Volume 18, Issue 5

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MEMS-based gyros offer new options for precision guidance

May 1, 2007
Precision navigation aids are essential for aviation and smart munitions, as well as in autonomous land vehicles, robotics, and personal locators, to name just a few.
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Communications

Flexible and wearable display technologies are critical to today’s dismounted soldiers

May 1, 2007
The U.S. Department of Defense is increasingly investing in the advancement of display technology for military applications.
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Snecma uses Cedip Infrared camera to improve aircraft engine performance

May 1, 2007
Systems integrators at aircraft engine manufacturer Snecma in Villaroche, France, needed a camera for remote noncontact fatigue testing of engine turbine blades.
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European briefs

May 1, 2007
Israeli land robot can roll sensors, sniffers, and even a mini machine gun into combatElbit Systems Ltd. in Haifa, Israel, is introducing the VIPR unmanned ground vehicle, which...
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Communications

VDC: Passive backplanes dominate, while active backplanes are on the rise

May 1, 2007
Passive backplane-based computer systems continue to dominate the embedded integrated computer systems market, say analysts at Venture Development Corp. (VDC) in Natick, Mass....

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Silicon wafer shipments experience growth for the fifth consecutive year

May 1, 2007
Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments increased by 20 percent in 2006 when compared to 2005 area shipments according to the SEMI Silicon Manufacturers Group (SMG) in San Jose...
Computers

Mezzanine card market grows on strength of new form factors

May 1, 2007
The global market for merchant mezzanine/daughter cards will grow 13.3 percent annually through 2010 off the strength of several new form factors, say analysts at market researcher...
Computers

Through with hydraulics? Think again

May 1, 2007
Just when you thought it was safe to start designing advanced aircraft without hydraulic fluid and its associated on-board plumbing systems, comes a pressing new need for other...
Communications

In brief

May 1, 2007
BAE Systems seeker detects missile target in THAAD weapon system testBAE Systems’s infrared seeker for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) weapon system helped guide...
Uncrewed

Cisco develops smart robot nodes to maintain network connectivity while on the move

May 1, 2007
Engineers at networking expert Cisco Systems have developed small smart robots, which act as mobile communications relays, that sense when a wireless network user is moving out...
Communications

Harris RF designers expand into networked sensors applications

May 1, 2007
Leaders of the Harris Corp. RF Communications Division in Rochester, N.Y., are making a strategic expansion into networked sensors applications to augment their state-of-the-art...