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RF/Microwave Device Tester
The SMART^E™ 5300 general-purpose test environment from Aeroflex (Plainview, NY) is a high-speed system for testing RF and microwave devices. The DC to 40 GHz system can test, monitor, and control any device under...
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High-Speed Converters
Electro Standards Laboratories (Cranston, RI) offers three configurations of high-speed ruggedized interface converters. Available as encased, board-only, or DIN rail-mounted, the fiber-to-USB interface converters are used...
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Plastic Circular Connectors
ITT Interconnect Solutions (Santa Ana, CA) offers the APD Series plastic circular connectors for use in wheeled armored vehicles. The connectors are lightweight, easy to assemble, and offer the additional security of...
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Switches and Isolators
Perfect Switch, LLC (San Diego, CA) has introduced the POWER-GATE line of high-current solid-state DC relays, low-voltage disconnects, and battery isolators. The switches can be configured for various applications to...
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Testing String Pot
The MT3A testing string pot for high-acceleration test applications in potentially wet environments is available from Celesco Transducer Products (Chatsworth, CA). The string pot is available in 3, 9, 15, and 30" stroke...
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Single-Board Computer
GE Intelligent Platforms (Charlottesville, VA) has announced the IMP3A, a 3U CompactPCI single-board computer featuring dual-core QorIQ™ processor technology from Freescale™. The IMP3A combines the processor with a...
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Data Recording and Playback System
PT (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) offers the MPR2000 radar and sensor data recording/playback system that enables integrators to expand their existing air traffic control recording systems and build IP-based...
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Coatings and Optics
Precision Glass & Optics (Santa Ana, CA) offers thin-film coatings, commercial optics, and precision optics for military and defense applications, including plano optical components from prisms to windows, beamsplitters,...
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Battery and Audio Connectors
Mil-Con (Wood Dale, IL) offers a new series of battery connectors and audio connectors. The battery connectors are available in traditional plug/socket contact styles, as well as in circular contact designs....
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Optics Replication
OPCO Laboratory (Fitchburg, MA) provides a proprietary replication process that reproduces complex optics. It transfers the profile of a precision optical surface from a master, creating an exact duplicate on a variety of...
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Line-Scan Camera
X-Scan Imaging Corp. (San Jose, CA) has introduced the XH8800 Series line-scan camera for imaging high-energy x-ray and gamma-ray scanning applications. The camera images large, dense objects such as metal casting and steel...
Articles Aerospace
CAT Scanner Provides 3D View Inside Nuclear Weapon Components
The Department of Energy’s (DoE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is pursuing a smaller, safer, more secure, and less expensive nuclear weapons complex. Meeting that...
Articles Aerospace
Shortwave Infrared Sensors: A New Way to See
Compact, lightweight, and uncooled imaging sensors are fueling a revolution in intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR). They are the key enablers for a powerful new breed of...
Tech Transfer Reports
Self-Assembling Molecules Could Replace Circuit-Writing Process
Inkjet printing has revolutionized the photo business, to where it is now commonplace to produce clear, glossy photos with a home printer. Now, a simple inkjet technique developed...
Briefs Information Technology
Considering Software Protection for Embedded Systems
Given the current trend of reprogrammable embedded devices within the Department of Defense and industry, attention needs to be refocused on the benefits or measurability of software protection applied to this domain. Modern reconfigurable embedded systems consider circuits as software and the...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Field-Programmable Gate Array-Based Software-Defined Radio
There are existing wideband communications systems that were built using field-programmable gate array (FPGA)-based software-defined radio (SDR) designs. Despite the inherent advantages of these systems, some are functionally restricted by limited output bandwidth.
Briefs Information Technology
FPGA-Based System for Tracking Digital Information Transmitted Via Peer-to-Peer Protocols
Peer-to-peer (P2P) networking has changed the way users search for, send, and receive digital information over the Internet. Instead of relying on...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Simulation Concept Exploits Tools for Computing Hybrids
The Simulation Concept – How to Exploit Tools for Computing Hybrids (SCHETCH) project is exploring the design modeling and simulation (M&S) process for developing advanced computing...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Asymmetric Core Computing for High-Performance Applications
High-performance computing (HPC) users have traditionally relied upon two things to supply them with processing power: speed of the central processing units (CPUs) and the scalability of the system. There are problems with this approach. Physical limitations are curtailing clock speed...
Briefs Photonics/Optics
Novel Wavelength Standards in the Near Infrared
The goal of this work was to develop a new class of portable optical frequency references based on sub-Doppler spectroscopy inside gas-filled, hollow-core photonic bandgap (PBG) optical fiber. The change in line width with core size, and narrower transitions inside a new “kagome” structured...
Briefs Photonics/Optics
Power Enhancement of a Rubidium Vapor Laser with a Master Oscillator Power Amplifier
The concept of alkali lasers was first suggested by Schalow and Townes in the late 1950s. In the 1970s, photo-dissociation of several of the alkali salts produced lasers with wavelengths ranging from the visible to the far infrared. Thirty years later, diode-pumped...
Briefs Materials
Real-Time Intelligent Chemical and Biological Nanosensors on a Flexible Platform
The objectives of this research are to examine the feasibility of real-time sensing of chemical and biological species by using the unique materials and electronic...
Briefs Energy
Templated Synthesis of Aluminum Nanoparticles for Stable Energetic Materials
Reactive nanoparticles as energetic materials have received much recent attention for a variety of existing and/or potential applications. Among more extensively...
Briefs Physical Sciences
Performance and Operability of a Dual-Cavity Flame Holder in a Supersonic Combustor
Supersonic combustion has been of interest for many years in order to support future Air Force hypersonic missions. The current generation of hydrocarbon-fueled...
Briefs Physical Sciences
Gesture-Directed Sensor-Information Fusion Gloves
Current chemical-protection gear for warfighters on the ground inhibits electronic communication via keyboards, cell phones, and remote-control devices. To improve communications capabilities...
Briefs Sensors/Data Acquisition
GigE Advanced Imaging Sensor
The Wide-Field Dynamic Range (WFDR) camera is a high-sensitivity, wide-field-of-regard sensor of importance to future military surveillance and survivability systems. It is intended to be used in harsh, noisy...
Briefs Physical Sciences
Liquid-Crystal-Based Optical Phased Array for Steering Lasers
A paper describes the basic design and concepts of tunable liquid-crystal polarization gratings with a nematic liquid crystal (LC) optical phase plate, with a large, continuous in- plane gradient that is variable, and its application to a beam steering device with high efficiency.
Briefs Information Technology
Channel Modeling for a Wireless Transmission System
A wireless transmission system provides high-quality video transmission over severely impaired wireless links between nodes that are connected within airborne networks. The target bit rate for...
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