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Military & Aerospace Electronics Magazine, December 2003 Articles
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Volume: 14 Issue: 12
December 2003
 
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Biometrics: The Body's Keys
The use of biometrics such as face, iris, and fingerprint is becoming one of the most effective ways to provide secure access control, yet the lack of significant government funding is slowing the growth of the technology.

Technology Focus
New technologies drive bulk-memory solutions
Systems designers consider a broad landscape of data-storage approaches — ranging from solid-state memory, to spinning magnetic media, to optical storage — for an anticipated avalanche of digital information flowing from satellites and other reconnaissance platforms.

News
Coast Guard electronics upgrade program kicks into high gear
As the only military-capable agency in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Coast Guard is on the front lines of the fight against terrorists, yet the service is still using outdated, pre–Sept. 11 ships and aircraft, its leaders complain.

Pentagon electronics spending to top $90 billion in 10 years
The electronics content of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) budget request is $76.94 billion this year, and should rise to $92.1 billion over the next decade, according to analysts with the Government Electronics and Information Technology Association (GEIA) in Arlington, Va.

Coast Guard boosting communications capability aboard C-130 aircraft
The U.S. Coast Guard's massive Deepwater program to upgrade crucial technologies such as electronics and optoelectronics throughout the agency's land bases, ships, and aircraft, is not the only initiative to improve electronic technologies.

Power electronics to highlight February magazine supplement
Power electronics is the subject of a Military & Aerospace Electronics editorial supplement coproduced with the magazine's upcoming February issue.

Terrorist threats raise the issue of electronics decontamination
In the post-Cold War era, the U.S. military has dominated the battlefield with increasingly sophisticated electronic systems.

In Brief


Departments
Trends
The histories of human flight and electronics are closely intertwined


Report from Washington and Elsewhere
Transformation at the Pentagon: from deterrence to preemption
As combat operations in Iraq grind on, so does the evolution of the post–Cold War defense strategy from deterring nuclear war to preempting actual and potential terrorists.

Viewpoint
Managing time and costs in legacy component upgrades
A design or component engineer responsible for extending the lifetime of a military or aerospace electronics system is inevitably confronted with the rapid evolution of electronic components.

Letters to the Editor
Letters


Product Applications
Product Applications


 
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