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Ruggedized Low-Loss RF Cable Assemblies
Crystek (Fort Meyers, FL) offers the Armored LL142 rugged low-loss RF cable assemblies with a spiraled stainless steel casing and heavy-duty adhesive strain relief with a Neoprene jacket. At 18 GHz, the...
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Rugged Mobile Computers for Military and Homeland Security Operations
NextComputing (Nashua, NH) has released the Vigor Evo Plus rugged mobile computers to support high-end software applications in deployed environments. Created for military...
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Uni-Directional Material for Ballistic Vests
DSM Dyneema (Stanley, NC) offers Dyneema® SB51 vest-grade uni-directional (UD) material for use in ballistic vests that protect against handgun ammunition, fragments, and knives. The...
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Microwave Switch Carrier and Relay Driver
VTI Instruments Corp. (Irvine, CA) offers the EX1200-7100 26.5-GHz microwave switch carrier and relay driver. The carrier incorporates RF and microwave signal routing into the platform. The scalable...
Articles Aerospace
Advances in High-Frequency PCB Materials
Traditionally, RF/microwave printed circuit board applications were developed based on the needs that came out of the military market. Applications like radar and guidance systems were operating at...
Articles Aerospace
Specifying Components for Space Applications
Recently, NASA renewed a decades-old request for grant proposals that call for “faster, better, cheaper” projects. The ultimate agenda is to expedite developments in aerospace capabilities while...
Tech Transfer Reports
Software Fuses Radar and Sensor Data
Software designed to classify and track multiple targets for active space-borne missile threats also holds the potential to track objects as diverse as ground moving military targets, aircraft, and...
Tech Transfer Reports
Data-Driven Prognostics Software Predicts Deformation and Failure
Air- and space-borne systems require the storage, transport, and dispensing of large amounts of cryogenic fluids. In addition, these systems must be as lightweight as possible....
Tech Transfer Reports
Microgames for Proactive Preventative Medicine
The Department of Defense is actively looking for unified Force Health Protection and Deployment Health strategies to protect service members and their families from health hazards associated with military service. The Air Force is looking for a technology that will help save lives and promote healthy...
Tech Transfer Reports
Processing System Detects and Monitors Human Behavior in Crowds
A new surveillance technology soon might allow police, transportation officials, and private security firms to quickly and efficiently scan crowds to guard against terrorists or to...
Articles Aerospace
Passive Devices Designed to Improve Signal-to-Noise Ratios in Defense Electronics
While power architectures of defense electronics are extremely diverse, all have common operational demands: they must be robust (shock, vibration, temperature...
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Reliable EMI Shielding Materials and RF Cable Assemblies Ensure High Performance for Handheld Test Instruments
While high-performance test equipment has been used successfully in the laboratory for many years, the trend is moving toward remote...
Briefs Physical Sciences
Forehead-Mounted Sensor Measures Oxygen Saturation for Hypoxia Early Detection and Warning
Symptoms of hypoxia – a deficiency in the amount of oxygen reaching body tissues - have been documented among rotary-wing pilots and aircrew flying at...
Briefs Physical Sciences
Manifold-Based Image Understanding
The rapid growth of sensing and imaging technology, combined with the need for near-real-time action based on the sensed data, has rendered automatic processing, understanding, and decision-making vital to our...
Briefs Information Technology
Flexible Computing Architecture for Real-Time Skin Detection
In both the Air Force and search and rescue (SAR) communities, there is a need to detect and characterize persons. Existing methods use red-green-blue (RGB) imagery, but produce high false alarm rates. New technology in multispectral skin detection is better than the existing RGB methods,...
Briefs Physical Sciences
Battery Electrolyte Level Detector Apparatus
An apparatus has been developed for checking the electrolyte level in a battery, providing a safer and more efficient means to do so. The result is a non-intrusive apparatus and method of checking the electrolyte level that reduces the need to open the caps on the battery by checking the level externally.
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Magnetic Random Access Memory Integrated Passive Components
An embedded magnetic memory technology was developed to be integrated into a Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) circuit fabrication process to provide radiation-hard logic...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Differential Amplifier Circuits Based on Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistors (CNTFETs)
Since their discovery, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been extensively studied for their great potential in a variety of applications. Several desirable properties that CNTs possess include a high thermal conductivity, high electrical mobility, high electrical...
Briefs Photonics/Optics
AlInGaN Bandgap and Doping Engineering for Visible Laser Diodes
There is a great need to develop chip-scale visible lasers for many applications, including laser sight, environmental monitoring, and compact pumping sources for ultra-short laser pulse generation, high-luminous full-color displays, new-generation solid-state lighting, etc. The...
Briefs Photonics/Optics
Photorefractive Polymers for Updatable 3D Displays
Photorefractive (PR) polymer composites developed for 3D display applications contain a copolymer as the hole-transporting host matrix. The copolymer approach is followed to reduce the phase...
Briefs Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Membrane Pump for Synthetic Muscle Actuation
A synthetic muscle has been developed that uses inflatable balloons to produce a tensile force from a positive pressurization. Mechanical supply and ducting is used to provide the required pressurization. However, the mechanical supply and ducting that is currently used is limited in several respects. To...
Briefs Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Nonlinear, High-Fidelity, Aeroelastic Analysis for Novel Configurations
Efforts to develop morphing air vehicles with multiple mission capabilities have recently been undertaken by several research teams, including NASA’s Aircraft Morphing program and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Morphing Aircraft Structures program....
Briefs Materials
Shape Memory Polymer Process Development
This work introduces a simple technique of separately fabricating electrospun short fibers. This technique employs a paper mesh, which is placed between the needle tip and counter electrode of the...
Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Surface-Plasmon-Enhanced Organic Thin-Film Solar Cells
Fabrication of two-dimensional metal nanoparticle arrays was achieved both by thermal annealing and nanosphere lithography techniques, which are both very fast and economic. The surface plasmon resonance of the fabricated nanostructure was analyzed experimentally by optical absorption...
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RF Vector Network Analyzer
National Instruments (Austin, TX) has introduced the NI PXIe-5630 6 GHz two-port vector network analyzer (VNA), available in a compact, modular two-slot PXI architecture that allows engineers to perform parallel...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
Radio Telemetry System
Datapaq (Wilmington, MA) offers the Datapaq®TM21 radio telemetry system that uses radio-frequency technology to monitor and analyze thermal processes and temperature data in industrial-heating applications. Product and...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
Cable Connectors
The Times Advantage™ connector line from Times Microwave Systems (Wallingford, CT) has been extended to include four new type-716 DIN straight and right-angle EZ no-solder connectors for LMR-400 and LMR-600 cables. None of...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
Microwave Switch Platform
The EX71HD microwave switching platform from VTI Instruments (Irvine, CA) addresses applications that require non-latching relays and an operating range of up to 26.5 GHz. The switch can house up to 12 building blocks,...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
Dual-Band Antenna
Spectrum Advanced Specialty Products (Fairview, PA) introduces the Wi-FI Pro Dual Band Antenna, designed to provide full bandwidth across the ISM band and withstand noisy or electronically sensitive environments. Able to...
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