AUSTIN, Texas, 5 June 2013. Xplore Technologies Corp. in Austin, Texas, is introducing the iX104C5-M2 rugged tablet computer for military and government applications.

WASHINGTON, 4 June 2013. U.S. government researchers are preparing to asking industry to develop advanced facial-recognition technology able to identify people not only using incomplete, erroneous, and ambiguous data, but also that accounts for aging, pose, illumination, and expression.

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla., 4 June 2013. U.S. Air Force weapons experts will brief industry June 25 and 26 on fuze technology research efforts for specific applications available for near-term transition, as well as on research programs in the mid- and far-terms.

HALSTENBEK, Germany, 3 June 2013. TEWS Technologies in Halstenbek, Germany, is introducing the TPMC685 standard single-width 32 bit PCI mezzanine card (PMC) for applications in aerospace and defense, process control, simulation, test, and transportation.

Extreme Engineering Solutions Inc. (X-ES) in Middleton, Wis., is introducing the rugged XPort5005 express mezzanine card (XMC) for military, aerospace and land vehicle embedded computing applications.

Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions in Ashburn, Va., is introducing versions of the company's CHAMP-WB rugged 6U OpenVPX embedded computers with the TDAC-25 10-bit, 25-gigabit-per-second, digital-to-analog converter from Tektronix Component Solutions in Beaverton, Ore.

Tektronix Component Solutions in Beaverton, Ore., is introducing the TDAC-25 10-bit commercial digital-to-analog converter (D/A converter), which at 25 gigasamples per second is what company officials claim is the world's fastest D/A converter.

Extreme Engineering Solutions Inc. (X-ES) in Middleton, Wis., is introducing the XPand6103 fanless embedded rugged box computer using the Intel Core i7 processor for small, rugged applications like unmanned vehicles.

Designers at RF and microwave integrated circuit specialist Plextek RF Integration in Great Chesterford, England, needed simulation software for their high-frequency circuit and MMIC designs.

NATO military technology researchers needed real-time digital signal processing (DSP) capability for demonstration of a synthetic aperture sonar data for adaptive track spacing and target detection on an autonomous vehicle.

U.S. Navy electronics designers needed rugged embedded computers for mission module packages aboard the Navy's LCS.

Application software for a growing majority of aerospace and defense systems is complex, and is becoming more so all the time.

Advanced avionics is no longer the domain of either military or commercial aviation; both civil and defense aircraft benefit from the latest technologies.

It's ironic that one of the few growth areas in the U.S. defense industry these days involves making things smaller, but this is the world we live in now.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., 1 June 2013. Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) has released its Electromagnetic Professional (EMPro) 3D electromagnetic simulation software to help design engineers identify and resolve difficult electromagnetic interference (EMI) problems.

GENEVA, Switzerland, 31 May 2013. Creative Electronic Systems SA (CES) in Geneva, Switzerland, is introducing the FIOV-2310 3U OpenVPX embedded computing module for demanding and complex applications.

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md., 29 May 2013. U.S. military officials say they plan to buy as many as 2,800 obsolescent Xilinx Virtex-II field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) for infrared sensor signal processing in a variety of surveillance, reconnaissance, and fire-control systems.

WOODBRIDGE, Ontario, 29 May 2013. Stealth Computer Inc. in Woodbridge, Ontario, is introducing the LPC-480FS fanless small-form-factor PC for space-constrained applications.

PATUXENT RIVER NAS, Md., 28 May 2013. In the same day that unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) experts at Northrop Grumman Corp. completed the first flight of the new Navy MQ-4C Triton maritime patrol UAV, Navy experts are making plans to upgrade the UAV's software.