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Implementing On-Board Cloud Detection on a Reconfigurable Computer
Reconfigurable Computers (RCs) combine traditional microprocessors with field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), and are characterized by lower form/wrap factors compared to...
Briefs Materials
Polymer Matrix Composite Materials for a Structural Multifunctional Fuel Cell
A structural multifunctional fuel cell design enables material elements participating in power or energy processes to also carry significant structural loads. Power...
Briefs Materials
Mechanical Response of an Al-PTFE Composite to Uniaxial Compression Over a Range of Strain Rates and Temperatures
Reactive materials can be loosely categorized as composites of inert solid materials which, when subjected to a violent mechanical...
Briefs Materials
Novel Conductive Coatings of Carbon Nanotubes
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are the material of ever-increasing concern due to their excellent electronic and physicochemical properties. Currently, research has been focused towards their applications for use in chemical and biological sensors as well as their use in optoelectronic devices. One of the...
Briefs Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Water Mist System for Shipboard Machinery Space Fires
Water mist has been determined to be a preferred alternative to Halon 1301 total flooding to extinguish fires occurring in ship machinery spaces and pump rooms, because it is toxicologically...
Briefs Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Axial Field Electric Motor
An axial field electric motor comprises one or more elements such as a rotor mounted for rotation and multiple axial flux permanent magnets carried by the rotor. The axial flux permanent magnets are oriented such that...
Briefs Physical Sciences
Miniature Rotorcraft Flight Control Stabilization System
Autonomous rotorcraft provide improved capability in performing military missions such as reconnaissance, targeting, border patrol, and environmental sensing. A common difficulty in...
Briefs Physical Sciences
Studies of Dynamic Fracture in Brittle Materials
A program of research spanning several years ending in November 2005 was dedicated primarily to formulation and analysis of canonical boundary- value problems in mathematical modeling of dynamic fracture in brittle materials. The sub-topics within the broad topic of dynamic fracture in brittle...
Briefs Physical Sciences
Acceleration Strain Transducer Containing Cantilever Flaps
A recently invented acceleration strain transducer is based on the principle of a conventional spring-and-mass acceleration transducer combined with a linear strain sensor that measures...
Briefs Physical Sciences
Simulation of Airflow Through a Test Chamber
A computational-simulation study of the flow of air through a thermo-anemometer chamber was performed to resolve what originally seemed to be an anomaly in the measurement data obtained by use of the...
Briefs Information Technology
Study of Submodeling of a Small Component in a Structure
A study was performed to evaluate the accuracy achievable in the use of submodeling in finite-element modeling of the mechanical response of a structural system that includes components...
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Prognostic Health Management of an RF System Using GPS
Prognostic health management (PHM) of electronic systems presents challenges that traditionally were not worth the cost of pursuit. Recent changes in weapons platform acquisition and...
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Developing a Beam Former for Electronically Steered Antennas
There are several applications for phased arrays in Army communication systems. This spans frequency bands ranging from UHF to Ka bands and performance requirements that include...
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I/O Module
Innovative Integration (Simi Valley, CA) has introduced the X5-GSPS, an XMC I/O module for applications in radar, electronic warfare, electronic countermeasures, and other defense applications. The module features two 8-bit A/Ds with...
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Spectroradiometer
Konica Minolta Sensing Americas (Ramsey, NJ) offers the CS- 2000A spectroradiometer for measuring ultra-low luminance levels of light-emitting devices, and for performing measurements corres - pond ing to scotopic relative...
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Telemetry Encoder
Mistral Solutions (Dallas, TX) offers the PCM telemetry encoder, a fully configurable Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) onboard system for analyzing flight parameters in airborne applications. The system is designed to withstand extreme environmental conditions and is AMC PPC405-based. It is comprised of a data acquisition system, a...
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Ultrasound Imaging Camera
The Acoustocam I500 ultrasound imaging camera from Imperium (Silver Spring, MD) is a portable real-time imaging system for the nondestructive detection of defects within materials such as composite and metal...
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Analog-to-Digital Converter
The ADC10D1000 analog-to-digital converter (ADC) from National Semiconductor Corp. (Santa Clara, CA) is designed for ground-based radar, data acquisition systems, and point-topoint base station communications. The...
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Digital Camera
Vision Research (Wayne, NJ) offers the Phantom® Miro™ Airborne digital high-speed camera that withstands the extreme environments associated with airborne applications. The rugged camera is designed for applications...
Products Electronics & Computers
Video Cards
The Matrix PCI Express 4-lane video cards from Great River Technology (Albuquerque, NM) are designed for high-speed ARINC 818, FC-AV, and HOTLink II applications. The cards can record or transmit video at 500 MB/s, are built with Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA technology, and can be configured for a variety of video formats and resolutions. They...
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Rugged Notebook Computer
GammaTech USA (Fremont, CA) has released the Durabook D15RP rugged notebook computer with a magnesium top and bottom case to protect components from damage due to drop and concussion. The anti-shock mounting design...
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Human/Machine Interface Systems
Ocular (Richardson, TX) has introduced the Cascade and Denali lines of human/machine interface (HMI) systems. The Cascade line features ARM9 processors, Crystal Touch projected capacitive touchscreens, and...
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Passivation Tester
The Model 2026 passivation tester from Koslow Scientific (Englewood, NJ) measures the corrosion tendency of the surface of stainless steel. It detects surface free iron through a galvanic process that is measured as a...
Articles Defense
Man-Wearable Control Units for Military Robotics
It is no secret that robots are rapidly asserting themselves in today's military applications. For the duration of the Iraq War, robots have roamed the streets of Baghdad, Fallujah, and other...
Articles Aerospace
Today’s Gigabit Ethernet Modules: Realizing the Netcentric Vision
To realize the Depart ment of Defense's (DoD) vision of a ubiquitous, netcentric battlefield — connecting the warfighter with critical data in real time — embedded...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
AC Coupled Interconnect for Low-Power Spaceborne Electronics
An AC coupled interconnect (ACCI) has been developed that could be used to create multiple solutions to contactless chip-to-chip communications. Assembly and testing of a 0.18 um bulk...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Fuzzy System for Fault Diagnostics in Power Electronics-Based Brake-by-Wire System
Research in fuzzy diagnostics of brake-by-wire systems focuses on the power electronics switches, since they are often considered to be the weakest link in the...
Briefs Software
Software Optimizes Multi-Core Platforms
Perseus is a suite of tools that allows existing x86-based software (in binary form) to be optimized for commodity multi-core platforms. Optimizations are made with respect to both performance (e.g., by avoiding undesirable cache effects) and power consumption (e.g., by modulating frequency and voltage of...
Briefs Physical Sciences
Synthesizing Pseudo-Finer-Resolution MODIS Data Products
A document discusses a methodology for synthesizing finerresolution data products from outputs of the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instruments aboard NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites. Typical MODIS ocean color data have 1-km resolution, but those in five wavelength...
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