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Army Laboratory Tests Human Behavior
Along the winding Snake Hill road in the Picatinny Arsenal 3500 area sits the Target Behavioral Response Laboratory (TBRL), which is responsible for providing answers to what engineers developing products...
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DoD Funds ‘Hostile Environment’ Control Technology Research
A Boise State University materials science researcher, along with engineers from Arizona State University, has received a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to...
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Upgraded Tactical Communications Network Passes Cold Weather Test
Even after being frozen overnight at negative 35-degree temperatures in the severe winter conditions of Alaska, the elements of the Army's second- generation tactical...
INSIDER Robotics, Automation & Control
Researchers Build Robot Jellyfish
Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas and Virginia Tech have created an undersea vehicle inspired by the common jellyfish that runs on renewable energy and could be used in ocean rescue and...
INSIDER Defense
Military Evaluates Vertical-Lift Aircraft Designs
The military services expect to unveil performance specifications this summer for a new joint vertical-lift aircraft, Maj. Gen. William T. Crosby told congressmen. Crosby, director of the Army's...
INSIDER Test & Measurement
Gas 'Plume' Detection System Could Protect Soldiers, First Responders
A wind monitoring and modeling system being developed by the Army Research Laboratory's (ARL) White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) division could one day protect soldiers and...
Briefs Information Technology
Comparison of Subpixel Phase Correlation Methods for Image Registration
When working sequences of images, registration of the frames to a common point of reference is an essential prerequisite for many types of image analysis. The phase...
Articles Test & Measurement
Improving Battlefield Connectivity for Dismounted Forces
The warfighter couldn’t take it anymore. His team’s mission was to sweep villages, collect fingerprints, photograph irises, and compare these biometric indicators against a registry...
Articles Aerospace
Laser Detection System Technology
While most ordnance is now laserguided, there is still much work to be done on the defensive detection of laser designators. Hence the growing need for advanced laser-warning systems (LWS). While multiple...
Application Briefs Defense
Fluorosilicones
A broad operating temperature range, fuel resistance and long-term reliability are some of the unique properties of fluorosilicones that make them useful in aerospace applications. To demonstrate their effectiveness, NuSil...
Application Briefs Robotics, Automation & Control
Silicone Cables: Silicone Encased Cables Make Military Robots More Reliable
Cicoil’s highly flexible and durable flat silicone cables are being used on unmanned ground based military robotic vehicles that require absolute reliability in mission critical and extreme environment conditions. Unlike bulky and stiffer round cables, flat silicone...
Application Briefs Aerospace
AWACS Real-Time Operating System
LynuxWorks, Inc. announced recently that the Mission Systems and Sensors Division (MS2) of Lockheed Martin in Owego, NY, selected the LynxOS real-time operating system (RTOS) and Luminosity Integrated...
Articles Aerospace
Architecture of the Air Force Satellite Control Network
The Air Force Satellite Control Network (AFSCN) is a worldwide network of ground stations that supports a variety of users from NASA to the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). The...
Application Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
Mission Data Transmitted Successfully With Network Gateway
In the 1990s, when laying the groundwork for its missile defense shield, the Pentagon realized that if it wanted to provide an effective defense against ballistic missile attack, it...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
High-Voltage Amplifier
TREK (Medina, NY) offers the Model 50/12 DC-stable high-voltage linear amplifier that delivers ±50 kV performance. The bipolar amplifier features an all-solid-state design and provides control of output voltages in the...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
RF Design Software
Agilent Technologies (Santa Clara, CA) offers EMPro 2011.11 Electromagnetic Professional software, a 3D modeling and simulation platform that features enhancements to further speed and improve RF design and verification....
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
RF Inductors
AVX Corp. (Fountain Inn, SC) offers the MLO™ 0402 Series, a multilayer organic RF inductor in a 0402 case size that offers tight tolerance in a small footprint. Providing high-Q and high self-resonance, the RoHS-compliant...
Products Imaging
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...
Products Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Flow Switch
The Model 1100 from Thomas Products (Southington, CT) is an inline flow sensor that monitors insufficient or excessive flow rates of liquids. A magnet-equipped shuttle is displaced at the proper calibrated flow of liquid to actuate...
Products Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Wire Thread Insert
Spiralock (Madison Heights, WI) has introduced its 2-56 Drive Notch™ (DN™) tang-free wire thread insert. Spiralock’s Drive Notch inserts feature a patented 30-degree “wedge” ramp formed into a 5-sided wire. The...
Products Imaging
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...
Products Motion Control
DC Motors
ThinGap (Ventura, CA) has expanded its line of laminated-copper DC brushless ironless motors to include 8 models ranging from 250 to 600 oz-in of peak torque, and maximum continuous speeds ranging from 2,710 to 16,305 rpm. To allow...
Products Imaging
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"...
Products Electronics & Computers
Flexible Flat Cables
Cables from Cicoil (Valencia, CA) encapsulate individual components in a shock-absorbing silicone jacket that protects from repeated exposure to vibration, temperatures between -65°C to +260°C, harsh weather, and turbulent flight. Each cable can incorporate a variety of elements including power conductors, shielded signal...
Products Test & Measurement
Drive Test Scanner
Rohde & Schwarz (Columbia, MD) has developed a multi-functional universal radio network analyzer that provides drive testing. The R&S®TSMW drive test scanner supports Long Term Evolution (LTE) formats in communication bands,...
Products Electronics & Computers
MIL-STD-1553 PCIe Module
The MIL-STD-1553 PCI Express module from AIM GmbH (Trevose, PA) features up to 4 dual redundant MIL-STD-1553A/B streams on one card. The design includes a high-speed FPGA with integrated PCI-Express bus (2.5 Gb/s rates)...
Products Electronics & Computers
Mixed-Signal Modules
Mercury Computer Systems (Chelmsford, MA) has released two small-form-factor-based products with SWaP characteristics: the Echotek® Series RFM-251-XMC tuner and the wideband DCMV6- XMC digital transceiver. The mixed-signal...
Products Materials
Hydrophobic Coatings
Boyd Coatings Research Co. (Hudson, MA) has developed the CRC 6000-line Hydrophobic Coating, a customized coating used primarily on radomes, satellite dishes and other communication installations to prevent water film from...
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