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3-Phase Single-Step Power Correction in MilAero Systems
As OEMs seek advantages in Size, Weight, Power and Cost (SWaP-C), focus is shifting to advancements in power electronics. Gaining an advantage requires close attention not only to...
Articles Defense
Using Sensor Technology to Combat Legacy Issues in Defense Avionics
Reliance on aging military platforms has become a global concern and military aircraft today are expected to remain in service for longer than their original life cycles. This...
Articles Defense
Counterfeit Electronics in the DOD Supply Chain
Counterfeit semiconductor devices entering the Department of Defense (DOD) supply chain continue to pose risks to many of our country’s most sophisticated aerospace and defense systems. However,...
Articles Aerospace
Touch and Go
Since the digital revolution changed forever the pilot’s working environment, innovators and suppliers of cockpit systems have strived to provide a continuous stream of new developments and products that offer increasingly...
Articles Aerospace
Sandwich Cores for the Future
The search for lighter weight, stronger materials to construct airplanes and spacecraft remains as important as ever. But it takes a long time for new materials in aerospace structures to make their way into...
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Making AESA Radar More Flexible
A modular, building-block approach brings greater design flexibility to Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar technology, simplifying system integration, and permitting rapid first-line repair with no...
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Developing Secondary Surveillance Radar Automated Test Equipment
Unlike primary radars, Secondary Surveillance Radar (SSR) calculates the range and azimuth of a target, such as an aircraft, using a bidirectional communication link to gather...
Application Briefs Photonics/Optics
Aircraft Casting Alloy
IBC Advanced Alloys Corp. Wilmington, MA 855-237-2522 www.ibcadvancedalloys.com IBC Advanced Alloys Corp. will continue production of components for Lockheed Martin's F-35 Lightning II Electro-Optical Targeting System...
Application Briefs Defense
War-Game Simulation Software
MASA Group Paris, France +33 1 55 43 13 20 www.masagroup.net Military training tools must work effectively with reduced staff numbers and simulate a large variety of situations. Following 12 years of collaboration,...
Application Briefs Defense
VPX Chassis for Missile System
VerotecManchester, NH603-821-9921www.verotec.us Using a hit-to-kill approach, a US Army anti-ballistic missile system called Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) is designed to shoot down short, medium, and...
Technology Update Defense
Signal Compression Technology Enables E-Fan's Flight, Potential Enhanced 'Black Box' Possibilities
V-Nova Ltd. demonstrated the capabilities of its PERSEUS data compression technology for aerospace applications as part of Airbus’ all-electric...
Technology Update Defense
TRB Turns Composites Focus to Aerospace Sector
TRB Lightweight Structures Ltd. recently released an aerospace-grade lightweight honeycomb composite panel designed for interior applications, expanding the application areas for its range of...
Technology Update Defense
Preparing for First Flight on Mars
With its eye on Mars, NASA Armstrong has been working on a prototype it refers to as the Preliminary Research Aerodynamic Design to Land on Mars, or Prandtl-m, which is “a flying wing aircraft with a...
Articles Automotive
2016 Civic Structure Employs 'First' Partial In-Die Soft Zones
The 2016 Honda Civic employs selectively-tempered in-die “soft zone” technology in the B-pillars and rear frame rails, allowing zones within a single frame piece to have...
Products Defense
SIP DC-DC Converters
Premier Magnetics (Lake Forest, CA) has announced additions to its PDCS family of self-contained, single- in-line-package (SIP) DC-DC converters for distributed power applications. The additions to the PDCS product family...
Products Defense
5-Slot 3U Mission Computer
Curtiss-Wright Corporation (Ashburn, VA) announced that its Defense Solutions division has introduced a new fully integrated 5-slot 3U OpenVPX™ rugged mission computer designed to quickly deploy computer power on...
