U.S. military scientists are moving ahead with a plan to develop chip-scale laser beam control components for what they claim will be a "revolutionary beam-control system" for several different defense applications.
One and a half cheers for National Missile Defense
Designers of the proposed $14 billion National Missile Defense (NMD) system face a fundamental problem. There is growing concern whether the infrared sensors on the NMD's kinetic kill vehicles can discriminate between incoming nuclear warheads and the decoys that are likely to accompany them. They must if NMD is to succeed.
Letters to the Editor
Is a new reliability standard really necessary?; and Avionics designers are in need of a comprehensive open-systems policy
Finding good technical people
Re your recent Editor's Desk column (Laser Focus World, June 2000, "Where have all the [technical] people gone?"): I see the shortage of scientists and engineers as a good thing that the market will correct in due time.
Product Application Design Systems
Primagraphics helps BAE Systems with Eurofighter test and recording systemAircraft designers at BAE Systems in Warton, England, needed equipment to record real-time video to help them evaluate the Eurofighter Typhoon jet fighter aircraft during flight tests.
Northrop Grumman uses Mercury RACE technology for F-16 radar
BALTIMORE — The U.S. Air Force F-16 jet fighter is getting a radar facelift with RACE multiprocessor technology from Mercury Computer Systems in Chelmsford, Mass.
Cubic wins two Joint STARS contracts
SAN DIEGO - Engineers at Cubic Defense Systems Inc., a subsidiary of San Diego-based Cubic Corp., are providing additional data links for the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) aircraft, and are demonstrating the High Capacity Data Link (HCDL).
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