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Flex-Fuel Snowmobile Challenge Results in Improved Efficiency and Lower Emissions
The Clean Snowmobile Challenge (CSC), which is part of the Collegiate Design Series of SAE International, was created to challenge students to reduce the...
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Ashok Leyland Pursues Stainless Steel for Bus ‘Super Structures’
The design approach for bus body architecture has gone through different phases—namely, chassis based, semi integral, integral, and monocoque. Equally varied is the...
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UPS Devices Keep UAVs in the Air
The simplistic definition of UAV reads like this: “An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), colloquially known as a drone, is an aircraft without a human pilot on board. Its flight is controlled either autonomously...
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Free Space Optical Communications System for Advancing Superiority on the Battlefield
Fixed and tactical information networking, especially for defense applications, has begun to require increasing data transmission capacity as the volume...
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The Influence of Material Processing on the Performance of Composite Parts
The production of composite parts relies on an ever increasing number of processing technologies which have a large impact on the performance of the part. The...
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iSLC Flash Technology
Robots have been employed by the military to assist in missions where it would be, and has been, too dangerous to have a human being take on the task. These robots can detect and disable bombs. Some can be thrown into...
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The Basics of Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) Radio Systems
This article introduces the rationale and techniques involved with MIMO (Multiple-Input Multiple-Output)-based communication systems. The communication impairments due to...
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From VME to VPX
Sequestration, defense reform and cost constraints are driving a new paradigm in the defense industry, where leveraging existing technologies is no longer optional, but required. This is especially true as we migrate from VME to...
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Oil Pipeline Fault Detection System Determines Material Permittivity at Microwave Frequencies
Researching fault location techniques for the oil industry requires data on the complex permittivity of the polyamide Rilsan at microwave frequencies....
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Using RF Technology to Form a Wireless Network Under Water
Consumers have shown that they are eager to be rid of cabling and wires connecting them to devices situated or worn near or on the body. From athletic monitoring devices to headphones,...
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Designing Thermal Management Systems for Smaller, Lighter Avionics
The avionics systems of military aircraft support maneuverability and situation awareness for the pilot, process essential images, operate sensors, record data, and provide for...
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Field Configurable MIL-DTL-55181 Power Distribution
The proliferation of scalable tactical equipment has driven the need for field configurable power-distribution systems. A stacking-interconnect technology has been developed that utilizes the...
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Using Polyimide In 3D Thin Film Multilayer Circuitry
Today, the cost and complexity of all platforms and systems in military and defense technologies are being challenged by the need for high functionality in smaller but less expensive...
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MISRA C:2012
For C programmers working on safety-critical applications, following restrictions and guidelines to ensure safe-coding practices can be painful. Features of the language designed to make your work easier, more efficient, or provide...
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GaN in Plastic Enables Next-Generation Radar and Communication Systems
Future trends for military radar require multifunction systems that combine radar, communications, and electronic warfare. This higher level of functional integration...
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System Could Detect Concealed Person-Borne Bombs at a Distance
The recent tragic events at the Boston Marathon illustrate the growing and critical need for the detection of person-borne improvised explosive devices (PBIEDS). Such systems, in...
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CompactPCI Steps Into the Future
CompactPCI Serial has proven to be a beneficial technology upgrade for a number of embedded systems designers accustomed to working with the legacy CompactPCI platform. Not only does CompactPCI Serial bring...
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The Evolution of AdvancedTCA: From telecommunications to military, aerospace and security
The Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture (AdvancedTCA® or ATCA®) is a series of open standard computing platform specifications originally ratified...
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Eyes In The Sky
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are critical to today’s intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) missions, supplying valuable aerial imagery to ground forces. Small UAV systems are a highly flexible ISR solution...
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Point-of-Load Power Management
The requirements for smaller size, lower weight, and reduced cost in space and defense systems are driving demands for improved power-management solutions. Integrated DCto- DC converters that are designed for...
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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.
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Designing Rugged, Standards-Based Embedded Solutions
It can be argued that small form factor design trends are paradoxical. As form factor size decreases, functionality requirements increase; as processing power requirements heighten, lower...
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Tips for Selecting or Designing a Membrane Switch
Membrane switches are known for standing up to tough environmental conditions. Flexible and durable, the membrane switch can be customized with embossing, backlighting, sealing, and...
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Pursuing Agile Signals in a Crowded Spectral Environment
For the capable RF engineer, continuous- wave (CW) and predictably repeating signals are no great challenge. However, design and troubleshooting become difficult when dealing with agile...
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Beam Irradiance on Target System (BITS)
The Beam Irradiance on Target System (BITS) is a high energy laser (HEL) sensor array that directly measures the beam irradiance profile of HEL weapons. The BITS is a sensor array composed of 105 sensors...
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Developing an Efficient RF Cable Test Suite for the Eurofighter Aircraft
The Eurofighter Typhoon is a state-of-the-art combat aircraft. BAE Systems has been working with other leading aerospace companies to make sure the Eurofighter Typhoon is...
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Improving Signal to Noise Ratios in Defense Electronics
As a vertical market, “defense electronics” encompasses a huge range of systems, from portable communications to transportation, avionics, and shipborne radar. While the power...
Articles Aerospace
From the Lab to the Frontlines Flexible Displays Get Real
In her opening remarks at the AUSA 2012 on October 23, 2012, Heidi Shyu, assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology talked about a process she called...
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Designing Firearm Recoil Springs
Compression springs are a critical component of firearm performance and durability. Making a recoil compression spring perform properly in the extremely limited space available in most firearms, and ensuring it...
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