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Comms
Rugged flash drive has built-in security - Product
October 09, 2012
Engineers at Apacer have designed a rugged flash drive for extreme military environments that comes with built-in security features to prevent enemy eyes from ever seeing the secure data. The 2.5" Serial ATA Flash Drive (SAFD 25P) has ATA secure erase and S.M.A.R.T. functions that basicall...
Radar/EW
VPX SBC building block hastens time-to-market for C4ISR apps - Product
October 09, 2012
Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) is a hot focus in mil tech these days, and so is fast time-to-deployment. The good news is that Parvus’ CPU-111-10 6U VPX SBC can act as a ready building block in C4ISR applications, h...
Comms
Vetronics displays help with incremental upgrade path - Product
October 09, 2012
Sometimes taking a huge leap forward in military technologies isn’t reality – technologically or budget-wise – whereas incremental upgrades are often the name of the game. Case(s) in point: GE’s IVD2010 and IVD2015 rugged intelligent vehicle displays, which provide...
Comms
NIST-certified, rugged SSD provides AES encryption and durability - Product
October 09, 2012
With national and technological security as vital concerns, Microsemi’s NIST-certified TRRUST-Stor SSD aims to help government and military officials rest (at least a little bit) easier. Having recently achieved National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) certification for...
Unmanned
Radar/EW
Carbon-fiber chassis meets mil ruggedization and weight issues - Product
September 03, 2012
The RE0412 Rugged Embedded computer from Crystal Group in Hiawatha, IA is protected by a carbon-fiber chassis (patent pending). It weighs only 3.8 lbs. and measures 3.13" high by 10.76" wide with a depth of 8.13". The chassis uses Faraday cage construction techniques that utilize proprieta...
Comms
Optical, rad-hard, SFF transceiver for space - Product
September 03, 2012
High-speed parallel optical communication for space applications is enabled by the latest radiation-hardened component from Ultra Communications in Vista, CA: the X80-Q Fury transceiver. The surface-mount device produces 12.5 Gbps per channel per receiver and has an extended temperature ra...
Comms
SVGA point of load DC-DC converters for space - Product
September 03, 2012
The SVGA Series 10A and 15A POL devices from VPT in Everett, WA are non-isolated, regulated buck DC-DC converters that reduce voltage by a step-down process at the point of use in a distributed power system. There is a big push toward power distributed architectures for space applications,...
Unmanned
Carbon-fiber chassis meets mil ruggedization and weight issues - Product
September 03, 2012
The RE0412 Rugged Embedded computer from Crystal Group in Hiawatha, IA is protected by a carbon-fiber chassis (patent pending). It weighs only 3.8 lbs. and measures 3.13" high by 10.76" wide with a depth of 8.13". The chassis uses Faraday cage construction techniques that utilize proprieta...
Comms
Optical, rad-hard, SFF transceiver for space - Product
September 03, 2012
High-speed parallel optical communication for space applications is enabled by the latest radiation-hardened component from Ultra Communications in Vista, CA: the X80-Q Fury transceiver. The surface-mount device produces 12.5 Gbps per channel per receiver and has an extended temperature ra...
Avionics
GPS and INS in one embedded device - Product
September 03, 2012
Engineers at VectorNav in Texas have developed a navigation device for avionics in manned aircraft and for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) payloads that combines a GPS module with MEMS inertial and pressure sensor technology. The patent-pending VN-200 device enables embedded navigation in co...
Unmanned
Rugged computer for manned and unmanned aircraft - Product
September 03, 2012
The new rugged computer – ONYX – is designed for constrained space applications such as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), ground vehicles, and manned aircraft.
Comms
Voltage Supervisor monitors power supplies in hi-rel space apps - Product
September 03, 2012
Engineers at Aeroflex Colorado Springs developed a new device designed to manage power supplies in components such as DSPs, FPGAs, ASICs, and microprocessors.
Unmanned
UGV technology transforms manned vehicles into unmanned, beefs up autonomous operation while maintaining original payload - Story
July 27, 2012
Oshkosh Defense is developing its TerraMax Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) technology, which aims to remove some of the drivers within a convoy, while providing situational awareness via an advanced -perception- system comprising Light Detection And Ranging (LIDAR) cameras and radar. Managing Editor Sharon Hess recently interviewed John Bryant and John Beck to get an insider's perspective of both TerraMax and the UGV market.
Unmanned
"Googlizing" military intelligence searches: The next frontier for sifting through all that UAV (and other) data - Story
July 27, 2012
Saying that military intelligence analysts have their work cut out for them these days is really an understatement. Sure, the explosion of new UAV sensors and other information-gathering technologies is guaranteed to enable capture of exponentially more Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) data, but someone -?or something -?needs to make heads or tails of the resulting avalanche of data.
Unmanned
Rugged AdvancedTCA for C4ISR applications - Product
July 19, 2012
Engineers at SANBlaze Technology?s Defense Solutions Group have come up with a rugged AdvancedTCA solution for C4ISR applications such as shipboard, ground, and airborne battle management and communications systems. They have dubbed it the Rugged Compute Platform for Tactical Ops, or...
Radar/EW
RF signal analysis products from D-TA leverage 10 GbE for SIGINT applications - Product
July 19, 2012
Two new software radio solutions from engineers at D-TA Systems Inc., called RFvision-1 and RFvision-2, help enable sensor-independent processing for SIGnals INTelligence (SIGINT), RF spectrum monitoring; ELectronic INTelligence (ELINT); COMmunications INTelligence (COMINT), RF test and me...
Cyber
New GrammaTech code analysis tool works with millions of lines of code - Product
July 19, 2012
Engineers at GrammaTech designed a new tool for code analysis that includes a Google Earth-like zooming feature that enables users to zoom in on individual lines of code in systems that contain as much as 20 million lines of code.
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