Volume 17, Issue 3

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Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., needed display systems for a new nanotechnology lab.
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The MAE brand Series 600 brush-commutated DC servomotors from PennEngineering Motion Technologies in Harleysville, Pa., are for heavy-duty power applications able to achieve continuous...
March 1, 2006
Mercury Computer Systems Inc. in Chelmsford, Mass., is offering the PowerBlock 200 processor based on the IBM/Toshiba Cell Broadband Engine (BE).
March 1, 2006
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AVX Corp. in Myrtle Beach, S.C., has developed an automotive-plus series (APS) of parts qualified to the Automotive AEC-Q200 standard, but manufactured and quality assurance-tested...
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Radstone Embedded Computing in Towcester, England, is introducing the CPX24 rugged managed Gigabit Ethernet switch.
March 1, 2006
Advanced Thermal Solutions in Norwood, Mass., is offering maxiFLOW heat sinks for cooling ball grid arrays (BGAs) and other hot components in restricted air-flow conditions.
March 1, 2006
Winchester Systems Inc. in Burlington, Mass., is offering a SATA-II disk array with high-speed 4-gigabyte Fibre Channel host interfaces and RAID 6 data protection capable of sustained...
March 1, 2006
Navy engineers needed a test and measurement platform to analyze communication links.
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Designers at L-3 Communications Integrated Systems in Greenville, Texas, needed a digital autopilot system for the P-3 Orion antisubmarine patrol aircraft they were delivering...
March 1, 2006
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BittWare Inc., a signal-processing specialist in Concord, N.H., signaled the company’s commitment to a long-term VITA 41 VXS roadmap with the announcement Jan. 16 of the T2-6U...
March 1, 2006
Vicor Corp. in Andover, Mass., is offering the online Vicor Quality Center to enable visitors to create a custom quality report, take a video tour of the Vicor factory, or walk...
March 1, 2006
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Leaders in the Canadian Department of National Defense needed navigation and flight instruments for the CP-140 Aurora Modernization Project.
March 1, 2006
Navy engineers needed powerful computers to model underwater explosions and assess the performance of new warhead designs.
March 1, 2006
Engineers at General Dynamics C4 Systems in Scottsdale, Ariz., needed processors for the U.S. Department of Defense’s Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) Cluster 5 design.
March 1, 2006
U.S. Navy designers needed navigation sensors for an unmanned undersea vehicle.
March 1, 2006
Designers at InPhase Technologies, Longmont, Colo., needed a chip for their holographic storage drive, the world’s first of its kind.
March 1, 2006
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Engineers at L-3 Communications needed a hard disk to record data aboard Boeing’s P-8A Multi-mission Maritime Aircraft (MMA).
March 1, 2006
Engineers at Thales Communications in Clarksburg, Md., needed software middleware to certify their Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) software-defined radio (SDR) for Software...
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As consumer-based technology has continued to evolve at an ever-faster pace, the U.S. military has faced the dual problem of providing the latest capabilities to fighting forces...
March 1, 2006
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The market for radio-frequency microelectrical mechanical systems (RF MEMS) components will grow from $126 million in 2004 to more than $1.1 billion in 2009, according to a study...
March 1, 2006
The global air cargo market, which recently has shown strength through a flurry of new freighter orders, is poised for strong 20-year growth, during which analysts at The Boeing...
March 1, 2006
Coast Guard names first national security cutterThe Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, Adm. Thomas H. Collins, announced that the service’s first National Security Cutter will...
March 1, 2006
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Digital signal processors (DSPs), with worldwide unit shipments estimated at 1.5 billion units in 2004, will grow to approximately 2.8 billion units by the end of 2009, reports...
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Officials at Boeing in Seattle selected the RedHawk Linux operating system from Concurrent in Duluth, Ga., for Symtx avionics test equipment used in support of the Boeing Integrated...
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Growth of the U.S. Navy’s fleet of surface warships and submarines is riding on systems innovation and new technologies to introduce open-systems solutions for network-centric...
March 1, 2006
Leaders of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) propose spending nearly $21.3 billion in fiscal year 2007 for procurement and research in communications, electronics, telecommunications...
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The U.S. Army moved a step closer to developing a next-generation tactical utility truck to replace the Humvee and other familiar vehicles last month, as it narrowed the competition...
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Much of the attention surrounding full-scale military combat in recent years has focused on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), precision-guided munitions, and fast-moving ground...
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U.S. military forces stationed in Iraq soon will test surveillance technology and methods adapted from law enforcement.
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Processors and switched-fabric networks are moving data at faster speeds then ever before, which is leading designers to come up with innovative approaches to channeling information...
March 1, 2006
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The 2007 proposed budget for the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) is likely to go into the history books as one to confound the experts, and enrage the fiscal conservatives.
March 1, 2006
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GC Electronics in Rockford, Ill., is offering a family of sealed lead-acid batteries comprising more than 75 models, with input voltages of 4, 6, 12, and 24 in capacities ranging...
March 1, 2006
BittWare Inc. in Concord, N.H., is shipping the B2-AMC (B2AM) that combines the Analog Devices TigerSHARC digital signal processor (DSP) with the Altera Stratix II and AdvancedMC...
March 1, 2006
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The UGS antenna from Fractal Antenna Systems in Bedford, Mass., combines extreme wideband performance and superior gain in a low-profile lightweight design for use in challenging...
March 1, 2006
Axon’ Cable Inc. in Schaumburg, Ill., is placing its Micro-D 0.05-inch pitch connectors on the QPL-83513 list and is certifying these parts according to MIL-DTL-83513.
March 1, 2006
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American Eltec in Las Vegas has enhanced its basic automation board (BAB) range by introducing the 1-GHz version of the BAB 760 PowerPC board.
March 1, 2006