Volume 17, Issue 12

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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...
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...
Dec. 1, 2006
Managers at Raytheon Company-the prime mission systems equipment integrator for the U.S. Navy’s DDG 1000 Zumwalt-class destroyer program, formerly the DD(X) destroyer program-...
Dec. 1, 2006
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>Systems designers at Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems in Tewksbury, Mass., needed rugged server computers for the future U.S. Navy DDG 1000 Zumwalt-class destroyer.
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...
Dec. 1, 2006
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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...
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 ...
Dec. 1, 2006
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U.S. Air Force leaders needed a gigabit Ethernet network access controller for a bomber aircraft upgrade program.
Dec. 1, 2006
International Rectifier (IR) in El Segundo, Calif., is offering the IRMCT3UF1, an integrated high-reliability hybrid motor control module enabling digital, sensor-free vector ...
Dec. 1, 2006
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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,...
Dec. 1, 2006
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ITT’s Electronic Systems’s ALQ-211 Electronic Warfare suite is providing electronic countermeasures and other capabilities for Chilean F-16s.
Dec. 1, 2006
U.S. military aircraft spending will peak this year at $47 billion, and decline to $41 billion in 2017, predict analysts of the Government Electronics and Information Technology...
Dec. 1, 2006
The European military helicopter market is set to remain stable in size over the next 10 years, but still will total nearly a $26 billion in the decade from 2006 to 2015, according...
Dec. 1, 2006
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BAE Systems has begun delivering replacement Attitude and Heading Reference Systems (R-AHRS) to improve the reliability and performance of U.S. Navy SH-60 Seahawk helicopters....
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...
Dec. 1, 2006
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The latest advancements in portable, rugged data storage are designed to deliver critical data to warfighters on the battlefield quickly, securely, and without fail.
Dec. 1, 2006
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Military designers are taking advantage of the latest sensor technology and signal processing systems to track and kill incoming enemy missiles.
Dec. 1, 2006
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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...
Dec. 1, 2006
U.S. military research and development spending in 2006 was the highest in history according to the influential Government Electronics and Information Technology Association (...
Dec. 1, 2006
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Steve Rood Goldman is a product manager for high-speed networking at Data Device Corp. in Bohemia, N.Y.
Dec. 1, 2006
Analysts at Forecast International in Newtown, Conn., project that countries worldwide will spend more than $35 billion on 33 different airborne and space-based electro-optical...
Dec. 1, 2006
Last month Military & Aerospace Electronics ran a page-one headline reading “Defense industry upbeat; military spending to stay healthy over next decade.
Dec. 1, 2006
Manufacturers will begin shipping ultra-wideband (UWB) chipsets this year and shipments are expected to ramp up with a total of 289 million chipsets shipping in 2010, predict ...
Dec. 1, 2006