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Army eyes automated methods of combing through captured sites for important intelligence

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md., 20 March 2013. U.S. Army researchers say they plan to approach industry later this month for ways of automating the process of collecting analyzing, and interrogating information, material, and people captured during military operations to make the most of intelligence-gathering opportunities while keeping warfighters as safe as possible.

Mentor Graphics introduces FloTHERM XT EDA tool for electronics cooling simulation

WILSONVILLE, Ore., 20 March 2013. Mentor Graphics Corp.’s (NASDAQ:MENT) FloTHERM XT software delivers an integrated MDA-EDA electronics cooling simulation solution designed to dramatically shorten the process from conceptual through detailed design.

SAIC joins APS in DARPA project to develop deep sonar to detect quiet hostile submarines

SAN DIEGO, 20 March 2013. Undersea surveillance experts at Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) in Arlington Va., are joining a program to design technology for an extremely deep-operating undersea surveillance system to help protect U.S. Navy aircraft carriers and their support vessels from quiet enemy attack submarines.

DARPA to brief industry 1 April on network security to operate through bad wireless nodes

ARLINGTON, Va. 19 March 2013. Military communications experts at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va., will brief industry April 1 on a program to help voice and data networks continue to function if the network has bad nodes.

Leupold and Aimpoint combine optics to win Navy ECOS-O combat infantry rifle sight contract

CRANE, Ind., 19 March 2013. Two optics companies are combining their expertise in rifle scope and sighting technologies for a U.S. Navy program to provide Marine Corps warfighters and other combat infantry personnel with an advanced rifle sighting system for a variety of battlefield weapons.

Portable USB data acquisition system with FFT analysis introduced by Silicon Designs

KIRKLAND, Wash., 19 March 2013. Silicon Designs Inc. in Kirkland, Wash., is introducing the model 3330 G-Logger low-cost, USB-powered portable data acquisition system with powerful fast Fourier transform (FFT) analysis and display capabilities.

Army eyes VHF aircraft radar able to detect hidden IEDs from altitudes as high as 25,000 feet

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md., 18 March 2013. U.S. Army researchers are surveying industry to find companies able to design airborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) that uses radio frequencies between 25 and 88 MHz to detect hidden wires, weapons caches, and other components of improvised explosive devices (IEDs).

Tiny MIL-STD-1553 avionics databus interface chip from Holt receives formal validation

MISSION VIEJO, Calif., 18 March 2013. Holt Integrated Circuits Inc. in Mission, Viejo, Calif., is announcing formal MIL-STD-1553 RT validation of the HI-6130/31 BC/MT/ RT multi-terminal 1553 avionics databus interface.

Software development tool suite that supports features in Ada 2005 introduced by Atego

SAN DIEGO, 17 March 2013. Atego in San Diego is introducing a version of the Atego ApexAda Developer Enterprise Edition software development tool suite with Ada 2005 support.

Power measurement sensor for radar and automotive uses introduced by Rohde & Schwarz

MUNICH, March 15, 2013. Test and measurement specialist Rohde & Schwarz in Munich is introducing the R&S NRP-Z58 power sensor for military and industrial radar systems operating at 94 GHz, or for automotive applications at 77 GHz, such as automatic cruise control and collision warnings.

IARPA seeks to move high-performance computing beyond CMOS and floating point

WASHINGTON, 14 March 2013. Government computer scientists are asking industry for information that could lead to new levels of computational performance with dramatically lower power, space, and cooling requirements than the high-performance computing (HPC) systems of today.

Industrial and motion control technologies making fundamental shift to Ethernet, study says

LONDON, 14 March 2013. Worldwide use of Ethernet with motor drives and motion controllers will more than triple in the five years between 2011 and 2016, say market researchers at IHS Inc. in London. Ethernet accounted for 1.8 million new connected nodes in 2011.

Computer-on-Module for graphics, multimedia, and industrial control introduced by andersDX

LONDON, 14 March 2013. The embedded computing company andersDX in London is introducing the CM-iGT Computer-on-Module for industrial control systems, digital signage, thin clients, information kiosks, point-of-sale units, and media servers.

DHS asks industry for big improvements in X-ray detection of IEDs in airport security

WASHINGTON, 13 March 2013. Baggage screening experts at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in Washington are reaching out to industry to find revolutionary new ways of using X-ray at airport security check points to detect improvised explosive devices (IEDs) hidden in passenger luggage.

Green Hills releases version of its Integrity Multivisor software for trusted mobile devices

SANTA BARBARA, Calif., 13 March 2013. Green Hills Software in Santa Barbara, Calif., is announcing major release of its Integrity Multivisor for trusted mobile devices.

Navy invests in submarine-launched nuclear ballistic missile guidance upgrades and test

WASHINGTON, 12 March 2013. The U.S. Navy is investing more than a quarter-billion dollars to upgrade the guidance systems in the Trident II D5 submarine-launched nuclear ballistic missile.

PCI/104 eight-channel quadrature counter card for robotics applications introduced by Mesa

RICHMOND, Calif., 11 March 2013. Mesa Electronics in Richmond, Calif., is introducing the 4I74 stackable PCI/104 eight-channel quadrature counter embedded computing card for robotics, motor control, measurement, and instrumentation applications.

ATCA chassis for defense aerospace, surveillance, and industrial introduced by Pentair

MINNEAPOLIS, 10 March 2013. Pentair Equipment Protection in Minneapolis is introducing the 14U, 14-slot Schroff 450/40 ATCA chassis for next-generation ATCA boards in critical, high-availability applications where enhanced performance is crucial.

DARPA releases solicitation for expanded program to reuse parts from orbiting dead satellites

DARPA releases solicitation for program to reuse parts from orbiting dead satellites

ARLINGTON, Va., 8 March, 2013. Spacecraft experts at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va., have released a formal solicitation for the Phoenix program, which seeks to reuse satellite antennas, apertures, and other components from decommissioned satellites.

Hydroid in full production of REMUS 600 UUV for Navy Littoral Battlespace Sensing program

POCASSET, Mass., 8 March 2013. Unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) designers at Hydroid Inc. in Pocasset, Mass., have begin full-rate production of the Navy Littoral Battlespace Sensing (LBS) UUV for U.S. Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) in San Diego.