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Transformational Communications
U.S. military leaders are moving forward with new space-based, land-based, and forward-deployed wireless tactical networks to bring Internet-like information-retrieval systems to military leaders, logistics experts, and warfighters who all seek the same goal: shared battlefield knowledge.
Nanotechnology delivers military power
Scientists are using nanotechnology to create materials with properties that will revolutionize military technology, from processors to display screens and body armor to air filters.
Designers make incremental improvements to 2-G infrared viewers
Military users of infrared scopes will have to wait another five or ten years to see full production of third-generation scopes.
Silicon-based shielding may protect military electronics from EMP
Engineers at Transtector in Hayden, Idaho, are producing electromagnetic pulse (EMP) shielding devices based on silicon for U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) classified applications.
Maxwell Technologies to provide rad-hard computing for polar satellite
Northrop Grumman Space Technology in El Segundo, Calif., selected the SCS750 single-board computer from Maxwell Technologies Inc. in San Diego for spacecraft control and payload data management for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS).
Sensors Unlimited develops InGaAs technology for cutting-edge IR programs
xperts at Sensors Unlimited Inc. in Princeton, N.J., are using indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs)-based shortwave infrared imaging (SWIR) to work with thermal imaging for military night-vision technology in DARPA’s MANTIS program and LADAR (laser detection and ranging) applications.
Unmanned combat aircraft takes to the air
Landing an airplane on the pitching, rolling deck of a U.S. aircraft carrier is one of the most difficult tasks a military pilot can do.
In Brief
AdvancedTCA set to make inroads in military applications
Board designers in the telecommunications industry praise the AdvancedTCA backplane because it offers bandwidth as fast as 2.5 terabits per second.
Transforming radio communications
One of the most pressing issues of wireless communications is managing the finite radio frequency (RF) spectrum that is in such heavy and growing demand for cellular telephone, land-mobile radio, commercial broadcasting, and other RF applications.
White Sands Missile Range moves to digital high-speed cameras
The desert of south-central New Mexico has a rich history in research and development of nuclear weapons and advanced missiles.
Industry View: Have bandwidth, will travel
Portability with low size, weight, and power comes to long-range laser communications for tactical and strategic ground-to-ground and ground-to-air mobile applications
Optoelectronics Briefs
Reconnecting with military program requirements for performance and interoperability
Switched fabrics for embedded high-performance computing: past, present and future perspectives
DOD officials improve security at Scott AFB with biometric solution
As part of a long-term test of biometric technology, officials of Scott Air Force Base (AFB), Ill., are using a hand-geometry system to improve base access through its Shiloh-Scott MetroLink rail station entrance.
Motorola building Wyoming’s communication system
Motorola engineers are building a $51.4 million advanced wireless voice and data-communications system called WyoLink capable of connecting more than 150 public-safety and public-service agencies throughout Wyoming.
Homeland Security Briefs
The $10 billion NASA market
NASA’s new budget for fiscal year 2006, which begins Oct. 1, envisions spending $10 billion for new competitive opportunities with industry, academia, and the agency’s own field centers over the next five years.
CompactPCI interfaces for rugged military applications
Condor Engineering in Santa Barbara, Calif., is extending its line of CompactPCI modules for 1553 applications.
Custom cable assemblies with rugged construction
Aved Electronics Inc. in Lowell, Mass., is offering custom-engineered and manufactured cable assemblies for critical electrical and communications applications in harsh environments.
Rugged low-differential air pressure switch
The Henry G. Dietz Co. Inc. in Long Island City, N.Y., is offering the Model 171D8WC-S ultra-low-differential air pressure switch that covers an operating range of 09.05- to 8-inches water column in one switch.
Security improvement module for SCADA networks
Thales in Weston, Fla., is offering a security improvement module to protect relatively old supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) networks that deliver services and commodities such as electricity, natural gas, and water.
SCSI flash disk solid-state data storage
BiTMICRO Networks in Fremont, Calif., is offering the E-Disk 3S320D Ultra320 SCSI solid state flash disk drive for embedded and applied computing applications that require high reliability, performance, data security, and ruggedness, such as telecom infrastructure network elements, pipeline monitoring, digital mapping, financial on-line transactions, and homeland defense security.
