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High-Resolution, Measurement-Based, Phase-Resolved Prediction of Ocean Wavefields
Given remote and direct physical measurements of a realistic ocean wavefield, the goal of this work was to obtain a high-resolution description of the wavefield...
Briefs Physical Sciences
Measuring Impact Damage to Toughened CFRP Laminates with Time Domain Reflectometry
Laminated Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) composites are very effective in weight saving in aeronautical structural components. For these laminated CFRP...
Briefs Physical Sciences
Testing Mechanical Properties of Polymer-Based Multi- Phase Particulate Composites
Polymer composites comprised of metallic particles distributed throughout a contiguous polymer matrix can often be modified to produce advanced composites that...
Briefs Physical Sciences
Humanlike Articulated Robotic Headform for Respirator Fit Testing
The testing of individual respiratory protection (IRP) devices is now accomplished with panels of human wearers. Historical at tempts to simulate the human face and head have...
Articles Aerospace
Eyes In The Sky
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are critical to today’s intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) missions, supplying valuable aerial imagery to ground forces. Small UAV systems are a highly flexible ISR solution...
Articles Software
MISRA C:2012
For C programmers working on safety-critical applications, following restrictions and guidelines to ensure safe-coding practices can be painful. Features of the language designed to make your work easier, more efficient, or provide...
Application Briefs Defense
Armor Kits for Heavy Trucks
Over the last several years, the Army has initiated and implemented a Long Term Armor Strategy (LTAS). The LTAS provides modular armor protection for vehicles that vary dependent upon threat levels. The B-Kit...
Application Briefs Imaging
F-16 Full Mission Trainers
L-3 Communications announced that its Link Simulation & Training (L-3 Link) division has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Wright- Patterson Air Force Base near...
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
GaN in Plastic Enables Next-Generation Radar and Communication Systems
Future trends for military radar require multifunction systems that combine radar, communications, and electronic warfare. This higher level of functional integration...
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
System Could Detect Concealed Person-Borne Bombs at a Distance
The recent tragic events at the Boston Marathon illustrate the growing and critical need for the detection of person-borne improvised explosive devices (PBIEDS). Such systems, in...
Articles Electronics & Computers
CompactPCI Steps Into the Future
CompactPCI Serial has proven to be a beneficial technology upgrade for a number of embedded systems designers accustomed to working with the legacy CompactPCI platform. Not only does CompactPCI Serial bring...
Articles Electronics & Computers
The Evolution of AdvancedTCA: From telecommunications to military, aerospace and security
The Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture (AdvancedTCA® or ATCA®) is a series of open standard computing platform specifications originally ratified...
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Thermal Cloak Heat Barrier
Concept Group (West Berlin, NJ) is developing the Insulon® Thermal Cloak™ heat barrier for use on automatic weapons. The barrier, which is attached to the fore-end of the weapon, uses a hair-thin Shaped Vacuum™...
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Analyzer Remote Control
Agilent Technologies (Santa Clara, CA) has announced that its FieldFox handheld analyzers can now be remotely controlled via an iOS device such as an iPad or iPhone. Also new are a spectrum analysis time-gating option...
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RF Transceiver
Linx Technologies (Merlin, OR) offers the DP1203 Series radio-only RF transceiver module for the wireless transmission of digital data at rates of up to 152.3 kbps. Operating in the 433, 868, and 915 MHz license-free ISM...
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MIL-STD-1553 Transceiver/Transformer Device
Data Device Corporation (Bohemia, New York) has introduced a radiation-tolerant SPACE-PHY +5V Dual MIL-STD-1553 Transceiver/ Transformer Device. SPACE-PHY is an integrated MIL-STD-1553 physical layer...
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Capacitive Touch Sensing Tools
Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX) has announced a new software library, sensor tuning GUI, design collateral, and support for additional microcontrollers (MCU). TI’s MSP430™ MCUs operate at less than...
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PCIe Carrier Card
The APCe8675 carrier card from Acromag (Wixom, MI) allows a PC to communicate with an XMC mezzanine module over a PCI Express (PCIe) bus. Acromag’s FPGA modules, or other XMC modules, can be inserted on the carrier card. The...
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RF Switch
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp. (San Diego, CA) has released the PE95421 SPDT RF switch. Manufactured on Peregrine’s UltraCMOS® technology, the PE95421 switch is resistant to total dose and single-event radiation effects. The switch...
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3U OpenVPX Backplanes
Pixus Technologies (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) has announced new 3U OpenVPX backplanes in 5-slot and 6-slot sizes. The 5-slot OpenVPX backplane features a mesh topology, and the 6-slot version has a distributed topology....
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