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University Opens New Ballistics and Impact Dynamics Lab
Wichita State University’s National Institute for Aviation Research recently opened a new ballistics and impact dynamics research lab in the former Britt Brown Arena at the Kansas...
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New DARPA Technologies Could Make Cyber Warfare a Reality
Three years after the Defense Department named cyberspace a new domain of warfare, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is unveiling technologies that could soon make it...
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Army Researchers Enable Night Lethality
In science fiction, technology problems are solved with the stroke of a writer's pen. In reality, science and technology research takes time, and a lot of effort.
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Fully Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles
Lockheed Martin Bethesda, MD 866-562-2363 www.lockheedmartin.com/unmanned Lockheed Martin, in collaboration with the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC),...
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Unmanned "Urban Beat Cop" Surveillance System Protects Soldiers
In a non-combat environment, information is typically collected by local law enforcement officers who are "walking their beat." Air Force expeditionary forces in Afghanistan...
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Custom Surface Inspection System for Safety-Critical Processes
Researchers have engineered a high-precision modular inspection system that can be adapted on a customer-specific basis and integrated into the production process. Before a...
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Army to Get New IED Detector Technology
Detecting improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan requires constant, intensive monitoring using rugged equipment. When Sandia researchers first demonstrated a modified miniature synthetic aperture...
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Unmanned Aircraft Must Rise Above Barriers for Commercial Applications
Historically, the unmanned aircraft system (UAS) market has been dominated by military applications from surveillance to active engagement. In the near term, the market’s...
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Scientists Demonstrate Data Teleportation for Secure Communications
Teleportation, a long-standing staple in the world of science fiction, has become a reality for scientists at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory in terms of battlefield data and...
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Synthetic Aperture Sonar Can Help Navy Hunt Sea Mines
Since World War II, sea mines have damaged or sunk four times more U.S. Navy ships than all other means of attack combined, according to a Navy report on mine warfare. New sonar research...
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Will ‘Recalls’ Become ‘Upgrades’?
"The nice thing about the digital world is that, when you enter it, you don't know where you will end up," said Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) Research and Development Director, Dr. Wolfgang Epple....
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New Displays Could Lower Risk of Small Aircraft Midair Collisions
Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed new modifications for technology that helps pilots of small aircraft avoid midair collisions. The modified tools...
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Confocal Imaging System for Ultra-Fast, Three-Dimensional Transport Studies in Thermal Management Applications
The objective of this work was to develop a high-speed, three-dimensional (3D) confocal imaging system to study coupled fluidic and...
Application Briefs Defense
F-16 Full Mission Trainers
L-3 Communications announced that its Link Simulation & Training (L-3 Link) division has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Wright- Patterson Air Force Base near...
Products Electronics & Computers
Video Compression Module
An enhanced version of the ICS-8580 high-definition video compression XMC module from GE Intelligent Platforms (Huntsville, AL) allows moving images to be captured, transmitted, and stored with low latency and minimal...
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Thermal-to-Visible Face Recognition
For nighttime surveillance, acquisition of visible light imagery is impractical due to the lack of illumination. Thermal imaging, which acquires mid-wave infrared or long-wave infrared radiation naturally...
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Air Force Uses 3-D Scanner to Model Aircraft
When the 46th Test Wing's Air Force SEEK EAGLE Office purchased a 3-D laser scanner system six months ago, they had no idea how much of an impact the system would make.
Application Briefs Electronics & Computers
Embedded Graphics Processor
Rockwell Collins (Cedar Rapids, IA), a designer of communications and avionics systems for the aerospace and defense industries, has selected the AMD Radeon™ E2400 embedded graphics processor for inclusion in its...
Application Briefs Defense
Surveillance Systems
New Surveillance System Provides Round-the-Clock Coverage Logos Technologies has begun delivery of the first two electro- optical/infrared Kestrel wide-area persistent surveillance systems to the U.S. Army for deployment...
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Rugged Handheld Displays
IEE (Van Nuys, CA) offers a line of rugged, military-qualified handheld control display units (CDUs). The display sizes and resolutions range from 4-line 2.8" character displays up to full graphic displays and from 3.5"...
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Sunlight Readable LCDs
Comark Corp. (Medfield, MA) offers LEDbased, sunlight-readable LCDs with transflective film enhancements. The Opti-Bright Series, available in 12", 15", and 17" sizes, features 0-100% adjustable brightness control for...
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Infrared Camera
Telops (Quebec, Canada) has announced the TEL-1000 MW InSb infrared camera. The TEL- 1000 MW InSb covers the 3.6 to 4.9 μm wavelength range, and can be customized to cover an extended range from 1.5 to 5 μm. The device...
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Computational Cameras
A computational camera uses a combination of optics and software to produce images that cannot be taken with traditional cameras. A variety of computational cameras has been demonstrated; some designed to achieve new...
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3D Video Tracking System
Specialised Imaging Ltd. (Tring, Hertfordshire, UK) has announced a new version of its Trajectory Tracker video tracking system that correlates high-speed video data with 3D visualization and measurement information....
Briefs Photonics/Optics
Wide-Field Imaging System and Rapid Direction of Optical Zoom
A breadboard system has been developed for demonstrating nonmechanical zoom using flexible thin films. The project consists of three major task areas: material characterization,...
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Surveillance Technology Offers 3D Security Monitoring
A new, versatile imaging technology quickly gives users accurate three-dimensional depictions of objects being tracked. The image system, developed by Visidyne, Inc. (Burlington, MA),...
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PCI Frame Grabber
The PIXCI® SV5L low-profile frame grabber from EPIX (Buffalo Grove, IL) acquires video from NTSC, RS-170, PAL, CCIR, or S-Video cameras. A 3-input video multiplexer allows signal selection from two mini-BNC or one S-Video...
Products Physical Sciences
Surveillance Sensor
The Hyperspec Point & Stare sensor from Headwall Photonics (Fitchburg, MA) is a fully integrated imaging sensor used for unattended, ground-based surveillance applications. The sensor identifies objects based on the target's...
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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...
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