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Software Defined Radio Enables Flexible Communications for NASA
Communication is key to just about any endeavor. NASA’s ability to update and modify communication capabilities to reflect the latest upgrades without impacts to mission time or...
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Automated Testing of Advanced, High-Performance, Point-to-Multipoint Radio Systems
In 2008, 4RF Communications started development of a new range of radio products to augment their existing point-to-point, long-range wireless link product. Used...
Application Briefs Defense
Pictorial Representation Tool for First-Aid Training
Charles River AnalyticsCambridge, MA617-491-3474www.cra.com Reducing combat fatalities demands quick and effective emergency care on the battlefield, and all soldiers are expected to provide...
Application Briefs Defense
Tactical Fighting System Simulator
Environmental Tectonics Corporation Southampton, PA 215-355-9100 www.etcusa.com Most fighter aircraft simulators are fixed-base, with no motion or sustained G-capability. Even those with six degree of freedom...
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Ultra-Light Prototype Vehicle
U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) Warren, MI 586-215-8763 tardec.army.mil At the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC), final...
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Electro-Optical Boresight Weapon System
Senso Optics Yokneam, Israel +972-4-993-5527 www.senso-optics.com The combat effectiveness of a weapon system depends substantially on its hit probability. The most accurate aiming occurs when an optical device is aligned to the weapon’s bore centerline.
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Signal AHPEC Platform
GE Intelligent Platforms (Waltham, MA) has announced the DSP281, a rugged, dual-node, quad-core 6U OpenVPX High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC) deployed server platform. GE’s HPEC architecture scales from one to...
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Upmast Radar System
Kelvin Hughes (Enfield, UK) offers a carbon composite housing for its SharpEye™ radar system. With coherent transmission and Doppler processing, the system separates targets from clutter, resulting in greatly improved...
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Inductance-to-Digital Converter
Texas Instruments (Dallas, TX) unveiled an inductance-to-digital converter (LDC), a new data converter category that uses coils and springs as inductive sensors. Inductive sensing measures the position, motion,...
Products Aerospace
COTS Benchtop SDSI
The LibertyGT™ 1200B from RADX Technologies (San Diego, CA) combines RADX real-time measurement science software and firmware with NI PXI modules and NI LabVIEW system design software. The 1200B, a programmable benchtop...
Products Defense
Thermoelectric Air Conditioners
TECA Corporation (Chicago, IL) offers a flush-mounted thermoelectric air conditioner. For enclosures with limited space, flush-mounted air conditioners provide cooling without physical intrusion into the...
Products Defense
Printer Interface Unit
Sabtech (Yorba Linda, CA) has announced its new Printer Interface Unit™ (PIU). The technology allows any commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) printer to be used in place of a militarized PT-540 or compatible printer....
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Optical Backplane Interconnect System
TE Connectivity (Harrisburg, PA) has released the new VITA 66.1 Ruggedized Optical Backplane interconnect system. The optical system is offered in both a receptacle (backplane) and mating plug...
Products Defense
Graphics Display Module
Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions (Ashburn, VA) has introduced a new embedded graphics module, the VPX3-716 3U OpenVPX™ six-head graphics display card. The module is designed for use on deployed airborne and...
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Rackmount Recorders
Pentek (Upper Saddle River, NJ) has introduced the Model RTR 2728 rugged portable and the Model RTR 2748 rugged rackmount recorders. SSD (solid state drive) storage technology achieves aggregate recording and playback rates...
Products Defense
Interconnect Solutions
Molex (Lisle, IL) manufactures a variety of interconnect solutions for the aerospace and defense industry. Their high performance cable assemblies include a range of RF/Microwave cable assemblies utilizing Temp-Flex®...
Technology Update Defense
Automated drilling machine takes the burr out of fuselage joint
More than 1200 large-diameter (up to ¾-in) holes must be drilled into titanium/ carbon stacks for the side-of-body joint on a particular Boeing commercial aircraft fuselage. This...
Technology Update Defense
Redesign of composite parts for structural integrity
In the case of composite materials, material properties are vastly dependent on the manufacturing process. While shifting the manufacturing process of a composite part from preimpregnated to...
Products Aerospace
Shielded twisted pair cables
W. L. Gore & Associates’ Shielded Twisted Pair Cables reduce weight while maintaining reliable signal integrity. The cables meet ANSI/NEMA WC27500 standards for aerospace and industrial electrical cable, type...
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Atomic force microscopy imaging
Asylum Research’s blueDrive photothermal excitation is available on its Cypher atomic force microscopes. blueDrive makes tapping mode imaging simple, stable, and accurate. It replaces the conventional piezoacoustic excitation mechanism, instead using a blue laser to directly excite the AFM cantilever...
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Two-component electrically conductive epoxy
Two-component electrically conductive epoxy Made with silver-coated nickel filler, Master Bond EP79FL is a two-part, electrically conductive epoxy for bonding, sealing, and coating applications. It has a low-volume resistivity of less than 0.005 ohm-cm and is suitable for applications in the electronic,...
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Custom dial face designs
Palmer Wahl Instrumentation Group's custom dial faces—its BiMetal and Direct Drive Dial thermometers, as well as its pressure gauges with screw-on bezels—may be customized, no matter the dial size. Customers may submit their own ideas and artwork, or they may work with the firm’s in-house engineering services to...
News Aerospace
Hybrid copter is first of its kind
Regulatory authorities in Germany decided to develop a new aircraft category called volocopter to accommodate the new 18-motor VC200. Read more at http://articles.sae.org/12585.
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Canadian researchers employ recycled carbon-fiber mats to produce thermoset composites
Carbon-fiber-reinforced thermoset composites continue to be difficult to recycle, as they are a complex mixture of different materials such as thermosetting polymers, carbon fibers, and fillers. Researchers from the Universite Du Quebec at Montreal, Bell...
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Overcoming design challenges of next-generation UASs
Next-generation unmanned air systems will require more performance and must integrate increasing capabilities for guidance control, weaponry, and surveillance—all in a very limited space. Read more at http://articles.sae.org/12546.
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Heated air technology helps optimize CFRP assembly
Assembly of large and complex carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP) components requires the use of liquid resin-based materials for applications such as shimming and aerodynamic sealing. These materials generally require curing times up to 12 h; heated air technology can reduce that time to 2 h....
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A holistic approach to aircraft assembly
It is the "automation and tooling partner" who offers a performance-based and advanced manufacturing systems integration approach that offers the next step-change, say Bombardier Aerospace and AIP Aerospace Odyssey. Read more at http://articles.sae.org/12568.
Briefs Aerospace
Power Management for the Electric Taxiing System Incorporating the More Electric Architecture
With airlines increasingly directing their attention to operating costs and environmental initiatives, the More Electric Architecture for Aircraft and...
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