Products Defense
Contactless Connectivity System
TE Connectivity’s (TE) (Berwyn, PA) new ARISO Contactless Connectivity system, available from Mouser Electronics (Mansfield, TX), is a hybrid interconnect system that allows for both power and data to be sent...
Products Defense
Micro System-on-Module
Inforce Computing®, Inc. (Fremont, CA) has announced the ultrasmall Inforce 6501™ Micro System-on-Module (SOM). The Inforce 6501 Micro SOM is powered by the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 805 processor. The Snapdragon 805...
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Carbon-Graphite Bushings
Metallized Carbon Corporation (Ossining, NY) has announced Metcar® carbon- graphite bushings for use in gear pumps that pump aviation fuel for aircraft engines. The carbon- graphite bushings are used to support both...
Products Manufacturing & Prototyping
XMC Modules
Acromag’s (Wixom, MI) new XMC-7A200 is a XMC mezzanine module enhanced with Xilinx ® Artix® -7 FPGA for low-power consumption and exceptional 128M × 16-bit Quad DDR3 SDRAM processing performance. Reconfigurable Artix-7 FPGA is...
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Small Form Factor Systems
4DSP (Austin, TX) has announced two new additions to its Compact Embedded System (CES) line. The CES820 and the ruggedized CESCC820 variant both feature an upgraded Xilinx Kintex UltraScale FPGA and support for the new...
Products Defense
Flow Transmitter
The AS-FT Flow Transmitter from FCI Aerospace (San Marcos, CA) features a rugged, highly reliable thermal dispersion technology sensor design that is ideal for mission-critical air, gas and fluid monitoring systems on...
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VPX Embedded Computer
Kontron (Augsburg, Germany) introduced its next-generation StarVX high performance embedded computing (HPEC) system based on the company’s VX3058 3U VPX single board computer (SBC). Leveraging the processing power of the...
Products Manufacturing & Prototyping
Flat Cable Assemblies
Cicoil's (Valencia, CA) flat cable assemblies are designed for use in targeting pods, thermographic camera and infrared sight systems typically utilized in multi-role fighter aircraft, attack helicopters and maritime...
Products Defense
Aerospace Gimbals Test Service
A new test service introduced by Bal Seal Engineering, Inc. (Foothill Ranch, CA) offers OEMs verified performance results for Bal Seal® spring-energized rotary/face seals used in aerospace and defense gimbal...
Briefs Photonics/Optics
Structural Composites with Tuned EM Chirality
Work on structural composites with tunable chiral elements has produced electronically tunable overall chiral composites, mechanically tunable chiral composites, flat lenses with soft hyperbolic...
Briefs Defense
Advanced, Single-Polymer, Nanofiber-Reinforced Composite
A strategic goal of the U.S. Air Force is to be able to deliver munitions to targets anywhere around the globe in less than an hour. This will require very high speeds and novel lightweight and temperature-resistant materials. Nanocomposites are promising emerging materials for structural and...
Briefs Aerospace
Quantitative Diagnostics of Multilayered Composite Structures with Ultrasonic Guided Waves
Aging infrastructure has a major impact on safety, increasing the need to assess damage severity. Machinery, systems, and components such as airplanes,...
Briefs Aerospace
Reactive, Multifunctional, Micellar, Composite Nanoparticles for Destruction of Bio-Agents
Multifunctional composites have been investigated for destruction of bio-agents. These materials’ unique properties at the nano scale, including their...
Product Briefs Power
Electric Oil Pump
The Model OP40i brushless dc electric oil pump from Engineered Machined Products Inc. (EMP) features high-performance gerotor pumping technology, including a long-life, brushless, dc sensorless motor, which is sealed and...
Technical Innovation Design
Software's Growth Shines Spotlight on Eliminating Defects
Software’s becoming a greater factor in vehicle development, prompting a heightened focus on reducing the number of defects in code. Early planning, discipline, and continuous...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
Can Turning off the Engine Turn Customers On?
