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Designing A New Generation of Rugged Military Electronics
The military electronics industry is reinventing itself as DoD budget cuts are creating a need for rugged solutions that deliver long-term viability. Despite reduced resources, the DoD...
Articles Aerospace
System Interconnects for Today’s Military Vehicles
Continuous improvements in on-board systems are required for military vehicles, because the types of threats they face are always changing. Enemies keep adapting their high-tech...
Application Briefs Defense
Uninterruptible Power Supply
Rugged Power Supply Protects Aircraft Carrier’s Voice-Data-Video Network Node Earl Integrated Power & Controls, a division of Earl Industries (Portsmouth, VA), was enlisted by the U.S. Navy to create an...
Application Briefs Defense
Interoperable Communications Platform
NATO Special Forces Taps Mutualink for Global Cross Coalition Communications NATO Special Operations Forces Headquarters (NSHQ) recently selected Mutualink as its official interoperable communications...
Application Briefs Defense
Fastener Inserts
Fastener Inserts Designed for Lightweight Aerospace Materials Reduce Risks, Costs Ongoing efforts to increase fuel efficiency, tactical mobility, and payload capacity in aerospace design have driven engineers to find numerous...
Articles Weapons Systems
A Fundamental Key to Next-Generation Directed-Energy Systems
Imagine an explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) unit on a routine scouting patrol deep in the notorious “Triangle of Death” south of Baghdad, where marines, sailors, and soldiers...
Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
Modeling Supports Energy-Saving Microwave Technologies
During the Apollo Program, astronauts on the Moon encountered a small menace that created big problems: lunar dust. Similar to how tiny bits of Styrofoam behave on Earth — adhering to...
Articles Electronics & Computers
Using Laser Direct Structuring (LDS) to Create Robust Hardware Security Devices
A wide range of devices are designed to handle, convey and store sensitive information that requires varying degrees of security from protecting low level...
Articles Electronics & Computers
VPX-SC N-dimensional Supercomputing Architectures Come To The Critical Embedded Systems Market
From the first computers of the 1940s through the machines of the 1990s, all computer systems were CPUbound. In other words, the I/O interfaces could...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
Radio Amplifier
AR Modular RF (Bothell, WA) has received JITC certification for its KMW2030 tactical radio amplifier system when used with the Harris PRC-117G tactical radio. It has been previously certified for use with the PRC 117F and the...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
GPS Protector
Times Microwave (Wallingford, CT) offers the Times-Protect® LPGPX- 05-T high-performance lightning protector for RF communications networks. The DC pass design enables protection of GPS receivers requiring up to 5Vdc power to be...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
Power Amplifiers
Hittite Microwave Corp. (Chelms ford, MA) has introduced three power amplifier die products for microwave and millimeterwave radios, Ka-band VSAT, and military and space applications from 27.5 to 46.5 GHz. The HMC1014 is a...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
Receiver/Monitor
Integrated Microwave Technologies (Mt. Olive, NJ) offers the PSRX6-D Portable Surveillance Receiver, a portable ruggedized, six-way COFDM (DVB-T compliant) diversity receiver/monitor. The unit displays COFDM video transmissions...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
Multilayer Bandpass Filter
TDK Corporation of America (Irving, TX) has introduced the DEA102450BT-1278A1 multilayer bandpass filter in size 1005 with dimensions of 1.0 x 0.5 x 0.37 mm. The filter is designed for the 2.4 GHz band, and is...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
Attenuators
Narda Microwave-East, an L-3 Communications company (Hauppauge, NY), has introduced the Model 769A family of bidirectional coaxial fixed attenuators for general-purpose and test and measurement applications. They operate from DC to...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
Push-On Connectors
Carlisle Interconnect Technologies (St. Augustine, FL) has announced the TMP® and WMP® series push-on connectors. The TMP family is designed to provide higher power handling capacity, similar to an SMA connector, for use in...
Products
Conditioning Boards Digital I/O Signal
WinSystems (Arlington, TX) has introduced two new isolated digital signal conditioning and termination boards for applications requiring signal isolation between a computer and its monitoring/control...
Products
Thermoelectric Air Conditioners
TECA Corporation (Chicago, IL) has introduced the AHP-4250 family of thermoelectric air conditioners that feature a cooling capacity of 3,600 BTU/HR. All configurations include either a coolonly TC-4F or a...
Products
Voltage Synchronous Switching Regulator Controller
M.S. Kennedy Corp. (Liverpool, NY) has introduced the MSK 5055RH, a radiation-hardened, high-input voltage range step-down synchronous switching regulator controller. The controllers are...
Products
Virtual Machine Server
General Micro Systems (Rancho Cucamonga, CA) has introduced the “Zeus” (SCZ91X), a “super-server” that uses a hypervisor to concurrently run numerous, fully independent operating systems (guests). Using a...
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COTS Computer
Aitech Defense Systems (Chatsworth, CA) has released a compact RediBuilt rugged COTS computer that boots and executes a real-time operating system right out of the box. The computer, measuring less than 0.22 ft3, accommodates...
Products
Rugged Vehicle Displays
GE Intelligent Platforms (Huntsville, AL) has announced the IVD2010 and IVD2015 Rugged Intelligent Vehicle Displays. The 10.4"-screen IVD2010 and 15"-screen IVD2015 XGA (1024 × 768) resolution smart displays both...
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COTS/MOTS Power Converters
Schaefer (Hopkinton, MA) has announced broadened capabilities for its Raptor Series of military power supplies. The Raptor Series’ output voltage range is now extended to provide DC outputs from 12 VDC to 52.5 VDC,...
Products
Quad Serial FPDP Modules
Pentek (Upper Saddle River, NJ) offers two Quad Serial FPDP (Front Panel Data Port) modules with a Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGA: the Model 71611 XMC module and the Model 7811 native PCI Express card. These new Serial FPDP...
Products
Remote Measurement Display
Setra Systems (Boxborough, MA) has introduced its Remote Measurement Display, allowing for clear and remote viewing capabilities of real-time “at a glance” HVAC/R conditions, ensuring effective climate control...
Products
Fiber Optic Connectors
L-com (North Andover, MA) has added new products to its lineup of industrial, ruggedized, and Mil-Spec fiber optic products, including connectors, adapters, and connector/adapter dust covers. The new products, designed...
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Rotating Machinery Analysis Module
Microstar Laboratories (Bellevue, WA) has announced the release of a new Rotating Machinery Analysis Module, with software tools to facilitate mixed time measurements and rotation measurements of rotating...
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SWIR 15 Micron Camera
The Tau® SWIR 15 micron camera from FLIR Systems (Colorado Springs, CO)is a low-power, shortwave imager that incorporates FLIR’s new 15 micron pixel 640 × 515 InGaAs focal plane array. The system delivers sensitivity...
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Unmanned Vehicle Computers
Technology Advancement Group® (TAG®) (Virginia Beach, VA) have expanded their rugged small form factor computer research and development to focus on designing custom Mini-Brick™ computers that are lighter and take...
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