IBM to fab Alpha microprocessor; Sun Microsystems helps Raytheon design computers for new Navy destroyer; DARPA eyes high-temperature superconductors for new RF components; and...
SAN JOSE, Calif. — With the impending demise of the Iridium satellite network for mobile satellite services to fulfill U.S. military needs, leaders of Globalstar Government...
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Members of the VME International Trade Association, a printed circuit board industry trade advocate in Scottsdale, Ariz., are formulating a standard for...
"Turning dumb bombs into smart bombs" is the way program personnel at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory's Munitions Directorate describe their efforts to create a new family...
Single-board computer vendors are looking to solve the challenge of managing the heat from high-power processors, while keeping the costs of their products as low as possible,...
WRIGHT PATTERSON AFB, Ohio - U.S. military scientists are moving ahead with a plan to develop chip-scale laser beam control components for what they claim will be a "revolutionary...
NASHUA, N.H. — Engineers at Sanders, a Lockheed Martin Company in Nashua, N.H., demonstrated a night vision imaging sensor using uncooled focal plane array technology. Most...
BEAVERTON, Ore. — Light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, represent a display technology that has fallen into disuse since it launched the era of digital watches and other consumer...
WASHINGTON — Leaders of the U.S. Department of Defense are scheduling a fourth National Missile Defense (NMD) interceptor evaluation for October, after a missile test failed...
On the deck of a ship, with the sun blazing and the air laden with salt spray and exhaust fumes, weapons operators activate the ship's fire-control computer and a surface-to-air...
Re your recent Editor's Desk column (Laser Focus World, June 2000, "Where have all the [technical] people gone?"): I see the shortage of scientists and engineers as a good thing...
KANATA, Ontario — Engineers at DY 4 Systems Inc. of Kanata, Ontario, used their System Technology Enhancement Program (STEP) to upgrade the U.K. Royal Air Force Tornado aircraft...
