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Web Exclusive Articles Online News | Industry News Flash | Executive Watch | Exclusive Content | Mil & Aero Blog | Archives Home Exclusive Content 2009 P1 Aerospace and defense connector users demanding more capability, smaller size, more EMI protection  Product intelligence -- Here's the good news for aerospace and defense connector suppliers: there's a growing need for your products. Here's the bad news: systems integrators want more capability, higher bandwidth, increased ruggedness, more resistance to lightning and electro-magnetic pulse, less risk from materials, yet want connectors that are smaller and lighter than ever before. Secure information storage designers have a wealth of options available for aerospace and defense applications  Technology focus -- Military and aerospace applications often involve intricate networks of advanced sensors, each gathering a wealth of data. More information is being gathered than ever before on the digital battlefield, including high-resolution photography and full-motion video. All this data must be stored, and done so securely; and so the military and industry are working together to meet this ever-growing need for secure information storage. Breakthroughs in inertial sensors to augment GPS will guide future of precision-guided munitions  Special report -- Putting a smart bomb through a window during the first Persian Gulf War was just the beginning. Next up: smart bullets for infantry weapons, GPS receivers built into the soldier's boot, eliminating enemy snipers before they have a chance to shoot, and counter-RPG systems. Sensor fusion technologies blend data fusion with conventional computing in new mainstream design approaches Once considered as futuristic, difficult, and elusive and artificial intelligence, multisensor fusion is coming into its own as a standard approach of processing signals from a wide variety of sensors, and making sense of incomplete and sketchy sensor data. Product lifecycle management is adopting software tools Organizations within the military and aerospace realm increasingly are adopting product lifecycle management (PLM) software tools, as the benefits include reduced time to market, improved end-product quality, reduced prototyping and iteration costs, reduced waste, increased security, requirements tracking, and efficient and streamlined engineering. Software defined radio communications: a spectrum of possibilities for military communications on the road to cognitive radio  Special report -- Software defined radio technology, which fuels the U.S. Joint Tactical Radio System program, has become a worldwide phenomenon moving well beyond U.S. military programs. Meanwhile designers are already looking toward the next game changing communication technology -- cognitive radio. Power electronics for military alternative energy could promote space radar and space propulsion  Technology trends -- Government, industry, and academia officials continue to invest heavily in military alternative energy sources for defense and aerospace applications -- ranging from military solar power and laser power to algae oil. Air Force plan to cut its JTRS military radio program may acknowledge developments in private industry  Viewpoint -- The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) plan to upgrade military radio communications by injecting software defined radio (SDR) technology into land, sea, and airborne RF transceivers is taking a hit with news that the U.S. Navy and Air Force are seeking to cancel their JTRS programs in an effort to save at least $1.8 billion. Distributed power and space applications are major trends in power integrated circuits  Product intelligence -- Designers of high reliability power integrated circuits say they are concentrating primarily on space power applications, rather than on the military, because many of even the most demanding military power applications these days can meet their environmental requirements with commercial off the shelf (COTS) power electronics. Military information security command opens for business at Lackland AFB  Cyber security update -- The U.S. Air Force ended two years of confusion and controversy Aug. 18 by designating the 24th Air Force at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, as its official operational cyber security center, consolidating all service cyberspace operations. The stand-up came almost exactly one year after new Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton A. Schwartz halted plans to redesignate the 24th as the Air Force Cyber Command. PAGE: 1 | 2 | 3 |

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