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Test and Evaluation Uses of Heterogeneous Computing
T est and evaluation of current systems is a time-consuming process that reflects both the intricacies of the object of the test and the range of equipment, personnel, and environments required. Many argue that this process consumes far too much of the time that it takes to put new systems into...
Briefs Test & Measurement
Process for Testing Aeromedical Equipment
Medical devices are designed to function in environmentally controlled locations, such as stationary hospitals, and not within the harsh, dynamic aircraft environment. Yet, the same medical devices used...
Briefs Materials
Gallium Nitride High-Power Electronics
Gallium nitride (GaN) high-power electronic (HPE) devices have the potential to outperform those made from 4H-silicon carbide (SiC), the polytype used for HPE devices, because it has a larger critical...
Briefs Photonics/Optics
Room-Temperature Sub-Diffraction-Limited Plasmon Laser
Lasers present the means to deliver powerful, coherent, and directional high-frequency electromagnetic energy. However, the diffraction limit of light imposes fundamental constraints on how...
Briefs Photonics/Optics
Rare-Earth-Doped Soft Glass Optical Fibers for Coherent Wavelength Sources Above 2 Microns
Rare-earth-doped soft glass optical fibers were developed and characterized for fiber lasers emitting at wavelengths longer than 2 microns to allow...
Briefs Physical Sciences
Ultrasonic Guided Wave Analysis for Detecting and Classifying Damage in a Thin Metallic Plate
A ircraft and rotorcraft structures are being redesigned with new lower weight materials; however, older metallic structures continue to be used. These older structures need monitoring and characterization of damage for con- tinued operation. The use of...
Articles Robotics, Automation & Control
Making Unmanned Ground Vehicles Operate More Autonomously
The US Army has announced plans to increase the autonomy of its Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs). “We are moving along that spectrum from tele-operating to semi-autonomy where you can...
Articles Unmanned Systems
Using Java in Avionics and UAV Applications
Though developers of avionics software are among the most conservative in the software engineering community, and rightly so, Java is beginning to penetrate even this very specialized industry. The...
Application Briefs Defense
Hybrid Energy Storage System Designed for Tanks and Stryker Vehicles
Hybrid battery systemInternational BatteryAllentown, PA610-366-3925 International Battery has been given a contract from the U.S. Army’s Tank Automotive Research,...
Application Briefs Defense
Test Systems Simulate Several Impact Scenarios
Lansmont Corp. engineers have developed the active impact surface design technology for several test machines currently installed at the Army Research Laboratory in Adelphi, Maryland and the Air...
Tech Transfer Reports Photonics/Optics
Deformable Mirrors Improve High-Energy Laser Accuracy
The Missile Defense Agency-funded Optical Physics Company (Calabasas, CA) has developed a new generation of deformable mirror systems that minimize unwanted surface distortion caused by the...
Articles Aerospace
Surveillance Technology Offers 3D Security Monitoring
A new, versatile imaging technology quickly gives users accurate three-dimensional depictions of objects being tracked. The image system, developed by Visidyne, Inc. (Burlington, MA),...
Articles Electronics & Computers
Adapting ATCA Technology to Mil/Aero Applications
The military’s transition to Network-Centric Warfare (NCW) has created an enormous demand for improved networking and performance capabilities for ground mobile command and control...
Articles Electronics & Computers
The Evolution of CompactPCI From Parallel to Serial I/O
The true worth of an industry standard is measured in its ability to stand the test of time. From the onset, the system configuration, hardware components, and integration strategy all...
Products Electronics & Computers
PCI Filter and Amplifier Module
Alligator Technologies (Costa Mesa, CA) has introduced the USBPGF-S1™, a USB controlled single channel programmable signal conditioning instrumentation amplifier and low pass filter. It can configure itself...
Products Electronics & Computers
Processing Platform
The Zynq™-7000 Extensible Processing Platform (EPP) devices from Xilinx (San Jose, CA) integrate an ARM® dual-core Cortex®-A9 MPCore™ processing system with NEON and Double Precision Floating Point engine. Each...
Products Electronics & Computers
Single Board Computers
MPL AG (Dättwill, Switzerland) announced that it is now offering QNX support for its PIP20 and PIP22 embedded computers with Core 2 Duo processors. Triadem Solutions AG (Biel, Switzerland), the official QNX distributor...
Products Electronics & Computers
DC-DC Switching Regulator
Aimtec (Montreal, Canada) has expanded its line of DC/DC switching regulators with the launch of two new series: AMSR1.5-78-NZ and AMSR2-78-NZ (AMSRx-78-NZ). Feature rich with pin-to-pin replacements of 78xx linear...
Products Electronics & Computers
FPGA-Based Prototyping Platform
BEEcube Inc. (Fremont, CA) has announced the availability of BEE4-W™. Specifically designed to address rapid system-level prototyping of wireless and digital communications designs, the BEE4-W is BEEcube’s...
Products Electronics & Computers
PCI Express Serial Communication Cards
ACCES I/O Products (San Diego, CA) has released a new family of isolated PCI Express serial communication cards — the PCIe-ICM Series. These PCI Express cards feature a selection of 4 or 2-ports of...
Articles Aerospace
Automating Radiation Effects Mitigation with FPGA Synthesis
FPGA designers of aerospace and defense applications have long wrestled with radiation effects. More recently, due to shrinking technology nodes, concerns have arisen about...
Articles Photonics/Optics
Designing COTS Optics Into Defense Projects
When settling in to design a new optical device for a defense application, it is often desirable to use Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) optical components wherever possible. COTS optics offer many...
Articles Aerospace
Thermal Management Techniques for Military Embedded Computers
As military programs continue to place an ever growing reliance on embedded computer systems, developments in rugged computer design must continue to advance to keep pace with this...
Application Briefs Defense
Partnership Begins on Maintenance-Support Docking Station
Sealevel Systems was selected to design and manufacture docking stations for VT Miltope’s At-Platform Automatic Test Systems (APATS) Integrated Family of Test Equipment (IFTE)...
Application Briefs Defense
Projectors Enhance US Army Flight Simulations
The US Army Aviation and Missile Research Development and Engineering Center (AMRDEC), the Army’s focal point for aviation and missile platform research, has replaced its aging projectors with six...
Application Briefs Defense
Low-Voltage Platform Powers US Army's Fuel Efficient Ground Vehicle Demonstrator (FED)
Kollmorgen has released an in-line variant of its lightweight, low voltage Power Generation System, which will be used by the United States Army to deliver...
Briefs Physical Sciences
Disposable Chemical Sensor and Wireless Communication Device
A disposable chemical sensor and temperature device has been developed that may be dropped into building rubble or other areas not accessible by rescue personnel to test the environment in the rubble. The system also provides wireless two-way communication and control to obtain...
Briefs Information Technology
360-Degree Visual Detection and Target Tracking on an Autonomous Surface Vehicle
Operation of autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs) poses a number of challenges, including vehicle survivability for long-duration missions in hazardous and possibly...
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