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Silicone Cables: Silicone Encased Cables Make Military Robots More Reliable
Cicoil’s highly flexible and durable flat silicone cables are being used on unmanned ground based military robotic vehicles that require absolute reliability in mission critical and extreme environment conditions. Unlike bulky and stiffer round cables, flat silicone...
Application Briefs Defense
Fluorosilicones
A broad operating temperature range, fuel resistance and long-term reliability are some of the unique properties of fluorosilicones that make them useful in aerospace applications. To demonstrate their effectiveness, NuSil...
Application Briefs Defense
AWACS Real-Time Operating System
LynuxWorks, Inc. announced recently that the Mission Systems and Sensors Division (MS2) of Lockheed Martin in Owego, NY, selected the LynxOS real-time operating system (RTOS) and Luminosity Integrated...
Application Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
Mission Data Transmitted Successfully With Network Gateway
In the 1990s, when laying the groundwork for its missile defense shield, the Pentagon realized that if it wanted to provide an effective defense against ballistic missile attack, it...
Application Briefs Weapons Systems
Target Location System Performs in Rain, Smoke, Haze, and Combat Scenarios
A combat identification system developed by Cubic Defense Applications, the defense systems business of Cubic Corporation, was successfully tested during a recent U.S....
Application Briefs Defense
Rocket Launcher Tubes Protect Troops
The desire to get home safely dwells in the back of the mind of every soldier. The battlefield provides enough mortal dangers without soldiers having to wonder whether or not the weapons they carry could...
Application Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
Holographic Radar Pinpoints Rapid Shell Fire
Cambridge Consultants has successfully carried out trials tracking 5 inch shells travelling at over 1,000 miles per hour for the US Department of Defense (DoD). The groundbreaking radar developed...
Application Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
Jamming-Resistant Adaptive Radio System
Developing smart antennas for jam-resistant cognitive or software-defined radio systems entails a number of challenging issues. Researchers at the University of Texas are investigating methods to locate...
Application Briefs Defense
Chemically Bonded Phosphate Ceramics Stop Corrosion
Corrosion of steel, aluminum, and other structural metals erodes the safety and financial stability of industries and countries alike. Fighting corrosion in ships, tanks, planes, and equipment...
Application Briefs Defense
New Energy Source Powers Single-Use Mil/Aero Equipment
Until recently, single-use high energy devices were typically powered by reserve/thermal batteries using decades-old technology. Recognizing that battery performance limitations could...
Application Briefs Test & Measurement
Spectrally Compliant Waveforms for Wideband Radar
Modern radars often require the use of wideband waveforms to perform high-resolution target imaging. In microwave systems, the bandwidth can be on the order of 1.5 GHz, while in UHF systems that...
Application Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
Impact of Materials on Microwave Cable Performance
The environments in which microwave cable assemblies are being used today are becoming more challenging with exposure to such conditions as extreme temperatures, chemicals, abrasion, and...
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 Defense
Realistic Simulation Makes Army Helmets Safer
As materials, ergonomic design, and ballistics protection have evolved, the U.S. Army helmet has improved in form and function, from the M1 of WWII, to the 29-layer Kevlar PASGT (Personnel Armor...
Application Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
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 Energy
Hybrid Energy Storage System Designed for Tanks and Stryker Vehicles
Hybrid battery systemInternational BatteryAllentown, PA610-366-3925 International Battery has been given a contract from the U.S. Army’s Tank Automotive Research,...
Application Briefs Defense
Test Systems Simulate Several Impact Scenarios
Lansmont Corp. engineers have developed the active impact surface design technology for several test machines currently installed at the Army Research Laboratory in Adelphi, Maryland and the Air...
Application Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
Measuring Radar Cross Section with Handheld VNAs
Radar cross section (RCS) is the measure of an object's ability to reflect radar signals in the direction of the radar receiver, i.e. it is the measure of the ratio of backscatter per steradian...
Application Briefs Defense
Partnership Begins on Maintenance-Support Docking Station
Sealevel Systems was selected to design and manufacture docking stations for VT Miltope’s At-Platform Automatic Test Systems (APATS) Integrated Family of Test Equipment (IFTE)...
Application Briefs Defense
Projectors Enhance US Army Flight Simulations
The US Army Aviation and Missile Research Development and Engineering Center (AMRDEC), the Army’s focal point for aviation and missile platform research, has replaced its aging projectors with six...
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...
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...
Application Briefs Electronics & Computers
Active Heat Sink Technology to Improve Thermal Performance of Military Systems
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has extended its contract with Thermacore to develop and commercialize active heat sinks that can be used with...
Application Briefs Defense
Handheld Scanner Keeps USAF Planes Combat-Ready
Engineers at several United States Air Force (USAF) bases now use NVision's HandHeld laser scanner to reverse-engineer complex aircraft parts, which are then accurately machined and installed....
Application Briefs Defense
Flight Simulators Help Train Unmanned Aircraft Crews
L-3 Link Simulation & Training (L-3 Link) recently delivered six additional Predator Mission Aircrew Training Systems (PMATS) and associated support equipment to two U.S. Air Force...
Application Briefs Defense
New Wiring Technology Could Reduce EMI Susceptibility in Army Helicopters
Minnesota Wire’s R&D division, Minnovate, has been awarded a Phase One Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract by the U.S. Army’s Program Executive Office...
Application Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
Low Noise Advances in RF & Microwave Signal Analysis Platforms
Spectrum measurements are essential to RF and microwave testing. The newer signal analyzers available today deliver performance far better than those of just a few years ago. The...
Application Briefs Defense
Analysis of On-Chip Heat Distribution in the Design of RF Power Detectors and Transistor Arrays
The simulation of electromagnetic (EM) and thermal properties of semiconductor and substrate materials has been demonstrated to be particularly...
Application Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
Ballistic Radomes for Communications Antennas
The Army Digitized Force requires a robust communications infrastructure for its superior IT/C4ISR (Information Technologies/Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Sur veil...
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