SVGA and XGA industrial TFT flat panels
Optrex America in Plymouth, Mich., is offering a series of SVGA and XGA industrial thin film transistor liquid crystal display, (TFT LCD) modules in sizes from 8.4-inch to 15-inch diagonal with natural color matrix technology for accurate color representation color balance, and image quality.
MEMS accelerometer with built-in temperature sensor
Colibrys SA in Neuchatel, Switzerland, is offering a range of high-stability microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) capacitive accelerometers with built-in temperature sensors, called the SMD MS8000 series.
Conduction cooled VME power supply for military ATR
Rantec Power Systems Inc. in Los Osos, Calif., is offering a 460-watt conduction-cooled power supply for airborne air-transport rack (ATR) plug-in applications.
Linearly polarized log-periodic antenna
Rohde & Schwarz GmbH in Munich, Germany, is offering the R&S HL033 linearly polarized log-periodic antenna with bandwidth large enough for general transmission and reception applications in the frequency range from 80 MHz to 2 GHz.
Precision potentiometers, sensors, and hybrid assemblies
BI Technologies in Fullerton, Calif., is offering a range of precision potentiometers, sensors, and hybrid assemblies for military, aerospace, industrial, automotive, transportation, and medical applications.
Signal processing
Industry Pack analog output modules Acromag Inc. of Wixom, Mich., is offering the IP231 analog output Industry Pack module that provides as many as 16 output channels - each with its own high-resolution 16-bit digital-to-analog (D-A) converter.
100 MHz analog bandwidth digital storage oscilloscope
rotek Test and Measurement in Allendale, N.J., is offering a 100-MHz analog-bandwidth digital-storage oscilloscope (DSO) with a 250-megasamples-per-second real-time sampling rate, 50-gigasample-per-second equivalent time sampling, 1-to-1 to 100-to-1 zoom waveform display, and a 4,000 record length for each channel.
Test instruments and services for the U.S. government
Test Mart, an electronics distributor in San Bruno, Calif., is providing the U.S. government and federal contractors with a range of Agilent Technologies instruments and associated services
Instrument-grade DSP-based VXI card
North Atlantic Industries (NAI) in Bohemia, N.Y., is offering an instrument-grade, high-density, DSP-based, VXI card
Communications service monitors for analog radio testing
Aeroflex Inc. in Plainview, N.Y., is offering a pair of new communications service monitors, the 2945B and 2948B that will bring expanded capability and ease of use to analog radio testing.
Air Force builds wireless network with Eagle Broadband
Planners with the U.S. Air Force needed a secure wireless communications system for Scott Air Force Base in Illinois.
Ruggedized computers rely on Performance Technologies
Designers at General Dynamics C4 Systems, Scottsdale, Ariz., needed a communications module for ruggedized computers they were building for the Department of Defense.
NASA names Honeywell for deep-space test mission
NASA flight engineers needed data processing and control systems for a new mission.
Typhoon fighter uses Actel FPGA
Engineers at TELDIX GmbH of Heidelberg, Germany, needed a processor for an airborne data-processing board in the Eurofighter Typhoon weapon system.
Army vehicle will run on Cobasys battery
Engineers at ISE Corp. in San Diego needed a battery to power the Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles (FMTV) demonstration project they were building for the U.S. Army.
NASA picks DRS sensor for satellite
Engineers with the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) needed infrared sensors for a satellite.
B-2 simulator will use Quantum3D images
Designers at Northrop Grumman needed an image generator for the B-2 flight simulator they were building for the U.S. Air Force.
Bell builds V-22 with Intercim software
Engineers at Bell Helicopter in Fort Worth, Texas, needed design software to help them build the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft for the U.S. Marine Corps and Navy.
Marines test helicopters with Goodrich tools
Avionics engineers in the U.S. Marine Corps needed diagnostic tools for CH-53E Super Stallion helicopters.
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