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Surveillance Systems
New Surveillance System Provides Round-the-Clock Coverage Logos Technologies has begun delivery of the first two electro- optical/infrared Kestrel wide-area persistent surveillance systems to the U.S. Army for deployment...
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Weapons Control System Computer
COTS I/O and Processor Technology Controls Machine Guns Engineers from SSAI (Support Systems Associates, Inc.) have selected commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) 3U CompactPCI technology from North Atlantic...
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Expanding the Use of Aerial Downlinks
Today, airborne downlinks are no longer limited to strategic command applications. More and more, first responders, fire departments, EMS personnel, and others are employing airborne downlinks to meet a...
Application Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
Microwave Radiometers Help Keep Aircraft Safe From Icing
One of the greatest dangers to aircraft — playing a role in numerous destructive and fatal accidents around the world — comes in the form of droplets of water. In clean air, cloud...
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Switch
California Eastern Laboratories (Santa Clara, CA) has released the uPG2430T6Z, a compact SP3T switch for applications up to 6 GHz. The switch is used for single- or dualband 802.11a,b,g,n Wi-Fi/WLAN + Bluetooth, cordless phones, mobile...
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Amplifier
Applied System Engineering (Fort Worth, TX) offers the Model 176X/Ku TWT amplifier that provides up to 2 Kilowatts at duty cycles up to 6% from 1.0 to 18 GHz, and pulse widths up to 100 μseconds. It is designed to operate pulsed...
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RF Inductors
AVX Corp. (Fountain Inn, SC) offers the MLO™ 0402 Series, a multilayer organic RF inductor in a 0402 case size that provides tight tolerance in a small footprint. Providing high-Q and high self-resonance, the RoHScompliant...
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RF Module
RF Micro Devices (Greensboro, NC) has released the RFFM6201, a 2.4-GHz band single-chip Zigbee® front-end module (FEM) featuring an integrated power amplifier, low-noise amplifier, and diversity switch. It delivers current...
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RF Test System
AR RF/Microwave Instrumentation (Souderton, PA) has introduced the MT06000 multi-tone RF test system for radiated immunity testing. The 80-Mz to 6-GHz system includes all necessary instruments for radiated immunity testing per...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
RF Interconnects
TE Connectivity (Harrisburg, PA) has announced KOAXXA RF SMA interconnects for largescale manufacturing and assembly automation. The connector design reduces material consumption, and advanced plating puts the precious metals...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
Cable Connectors
Times Microwave Systems (Wallingford, CT) offers the EZ-400-BM BNC no-solder male (plug) straight connector, and the EX-400-BM-RA BNC no-solder male (plug) right-angle connector for LMR-400 low-loss coaxial cable. The...
Articles Electronics & Computers
VPX: The State of the Ecosystem
You can never have too much bandwidth. High-speed processing and growing amounts of data to be communicated require generous bandwidth from the board level to the I/O. VPX, with a backplane connector system...
Articles Electronics & Computers
Thin Cavity Cooling of Electronic Circuitry
Anovel tested technology for cooling electronic circuitry is also useful in many other industries. The method is called “Thin Cavity Fluidic Heat Exchanger”(TCFHE). Technology details can be...
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Embedded Video Requirements Drive New Mezzanine Card Format
Sophisticated graphics have hit the embedded systems world and are increasingly demanded by military, aerospace, industrial, and medical applications. The problem, of course, is that...
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Army Laboratory Tests Human Behavior
Along the winding Snake Hill road in the Picatinny Arsenal 3500 area sits the Target Behavioral Response Laboratory (TBRL), which is responsible for providing answers to what engineers developing products...
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DoD Funds ‘Hostile Environment’ Control Technology Research
A Boise State University materials science researcher, along with engineers from Arizona State University, has received a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to...
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Upgraded Tactical Communications Network Passes Cold Weather Test
Even after being frozen overnight at negative 35-degree temperatures in the severe winter conditions of Alaska, the elements of the Army's second- generation tactical...
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Researchers Build Robot Jellyfish
Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas and Virginia Tech have created an undersea vehicle inspired by the common jellyfish that runs on renewable energy and could be used in ocean rescue and...
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Military Evaluates Vertical-Lift Aircraft Designs
The military services expect to unveil performance specifications this summer for a new joint vertical-lift aircraft, Maj. Gen. William T. Crosby told congressmen. Crosby, director of the Army's...
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Gas 'Plume' Detection System Could Protect Soldiers, First Responders
A wind monitoring and modeling system being developed by the Army Research Laboratory's (ARL) White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) division could one day protect soldiers and...
Briefs Information Technology
Comparison of Subpixel Phase Correlation Methods for Image Registration
When working sequences of images, registration of the frames to a common point of reference is an essential prerequisite for many types of image analysis. The phase...
Articles Test & Measurement
Improving Battlefield Connectivity for Dismounted Forces
The warfighter couldn’t take it anymore. His team’s mission was to sweep villages, collect fingerprints, photograph irises, and compare these biometric indicators against a registry...
Articles Aerospace
Laser Detection System Technology
While most ordnance is now laserguided, there is still much work to be done on the defensive detection of laser designators. Hence the growing need for advanced laser-warning systems (LWS). While multiple...
Application Briefs Defense
Fluorosilicones
A broad operating temperature range, fuel resistance and long-term reliability are some of the unique properties of fluorosilicones that make them useful in aerospace applications. To demonstrate their effectiveness, NuSil...
Application Briefs Electronics & Computers
Silicone Cables: Silicone Encased Cables Make Military Robots More Reliable
Cicoil’s highly flexible and durable flat silicone cables are being used on unmanned ground based military robotic vehicles that require absolute reliability in mission critical and extreme environment conditions. Unlike bulky and stiffer round cables, flat silicone...
Application Briefs Aerospace
AWACS Real-Time Operating System
LynuxWorks, Inc. announced recently that the Mission Systems and Sensors Division (MS2) of Lockheed Martin in Owego, NY, selected the LynxOS real-time operating system (RTOS) and Luminosity Integrated...
Articles Aerospace
Architecture of the Air Force Satellite Control Network
The Air Force Satellite Control Network (AFSCN) is a worldwide network of ground stations that supports a variety of users from NASA to the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). The...
Application Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
Mission Data Transmitted Successfully With Network Gateway
In the 1990s, when laying the groundwork for its missile defense shield, the Pentagon realized that if it wanted to provide an effective defense against ballistic missile attack, it...
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