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DHS turns to high tech to control borders
Department of Homeland Security officials are procuring and developing technology to secure the nation’s borders and prevent terrorists and weapons from getting through.
Power electronics drive next-generation vehicles
Engineers are building power integrated circuits and other power components to match growing current needs and the efficiencies of unmanned aerial vehicles, manned aircraft, spacecraft, and ocean-going ships, as well as armored combat vehicles.
Lead-free processing involves several board issues
As worldwide electronics manufacturing moves slowly and unevenly into lead-free materials and processes, most attention goes to components and the bonding of those components to the printed wiring board-especially to the effects of the relatively high reflow temperatures on components and joints.
NASA researchers choose Crystal Group rugged servers for flight experiments
NASA researchers seeking to return the space shuttle orbiters to operational status are looking to Crystal Group Inc. in Hiawatha, Iowa, to supply rugged computer servers for airborne experiments.
Air Force tunes nonlethal directed-energy weapons
Researchers with the U.S. Air Force have found a way to deter potential attackers without shooting or otherwise killing or maiming them.
FPGA companies will design supercomputer
Designers of military computing platforms praise field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) for their efficiency with space and power, but they often choose competing solutions like digital signal processors (DSPs) because FPGAs are so difficult to program.
Private business lags behind Pentagon in rush to new Internet protocol
In Pentagon planners’ vision of a network-centric battlefield, every electronic component will maintain an Internet link to every other electronic component.
In Brief
Is cooling the central design issue of our time?
For years now we’ve lived with the assumption that computer processing power-and hence systems capability-doubles about every couple of years.
Phasebridge gets DARPA contract for photonic radio program
Officials at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have selected Phasebridge Inc., to further the development of an optical RF Quadrature Phase-Shift-Keyed (QPSK) technique and analyze its applications in a new generation of ultra-wideband and frequency-agile military radio systems.
Nano-optics: robust, optical devices for demanding applications
Optical systems in defense and security applications must be able to deploy in harsh environments and meet demanding requirements for high performance and high reliability.
Optoelectronics briefs
Reducing software security vulnerabilities through unit testing
Security vulnerabilities in software for military and aerospace systems unfortunately can be just as dangerous as the functional problems that industry has developed so many controls to prevent, and systems integrators can bet that software with either type of weakness may not produce the expected results.
Idaho National Laboratory receives second round of funding for cyber threat reduction program
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory (INL) received a second round of funding this week from U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to continue a multiyear cyber security program.
Northrop Grumman, U.S. Coast Guard enhance maritime security of South Florida coast
Officials at Northrop Grumman Mission Systems and the U.S. Coast Guard installed advanced equipment and software aboard Coast Guard and other law-enforcement vessels to enhance maritime security during the Organization of American States General Assembly in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., last month.
Coast Guard unveils new helicopter
Earlier this year, U.S. Coast Guard officials announced the new HH-65C Dauphine helicopters at Coast Guard Air Station in Atlantic City.
Homeland Security Briefs
New terrorist challenge: North Korea
While the defense industry is struggling to keep pace with one new kind of war that is challenging its ingenuity, another unsettling situation is looming over the horizon-and not far over the horizon: North Korea.
Gigabit Ethernet TCP/IP offload PMC sampling network controller
Data Device Corp. (DDC) in Bohemia, N.Y., is offering the GigExtreme ET-71000 Gigabit Ethernet network controller and TCP/IP offload engine (TOE) cards for applications in avionics, vetronics, high-speed video processing, motor control, and sensor interfacing.
Virtex-4 XtremeDSP development kit for Xilinx DSP system generator
Nallatech in Eldersburg, Md., is offering the Virtex-4 XtremeDSP development kit that will enable designers to use the Xilinx Virtex-4 SX field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) in advanced FPGA designs.
6U CompactPCI single-board computer
Radstone Embedded Computing in Towcester, England, is offering the first member of its PowerPact 6 product family, the CP1A 6U rugged CompactPCI PowerPC single-board computer (SBC).
Upgrades to low-power Pentium embedded computer
Thales Computers in Raleigh, N.C., is offering several upgrades to its PENTXM single-board computer (SBC) offering.
Radiation-tolerant 3U CompactPCI single-board computer for space
Aitech Defense Systems Inc. in Chatsworth, Calif., is offering a radiation-tolerant, single-slot 3U Compact PCI single-board computer, based on the PowerPC 750FX microprocessor, for manned and robotic space vehicles that must operate in radiation environments.
Ruggedized multicomputer approaches 0.5 teraFLOPs
Mercury Computer Systems Inc. in Chelmsford, Mass., is offering the conduction-cooled 800-MHz 7447 6U VME multicomputer for applications in extreme environmental conditions.
Data-capture and processing board with 2-GHz sampling rate
Pentek Inc. in Upper Saddle River, N.J., is offering the model 6826 VME A-D converter board with single- or dual-channel data acquisition at 2 million samples per second with 10-bit bit resolution.
VXS board with fast I/O and FPGA processing
TEK Microsystems Inc. in Chelmsford, Mass., is offering the Quixilica Callisto VXS-1 board that combines field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) with a digital I/O architecture that moves data as quickly as 230 gigabits per second-20 gigabits through the backplane and 3 gigabits through the front panel, company officials say.
L-3 uses BAE Systems autopilot for P-3 Orion
Avionics designers at L-3 Communications, New York, needed an autopilot system for P-3 Orion aircraft to be used by the Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Lockheed Martin picks Barco for submarine displays
Designers at Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems and Sensors in Eagan, Minn., needed displays for the AN/UYQ-70 program.
Lockheed Martin uses Mercury computers for Aegis radar
Engineers at Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems & Sensors, in Moorestown, N.J., needed a computer for an Aegis radar system.
Lockheed Martin uses software to manage risk on F-35 project
Engineers at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, needed a software tool to manage business risks for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program.
NASA crunches weather data with VisiQuest
Engineers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., needed a tool to analyze satellite data on global precipitation.
BAE tests F-35 cables with DCM tools
Engineers at BAE Systems in Lancashire, England, needed test and measurement equipment to verify coaxial cable assemblies for their customer, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program.
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