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The Benefits and Challenges of Enabling Direct-RF Sampling

The process of converting analog radio signals to digital ones has traditionally required several analog and electronic components that can cause latency and interference issues....

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RF & Microwave Electronics

Beyond the Beam: The Impact of Coaxial Cables on Phased Array Technology

Phased array radar technology has been gaining popularity since its initial introduction in the 1960s and is now being used in a variety of applications, from military and defense to civilian sectors and even space exploration. Read on to learn more about this cutting-edge technology.

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Electronics & Computers

New Products

See the new products, including EIZO Rugged Solutions' Condor™ NVA2102xX; Sealevel Systems' new family of computers, the Flexio Fanless Industrial Embedded Computers; Teledyne FLIR Defense's UltraFORCE® 380-HDc imaging system; the S-335 fast steering mirror from Physik Instrumente; Pixus Technologies' 3U and 6U handle/panel sets for OpenVPX and other architecture boards; and more.

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RF & Microwave Electronics

Cutting-Edge Drone Killer Radio Wave Weapon Developing at Pace

Delivered by Team Hersa, the Radio Frequency Directed Energy Weapon can detect, track and engage a range of threats across land, air and sea. The system uses radio waves to disrupt or damage critical electronic components inside enemy platforms, such as drones, causing them to stop in their tracks or fall out of the sky. Read on to learn more.

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Electronics & Computers

How European Collaboration is Driving an Open Source Revolution in the Chip Space

The open source software ‘movement’ has already transformed computer operating systems. Can it do the same for semiconductors? European leaders think so....

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RF & Microwave Electronics

New Cognitive 'MIMO' Drone Radar Completes Flight Testing in Germany

An ever-growing number of aircraft now share the airspace over urban areas. Drones are increasingly being used for a wide range of applications, including in Class G...

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Podcasts
Aerospace

Streaming Video Over Legacy Military Tactical Networks

Joshua Cryer, President and CEO of Reticulate Micro, is the guest on this episode of the Aerospace & Defense Technology Podcast.

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Defense

Honeywell Launches New System to Counter Drone Swarms

Honeywell has announced the launch of its new Stationary and Mobile UAS Reveal and Intercept System, designed to counter drone swarms through advanced detection, tracking and...

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Manned Systems

Barracuda: Anduril's New Software-Defined Autonomous Air Vehicles

Anduril is unveiling the Barracuda family of air-breathing, software-defined expendable Autonomous Air Vehicles (AAVs) that are optimized for affordable, hyper-scale...

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Manned Systems

Air Force Ready to Flight Test Viper Electronic Warfare Upgrade for F-16s

Northrop Grumman’s AN/ALQ-257 Integrated Viper Electronic Warfare Suite (IVEWS) has completed U.S. Air Force testing in the service’s Joint Preflight Integration...

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Defense

Stanford Engineers Conduct Groundbreaking In-Orbit Test of Satellite 'Swarm' Navigation

Someday, instead of large, expensive individual space satellites, teams of smaller satellites – known by scientists as a “swarm” – will work in...

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RF & Microwave Electronics

EA-37B Compass Call: The US Air Force's New Electronic Attack Aircraft

The U.S. Air Force Air Combat Command received its first EA-37B Compass Call on Aug. 23 for pilot training at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona.

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Manned Systems

Starliner to Perform Uncrewed Return Flight From International Space Station This Week

Boeing's Starliner spacecraft is scheduled to make an uncrewed return flight to Earth on Friday, Sept. 6, while the two astronauts who flew the...

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RF & Microwave Electronics

This Laser Clock Could Transform Satellite Navigation Accuracy

A new laser clock from the German Aerospace Center has achieved a record level of accuracy for optical clocks with gas cells: in 30 million years, it would be off by just one second. Read on to learn more about it and what it could mean for satellite navigation accuracy.

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Manufacturing & Prototyping

Quality Gearing Keeps Mission-Critical Systems Rotating for Combat

Power transmission and gear components must meet extreme performance and reliability demands in order to prove effective on the battlefield. That’s because they are the heart of rotating mechanisms used to rapidly detect threats, home in on targets, and fire projectiles quickly aboard combat vehicles and ships. Read on to learn more about the gear and its uses.

