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Antivibration Mounts
Advanced Antivibration Components (New Hyde Park, NY) offers a series of 17 elliptic leaf spring antivibration mounts that are resistant to corrosion and operate in a wide range of temperatures. The design employs two or...
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DC/DC Converter Mounting Kit
Calex Mfg. Co. (Concord, CA) has announced the availability of the Calex MS22 Mounting Kit, which provides a turn-key solution for prototyping or mounting a DC/DC converter in an enclosure. The MS22 accommodates...
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Lightweight Connectors
ITT Interconnect Solutions (Santa Ana, CA) has expanded its family of sealed, miniature, lightweight connectors for modern and “future soldier” applications with a “Super Clean” version. Nemesis SC...
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High-Temperature UPS
Falcon Electric (Irwindale, CA) has announced a new line of SSG-RP SeriesTM Ultra-Wide Temperature UPS, with models from 1kVA to 3kVA. Having an operational temperature range of −22 °F to +149 °F (−30 °C to 65 °C)...
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Solid State Drive
SMART Modular Technologies (Newark, CA) has introduced the Xcel-100 solid-state drive (SSD) for mission-critical defense and industrial applications. Optimized for rugged applications that require high-performance, SMART's new...
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Highly Integrated Core Chip
The XZ1001-BD is a highly integrated transmit/receive 4 port core chip from M/A-COM Tech Asia (Hsinchu, Taiwan). It is designed for applications operating within the 2.5 to 4 GHz range. The XZ1001-BD features 100%...
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Handheld Vector Network Analyzers
Anritsu Company (Morgan Hill, CA) introduces the MS202x/3xC VNA Master series of handheld vector network analyzers (VNAs) that provides the performance and capabilities of numerous benchtop instruments in a...
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Low-Power FPGAs
Xilinx Inc. (San Jose, CA) offers the Spartan®6Q family of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) qualified for meeting the rigorous requirements of the aerospace and defense market. The Spartan-6Q family meets the needs of...
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Military-Grade Cable Markers
New printable CM-NMX military-grade cable markers for identification of large wire bundles, cables, pipes, and conduits have been launched by Tyco Electronics (Harrisburg, PA). The markers are well-suited for the...
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Ruggedized Low-Loss RF Cable Assemblies
Crystek (Fort Meyers, FL) offers the Armored LL142 rugged low-loss RF cable assemblies with a spiraled stainless steel casing and heavy-duty adhesive strain relief with a Neoprene jacket. At 18 GHz, the...
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Rugged Mobile Computers for Military and Homeland Security Operations
NextComputing (Nashua, NH) has released the Vigor Evo Plus rugged mobile computers to support high-end software applications in deployed environments. Created for military...
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Uni-Directional Material for Ballistic Vests
DSM Dyneema (Stanley, NC) offers Dyneema® SB51 vest-grade uni-directional (UD) material for use in ballistic vests that protect against handgun ammunition, fragments, and knives. The...
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Microwave Switch Carrier and Relay Driver
VTI Instruments Corp. (Irvine, CA) offers the EX1200-7100 26.5-GHz microwave switch carrier and relay driver. The carrier incorporates RF and microwave signal routing into the platform. The scalable...
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Advances in High-Frequency PCB Materials
Traditionally, RF/microwave printed circuit board applications were developed based on the needs that came out of the military market. Applications like radar and guidance systems were operating at...
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Specifying Components for Space Applications
Recently, NASA renewed a decades-old request for grant proposals that call for “faster, better, cheaper” projects. The ultimate agenda is to expedite developments in aerospace capabilities while...
Tech Transfer Reports
Software Fuses Radar and Sensor Data
Software designed to classify and track multiple targets for active space-borne missile threats also holds the potential to track objects as diverse as ground moving military targets, aircraft, and...
Tech Transfer Reports
Data-Driven Prognostics Software Predicts Deformation and Failure
Air- and space-borne systems require the storage, transport, and dispensing of large amounts of cryogenic fluids. In addition, these systems must be as lightweight as possible....
Tech Transfer Reports
Microgames for Proactive Preventative Medicine
The Department of Defense is actively looking for unified Force Health Protection and Deployment Health strategies to protect service members and their families from health hazards associated with military service. The Air Force is looking for a technology that will help save lives and promote healthy...
Tech Transfer Reports
Processing System Detects and Monitors Human Behavior in Crowds
A new surveillance technology soon might allow police, transportation officials, and private security firms to quickly and efficiently scan crowds to guard against terrorists or to...
Articles Aerospace
Passive Devices Designed to Improve Signal-to-Noise Ratios in Defense Electronics
While power architectures of defense electronics are extremely diverse, all have common operational demands: they must be robust (shock, vibration, temperature...
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Reliable EMI Shielding Materials and RF Cable Assemblies Ensure High Performance for Handheld Test Instruments
While high-performance test equipment has been used successfully in the laboratory for many years, the trend is moving toward remote...
Briefs Physical Sciences
Forehead-Mounted Sensor Measures Oxygen Saturation for Hypoxia Early Detection and Warning
Symptoms of hypoxia – a deficiency in the amount of oxygen reaching body tissues - have been documented among rotary-wing pilots and aircrew flying at...
Briefs Physical Sciences
Manifold-Based Image Understanding
The rapid growth of sensing and imaging technology, combined with the need for near-real-time action based on the sensed data, has rendered automatic processing, understanding, and decision-making vital to our...
Briefs Information Technology
Flexible Computing Architecture for Real-Time Skin Detection
In both the Air Force and search and rescue (SAR) communities, there is a need to detect and characterize persons. Existing methods use red-green-blue (RGB) imagery, but produce high false alarm rates. New technology in multispectral skin detection is better than the existing RGB methods,...
Briefs Physical Sciences
Battery Electrolyte Level Detector Apparatus
An apparatus has been developed for checking the electrolyte level in a battery, providing a safer and more efficient means to do so. The result is a non-intrusive apparatus and method of checking the electrolyte level that reduces the need to open the caps on the battery by checking the level externally.
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Magnetic Random Access Memory Integrated Passive Components
An embedded magnetic memory technology was developed to be integrated into a Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) circuit fabrication process to provide radiation-hard logic...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Differential Amplifier Circuits Based on Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistors (CNTFETs)
Since their discovery, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been extensively studied for their great potential in a variety of applications. Several desirable properties that CNTs possess include a high thermal conductivity, high electrical mobility, high electrical...
Briefs Photonics/Optics
AlInGaN Bandgap and Doping Engineering for Visible Laser Diodes
There is a great need to develop chip-scale visible lasers for many applications, including laser sight, environmental monitoring, and compact pumping sources for ultra-short laser pulse generation, high-luminous full-color displays, new-generation solid-state lighting, etc. The...
Briefs Photonics/Optics
Photorefractive Polymers for Updatable 3D Displays
Photorefractive (PR) polymer composites developed for 3D display applications contain a copolymer as the hole-transporting host matrix. The copolymer approach is followed to reduce the phase...
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