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Radar technology looks to the future
Modern radar systems are combining advanced materials, solid-state modules, digital signal processors, and complex A-D converters to give a better look to military and civilian users who need the best possible capability in small, compact, and efficient packages.
Small science makes a big influence
MEMS and nanotechnology continue to solve challenges in military and defense applications.
Scientists to develop miniature military robots
U.S. Army, academic, and industry scientists are combining efforts to improve warfighter situational awareness with miniature robots inspired by biologic organisms found in nature.
NASA, Intel, and SGI upgrade supercomputer, expand compute capabilities
Experts at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in Washington, Intel Corp. in Santa Clara, Calif., and SGI in Sunnyvale, Calif., are working toward significant increases in the computing performance and capacity of the space agency’s supercomputer.
Unstable and uncertain world drives military technology investment
Two major wars and significant global instability ensure a need for spending on defense technology, says Peter Cavill, general manager for Military and Aerospace Products at GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms in Towcester, England.
Curtiss-Wright Controls announces another VPX win
Officials at Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing won their second military design-in of their VPX products for a U.S. Army’s Future Combat Systems (FCS) program application.
Misunderstanding of COTS can hurt the military, says embedded computer expert
Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) military embedded suppliers have done well in recent years, but many misperceptions still remain about the term COTS and how it affects the final product deployed to troops in the field, says Doug Patterson, vice president of sales and marketing at Aitech in Chatsworth, Calif.
In Brief
Our stories told in video
Video—digitized moving pictures and sound—is among the most powerful media known, to this era or to any other.
Advances in radar processing
The past few years have seen multifunctional radar systems that need to perform sophisticated, computationally intensive algorithms—and to do so within limited space and often with constraints on power and heat dissipation.
Amphenol offers high-current connectors for printed circuit boards
Amphenol Industrial in Sidney, N.Y., is offering three compact, high-amperage connectors for high-current, single-point connections to printed circuit boards (PCBs).
Elma Bustronic announces Pico-style MicroTCA backplanes
Elma Bustronic Corp. in Fremont, Calif., is offering MicroTCA backplanes in the Pico style format. The first Pico backplane has been designed for sister-company Elma Electronic’s 1U MicroTCA enclosure.
TAG introduces rugged hand-held Windows computer for mobile applications
Technology Advancement Group (TAG) in Dulles, Va., is introducing a 4-pound rugged handheld computer for mobile applications called the TC-100 Commander that has sunlight-readable display, touchscreen, and optional customizable button location.
Getac introduces rugged 3-pound tablet computer
Getac Inc. in Lake Forest, Calif., is introducing the E100 lightweight rugged tablet computer. The E100, weighing 3 pounds, has a lithium-ion battery that lasts as long as five hours.
North Atlantic introduces synchro/resolver VXI instrument card
North Atlantic Industries (NAI) in Bohemia, N.Y., is offering a high-density, DSP-based, single-slot C-size VXI card with a modular design called the 65CS4, which can perform most synchro/resolver evaluation, calibration, and test functions on components, assemblies, and systems.
U.S. Marine Corps installs advanced geospatial technology across 65,000 desktops
U.S. Marine Corps officers wanted to help their personnel use and share digital maps online, so they turned to TerraGo Technologies in Atlanta.
German navy adopts Sabtech NTDS networking equipment
German navy officials needed a military shipboard tactical network to deploy as the maritime component of the United Nations Interim Force In Lebanon (UNIFIL) international peacekeeping force off the coast of Lebanon.
ITT selects DataPath’s MaxView for U.S. Army Ka-STARS program
ITT Corp. officials in White Plains, N.Y., required a system for managing satellite transmissions sent to and from U.S. Army personnel.
Brazil’s largest offshore fleet selects Blue Sky Network flight-tracking technology
Executives at Lider Avicao, a company that manages a 40-aircraft offshore helicopter fleet in Brazil, needed flight-tracking technology on their Bell and Sikorsky helicopters.
Barco to supply control display unit avionics for C-27J joint cargo aircraft
Engineers at L-3 Communications Integrated Systems in Waco, Texas, needed control display systems for their work on the C-27J joint cargo aircraft (JCA).
Insitu selects RTI for unmanned aerial vehicle products
Real-Time Innovations (RTI) in San Jose, Calif., is providing its real-time messaging middleware to Insitu Inc. in Bingen, Wash., for long-endurance, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
NASA chooses Space Micro’s radiation-detection hardware for research satellite
Scientists at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., needed space-qualified instruments for their Living with a Star (LWS) space environments test bed (SET) experiment hardware.
CCD imaging sensors from e2v equip unmanned spacecraft headed for International Space Station
EADS SODERN spacecraft engineers in Limeil-Brevannes, France, needed image sensors for the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Jules Verne automated transfer vehicle (ATV) spacecraft destined for the International Space Station (ISS).
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