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Underwater Security System
KnightShield covers medium ranges in ports and detects hostile divers – whether using closed or open breathing apparatus – as well as AUVs, SDVs, DPVs, and UUVs.

Application Briefs Imaging
Long Range Uncooled Thermal Cameras
The Jaegar provides high levels of camera positioning accuracy.

Application Briefs Photonics/Optics
Multi-Sensor Electro-Optic Platform
Silent Sentinel’s offering includes a dual Electro-Optic/Infra-Red camera payload, a laser range finder, and a panoramic surveillance camera.

Application Briefs AR/AI
Perimeter Security Sensor System
Silent Sentinel Inc., a U.K.-based surveillance company, has been selected as a provider for the US Department of Defense.

Briefs Sensors/Data Acquisition
Low-Impact Space Weather Sensors and the U.S. National Security Spacecraft
Low-impact sensors close a gap in the U.S. space weather observation network.

News Electronics & Computers
Addressing Configuration Controls in an Era of Multiple Security Frameworks
We have entered the era of multiple security frameworks. Sometimes mandatory, often voluntary, security frameworks are created to provide federal and commercial...

News RF & Microwave Electronics
Software Needs Security, and Security Needs Software: A Scientific Overview
Software needs security. That's a consequence of using software to control critical systems. It's difficult because software is inherently a complex artifact, even...

News Internet of Things
Nvidia Partners with AdaCore to Secure Self-Driving Firmware
As mobility software becomes increasingly complex and connected, so does the risk of human error and system safety. To combat this, New York-based software company AdaCore will...

News Manned Systems
New Boeing, Safran Joint Venture Dedicated to Developing Aircraft Auxiliary Power Units
Chicago-based, Boeing Company and Safran S.A. of Paris are forming a joint venture to design, build, and service aircraft secondary power systems,...

Articles Test & Measurement
New Pulse Analysis Techniques for Radar and EW
Pulsed signals are widespread in radar and other electronic warfare (EW) applications, and they must be accurately measured for manufacturing, design of countermeasures, and threat assessment;...

Briefs Sensors/Data Acquisition
Low-Cost Ground Sensor Network for Intrusion Detection
Perimeter surveillance of forward operating locations, such as Forward Arming and Refueling Points (FARPs), is crucial to ensure the survivability of personnel and materiel. FARPs are...

Articles Unmanned Systems
AuVSI™ XPONENTIAL: ALL THINGS UNMANNED
After a very successful trade show and conference in New Orleans last year, the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) is bringing this year's event, AUVSI XPONENTIAL 2017 to the...

Articles Aerospace
XPONENTIAL: An AUVSI Experience
At AUVSI’s Unmanned Systems 2015 in Atlanta Georgia, it was announced that the conference and trade show was being officially rebranded in 2016 to XPONENTIAL – An AUVSI Experience. The event, which runs from...

Executive Viewpoints Manufacturing & Prototyping
Unmanned Equipment Presents New Design Challenges
If the last 20 years have been any indication of the speed at which the off-highway industry can and will advance, the next 20 years will be no different as next-generation machines and...

Articles Test & Measurement
Phoning It In: Making Smartphones Secure Enough for Tactical Communications
You suddenly find yourself pinned down by enemy gunfire. What do you do? Whip out your smartphone and call for an airstrike? Yes, if the U.S. Marine Corps has its way.
Application Briefs Defense
Buoy System Tracks Ships in Real Time
According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the nation’s 360 ports and waterways remain especially vulnerable to attack from small vessels carrying improvised explosive devices, including...

Articles Aerospace
The Role of FPGAs in Next- Generation Secure A&D Systems
Electronics system security is a growing and ever-present concern in all applications areas, but in aerospace and defense (A&D) systems, security is a must. As such, the ICs used in these...

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