Stop-start systems have seen success in Europe, but development teams focused on the U.S. market are still working to get the right combination of fuel efficiency and comfort. Smooth restarts...
Global Vehicles Manufacturing & Prototyping
New Astra Is Opel-Vauxhall's "No Excuses" Car
General Motors’ European duo, Opel and Vauxhall, have created a convincingly fresh design and engineering challenge to Volkswagen’s ubiquitous Golf and Ford’s Focus.
Global Vehicles Manned Systems
Engineering a 1000-Mph Car
Engineering a car designed for a 0-1000 mph (1610 km/h) time of 55 seconds is one of the world’s most unlikely, most daunting, and most exciting challenges. That is the task of Mark Chapman, Chief Engineer of...
News Electronics & Computers
Tracking the Trends in Commercial Vehicle Communications
Seasoned operators of commercial vehicles will say they can sense how their vehicles are performing based on the sounds and vibrations the vehicles produce. Today, the latest...
Technology Report Energy
Hot-Stamping Process from Schuler Employs Flexible 'Pressure Controlled Hardening'
In the press hardening method, parts are heated to 930°C (1,706°F) and then simultaneously cooled and hardened in the subsequent forming process, which gives the parts their extremely high rigidity.
News Electronics & Computers
The Benefits and Advantages of Digital Signal Processing
In the quest for increased performance, flexibility, configurability, communications, and remote monitoring and control, the power electronics industry is increasingly moving from...
Technical Innovation Test & Measurement
Rugged Data-Acquisition Systems Speed Tests of Off-Highway Equipment
Just as engineers of consumer vehicles are being asked to shorten development cycles and improve performance, reliability, and safety, so are developers of off-highway...
Technical Innovation Software
Evaluating New Forestry Machines in a Fraction of the Time
The predominant forest harvesting method used in northern Europe is cut-to-length logging (CTL). CTL is based on a two-machine solution—a harvester is used for felling, delimbing,...
Articles Automotive
Improving Heavy-duty Engine Component Efficiencies
Cylinder deactivation (CDA) is an effective method to fine-tune engine displacement for maximum output and improve fuel economy by adjusting the number of active cylinders in combustion...
Articles Transportation
Pumping Up Hydraulic Capabilities
Hydraulic technologies are evolving rapidly as clever engineers figure out how to alter spools and valves. These mechanical changes pale in comparison to the advances that transpire as design teams...
Product Briefs Materials
Self-Lubricating Plastic Bearing Material
The iglide L500 plastic bearing material from igus is suited for continuous operation in high-speed rotation applications under low loads. The material combines high wear resistance in long-running,...
News Automotive
Low-Friction Techniques Push Advanced City-Car Project Toward 84-Mpg Target
In the beginning there were Shell, Gordon Murray Design (GMD), Geo Technology, and an idea.
News RF & Microwave Electronics
Cyber Security Requires Preparedness
A ‘door-open’ warning as a vehicle cruises at highway speed is very worrisome. But if the alert doesn’t match reality, a cyber hack could be the culprit.
News Transportation
Aerion Progresses on the AS2 with Help from Airbus, and Announces First Fleet Customer
The joint engineering efforts that Aerion and Airbus Group have dedicated to the AS2 supersonic business jet since 2014 has taken on even more importance...
News Transportation
GT350 Mustang Features Novel Composite Structural Component
A lightweight composite material shaped by a unique assembly technique forms a grille opening reinforcement (GOR) designed specifically for the high-performance 2016 Ford Shelby...
News Electronics & Computers
Renesas Increases Its Focus on Platforms
Electronics and software complexity is ratcheting up as autonomy, connectivity, and increased comfort and convenience features move forward. Renesas Electronics America is responding with a platforms...
News Transportation
Cessna Enters New Class of Business Jet with Clean Sheet, 4500-Nmi Aircraft
Cessna Aircraft is crawling into the large business jet category with a clean sheet design, namely, the 4500-nmi Citation Hemisphere and Longitude, joining the...
