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August 2008
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Swimming robots
Navy experts and industry leaders are looking into the latest generation of unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) for maritime applications ranging from training and mission rehearsal, undersea surveys and surveillance, and locating and destroying enemy mines, to potentially even covertly deploying weapons.
Quality control
Military and aerospace companies ensure the safety and security of electronics systems and components with test and measurement tools.
Cubic introduces compact robot for bomb disposal and similar military missions
The Cubic Simulation Systems Division, part of the defense segment of Cubic Corp. in San Diego, has unveiled the Combined Operations Unmanned Ground Assessment Robot (COUGAR).
Revised moisture sensitivity standard includes lead-free components
Lead-free processing is represented in the IPC/JEDEC standard that sets moisture sensitivity levels for plastic-packaged components.
Today’s military simulation displays more accurate and cost effective
Engineers at Barco-Xenia (formerly Barco Electronic Image Systems) in Xenia, Ohio, say liquid crystal on silicon or LCoS—a commercial projection technology—will provide the next generation of military simulation displays with real-world resolution.
General Dynamics christens U.S. Navy’s most-advanced submarine
General Dynamics Electric Boat in Groton, Conn., christened the fast attack submarine USS New Hampshire (SSN-778), considered the U.S. Navy’s most advanced nuclear submarine, in a shipyard ceremony.
Carbon nanotubes enable flexible, printed electronics
Applied Nanotech Inc. (ANI), a subsidiary of Nano-Proprietary Inc. in Austin, Texas, and The Chair of Display Technology at Universitaet Stuttgart in Germany are advancing carbon nanotubes for flexible electronics.
Raytheon technique for growing semiconductor compounds on silicon to provide affordable ICs to DOD
Instead of waiting for the commercial industry to come up with high-performance integrated circuits (ICs), experts at Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are demonstrating that affordable, high-performance circuits for military applications can be produced by growing semiconductor compounds directly on silicon.
Air Force engineers use new thermal inspection system for GLOBUS II radar shelter
Engineers with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory Materials and Manufacturing Directorate (AFRL/RX) demonstrated a rarely-before-used pulsed thermography inspection technique while analyzing a cover failure in the GLOBUS II radar system.
In Brief
COTS or military: sometimes it’s hard to tell
It’s getting increasingly difficult these days to tell the real difference between commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components, and those purpose-built for military use.
DARPA seeks proposals on photonic delays as a building block for optical computing
Scientists at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va., are trying to find compact, robust ways to control the flow of photons in future applications of optical computing.
LED market to exceed $11 billion by 2012
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—The market for packaged high-brightness light-emitting diodes (LEDs) is set to grow by 12 percent in 2008, predict market researchers at Strategies Unlimited in Mountain View, Calif.
Electro-optics Briefs
Guest viewpoint: Contractors need to adopt next-generation, requirements-management technology
According to the National Defense Industrial Association, a new imperative emerging from the global war on terrorism is the increased demand for rapid response to changing threats.
Stealth Computer offers 24-inch wide-screen rugged LCD touchscreen display
Stealth Computer in Woodbridge, Ontario, is introducing the SV-2400 24-inch industrial-grade, panel-mount liquid crystal display (LCD) for harsh environments in industrial plant floor and Human Machine Interface applications.
Sky Computers introduces LightningBolt embedded computer
Officials at Sky Computers in Chelmsford, Mass., are introducing the LightningBolt embedded computer that offers scalability, reliability, and price/performance for demanding military and aerospace applications.
Honeywell offers high-temperature analog silicon chip
The Honeywell Inc. Aerospace business in Phoenix is introducing a high-temperature silicon on insulator electronic component with applications in the aerospace industry.
North Atlantic introduces high-accuracy synchro/resolver angle measurement instrument
North Atlantic Industries (NAI) in Bohemia, N.Y., is introducing a high-accuracy version of its synchro/resolver instrument.
Hittite offers Family of 9.7 GHz latched comparators
Hittite Microwave Corp. is introducing a family of 9.7 GHz latched comparators with low propagation delay, short minimum pulse width requirements, and low jitter.
Northrop Grumman selects Rockwell Collins optics for infrared countermeasures system
Northrop Grumman Corp. engineers in Los Angeles needed electro-optics assemblies for the Miniature Pointer Tracker (MPT) in its Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasures (LAIRCM) system.
ARINC chooses ITT night-vision tubes for Navy, Air Force
Officials at ARINC Inc. in Annapolis, Md., needed image intensifier tubes for their work on two advanced aviation programs.
Federal Aviation Administration adopts Luciad visualization tool
U.S. Federal Aviation Administration personnel manage Special Use Airspaces (SUAs) and Air Traffic Control Assigned Airspaces (ATCAAs) set aside for military training exercises, and they require various systems to do so.
Proxim Wireless enhances security at Port de La Rochelle in France
The Port de La Rochelle, a 470-acre site on the west coast of France, is one of the largest commercial ports in Europe, gains more than 3000 visits per day, and is accessed by more than 10,000 badge holders.
DDC offers expanded dataMARS support for 1553/429 avionics USB devices
Data Device Corp. (DDC) in Bohemia, N.Y., is introducing an updated version of its dataMARS software package for the BU-65590/91U MIL-STD-1553/ARINC 429 USB devices for avionics bus monitoring and post-analysis.
LaBarge to produce electronic assemblies for radar jammers on F-15 jet fighter
Officials at Northrop Grumman Corp. needed electronic assemblies for its AN/ALQ-135 radar jammer system.
U.S. Army Special Forces Unit uses Paradigm Stealth Sensor
U.S. Army officers recognize the need for state-of-the-art detection technologies.
Wind River powers Thales mast on Royal Navy’s Astute-class submarines
Officers in the United Kingdom Royal Navy recognize the need to reduce the sonar signature of its submarines, and thereby minimize the risk of surface ships and other submarines detecting their presence.
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