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Virtual Network Computing Software for DataWall Remote Display
VNC (Virtual Network Computing) is open-source software that allows a user to view and interact with a remote computer (known as the VNC server) from a local computer (known as the VNC viewer/client). VNC is used to display multiple remote desktops on the DataWall. The original VNC...
Application Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
New All-Digital RF Technology Simplifies the Radio Environment
The concept of a software or “cognitive” radio has been around for about 20 years, and has progressed to the point where open-source software code is available. A cognitive radio is “smart” in the sense that it is continuously aware of changes in radio frequency (RF) spectrum...
Articles Data Acquisition
2D Laser Profiling Scanner for Detecting Targets
The Radiometric Sensor Development and Applications Team of the Sensors and Electron Devices Directorate (SEDD) at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) has developed a 2D laser profiling...
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Wireless Sensor Network with Geolocation
Maintaining situational/positional awareness in indoor and urban environments is difficult because buildings, walls, and other obstacles obstruct vision and RF propagation. Propagation channels are...
Articles Aerospace
Active Thermal Management for Cooler Body Armor
The military places greater demands on its equipment — electronic and otherwise — than any other market segment. It is also true that it places its greatest thermal demands on the men and...
Briefs Physical Sciences
Measurement of Transient Heat Flux and Surface Temperature Using Embedded Temperature Sensors
A report describes approximate solutions for surface temperature and heat flux for two embedded temperature sensors. The solutions were verified and the range of validity was established using several methods including comparisons with an exact analytical...
Briefs Physical Sciences
Imaging and Spectral Measurements of Explosions
A document describes experiments performed to investigate rates of delivery of energy onto targets from different explosive formulations. The experiments were designed to measure relative positions of blast fireballs and leading shock fronts; determine whether different explosive formulations exhibit...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Heterogeneous System-on-a-Chip for Self-Powered Wireless Sensor Networks
A new dimension of system architecture design is emerging where hundreds to thousands of ultralight (
Briefs Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Sensing for Controls and Propulsion Health Management in Turbine Engines
Advances in engine performance and reliability require sensor components that operate reliably under extreme engine operating conditions (e.g., takeoff, max thrust) and in...
Briefs Physical Sciences
Tightly Coupled INS, GPS, and Imaging Sensors for Precision Geolocation
To address the issue of poor georegistration performance for small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), navigation and target-location accuracy improvements achievable by tightly integrating an image-based feature-tracking algorithm with Global Positioning System (GPS) and a...
Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Fabricating Biologically Inspired Artificial Haircell Sensors
As electronics packaging and equipment have decreased in size and weight, so have the potential dimensions of unmanned aircraft. Specifically, a classification of micro air vehicles...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Polypeptide-Based Molecular Electronics
Polypeptide supramolecules that will self assemble from solution and will form molecular wires that exploit quantum mechanical transport mechanisms can enable the formation of molecular devices such as...
Briefs Photonics/Optics
Photon-Counting Chirped Amplitude Modulation Ladar
This work is a follow-on to an effort to develop a method using Geiger-mode avalanche photodiode (GM-APD) photon-counting detectors in the U.S. Army Research Laboratory’s chirped amplitude...
Briefs Software
Considerations of Aeroacoustics in Turbojet-Engine Testing
A study of the aeroacoustics of a turbojet-engine test cell has been performed as one step in the development of a computational aeroacoustics capability (CAA) that could provide...
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Satellite Phone
The 9555 satellite phone from Iridium Satellite LLC (Bethesda, MD) is compact and features an intuitive user interface, speakerphone, Short Messaging Service and e-mail capabilities, an upgraded mini-USB data port, and an...
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Signal Translator
Luxul Wireless (Lindon, UT) has released the Shock- WAV™ frequency-translating amplifier (FTA) for use in secure military, defense, and homeland security applications. The FTA converts signals generated by commercial...
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Messaging Communications Bus
Real-Time Innovations (Sunnyvale, CA) offers RTI Data Distribution Service, Safety-Critical Edition, a smallfootprint version of real-time messaging middleware to meet safety certification standards such as DO-178B....
Products Sensors/Data Acquisition
Submersible Pressure Sensors
The AST4520 media-isolated, submersible pressure sensor from American Sensor Technologies (Mt. Olive, NJ) features a flush diaphragm steel cage design with stainless steel construction for level monitoring of...
Products Aerospace
Avionics Bus Box
Ballard Technology (Everett, WA) offers the Avionics BusBox 2000 Series, a DO-160 box designed for rugged environments. The embedded computer has built-in interfaces for standard peripherals and various avionics databases....
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Aerospace Engine Components
Sandvik Coromant (Fairlawn, NJ) has released an Aerospace Engine Solutions Package that contains five standard products to support the aerospace engine industry. The GC1115 is a PVD-coated grade for high-temperature alloys that offers wear resistance; the CoroCut angled inserts are a grooving system that uses 24 standard...
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Thermal Wind Tunnel
OMEGA Engineering (Stamford, CT) offers the WT-2000 thermal wind tunnel in a portable, benchtop design. Made of clear polycarbonate and PVC, it is designed to provide uniform and repeatable airflow up to 1000 fpm. The...
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Robotic Platform
The Chaos™ robotic platform from Auton - omous Solutions (Logan, UT) is designed to remotely access hazardous areas previously accessible only by foot, reducing risk to personnel. The robot is able to navigate over rough,...
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Air-Cooled Enclosures
Carlo Gavazzi Computing Solutions (Brockton, MA) has introduced the 715 Series of recirculating, air-cooled, rugged ATR enclosures for protection of commercial off-the-shelf convection-cooled cards de ployed in caustic...
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Aerospace Seals
Trelleborg Sealing Solutions (Fort Wayne, IN) has introduced Turcon® Varilip® PDR industrial seals for the aerospace industry. They are designed for high-speed rotating applications, and are constructed from one or multiple...
Articles Sensors/Data Acquisition
Weapon and Armor System Power in Future Combat Vehicles
Future combat vehicles will require unconventional weapons and armor systems such as electromagnetic (EM) or electrothermal chemical (ETC) guns, electromagnetic (EM) armor, and directed-...
Articles Aerospace
Detecting Improvised Explosive Devices in Urban Areas
Improvised explosive devices (IEDs) are rudimentary bombs that generally consist of commonly found non-military materials. Although common IED threats include roadside bombs, suicide bombers...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Asynchronous Architectures for Large-Integer Processors
New architectures have been developed for cryptographic hardware that offer high throughput, algorithm flexibility, radiation hardness, and low power. The asynchronous (clockless) architecture combines a dedicated large-integer processor (LIP), a field programmable gate array (FPGA), and a...
Briefs Information Technology
Next-Generation Information Systems Architectures
A document describes a paradigm in which low-altitude unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with wireless communication capability are used to assist networking among a set of ground stations. This new paradigm is attractive because UAVs can be dynamically deployed in a wide variety of geographical...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Evaluation of Four Methods of Reconfiguring an FPGA
A study was performed to evaluate the relative merits of four methods of reconfiguring a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) in response to detection of a faulty configurable logic block...
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