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Vetronics for the Future Combat System
The FCS, the Army’s centerpiece for next-generation land warfare, is to be one of the world’s first truly networked systems, sharing data and sensor information to provide situational awareness all over the battlefield.
Software investment key for test and measurement equipment designers
Designers of test and measurement equipment for military applications are investing more and more dollars into software and modular designs to improve ease of use and lower costs.
AUVSI show: AeroVironment test-flies liquid-hydrogen-powered UAV
The Global Observer, a liquid-hydrogen-powered unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), has completed flight tests.
Navy looks into how to control next-generation autonomous unmanned aircraft
U.S. Navy experts are redesigning the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) control station of the future, not only to accommodate new technologies and futuristic pilotless aircraft, but also to reduce military manning levels by introducing more machine autonomy.
Rockwell Collins to tackle survivable battle management communications for U.S. nuclear forces
U.S. Air Force experts are asking Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to design and build survivable communications paths for coordinating U.S. strategic nuclear forces.
Aonix hard-real-time Java technology useful for command and control
Aonix engineers have demonstrated hard-real-time Java that reaches the run-time efficiency of C, which makes it able to meet the needs of command-and-control applications such as network-centric warfare, Future Combat Systems, and low-level telecommunications control-plane software, Aonix officials say.
Tactical military communications spending to grow to $5.7 billion by 2010
Current military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq and the transformation of the force structure to adopt network-centric warfare (NCW) is driving U.S. military forces to spend billions of dollars on digital tactical military communications, according to new findings from market researcher Frost & Sullivan in Palo Alto, Calif.
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Military & Aerospace Electronics: your daily news source
I want you to stop thinking about Military & Aerospace Electronics as a monthly magazine.
EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK: Futuristic remote-control snake arm may blend electronic and optical technologies
Scientists at the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency at Fort Belvoir, Va., are asking industry for ideas on how to blend electronic, optical, and mechanical technologies in a remote-control arm that can move like a snake.
INDUSTRY VIEW: Military test ranges make the switch from film to digital imaging
When Eastman-Kodak announced it was ceasing production of its chrome-based VNF color-reversal film at the Optical Systems Group meeting last year it was clear to many that the transition to digital imaging would happen sooner rather than later.
Optoelectronics Briefs
Managing obsolescence takes commitment to ‘best practices’
Recent military conferences and government agencies have redefined obsolescence as diminishing manufacturing sources and material shortages (DMSMS).
Fort Hood, Intrusion SecureNet picked for Security Best Practices Award
Officials at the Aberdeen Group of the U.S. Army Directorate of Information Management (DOIM) selected Intrusion Inc. and the U.S Army at Fort Hood (Fort Hood) for its 2005 Best Security Practices award.
Thermo releases monitoring system for nuclear plants
Officials at Thermo Electron Corp. today unveiled ViewPoint, a remote monitoring software platform that provides real-time personnel and area monitoring during routine and outage operations in the nuclear power industry.
Homeland Security Briefs
AD Aerospace Gains MD-80 certification for FlightVu system
AD Aerospace’s FlightVu Cockpit Door Monitoring System (CDMS) now has a STC (Supplemental Type Certificate) for retrofit installation on the Boeing MD-80 series and DC-9 aircraft.
Army unmanned ground systems go where humans cannot
Retired Navy Vice Adm. Joe Dyer is executive vice president and general manager of iRobot’s Government & Industrial Robots division.
Dual-PMC I/O controller for CompactPCI
VMETRO in Houston introduced the PowerMIDAS C5000, an intelligent dual-PMC I/O controller for CompactPCI.
Secure front panel I/O connections for demanding applications
Acromag Inc. in Wixom, Mich., is offering the AVME9668 nonintelligent slave board that interfaces IP modules to the VMEbus.
PCI radar input card
Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing in Leesburg, Va., is offering the Osprey PCI, a PCI radar input card interfaces radar systems to the Curtiss-Wright line of radar-processing and display devices.
All-purpose signal generator for digital RF frequencies
Rohde & Schwarz in Munich, Germany, is offering the R&S SMJ100A vector signal generator that provides the high signal quality and flexibility in development, short setting times and flexible baseband for production.
FPGA-based baseband processor PMC card
Interactive Circuits and Systems (ICS) Ltd. in Ottawa is offering the ICS-1580 baseband-processing engine for software-defined radio (SDR) applications.
Army picks Harris radio for Stryker brigade
Engineers in the U.S. Army at Picatinny Arsenal, N.J., needed radio technology for a Stryker Brigade being deployed to Iraq.
Boeing picks BAE Systems for actuator controls
Engineers at Boeing Commercial Airplanes, in Renton, Wash., needed actuator controls for the 777 passenger jet.
Labarge makes cables for Raytheon missile
Engineers at Raytheon Missile Systems, Tucson, Ariz., needed cables and harnesses for their Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW) system.
PowerGenix battery drives underwater craft
Student engineers at the University of San Diego High School needed a battery to power their underwater remote operated vehicle (ROV).
Army orders CAE helicopter simulator
Army planners needed a Black Hawk helicopter simulator to train pilots in their 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment-Airborne, known as SOAR(A), Fort Campbell, Ky.
Air Force picks ITCN for embedded test system
Engineers in the Electronic Warfare Systems Group at Robins AFB, Georgia, needed an embedded test system for electronic countermeasures systems.
Barco picks Tektronix for test and measurement
Engineers at Barco, in Kortrijk, Belgium, needed test and measurement products to develop an air traffic management system.
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