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Confocal Height Sensor
Newport Corporation (Irvine, CA) now has a confocal height sensor available for use with the company’s MRSI dispense systems. The chromatic confocal sensor allows measurements in a single axis, providing access to deep...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
180 Degree Hybrid Microwave Coupler
KRYTAR, Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA) has introduced a new 180 degree hybrid coupler that delivers 3 dB of coupling over the broadband frequency range of 1.0 GHz to 26.5 GHz in a single compact package. Hybrid...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
DC — 40 GHz Chip Termination
International Manufacturing Services, Inc. (IMS) (Portsmouth, RI) has announced the availability of their compact 0505 size chip termination rated at 25W characterized for DC to 40 GHz operation. The NDX-0505SG...
Articles Aerospace
Designing Future Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
So far, defense companies have done a credible job fielding Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs), Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs), or other water-borne robots to address critical capability...
Articles Aerospace
Improving Military Communications Through COTM
Avital component for any military organization is the ability to communicate, share information and provide support for large, mobile groups of personnel anytime, anywhere. Satellite technology is...
Articles Electronics & Computers
Multicore Tools for Embedded Systems — Staying Ahead of the Game —
Building a multicore system means dealing with non-determinism. Interactions between tasks running on different cores can occur in a different order, and at a different rate...
Articles Electronics & Computers
Redesigning COTS Servers for Military Applications
Military and ISR operations are inundated with vast amounts of data collected from an expanding network of sources, including sensor data from UAS, satellites, and remote monitoring stations....
Articles Electronics & Computers
When the Going Gets Tough...
The theaters of operation for marine, air and land vehicles continue to redefine the term “rugged environment.” No longer bound by on-board human operators, autonomous and unmanned military vehicles are now free...
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Harnessing FPGAs for Beamforming Software Radio Systems
Over the past 20 years, software defined radio techniques have not only revolutionized radar and communications systems, but they have also boosted system performance levels. One of the...
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...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Airbrush-Fabricated Carbon Nanotube Supercapacitor Electrodes
In order for the batteries used by soldiers to provide peak power, an increase in battery size and weight is necessary, which is becoming a burden. A light, compact alternative to...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Compact Superconducting Power Systems for Airborne Applications
In the development of future airborne megawatt-class power generation, it is important to minimize both the size and the weight of the system. The primary means of increasing the...
Briefs Data Acquisition
Development and Test of a Medium-Voltage Converter for Ocean Observatories
A critical component in regional-scale undersea power systems is the medium-voltage converter (MVC). The MVC is a DC-DC converter in the primary network infrastructure...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Two-Phase Electronics Cooling for Vehicle Applications
Replacing many of the traditional mechanical power and control systems with electronic equivalents will enable significant improvements by reducing weight, lowering fuel usage, increasing...
Briefs Photonics/Optics
Surface Plasmon-Enhanced Si:Er Infrared Light-Emitting Diodes
Plasmons are collective oscillations of the free electrons in a metal or an ionized gas. Plasmons dominate the optical properties of noble-metal nanoparticles, which enables a variety of applications including electromagnetic energy transport at nanoscale dimensions, single-molecule...
Briefs Materials
Fundamental Interaction Between Gold Nanoparticles and DNA
Quantum dots (QDs) and nanoparticles (NPs) are made of metal and/or semiconductor materials with diameters ranging from 5 to 100 nm. The properties of these nanomaterials, which depend on their size and the material they are made from, are usually completely different than the properties of...
Briefs Weapons Systems
High Critical Current in Metal Organic Derived YBCO Films
High-temperature superconducting (HTS) YBCO wire is a versatile technology for a number of military and commercial applications. However, anticipated military applications such as...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Dense Transducer Array
A dense transducer array is an acoustic transducer with relatively high operational bandwidth. It includes a cable harness component that provides and organizes various conductors within piezocomposite substrates to form transducer arrays with minimum impact on electroacoustic performance. Several underwater sonar...
Products Imaging
Video Camera
Goodrich Corp.’s ISR Systems Princeton (Princeton, NJ) has introduced the SU640HSX mil-hardened, indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) shortwave infrared (SWIR) uncooled video camera for military imaging systems and covert...
Products Aerospace
USB Avionics Databus Interface
Ballard Technology (Everett, WA) has announced that its line of pocket-sized USB Avionics Databus Interfaces are now available with an optional orange case. The high-visibility flight test orange case allows the...
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Portable Computing System
Diversified Technology (Ridgeland, MS) has announced the PCS-001 portable computing system for high-end communication and processing applications within the militarized battlefield. The system is contained in a...
Products
Rugged Computer
The Golden Eye II from General Micro Systems (Rancho Cucamonga, CA) is a rugged computer system based on the Intel® Penryn processor. It features up to a 2.26-GHz Core 2 Duo processor with 6 Mbytes of L2 cache, and is supported...
Products
Gas Flow Pulsers
InterTech Development (Skokie, IL) has introduced MicroPulseTM, an alternative to mechanical syringes for producing small, short pulses of various gases. The solid-state unit measures 145 × 52 × 35 mm and contains a miniature...
Products
Component Terminals
Total-ACETM fully integrated MIL-STD-1553 components from Data Device Corp. (Bohemia, NY) consolidate protocol, memory, dual transceivers, and dual transformers in a single, small plastic BGA package. The terminals are...
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DIN-Rail Amplifier
The Model AP5101 from Stellar Technology (Amherst, NY) is a DIN-rail-mounted single-channel amplifier that provides excitation and signal conditioning for standard DC-excited strain gauge transducers, including those for...
Products
Antivibration Mounts
Advanced Antivibration Components (New Hyde Park, NY) offers a series of 17 elliptic leaf spring antivibration mounts that are resistant to corrosion and operate in a wide range of temperatures. The design employs two or...
Products
DC/DC Converter Mounting Kit
Calex Mfg. Co. (Concord, CA) has announced the availability of the Calex MS22 Mounting Kit, which provides a turn-key solution for prototyping or mounting a DC/DC converter in an enclosure. The MS22 accommodates...
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