Volume 17, Issue 12

Communications

LabVIEW drivers for wireless sensor networks

Dec. 1, 2006
National Instruments in Austin, Texas, announced LabVIEW drivers for wireless sensor networks, giving engineers and scientists working with these devices the ability to fully ...
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Computers

Gigabit Ethernet network access controller

Dec. 1, 2006
U.S. Air Force leaders needed a gigabit Ethernet network access controller for a bomber aircraft upgrade program.
Communications

Thales U.K. selects Radstone for Watchkeeper program

Dec. 1, 2006
Engineers at Thales U.K. in Addlestone Nr Weybridge, England, sought a real-time data processor (RTDP) subsystem for Watchkeeper, a surveillance solution used by the United Kingdom...
Computers

DARPA, Rockwell Collins eye MEMS to help revolutionize radio technology

Dec. 1, 2006
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va., has selected Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to lead an effort to use micro electro-mechanical...
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Communications

Barco to provide rugged display workstations for BAE Systems NLOS-cannon early prototypes

Dec. 1, 2006
Systems designers at BAE Systems Land & Armaments LP in Fridley, Minn., needed rugged displays for prototypes of the future U.S. Army Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) Cannon early prototypes...

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Computers

In brief

Dec. 1, 2006
Boeing awarded U.S. Air Force Combat Search and Rescue contractThe U.S. Air Force selected St. Louis-based Boeing’s HH-47 helicopter as the winner of the Combat Search and Rescue...
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Communications

Sensors light path to defeating incoming

Dec. 1, 2006
Military designers are taking advantage of the latest sensor technology and signal processing systems to track and kill incoming enemy missiles.
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Communications

ITT flies electronic warfare system on Chilean F-16 jet fighter

Dec. 1, 2006
ITT’s Electronic Systems’s ALQ-211 Electronic Warfare suite is providing electronic countermeasures and other capabilities for Chilean F-16s.
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Communications

Mid-power 24-volt maxi modules

Dec. 1, 2006
Vicor Corp. in Andover, Mass., added eight mid-power Maxi DC-DC converters to the company’s 24 volts DC input family: a 3.3 Vout, 200 W model and 300-Watt models at 5, 12, 15,...
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Communications

Taming the gallium arsenide dicing process

Dec. 1, 2006
The attractiveness of gallium arsenide (GaAs) as a semiconductor material is based on its ability to handle high frequencies at high power levels-something that cannot be done...
Computers

Experimental VME backplane databus moves data at 1 gigabit per second

Dec. 1, 2006
Computer scientists are on the verge of boosting VME backplane databus speeds to as fast as 1 gigabit per second, or to enable a larger number of backplane slots to function at...