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GigE Vision and Video Transmission in Military Vehicles
Video plays a crucial role in defense and security, and video streams are now used in armored vehicles for target acquisition, Local Situation Awareness, and other military...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Laser-Based System for Measuring and Analyzing Vibrations
A system for noncontact measurement and analysis of vibrations of an electronic circuit board or a similar lightweight, nominally flat, rectangular object has been developed. This...
Articles Unmanned Systems
Multi-Robot Operator Control Unit for Unmanned Systems
The U.S. military has incorporated many robotic systems into battlefield scenarios over the past several years, ranging from a single vehicle or unattended sensor to multiple vehicles...
Briefs Materials
Testing Silver-Coated Nylon Fibers as Electrical Conductors
Tests have been performed in an effort to gain understanding of electrical and mechanical properties of silver-coated nylon fibers subjected to stresses and strains and exposed to...
Briefs Physical Sciences
Improvements in Measurement of Permeability and Permittivity
The two-transmission method is an improved method of determining, from microwave measurements, the complex permeability and complex permittivity of a sample of a material typified...
Briefs Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Biaxial and Shear Testing Apparatus With Force Controls
An apparatus for in-plane biaxial tension/compression and in-plane shear testing of fabrics, other flexible sheet materials, or relatively rigid thin plate materials has been invented....
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Effects of High-Power Microwave Pulses on Electronic Systems
A five-year program comprising several coordinated research efforts was devoted to increasing understanding and developing capabilities for computational modeling of the effects of...
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Card Enclosures
Carlo Gavazzi Computing Solutions (Brockton, MA) has introduced the 700 Series Air Transport Rack (ATR) rugged enclosures for cooling in a range of harsh environment applications. The enclosures protect air-cooled cards,...
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Rugged Computer with Heated Touchscreen
Glacier Computer (New Milford, CT) offers a heated touchscreen for its Everest line of computers. The heated touchscreen enables the computer to be used in harsh environments in which the computer goes...
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Electronics Enclosure
The Multi-Platform Enclosure (MPE) from SprayCool (Liberty Lake, WA) uses a two-phase cooling technology for use in mission-critical military applications. The technology uses a fine mist of non-corrosive,...
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Rugged Fixed Power Supply
The MFP-1200 military-grade 28 Vdc power supply from Amrel/American Reliance (El Monte, CA) powers DC devices in harsh outdoor environments. The 1.2-kW system is housed in a 16 × 7.5 × 3.5" package....
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Relay Test System
The 303-Relay Test System from SemiTek International (Richardson, TX) is a parametric relay test system that features user-friendly operating software and a modular design for inspection applications. It features...
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Network Modeling & Simulation Software
Scalable Network Technologies (Los Angeles, CA) has released QualNet 4.5 modeling and simulation software for predicting wireless, wired, and mixed-platform network and networking device performance in...
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Mathematical Software
Numerical Algorithms Group (Lisle, IL) has introduced the NAG Toolbox for MATLAB ®, which gives users access to more than 1,300 additional math and statistical algorithms within the MATLAB environment through the...
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Active Label Chip
IDS Microchip AG (Wollerau SZ, Switzerland) has introduced the IDS-SL 13A smart active label chip that automatically tracks, monitors, time-stamps, and records information about any product in a supply chain on land, on the...
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Multi-Layer Ambient Sensors
Saelig (Pittsford, NY) has released the UPSICAP™ line of passive and active sensors that measure ambient temperature and relative humidity. The 9 × 8-mm passive elements vary capacitance with humidity...
Briefs Photonics/Optics
Near-Field Light Lenses for Nano-Focusing of Beams of Atoms
Near-field light lenses for focusing beams of light and beams of atoms to spots having a width of no more than several nanometers are undergoing development. There are numerous...
Briefs Photonics/Optics
Developments in Adaptive Filtering and System Identification
Progress has been made on several fronts in a continuing program of research oriented toward the development of real-time algorithms, and computer and control systems that utilize...
Briefs Materials
Electrochromic Devices for Controlling Infrared Emissivity
Electrochromic devices that exhibited adjustable infrared emissivity were developed in a research program that was part of a larger effort to develop adaptive infrared camouflage....
Briefs Materials
Aligned MWCNTs as Thermal Conductors in Adhesive Joints
A developmental method of increasing the thermal conductance of an adhesive joint in a composite-material structure (or between a composite-material structure and another structure)...
Briefs Physical Sciences
Infrared-Sensitive Photorefractive Polymer Composite Devices
Polymer composites that are photorefractive at visible and near- infrared wavelengths, and devices that exploit their photorefractivity, have been demonstrated. Potential...
Briefs Information Technology
Cooperative Control of Robotic Aircraft
A document reviews a multidisciplinary research program oriented toward development of a rigorous theoretical foundation, and scalable analytical tools and paradigms, for construction of cooperative, networked control for numerous autonomous and semi-autonomous aircraft. This research has addressed issues...
Briefs Materials
Oxide and Nitride Films for Tunable Capacitors and HEMTs
A report describes research on thin oxide films intended for use as variable-high-permittivity dielectrics in advanced tunable capacitors and on thin nitride films as starting materials for advanced high-electron- mobility transistors (HEMTs). In this research, a custom...
Briefs Materials
Flexible Biohybrid Nanomembranes for Multifunctional Sensors
A document describes recent activities in a continuing effort to develop devices, based on biohybrid nanomembranes, that would perform diverse sensory functions. The term "biohybrid nanomembranes" signifies flexible organic/inorganic composite membranes, of the order of tens of...
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