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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 and...
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 Test & Measurement
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 by...
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. The...
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, non-conductive...
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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 programmable...
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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 the...
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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 NAG...
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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 and...
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 Weapons Systems
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 the...
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 applications...
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 molecular-beam-epitaxy...
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 nanometers...
Briefs Photonics/Optics
Kinetic Modeling of Laser-Induced D-T Fusion
A computational- simulation study was performed to assess the feasibility of laser-induced fusion of deuterium nuclei with tritium nuclei as a means of generating neutrons for use in neutron...
Articles Defense
Considerations for Thermal Management of Printed Wiring Boards
Remaining at the forefront of technological advancements in the printed wiring industry requires a proven combination of process methodology, state-of-the-art processing equipment,...
Articles Connectivity
Rugged Computing Power for Small Platforms
Sensor-based imaging systems generate invaluable information for modern warfare, but a serious challenge exists to the timely use of that information. Data links that provide the transmission backbone...
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Data Transfer Systems
Targa Systems Division of L-3 Communications (Ottawa, ON, Canada) offers Serial ATA (SATA) data transfer systems for military and aerospace applications. Two versions of the SATA data transfer systems are available: the...
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Embedded Data Collection
MapuSoft Technologies (Mobile, AL) has released OS PAL (OS Porting and Abstraction Lab) Version 1.3 with the Profiler feature. The feature is an add-on to the OS PAL Eclipse-based code migration and API optimization...
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Thermal Imaging Camera
Thermoteknix (Cambridge, UK) has introduced the Miricle 110K-25 thermal imaging camera that incorporates a 25- micron detector and 384 × 288 uncooled microbolometer focal plane array detectors. They are sensitive in...
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Rugged Mobile Computers
The ARMOR™ convertible notebook and ARMOR™ tablet PC from DRS Tactical Systems, a unit of DRS Technologies (Parsippany, NJ), offer data protection technology and sunlightreadable display options. They provide MIL-STD-810F durability and use Intel processors and an array of communications options, including...
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