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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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Heat Pipe Enhanced Card Frames

Advanced Cooling Technologies’ (ACT) (Lancaster, PA) high conductivity (k) VME and VPX frames feature embedded heat pipes to greatly increase heat transfer. This includes a technique to embed heat pipes that...

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Transceivers

Linear Technology Corporation (Milpitas, CA) has released automotive (H-grade) and high-reliability military (MP-grade) versions of the LTM2881 and LTM2882, isolated μModule® transceivers, which guard against large...

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Code Analysis Tool Suite

LDRA Ltd. (Wirral, Merseyside, UK) has extended the integration of the LDRA source code analysis tool suite with MathWorks Simulink modeling tools. With the integration, Simulink model test vectors can confirm an...

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Quad-Core Computer-on-Module

The conga-QMX6 Qseven Computer-on-Module from congatec (San Diego, CA) is equipped with the Freescale i.MX6 ARM Cortex A9 processor. The processor product line, scalable from 1 to 4 ARM cores, features a 3D-ready HD...

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Defense

Engineers to Add Arms and Hands to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), such as those used by the military for surveillance and reconnaissance, could be getting a hand – and an arm – from engineers at Drexel University...

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Defense

New Software Can Identify Coverage Problems Before Network Deployment

A Tennessee company has licensed award-winning software from Oak Ridge National Laboratory that will help industries install wireless networks more cost-effectively in...

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Defense

Researchers Use Graphene to Make Wireless Communications More Flexible

Michael Lekas and Sunwoo Lee, electrical engineering Ph.D. candidates, have been awarded a Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QInF) and the accompanying $100,000 prize. They...

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Defense

Army Developing Female-Specific Body Armor

Today, both male and female soldiers wear body armor that has been designed for men. But next summer the Army plans to field a new type of body armor designed for women that will be shorter in the...

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Defense

Army Stryker Units Get Armed With Precision Mortars

The first-ever Accelerated Precision Mortar Initiative round fired from a Stryker vehicle in Afghanistan accomplished what few conventional 120mm high-explosive mortars can achieve - a direct...

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Photonics/Optics

Air Force Uses 3-D Scanner to Model Aircraft

When the 46th Test Wing's Air Force SEEK EAGLE Office purchased a 3-D laser scanner system six months ago, they had no idea how much of an impact the system would make.

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Aerospace

UAV Applications Challenge the Limits of Embedded Computing Technologies

Unmanned Vehicles (UAV/UAS) have proven to be vital, strategic new weapons in the military’s arsenal by providing needed critical intelligence, surveillance and...

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Aerospace

Testing Ethernet Based Avionics in Aircraft

Since the 1970’s, military aircraft avionics systems have communicated via the MIL-STD-1553 bus. This has proven to be a very effective method, and is still in widespread use today. MIL-STD-1553 is...

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Aerospace

New Honing Technology Improves Aerospace Accuracy

Invented more than 70 years ago to de-glaze cylinder bores in early automobile engines, conventional honing today is meeting the most advanced aerospace requirements for ultra-precise machined...

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Electronics & Computers

Embedded Graphics Processor

Rockwell Collins (Cedar Rapids, IA), a designer of communications and avionics systems for the aerospace and defense industries, has selected the AMD Radeon™ E2400 embedded graphics processor for inclusion in its...

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Software

SWORD Simulation Software

MASA Group, a developer of Artificial Intelligence (AI)- based Modeling & Simulation (M&S) software for the defense, public safety, emergency management, and serious games markets, has launched SWORD 5.0, the...

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Defense

Telescoping Poles

U.S. Army and Marine troops have cultivated a creative, lifesaving technology out of heavy-duty telescoping poles. The CMD fiberglass telescoping push/pull rods, normally used for cable and wire management applications, are...

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Electronics & Computers

Rugged Processors and Ethernet Switches

GE (Towcester, UK) will be supplying General Dynamics UK with subsystems required for the Demonstration Phase of the Scout Specialist Vehicle family of platforms being designed for the British Army. The...

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Semiconductors & ICs

Accelerated Processing Unit

With average power below 13 Watts and discrete-class AMD Radeon™ graphics performance integrated into the AMD (Sunnyvale, CA) R-Series APU (Accelerated Processing Unit), applications that previously required a...

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Electronics & Computers

Temperature Control System

For the production of composite components, SINGLE Temperature Controls (Charlotte, NC) provides hot-water temperature control systems for temperatures up to 437°F. The ATT (Alternating Temperature Technology) units...

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Electronics & Computers

3U CompactPCI, OpenVPX Computers

Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing (CWCEC), a business group of Curtiss- Wright Controls (Charlotte, NC), has introduced 5-slot natural convection-cooled rugged ½ ATRstyle 3U CompactPCI and VPX systems....

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Electronics & Computers

Flash Memory

Aeroflex (Colorado Springs, CO) offers the UT8QNF8M8 64Mbit NOR Flash Memory, a rad-tolerant 3-volt memory organized as 8Mx8 or 4Mx16. For both read and write functions, the UT8QNF8M8 NOR Flash operates from a single power supply...

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Electronics & Computers

VME Single Board Computer

Interface Concept (Briec-de-l’Odet, France) has introduced a VME board based on the Intel® Core™2 Duo processor SL9380/SU9300 associated to the Intel®3100 Chipset. The VME64x- VITA31.1-compliant IC-DC2-VMEb board...

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Electronics & Computers

Rugged Tablet Computer

The programmable, customizable Hydra-T3™ tablet from InHand Electronics (Rockville, MD) features the Pixel Qi WSVGA display with analog resistive multi-touch capabilities. The tablet is powered by InHand’s flagship...

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Electronics & Computers

Precision Oscillators

Lemos International (Barrington, RI) offers a full range of RFX precision SC cut oscillators. RFX (Livingston, Scotland) designs and manufactures standard and customized high frequency precision OCXO, TCXO, VCXO, and PLL...

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