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Fastener Inserts
Fastener Inserts Designed for Lightweight Aerospace Materials Reduce Risks, Costs Ongoing efforts to increase fuel efficiency, tactical mobility, and payload capacity in aerospace design have driven engineers to find numerous...
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Thermal Mechanical Fatigue Crack Growth Testing
Turbines in aircraft turbojet engines are being subject to increasingly higher temperatures to improve fuel efficiency. High turbine efficiency requires the ability of turbine blades to withstand...
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Low-Power Distributed Jammer Network
The Distributed Jammer Network (DJN) is composed of a large number of tiny, low-power jammers, which are distributed inside a target network and emit radio energy to disrupt its communications. Recent...
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Architecture of the Air Force Satellite Control Network
The Air Force Satellite Control Network (AFSCN) is a worldwide network of ground stations that supports a variety of users from NASA to the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). The...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Energy-Scalable Protocols for Battery Operated Micro Sensor Networks
Networks of microsensors can greatly improve environment monitoring for many civil and military applications. Multiple sensors provide fault tolerance and can provide valuable...
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Surviving The Embedded Design Thermo-Mechanical Envelope
The Embedded usage model is characterized as one that is operated at the extremes of available performance. Knowing that the targets of the thermal design power usage mode are only...
Articles Electronics & Computers
Graphics Performance vs. Power Consumption in Embedded Systems Design
The rapid evolution of technology has given embedded developers more options than ever before in designing embedded graphics systems. The consumer electronics market, most...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Trustworthy Hardware for 3D Circuit-Level Integration
Three-dimensional (3D) integration is a promising technology for designing high-performance, low-power systems by stacking multiple integrated circuit dies and connecting them at the circuit level with conductive posts. Most current efforts are at the electromechanical level of getting 3D to...
Application Briefs Defense
Gas Turbine Exhaust Recovery Design Improves Propulsion Efficiency
In January, Concepts NREC (CN) was awarded a Phase I Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grant from the Navy to improve the power efficiency of its gas turbine prime...
Application Briefs Test & Measurement
High-Reliability MEMS Switches for Radio Frequency Applications
The RF MEMS switch will be an important building block for a variety of wireless applications including cell phones, smart antennas, tunable filters, automated test equipment...
Application Briefs Defense
Low-Voltage Platform Powers US Army's Fuel Efficient Ground Vehicle Demonstrator (FED)
Kollmorgen has released an in-line variant of its lightweight, low voltage Power Generation System, which will be used by the United States Army to deliver...
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...
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...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Architectures for Cognitive Systems
A need exists for small, autonomic systems in the battlefield. Autonomy allows the creation of unmanned systems to perform complex, high-risk, and/or covert operations in the battlefield without the need for...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Circuit-Switched Memory Access in Photonic Interconnection Networks for High-Performance Embedded Computing
High-performance embedded systems, such as those found in aerial surveillance platforms and handheld devices used by the military, are of key importance. These systems are characterized by stringent power budgets and the need for extremely...
Briefs Materials
Dynamic Response and Failure Mechanisms of Layered Ceramic-Elastomer-Polymer/Metal Composites
A thorough study through a combination of ballistic and impact experiments, microscopic failure characterization, and numerical simulations has been carried out in order to decipher the underlying mechanisms involved in the interaction between a blast...
Briefs Physical Sciences
Novel Active Transient Cooling Systems
Energy-efficient cooling technology is extremely important in today’s society, considering the need for energy conservation and the urgent need to mitigate global warming. Near-room-temperature magnetic...
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...
Articles Energy
Alternative Energy and Propulsion Power for Today's U.S. Military
The U.S. military has the most sophisticated weapons systems in the world, but they are fueled and mechanically powered by old technologies. Given the mission of the U.S....
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Cooperative Single-Antenna Node Networks
Future tactical networks will be complex, with severe constraints on energy and bandwidth, operating in dynamic and unpredictable environments. By exploiting the broadcast nature of the wireless medium and spatially dispersed nodes, some of these advantages can be realized through cooperation among...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Magnetic Memory Devices for Embedded Computing
A program of research has been dedicated to the development of magnetic memory devices than can be incorporated into complementary metal oxide/semiconductor (CMOS) integrated circuits, wherein...
Briefs Information Technology
Magneto-Fluid Dynamics Calculations for Aerodynamics
Governing differential equations, and algorithms to solve the equations numerically, have been developed to enable computational simulation of weakly ionized aerodynamic flows in the presence of electromagnetic fields. The equations and algorithms are intended mainly for application to airflows...
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