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Powering On
The steady rise in demand for high-thrust, big-fan engines for new wide-body commercial airplanes continues to generate massive business, as the 2015 half-year results from Rolls-Royce demonstrated. But at the same time, underlying...
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Countering Cybersecurity Threats Against Unmanned Vehicle Systems
As the use of UASs and UAVs increase in the modern battlefield, the need to secure these weapon platforms is of increasing importance as any flaw could have catastrophic results....
Articles Test & Measurement
Enhance EMC Testing with Digital IF
Modern electromagnetic interference (EMI) receivers and spectrum analyzers used for compliance and precompliance testing employ digital intermediate-frequency (digital IF) processing technology for signal...
Articles Defense
Compact Thermal Management Solutions for Mobile Laser Weapon Systems
The Navy is developing a vehicle mounted directed energy (DE) weapon system in their Ground Based Air Defense (GBAD) Directed Energy On-The-Move (OTM) program. As part of this...
Articles Test & Measurement
Radio Relays Improve Wireless Products
In order to transmit communications through Earth’s atmosphere, satellites and space vehicles need radio equipment that can operate at higher frequencies than on Earth. These higher frequencies, until...
Application Briefs Defense
Mobile Networking for Aircraft
Persistent Systems, LLC New York, NY 212-561-5895 www.persistentsystems.com The Wave Relay® 5010 Integration Unit, a Mobile Ad Hock Networking (MANET) product from Persistent Systems, LLC, was recently tested by...
Application Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Fusible-Core Polymer
Egmond Plastic Alkmaar, The Netherlands +31-72-5614644 www.egmondplastic.nl Fuel housings for aerospace applications have very complex inner geometries which are not moldable using conventional injection technology....
Application Briefs Defense
Autonomous Aerial Refueling
Northrop Grumman Corp. Falls Church, VA 703-280-2900 www.northropgrumman.com Earlier this year, Northrop Grumman Corporation and the U.S. Navy successfully demonstrated fully autonomous aerial refueling (AAR) with...
Application Briefs Defense
Real-Time Operating System
Wind River Alameda, CA 800-545-9463 www.windriver.com Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), the largest government-owned defense and aerospace company in Israel, equipped its semi-autonomous airplane towing vehicle,...
Briefs Information Technology
Ontology for Insider Threat Indicators
The study of insider threat presents some of the most complex challenges in information security. Even defining the insider threat has proven difficult, with interpretations and scope varying depending on...
Briefs Aerospace
Data Mining in Cyber Operations
Defending cyberspace is a complex and largely scoped challenge that considers emerging threats to security in space, land, and sea. The global cyber infrastructure presents many challenges because of the...
Briefs Information Technology
Framework for Resilient Remote Monitoring
This method provides continuous monitoring across network-attached devices to identify and mitigate targeted cyber attacks. System administrators and cyber defenders continue to face challenges in...
Briefs Defense
Communication Protocol for CyAMS and the Cyber Fighter Associate Interface
This program evaluates agility maneuvers that may be employed within networks to mitigate the effect of cyber attacks. As the military adopts more networked equipment,...
Technology Update Defense
Lightweighting Focus for TE's Connectivity Solutions
TE Connectivity recently announced two new aerospace connectivity solutions that offer substantial weight savings: its COPALUM Lite sealed terminals and splices, and its Raychem INSTALITE...
Technology Update Defense
Lifting 3D Printing to New Heights
Whether it’s through 3D printing jet engine fuel nozzles by the thousands or validating metal rocket injectors for space flight, aerospace has consistently proven itself to be on the cutting edge of the...
Products Defense
Two-Stroke Engines
Ewatt AeroSpace Company (Wuhan, China) has developed a new series of lightweight, powerful and reliable two-stroke engines for both UAV and light-manned aircraft. The engines are being designed and developed by aircraft...
Products Manufacturing & Prototyping
30 GHz and 35 GHz Microstrip Isolators
TRAK Microwave (Tampa, FL) has announced two new Microstrip Isolators covering popular mm-wave frequency bands. Models T001110 (29.6-30.6 GHz) and T001111 (34.5-35.5GHz) integrate ferrite circulator/...
Products Defense
Compute Stick with Windows
Mouser Electronics, Inc. (Mansfield, TX) is now shipping the Intel® Compute Stick with Windows 8.1, a new generation of computer from Intel Corp. The Compute Stick is a revolutionary new device that enables any...
Products Defense
ARINC 429 XMC Interface
GE Intelligent Platforms (Huntsville, AL) recently announced the RARXMC ARINC 429 High Density XMC Interface for deployment on many single board computers. Designed for embedded, laboratory and simulator applications,...
Products Defense
Avionics Interface Computer
Data Device Corporation (Bohemia, NY) has introduced the Avionics Interface Computer (AIC), providing a scalable, programmable, and portable platform to develop and test MIL-STD-1553 and ARINC 429 system applications...
Products Manufacturing & Prototyping
Adaptive IF Relay XMC
Pentek, Inc., (Upper Saddle River, NJ) has introduced the newest member of its Cobalt® line of XMCs (Switched Mezzanine Cards). The Model 71624 dual channel, 34 signal, adaptive IF (Intermediate Frequency) relay XMC with...
Products Defense
Brushless DC Motors
BEI Kimco Magnetics (Vista, CA) has developed new frameless brushless DC motors in multiple designs for a variety of applications including robots and remotely piloted military vehicles. These new motors provide operational...
Articles Aerospace
Synthetic Vision Guidance Systems Giving 2D data a 3D perspective
Synthetic Vision (SV) displays replace the pilot’s traditional 2D primary flight display (PFD) with a 3D perspective view display. The 3D SV perspective display is rendered...
Articles Aerospace
The Conundrum of DO-254 Compliance and COTS IP
A tornado is blowing through a specific area of the semiconductor market. The market for Intellectual Property (or IP, also known as IP cores or IP blocks) is roughly $2.5B and growing at twice the...
Articles Aerospace
Let the Good Times Continue to Roll
It is hard to imagine just how radical the change in fortunes for the world’s major commercial aerospace manufacturers has been in the last few years. Just ten years ago the smart money in aerospace pointed...
Articles Aerospace
Big Data, Aircraft, and a Better Future
The hype phrase today is “Big Data.” It is a phrase Mark Bünger, Research Director for Lux Research, believes can have a number of definitions depending on who is doing the defining. Bünger was...
Articles Aerospace
Unmanned Ground Vehicle Communications Relays
The need for a high-bandwidth communication link to carry multiple video channels from a mobile robot (unmanned ground vehicle, or UGV) back to a control station requires using high-frequency RF...
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
System Generates and Simulates Skin-Echo Pulses for Radar Testing
One of the methods for radar testing is the simulation of an environment where there are dynamic or static objects that are scanned by the radar under test. In particular,...
Technology Update Defense
Propulsion Performance Model for Efficient Supersonic Aircraft
For the design process of the class of aircraft known as an efficient supersonic air vehicle (ESAV), particular attention must be paid to the propulsion system design as a whole...
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