Designers of open-architecture embedded systems who face constant market pressures must always consider ways to take advantage of the latest processors and peripherals. The silicon...
FORT DETRICK, Md. — U.S. Army leaders are beginning to apply telemedicine techniques to the battlefield with a standard tactical radio system. Initially they will use only...
Two Norwegian sailors perhaps did not realize how much they needed a combination Global Positioning System (GPS) and wireless communications system before they were stricken at...
Officials at the National Security Agency (NSA) in Washington granted a GTE`s Government Systems request to become an authorized vendor for the TACLANE Internet Protocol (IP)/...
SAN DIEGO — Many military programs are employing commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) technology, according to participants in the COTScon West`99 conference last month in San...
Experts at Visual Presence Ltd. and Alenia Marconi Systems are using the TDZ 2000 ViZual Workstations from Intergraph Computer Systems in Huntsville, Ala., to power the United...
Engineers at Salt Lake City-based Evans & Sutherland rely on new electronic components driven by the boom in consumer electronics. The downside of this, however, is parts obsolescence...
United Kingdom (U.K.) army officials have ordered their first supply of TACNAV systems from KVH Industries in Middletown, R.I., in a move to equip their armored vehicles for the...
WASHINGTON — Yes. Despite the devastating loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter in September and the Mars Polar Lander last month, NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin`s basic approach...
KANATA, Ontario — A major avionics upgrade to the U.S. Navy/Marine Corps Boeing F-18E/F Hornet jet fighter-bomber will rely on the PowerPC microprocessor and the Fibre Channel...
The growing use of data and voice networks have the potential to blend decision makers, sensors, and shooters into an efficient and lethal mix of flexible, coordinated, and fast...
WASHINGTON — Designers of the U.S. Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) propose to succeed, where others have failed, in building a truly programmable, dynamically switched...
Yet another new networking acronym is about to descend on the U.S. military — PAN — short for personal area network. And it is the evolution of PAN that will turn the...
DULUTH, Ga. — Engineers at Barco Inc. are prototyping a family of liquid crystal display (LCD) panels for combat vehicles in which systems integrators can separate the panels...
The rugged classification for military computers, once heading quickly away from mil-spec classifications to embrace commercial technology, has started inching back toward military...
SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Experts at Real-Time Innovations (RTI) are providing a real-time software tool for the U.S. Navy San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship (LPD...
Engineers at Lockheed Martin Federal Systems in Owego, N.Y., developed cognitive decision-aiding technologies for the U.S. Army Rotorcraft Pilot`s Associate program, which gives...
Experts from the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center in Los Angeles, and the Boeing Co. in Anaheim, Calif., have tested a new military handheld search-and-rescue communications...
Designers at CPU Technology Inc. of Pleasanton, Calif., are building a core processing architecture that they say will make it possible to upgrade some of the U.S. military`s ...
Experts at Aeroflex Circuit Technology in Plainview, N.Y., are releasing a new MIPS microprocessor multichip module (MCM) for military and high-reliability applications. The new...
Designers at Analog Devices Inc. of Norwood, Mass., are introducing their AD8361 TruPwr Detection RF integrated circuit — a root mean square-to-direct current converter that...
With regret I am writing this letter concerning the Viewpoint article, "Marrying military and commercial microelectronic production lines," by Greg Saunders in the November 1999...
Experts at Vishay Intertechnology Inc. of Malvern, Pa., are introducing a new family of high-temperature aluminum electrolytic capacitors for military and automotive applications...
Engineers at Actel Corp. in Sunnyvale, Calif., are expanding their line of radiation-tolerant field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The new RTSX-S devices, which Actel experts...
Engineers at Synergy Microsystems in San Diego are offering their new Motorola MPC7400 G4 PowerPC microprocessor on all of their PowerPC-based VME and CompactPCI single-board ...
Software engineers at the Boeing Phantom Works Division Directorate in Seattle are developing software to defend against information warfare attacks across several different computer...
Software programmers at the Lockheed Martin Ocean, Radar & Sensors Systems division in Syracuse, N.Y., have achieved the highest possible rating from the Software Engineering ...
ALAMEDA, Calif. — Missile- and air-defense experts at the U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) are using a computer graphic windowing environment from RGB...
Engineers at the U.S. Army Tobyhanna Army Depot in Tobyhanna, Pa., are building 200 multilayer circuit cars for the tube Launched, Optically Tracked, Wire Command-Link Guided ...
FORT HUACHUCA, Ariz. — The U.S. Army has wrapped up the flyoff phase of the competition for its Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (TUAV) , and is imminently expected to choose...
Experts from the Rockwell Science Center in Thousand Oaks, Calif., are developing technology for advanced sensor networks under the supervision of the U.S. Defense Advanced Projects...
Engineers at Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, are developing a geo-location system to enable soldiers in the field to communicate, exchange files, and conduct videoconferences...
PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. — U.S. Army vetronics designers are using commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components in their latest electronics upgrade of the M109A6 Paladin 155...
