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Mobile Secure Router
The LN1000 mobile secure router from Juniper Networks (Sunnyvale, CA) is an 8 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) port, ruggedized blade router that provides radio router protocol support with hardware based queuing and an integrated...
Products Electronics & Computers
Embedded Graphics Card
VIA Technologies (Taipei, Taiwan) has announced the world’s first graphics card designed specifically for the embedded market. The VIA eH1 AIB features an advanced DirectX 10.1, OpenGL 3.1, OpenGL ES 2.0 compatible...
Application Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
Maintaining Mobility
Fuel is one of the top three logistics drivers on the battlefield, along with water and ammunition. Fuel powers the vehicles that mobilize troops and keep communications and supply chains running, and is used in the...
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Making A Case for Modified COTS
In 1992 the Department of Defense (DOD) was exploring ways to reduce the procurement costs and delivery times of equipment purchases having to meet military standards. The development, documentation and...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
Handheld RF Vector Network Analyzers
Anritsu Company (Morgan Hill, CA) has introduced the MS202xB/MS203xB VNA Master™ series handheld RF vector network analyzers (VNAs). With frequency coverage from 500 kHz to 4/6 GHz, and featuring...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
RF Energy Harvesting Kit
Powercast Corporation (Pittsburgh, PA) has introduced its Lifetime Power® Energy Harvesting Development Kit for Battery Charging. The kit features near-lossless energy storage and efficient charging via the THINERGY®...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
RF and Universal Frequency Counter/Timer
Agilent Technologies (Santa Clara, CA) has introduced the Agilent 53200 RF and universal frequency counter/timer series, the first frequency counters with LXI Class C compliance. The Agilent 53200 RF and...
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Processing Card
Nallatech (Camarillo, CA) has announced the AMC-420, a mid-/full-size processing card. The PICMG® AMC.0 R2.0 compliant card features a Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGA and a range of devices that include logic-oriented LXT and DSP-oriented...
Products Materials
Borosilicate Glass
SCHOTT North America, Inc. (Louisville, KY) presents SUPREMAX® 33 rolled borosilicate glass for telescope applications. SUPREMAX 33, which has the properties of SCHOTT’s BOROFLOAT® 33, provides low thermal expansion, high...
Products Photonics/Optics
AR Coatings for Optical Fibers
Laser Components (Hudson, NH) offers both assembled cables, including coated fibers, and job coatings on fibers supplied by the customer. They also offer anti-reflection coatings, which significantly reduce...
Products Photonics/Optics
Surveillance Sensor
The Hyperspec Point & Stare sensor from Headwall Photonics (Fitchburg, MA) is a fully integrated imaging sensor used for unattended, ground-based surveillance applications. The sensor identifies objects based on the target's...
Products Electronics & Computers
Controller and Linear Stage
Newport Corporation (Irvine, CA) has introduced the compact CONEX-AGP controller, preconfigured with an AgilisTM AG-LS25-27P linear stage that includes a miniature, built-in, direct-read linear encoder. The...
Products Imaging
PCI Frame Grabber
The PIXCI® SV5L low-profile frame grabber from EPIX (Buffalo Grove, IL) acquires video from NTSC, RS-170, PAL, CCIR, or S-Video cameras. A 3-input video multiplexer allows signal selection from two mini-BNC or one S-Video...
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Thermoelectric Cooler
Nextreme Thermal Solutions (Durham, N.C.) offers the OptoCooler™ HV37 module, a high-voltage, thin-film thermoelectric cooler (TEC). At 85°C, the OptoCooler HV37 can pump 4.5 watts or 107W/cm2 of heat in a footprint of...
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Absorber Sensors
Ophir Photonics Group (Logan, UT) has announced high-damage threshold power volume absorbers for short pulsed lasers (
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Laser Energy Sensors
Coherent (Santa Clara, CA) has introduced a set of EnergyMax sensors in which all meter electronics are miniaturized and integrated within the sensor head cable. Coherent’s sensors are available in this form factor with...
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Miniature Connectors
The micro38999 miniature connectors from Souriau (Wenatchee, WA) can withstand vibration of 44 Grms at a temperature of 125°C for 8 hours. Developed from the MIL-DTL-38999 specifications, the electrical crimp contacts can...
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Infrared Detectors
New PbS and PbSe multi-channel detectors (MCD) from Cal Sensors (Santa Rosa, CA) provide sensitivity of 1.5 × 1010 Jones for detection of up to four distinct materials or gases. Covering one to five microns, the MCD products...
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Optical Materials Reference Chart
OFS Fitel (Avon, CT) has launched an easy-to-reference desk chart that provides “at a glance” properties of a wide range of materials that OFS Specialty Photonics Division (SPD) offers for optical fiber...
Articles Photonics/Optics
Fiber Optic Gyroscope Technology Improving Weapons Systems Performance
Autonomous vehicles require gyroscopes for navigation and stabilization of the platform in demanding battlefield, aerospace and undersea environments. Autonomous vehicles...
Articles Aerospace
Using Multi-core Processing to Deliver Better Intelligence
The rapidly evolving and changing asymmetric threats confronting the U.S. military are dramatically escalating demands for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR). Even...
Application Briefs Defense
Active Heat Sink Technology to Improve Thermal Performance of Military Systems
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has extended its contract with Thermacore to develop and commercialize active heat sinks that can be used with...
Application Briefs Data Acquisition
Handheld Scanner Keeps USAF Planes Combat-Ready
Engineers at several United States Air Force (USAF) bases now use NVision's HandHeld laser scanner to reverse-engineer complex aircraft parts, which are then accurately machined and installed....
Tech Transfer Reports Materials
Quasicrystalline Aircraft Coating Shows Promise for Cookware, Prosthetics
A technology initially designed to lubricate aircraft parts could lead to more durable nonstick cookware and prosthetic bone-repair implants.
Tech Transfer Reports Energy
Thin Film Fixes Flaws in Thermal Battery Igniters
Unlike alkaline batteries used in common consumer electronic items, thermal batteries are inert, solid-state devices that do not rely on liquid electrolytes, which can corrode or leak from their...
Articles Electronics & Computers
Stackable Computer Architecture Moves to 3rd Generation
Change is a concept that is well known in the computer industry. Designers and manufacturers alike have embraced this trend in an ongoing race to increase computing power while reducing...
Articles Electronics & Computers
Small Form Factor Computing in OpenVPX
The new OpenVPX™ (VITA 65) standard helps military system designers build compatible embedded systems by defining “profiles” to which vendors can adhere when designing boards, and system integrators...
Articles Electronics & Computers
Using FPGAs to Improve x86 Processor I/O Flexibility
By offering the ability to update application functionality, provide a reconfigurable solution and enable easy design customization, Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology has long...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Testbed for Reconfigurable Network Security Research and Experimentation
A novel, reconfigurable network testbed has been developed, suitable for the implementation, testing, and analysis of new and existing network-based defenses against...
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