Volume 17, Issue 2

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Engineers at Airbus Industrie in Toulouse, France, needed a video distribution and processing (ViDP) system for the A400M military transport aircraft.
Feb. 1, 2006
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Aitech Defense Systems in Chatsworth, Calif., is adding two boards to its rugged VME64x-compliant C10x single-board computer family.
Feb. 1, 2006
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Novatech Instruments Inc. in Seattle is offering the Model 440A 400-MHz direct digital synthesizer signal source, a shielded tabletop instrument that generates a sine wave programmable...
Feb. 1, 2006
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EAO Switch Corp. in Milford, Conn., is offering rugged vandal-resistant W.series metal keyboards for harsh internal and external public environments.
Feb. 1, 2006
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Aeroflex Colorado Springs in Colorado Springs, Colo., is offering the UT200SpW02 SpaceWire Protocol Handler and UT200SpWPHY01 SpaceWire Physical Layer Transceiver products.
Feb. 1, 2006
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Dynatem in Mission Viejo, Calif., is offering the Intel Pentium M-based CompactPCI module for embedded processing applications that call for low power consumption.
Feb. 1, 2006
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Omnetics Connector Corp. in Minneapolis is offering 3-D solid models, which are created into STEP Files (.stp) made for insertion and imported into a variety of computer-aided...
Feb. 1, 2006
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Officials of MEN Micro in Lago Vista, Texas, and Sysgo AG of Mainz, Germany, are joining hands to port the Linux operating system for PowerPC embedded processors for industrial...
Feb. 1, 2006
KineticSystems Co. LLC in Lockport, Ill., is offering its VCDS VME-to-VXI adapter card, which is a functional replacement for the Colorado Data Systems Model CDS 73A-851.
Feb. 1, 2006
Designers with the U.S. Air Force needed a map display system for the F-16 fighter jet.
Feb. 1, 2006
DAP Technologies in Quebec City is offering the Microflex Solutions Security (MS Security), a customized solution that combines DAP’s Microflex CE3240 rugged handheld mobile computer...
Feb. 1, 2006
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Tyco Electronics in Harrisburg, Pa., won a contract from the U.S. Defense Supply Center Columbus (DSCC) in Columbus, Ohio, for MIL-DTL-24308 connectors with zinc plating.
Feb. 1, 2006
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North Atlantic Industries (NAI) in Bohemia, N.Y., is announcing a high-power-density single-slot VME64 DC/DC converter called the 58KS1.
Feb. 1, 2006
Engineers at Harsh Environment Applied Technologies (H.E.A.T.) Inc., of Annapolis, Md., needed an imaging platform to boost situational awareness systems in armored vehicles.
Feb. 1, 2006
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Designers at Cessna Aircraft in Wichita, Kan., needed a power controller for their Citation Mustang business jet.
Feb. 1, 2006
Engineers at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. in Fort Worth, Texas, needed software to manage the design of their F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
Feb. 1, 2006
Leaders at the U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) at MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., needed activity sensors as part of the Persistent Surveillance Unattended Ground Sensor (UGS) ...
Feb. 1, 2006
Engineers at Akrion and their Goldfinger Technologies subsidiary needed a replacement RF amplifier system for an ultrasonic system.
Feb. 1, 2006
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Designers at Smiths Aerospace in Grand Rapids, Mich., needed development tools to create software for the Boeing 777.
Feb. 1, 2006
Engineers at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., needed a storage system to back up critical data from their...
Feb. 1, 2006
Engineers with the U.S. Air Force needed infrared sensors for an upgrade on the HC-130. They found a solution with MTC Technologies Inc. in Dayton, Ohio.
Feb. 1, 2006
Designers at Atlantis Systems Corp. in Toronto needed a server for the helicopter trainer built for flight simulators ranging from the Westland EH-101 to the Bell 206 helicopters...
Feb. 1, 2006
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Commandos in the field, who scorn traditional military standards, are setting the bar high for night-vision devices, handheld radios, and batteries that must perform in far more...
Feb. 1, 2006
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In contrast to common thinking, the domestic market for homeland security made up only 52 percent of the global market in 2005, according to a research report from the analyst...
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The following is a discussion with BAE Systems North America’s corporate leadership on the defense electronics industry.
Feb. 1, 2006
A growing number of functional optical components tunability, optoelectronic integrated circuits (OEICs), analog and digital signal processing, and rate/protocol agile transceivers...
Feb. 1, 2006
Concerns about homeland security will generate $3 billion in business for designers of nuclear-screening portals from 2006 to 2010, according to a report from Homeland Security...
Feb. 1, 2006
DDC-I is a well-established safety-critical software providerThe Product Intelligence section of the November issue of Military & Aerospace Electronics featured an article reporting...
Feb. 1, 2006
Northrop Grumman wins Navy emergency-response systems contractNorthrop Grumman Corp. in McLean, Va., won a U.S. Navy contract for an emergency-response management system that ...
Feb. 1, 2006
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The Boeing-led Airborne Laser (ABL) team finished a series of tests of its high-energy laser at the Systems Integration Lab at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
Feb. 1, 2006
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Navy leaders have already taken two steps in 2006 toward creating an all-electric destroyer.
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Leaders of the General Dynamics Land Systems Division in Sterling Heights, Mich., are zeroing in on how the company manages test equipment as a way to cut costs and improve engineering...
Feb. 1, 2006
Engineers at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., are using the LS Series of radiation-hardened DC-DC converters from International Rectifier (IR) in El Segundo...
Feb. 1, 2006
When NASA launched its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Aug.
Feb. 1, 2006
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It’s high time for military technology specifiers and their suppliers in the aerospace and defense industries to come up with a new electronics packaging standard to complement...
Feb. 1, 2006
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The Boeing Co. in Mesa, Ariz., has selected the Independence IDX 2500S ER Image Generator (IG) from Quantum3D in San Jose, Calif., for the Apache Block III attack helicopter Engineering...
Feb. 1, 2006
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Planned upgrades are set to render the venerable 1-megabit-per-second network hundreds of times faster than it is today, which will drastically increase the capabilities of existing...
Feb. 1, 2006
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Nallatech Ltd. in Glasgow, Scotland, is offering four new commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products that combine the processing and I/0 performance of Xilinx Virtex-4 field-programmable...
Feb. 1, 2006
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EADS North America Defense Test & Services in Irvine, Calif., is offering its Adapt a Switch PXI modules.
Feb. 1, 2006
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Renishaw Inc. in Hoffman Estates, Ill., is offering steel-ring RESM rotary/angle encoders that combine rugged reliable design with high accuracy at high speeds for military applications...
Feb. 1, 2006
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Teledyne Relays in Hawthorne, Calif., is offering the Series J255 magnetic-latching half-size crystal can relay for military and aerospace applications.
Feb. 1, 2006
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Electroswitch in Weymouth, Mass., is offering Snap-Action rotary switches for rugged and reliable military use.
Feb. 1, 2006
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Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing in Leesburg, Va., is introducing a video-capture high-resolution PMC graphics controller called the AtlasPMC/2.
Feb. 1, 2006
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Hermetic Switch Inc. in Chickasha, Okla., is offering a series of surface-mount proximity sensors called the PRX+2450 for medical, electronics, aerospace, industrial, and other...
Feb. 1, 2006