UPPER SADDLE RIVER, N.J., 24 May 2012. Pentek Inc. in Upper Saddle River, N.J., is introducing the Talon family of high-speed, multi-channel Serial FPDP turnkey rugged data recorders for capturing streaming sources such as live transfers from sensors or data from other computers aboard aircraft, ground vehicles, ships and submarines, and other harsh-environment applications.

POING, Germany, 22 May 2012. Avnet Embedded in Poing, Germany, is introducing the LB121S03-TL03 industrial 12.1-inch LG SVGA TFT display for marine, industrial, and medical applications. The rugged display has a lifetime of at least three years, has a bright LED backlight, a built-in LED backlight driver, and LVDS interface.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., 21 May 2012. GE Intelligent Platforms has unveiled the SBC325, a rugged single-board computer (SBC) based on 3rd Generation Intel Core quad-core processor technology.

NEWPORT, R.I., 16 May 2012. U.S. Navy underwater weapons experts needed a PC/104-based stackable embedded computer for a prototype torpedo designed by experts at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) in Newport, R.I. They found their solution from VersaLogic Corp. in Eugene, Ore.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., 16 May 2012. GE Intelligent Platforms in Huntsville, Ala., is introducing the GRA112 3U VPX rugged graphics board for demanding graphical applications that require a general-purpose graphics processing unit (GPGPU), such as intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), radar, and sonar.

MIDDLETON, Wis., 15 May 2012. Extreme Engineering Solutions (X-ES) in Middleton, Wis., is introducing the XPedite5205 PCI mezzanine card (PMC) embedded router module hosting Cisco IOS IP Routing software for mobile ad hoc networking for military and emergency response.

GARNER, N.C., 13 May 2012. American CONEC Corp. in Garner, N.C., is introducing water-resistant Ethernet I/O port connectors with a special flange-mount for deployment in harsh environments such as security and surveillance equipment, GPS systems, communications, industrial machinery, and test and measurement equipment.

QUANTICO, Va., 10 May 2012. U.S. Marine Corps leaders are choosing 10 information technology (IT) companies to compete for contracts collectively worth as much as $775 million over the next three to five years to provide commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) military computer equipment as part of the Marine Corps Common Hardware Suite (MCCHS) program, which the Marine Corp put in place to meet the service's IT hardware requirements.

BLACKSBURG, Va., 10 May 2012. VPT Inc. in Blacksburg, Va., is introducing the SVGA0515 series point of load DC-DC converter for use in the extreme environment of space. VPT experts have qualified the SVGA0515 to MIL-PRF-38534 Class H and Class K.

Rugged displays are everywhere on and above the battlefield today. Whether systems designers are looking for a display in a cockpit, for a ground vehicle, or for a rugged tablet, there are many different factors to consider for what these displays need to do.

U.S. Army and Marine Corps communications experts needed ground-mobile antennas for the Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System (SINCGARS).

ARLINGTON, Va., 29 April 2012. The U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) in Arlington, Va., plans to award a $5.9 million three-year sole-source contract to Hydroid Inc. in Pocasset, Mass., to develop an autonomy testing system for the future Large Displacement Unmanned Underwater Vehicle Innovative Naval Prototype Technology (LDUUV INP) program, which seeks to develop machine autonomy and long-endurance propulsion systems for large unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs).

ASHBURN, Va., 26 April 2012. Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions in Ashburn, Va., is introducing the VPX3-1257 3U OpenVPX single-board computer with the quad-core 3rd-Generation Intel Core i7-3612QE processor, which was introduced this week. The embedded computing board is for harsh-environment, air- and conduction-cooled aerospace and defense applications.

WOBURN, Mass., 25 April 2012. Concurrent Technologies Inc. this week is introducing three embedded computing products based on the newly announced Intel 3rd Generation Core microprocessor -- the VX 91x/01x 6U VXS/VME single-board computer, the PP 93x/x1x single slot air-cooled 6U CompactPCI single-board computer, and the AM 92x/x1x Advanced Mezzanine Card (AdvancedMC).

SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif., 23 April 2012. Meggitt Sensing Systems in San Juan Capistrano, Calif., is introducing the model 2220E miniature piezoelectric accelerometer for high-temperature vibration measurements in applications such as aircraft engine ground vibration testing, automotive and aerospace component durability testing, auxiliary power unit (APU) monitoring, and helicopter health and usage monitoring systems (HUMS) testing.

ALISO VIEJO, Calif., 19 April 2012. Microsemi Corp. in Aliso Viejo, Calif., is introducing the SA50-28 family of radiation-hardened single-, dual-, and triple-output DC-DC converters for military and commercial satellites that require protection against naturally occurring total-dose ionized radiation, which can hurt system performance.

GERMANTOWN, Wis., 18 April 2012. WAGO Corp. in Germantown, Wis., is introducing the 756 series M12 socket Ethernet adapter that WAGO designed to simply linking machine-mount IP67 components with IP20 controls. The D-Coded M12 adapter provides tool-free terminations with a traditional cable-based RJ45 Ethernet socket that routes data through a screw-locking M12 connector.

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif., 15 April 2012. Embedded computing experts at General Micro Systems (GMS) Inc. in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., say they have developed vetronics computing technology for military combat vehicles and similar land systems that has true high-capacity server performance in a rugged, conduction-cooled package for mobile electronic warfare, signals intelligence, communications intelligence, and other demanding vetronics applications.