Volume 18, Issue 2

The coming revolution in commercial avionics data networking

Feb. 1, 2007

There is a new databus in town for passenger jetliners, called AFDX, which is set to replace or augment the widely installed ARINC 429 on the Airbus A380, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner...

Test

DARPA program to develop computer system to forecast wars and other political instability

Feb. 1, 2007

Scientists at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va., are asking industry for ideas on how to develop an advanced computer system called ...

Communications

Air-cooled Fibre Channel network-access controller card

Feb. 1, 2007

Data Device Corporation (DDC) in Bohemia, N.Y., is offering an air-cooled network access controller (NAC) called the FC-75162 that is the latest installment in DDC’s dual-channel...

Computers

Radiation-hardened mixed-signal ASICs

Feb. 1, 2007

Aeroflex in Colorado Springs, Colo., is offering radiation-hardened mixed signal application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) in 0.6-micron (5-volt) and 0.35-micron (3.3-to...

Test

Channel fading capability for mobile protocol test system

Feb. 1, 2007

Aeroflex Test Solutions in Burnham, England, is adding radio-channel fading capability to its 6401 AIME 3G mobile protocol test system.

More content from Volume 18, Issue 2

Computers

Thermal-management challenges highlight Military Technologies Conference 2007

Feb. 1, 2007

U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) and industry experts will discuss thermal and power management at the Military Technologies Conference (MTC) on 27 and 28 March 2007 in Boston...

Communications

Letters

Feb. 1, 2007

Partisan Republican attacks on DemocratsI was extremely disappointed to read John Keller’s December editorial entitled “Election aftermath: what’s in it for the military?”I subscribe...

Communications

No time to waste

Feb. 1, 2007

Countering improvised explosive devices is not a 5- or 10-year program, but something the military needs right now as these nasty mines continue to take the lives of American ...

Communications

In Brief

Feb. 1, 2007

Boeing to begin second phase of enhanced Polar System Payload studyBoeing Co. in St. Louis and the U.S. Air Force MILSATCOM Systems Wing have exercised an $8.4 million contract...

Uncrewed

European briefs

Feb. 1, 2007

U.K. team to build explosives-disposal unmanned ground vehicleThe Remotec subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Corp. in Whitley, England, is teaming with QinetiQ in Farnborough, England...

Communications

New communications for Navy ships based on software-defined radio

Feb. 1, 2007

Engineers at General Dynamics C4 Systems in Scottsdale, Ariz., are using software-defined-radio (SDR) technology on board various U.S. Navy surface ships and submarines, as well...