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Optical Materials Reference Chart
OFS Fitel (Avon, CT) has launched an easy-to-reference desk chart that provides “at a glance” properties of a wide range of materials that OFS Specialty Photonics Division (SPD) offers for optical fiber...
Articles Test & Measurement
Fiber Optic Gyroscope Technology Improving Weapons Systems Performance
Autonomous vehicles require gyroscopes for navigation and stabilization of the platform in demanding battlefield, aerospace and undersea environments. Autonomous vehicles...
Articles Aerospace
Using Multi-core Processing to Deliver Better Intelligence
The rapidly evolving and changing asymmetric threats confronting the U.S. military are dramatically escalating demands for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR). Even...
Articles Electronics & Computers
Stackable Computer Architecture Moves to 3rd Generation
Change is a concept that is well known in the computer industry. Designers and manufacturers alike have embraced this trend in an ongoing race to increase computing power while reducing...
Articles Electronics & Computers
Small Form Factor Computing in OpenVPX
The new OpenVPX™ (VITA 65) standard helps military system designers build compatible embedded systems by defining “profiles” to which vendors can adhere when designing boards, and system integrators...
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...
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Making A Case for Modified COTS
In 1992 the Department of Defense (DOD) was exploring ways to reduce the procurement costs and delivery times of equipment purchases having to meet military standards. The development, documentation and...
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 Defense
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....
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Testbed for Reconfigurable Network Security Research and Experimentation
A novel, reconfigurable network testbed has been developed, suitable for the implementation, testing, and analysis of new and existing network-based defenses against...
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 Electronics & Computers
Analysis of Voltage and Current Signal Processing in a Li-ion Battery Management System
A Battery Management System (BMS) manages Li-ion batteries in a storage system for pulsed power weapons aboard Naval vessels. The system charges the...
Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Development of Soldier Conformable Antennas Using Conducting Polymers
Soldiers performing dismounted operations in the field use radios that have antennas with a distinct visible signature and can become easy targets. These antennas also tend...
Briefs Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Variable-Thrust, Multiple-Start Hybrid Motor Solutions
Interceptor boost propulsion has traditionally been dominated by solid rocket systems due to their responsiveness and high mass fraction capabilities. However, increased costs of handling...
Briefs Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Wheel Force Transducer
Aconcept wheel force transducer has been developed that can measure the forces and moments between a tire and a road on a High Mobility Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV or Humvee) driven under off-road conditions. The...
Products Electronics & Computers
14-Bit Analog-to-Digital Converter
The 14-bit ADS4149 from Texas Instruments (Dallas, TX) is a high-speed analog-to-digital converter (ADC) that delivers low power consumption and performance across wide signal bandwidths from DC up to 550 MHz....
Products Electronics & Computers
Coded Switch
Elma Electronic (Fremont, CA) offers a rugged version of its Type 07 line of coded switches. The M07A gray coded switch comes in 16 positions down to 2, and has a robust stainless-steel 6mm or 3mm tapped shaft. The switch meets...
Products Electronics & Computers
FGPA Starterkit
The Kontron COM Express™ FPGA Starterkit from Kontron (Poway, CA) provides the necessary components to evaluate board designs with open-definable I/Os. OEMs can use the starterkit to develop dedicated full-custom SBC designs...
Products Information Technology
Data Acquisition System
Ultraview Corp. (Orinda, CA) has announced AD8-1500 Series High Speed Data Acquisition (DAQ) Systems. The AD8-1500 line of PCIe data acquisition systems are capable of uninterrupted signal processing over two channels,...
Products Motion Control
Brushless PM Ring Motor
ThinGap (Ventura, CA) has released its 14050 14-inch Ring Motor series, which offer up to 60kW. The design produces no rotor-to-stator magnetic forces, cogging, eddy current losses, or hysteresis. Magnets and a 13-4 PH...
Products Physical Sciences
Power Generation System
Kollmorgen (Radford, VA) introduces the Power Generation System, a 28 VDC system that generates up to 30kW of power. Consisting of a permanent magnet AC generator, generator controller, software, and cables, the system...
Products Electronics & Computers
Mezzanine Connector
Tyco Electronics (TE) (Harrisburg, PA) has released the mezzanine Mezalok connector. At 5 GHz+, the surface mount device incorporates a super-redundant “mini-box” four-point contact system for separable interface use....
Products Electronics & Computers
Ruggedized XMC Module
Extreme Engineering Solutions (X-ES) (Middleton, WI) has released the XPort9100, a ruggedized conduction-cooled XMC module that supports eight +28V general purpose input/output (GPIO) channels commonly used to control...
Products Software
Bus Analyzer Plus Data Reconstruction
Data Device Corporation (DDC) (Bohemia, New York) has added data reconstruction and troubleshooting capabilities to its dataSIMS bus analyzer software. Reconstruction, or On-Line Replay, mode enables users...
Products Photonics/Optics
Color LEDs
OPTEK Technology (Carrollton, TX) has developed a series of color LEDs processed to meet MIL-PRF-19500-level TX and TXV specifications and help military systems engineers achieve high brightness, color illumination, and indication...
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RFID Memory IC
A new RFID device from STMicroelectronics (Geneva, Switzerland) allows technical equipment to 'talk back,' providing detailed information, such as a full maintenance history, to speed up servicing and simplify record keeping for...
Products Electronics & Computers
Chassis Mount Power Supplies
XP Power (Sunnyvale, CA) has announced the VCS series of chassis mount single output AC-DC power supplies aimed at cost sensitive industrial applications. The series comprises 50W, 70W and 100W models and are...
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