News Automotive
GM Powertrain Gets More Proactive with CAE
“Simulation powers innovation,” stated Uday Korde, Engineering Group Manager, Powertrain CAE Methods for General Motors, speaking at the recent Dassault Systèmes Regional User Meeting for...
News Automotive
Citroën Plans to Go Boldly on New Suspension System
“Citroën is all about boldness: taking calculated risks and being different,” says Linda Jackson, the U.K. born CEO of the thoroughly French OEM.
News RF & Microwave Electronics
Caterpillar's D6N Dozer Uses Technology to Improve Efficiency, Productivity
Caterpillar says its new D6N dozer delivers a 10 to 15% boost in fuel efficiency and up to 10% better productivity compared to the previous model. It is also the...
INSIDER Aerospace
Army Researchers Add Power and Range to Artillery
Picatinny Arsenal (NJ) engineers are improving artillery by extending its range, power and versatility using an electrically-responsive method to control energetic materials such as propellants....
INSIDER Photonics/Optics
Armor Plating Has Built-In Transparent Ceramic Eyes
Protecting yourself usually involves a tradeoff. If you want maximum physical protection, whether from biting predators or exploding artillery shells, it generally compromises your ability to...
INSIDER Defense
Mineral Could be Used to Create Transparent Armor
Imagine a glass window that’s tough like armor, a camera lens that doesn’t get scratched in a sand storm, or a smartphone that doesn’t break when dropped. Except it’s not glass; it’s a...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
China’s New “Automotive Dragons” Faraday and Baidu Target EV, Autonomous Leadership
Two upstart Chinese companies with big automotive ambitions are grabbing headlines as they lure top engineering and product-development talent— and...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
SAE Security Guideline Set to Provide Structure for Connected Vehicles
Connectivity opens vehicle systems to the dark side of the Internet, forcing automakers to quickly develop strategies to ensure that they don’t join the litany of...
INSIDER Imaging
NASA Takes First Steps Toward Drone Traffic Management
NASA recently successfully demonstrated rural operations of its unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) traffic management (UTM) concept, integrating operator platforms, vehicle performance, and ground infrastructure. The next steps involve further validation through Federal Aviation Administration...
INSIDER Materials
New Methods Detect and Predict Fatigue-Related Aircraft Cracks
Researchers are developing tools and technology to detect the formation of cracks in aircraft components and monitor their progression. The team is conducting comprehensive...
INSIDER Propulsion
Precision NASA Thruster Keeps Spacecraft Still
The European Space Agency’s LISA Pathfinder spacecraft is on its way to space with the Disturbance Reduction System (DRS), a thruster technology developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The...
News Automotive
How Land Rover Took the Lid off the Evoque
When Land Rover designed its highly successful Range Rover Evoque premium compact SUV in 2007-2008, it created 3-door coupe and 5-door versions. But a convertible was not on the alternative body...
News Green Design & Manufacturing
Ford Pumps $4.5B into Electrifying 40% of Its Global Product Line by 2020
Ford Motor Co. is accelerating its electrified vehicle development program, backed by a recent $4.5 billion investment aimed at making 40% of the company’s global...
News Power
Nissan's New Twin-Turbo V6 Powers 2016 Infiniti Q50
The first Nissan twin-turbo V6 to power an Infiniti model debuts in the 2016 Q50 sports sedan, the brand's top-selling model in North America.
News Green Design & Manufacturing
Plug-In Vehicles Await Better Power Electronics
Inside every plug-in vehicle there’s a black box the size of a six-pack cooler that connects the battery to the electric motor. It’s called the power inverter. This crucial, but often...
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Battery Abuse Testing: Pushing to Failure
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Quiet, Please: NVH Improvement Opportunities in the Early Design Cycle
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Advantages of Smart Power Distribution Unit Design for Automotive &...
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Sesame Solar's Nanogrid Tech Promises Major Gains in Drone Endurance