Volume 18, Issue 10

10-gigabit takes Ethernet to the edge

Oct. 1, 2007

10-gigabit Ethernet is enabling a new class of military systems where broadband data from a variety of sensors and other information streams can be integrated across the battlefield...

Computers

The danger of hybrid-solder boards

Oct. 1, 2007

An unavoidable consequence of the transition to lead-free solders has been the assembly of printed circuit boards containing a mixture of two types of components: those intended...

Communications

The importance of military information security

Oct. 1, 2007

You don’t often hear about new innovations in military information security.

Power

Phoenix Mars mission uses Actel RTAX-S FPGAs

Oct. 1, 2007

Radiation-tolerant RTAX-S field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) from Actel in Mountain View, Calif., are aboard NASA’s Phoenix mission to Mars, which launched this summer from...

Communications

Aided by Electronics

Oct. 1, 2007

Military forces benefit from lifesaving electronic warfare and signals intelligence technologies.

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Computers

FPGAs enable signal processing

Oct. 1, 2007

Field-programmable gate arrays are becoming the choice of systems designers over their longtime preference of digital signal processing hardware.

Communications

American Systems develops emergency communications system for homeland security

Oct. 1, 2007

Engineers at American Systems in Chantilly, Va., are pushing ahead on a project to develop a portion of an integrated homeland security cellular telephone-based emergency alert...

Communications

Agilent managers, clients see promise in electronic warfare, signals intelligence

Oct. 1, 2007

Agilent Technologies Inc. has acquired NetworkFab Corp., a designer and builder of signals intelligence, communications, and jammer systems for the U.S. military, intelligence...

Communications

Morgan Electro Ceramics introduces piezoelectric composite components for sonar receivers

Oct. 1, 2007

Morgan Electro Ceramics (MEC) in Bedford, Ohio, is introducing piezoelec-tric composite components to help increase acoustic performance for military and commercial sonar receiver...

Power

Smart Energy Solutions to offer military batteries with built-in safeguard features

Oct. 1, 2007

Smart Energy Solutions in Pompton Plains, N.J., is set to introduce advanced battery systems for military use that are designed to safeguard military power systems and prolong...

Computers

Pentek offers clock, sync, and gate distribution board to synchronize 2 GHz A-D processing modules

Oct. 1, 2007

Pentek Inc. in Upper Saddle River, N.J., is releasing its Model 6890-a 2.2 GHz clock, synch, and gate distribution board for synchronizing several Pentek I/O modules.