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Photonics/Optics

Everyday Life, Improved by Light: GRYPHON’s Photonic Discoveries

GRYPHON will leverage recent developments in nonlinear photonics and photonic-electronic integration to develop microwave sources with noise performance that meets or exceeds that of the best discrete oscillator modules. Read on to learn more about the endeavor.

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RF & Microwave Electronics

This Laser Clock Could Transform Satellite Navigation Accuracy

A new laser clock from the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) has achieved a record level of accuracy for optical clocks with gas cells:...

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Photonics/Optics

Space Lasers: Aiming Towards Next Leap in Global Communications

Space lasers are transforming the world. Not the far-off future of science fiction, but the universe of how data and communications flow today — everywhere from deep space missions to countless applications here on earth, including consumer internet services, military operations, and banking transactions. Read on to learn more.

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Photonics/Optics

MEMS-Based Accelerometer to Measure Microgravity for In-Orbit Manufacturing

Looking ahead, the continued development of MEMS technology will likely unlock new possibilities for space exploration and utilization, ensuring that projects like ForgeStar remain at the forefront of scientific and technological progress. Read on to learn more.

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Communications

To 6G and Beyond: Penn Engineers Unlock the Next Generation of Wireless Communications

In the early 2010s, LightSquared, a startup promising to revolutionize cellular communications, declared bankruptcy. The company couldn’t figure out how to prevent its signals from interfering with those of GPS systems. Now, Penn Engineers have developed a new tool that could prevent such problems from ever happening again: an adjustable filter that can successfully prevent interference, even in higher-frequency bands of the electromagnetic spectrum.

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Application Briefs
RF & Microwave Electronics

Persistent German Airborne Surveillance System

Hensoldt, Lufthansa Technik Defense, and Bombardier Defense provided a significant program update on the highly-specialized modification work on the Persistent German Airborne Surveillance System (PEGASUS) aircraft at the 2024 Berlin Air Show. Read on to learn more.

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Manufacturing & Prototyping

How AR, Robotics are Increasing Speed of Space Payload Manufacturing at Northrop

The speed of getting to space relies on more than just the thrust of a rocket. Before any countdown begins, satellite systems must be designed, manufactured...

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RF & Microwave Electronics

Army Launches CMOSS Prototyping Competition for Computer Chassis and Cards

Embedded computing suppliers will have the opportunity to compete to develop new open system architecture chassis and cards for use in U.S. Army combat vehicles and...

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RF & Microwave Electronics

Are Navy Ships Ready for 5G?

The U.S. Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) is preparing to deploy the first 5G radios and connectivity designed for the Navy's fleet of ships, according to an update released by the agency last week. The...

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Photonics/Optics

Space Lasers: Aiming Towards Next Leap in Global Communications

Space lasers are transforming the world. Not the far-off future of science fiction, but the universe of how data and communications flow today — everywhere from deep space...

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Software

Skunk Works Successfully Demonstrates AI in Air-To-Air Tactical Intercepts

Lockheed Martin Skunk Works partnered with the University of Iowa's Operator Performance Laboratory (OPL) to demonstrate the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in...

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Manned Systems

How Sandia’s New Digital Engineering Tool Helps Reimagine Design of Radar Systems

In a whirling geopolitical landscape of new nuclear weapons, hypersonic weapons, drones and satellites, the U.S. is hustling to test new kinds of radars...

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Products
Information Technology

New Products

See the new products, including a new family of Rohde & Schwarz power analyzers, DDC’s cyber resilient MILSTD-1553 component, Eizo Rugged Solutions' Talon RGD2443W LCD monitor, Emerson's new ASCO™ Series 148/149 safety valve and motorized actuator, Pixus Technologies' Tier 3 SOSA aligned chassis management module, Epix Inc.’s robot/drone dual camera link grabber, and more.

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Articles
Electronics & Computers

How SpaceVPX is Influencing the Design of Next Generation Spacecraft Avionics

SpaceVPX is an embedded computing standard based on bridging the VMEBus International Trade Association (VITA) OpenVPX standards to space applications. OpenVPX is a set of embedded computing system standards that are widely used in safety critical aerospace and defense platforms such as vehicles and weapons.

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