Application Briefs: Test & Measurement
Irvine, CA
888-837-8297
www.MarvinTest.com
Marvin Test Solutions, Inc., a company that specializes in globally-deployed test solutions for military, aerospace, and manufacturing...
Briefs: Automotive
After extensive review from the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) Electrical Safety Office, it was...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
Unmanned vehicles for air, land, and water represent an increasingly-important capability for virtually all military services worldwide. Because each new generation of device technology promises...
Articles: Aerospace
The increasing demand for higher data rates in telecommunications and higher resolution in industrial systems is pushing the frequency of operation higher for the electronics that support them. Many of these systems...
Articles: Energy
One of the largest problems facing the aerospace industry involves size, weight, and power (SWaP) analysis and the increasing size of payloads with typically a finite amount of power to drive ever more demanding systems....
Articles: Aerospace
RF and microwave components deployed in spaceflight applications can experience hundreds of degrees of temperature variation, massive amounts of radiation, and can be expected...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Development of robust semiconductor devices with high energy efficiency and reliability is a key objective towards 'Energy...
Articles: Aerospace
Military electronics continue to push the performance envelope in all directions. Each new system design faces the same challenges: the need for more processing power, tighter specs, and...
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Electrospinning is a nanofiber fabrication technique that has grown in popularity due to its potential in numerous biomedical applications. The...
Articles: Aerospace
The defense and aerospace market continues to push for reductions in size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C) to support advanced sensor/vetronics payloads onboard unmanned...
Articles: Defense
As OEMs seek advantages in Size, Weight, Power and Cost (SWaP-C), focus is shifting to advancements in power electronics. Gaining an advantage requires close attention not only to...
Briefs: Aerospace
The goal of this work was to investigate using harvested energy to directly control the vibration response of flexible aerospace systems. Small,...
Articles: Aerospace
Radar is used to detect and/or track target objects and their attributes, such as range, speed, and other information obtained through signals at RF and microwave frequencies. The...
Briefs: Physical Sciences
The goal of this work was to investigate the concept of using harvested energy to directly control the vibration response of flexible aerospace systems. Small, lightweight, flexible...
Articles: Aerospace
The simplistic definition of UAV reads like this:
“An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), colloquially known as a drone, is an aircraft without a human pilot on board. Its flight is controlled either...
Articles: RF & Microwave Electronics
As a vertical market, “defense electronics” encompasses a huge range of systems, from portable communications to transportation, avionics, and shipborne radar. While the power...
Articles: Aerospace
While often used interchangeably, power and energy are not the same. Energy is the capacity to perform and power is the rate at which that capacity is exercised — the...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
Sophisticated graphics have hit the embedded systems world and are increasingly demanded by military, aerospace, industrial, and medical applications. The problem, of course, is...
Briefs: Imaging
A breadboard system has been developed for demonstrating nonmechanical zoom using flexible thin films. The project consists of three major task areas: material characterization,...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
Input filter caps need to be able to supply a quick burst of energy and to suppress noise generated in the switch circuit. Important considerations for the input filter cap...
Application Briefs: Defense
Kollmorgen has released an in-line variant of its lightweight, low voltage Power Generation System, which will be used by the United States Army to...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
A critical component in regional-scale undersea power systems is the medium-voltage converter (MVC). The MVC is a DC-DC converter in the primary network...
Articles: Aerospace
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the next big telescope at NASA, will be placed at a stable Lagrange point approximately 1 million miles from the Earth. This telescope is the next stepping...
Articles: RF & Microwave Electronics
While power architectures of defense electronics are extremely diverse, all have common operational demands: they must be robust (shock, vibration, temperature...
Briefs: Materials
This work introduces a simple technique of separately fabricating electrospun short fibers. This technique employs a paper mesh, which is placed between the needle tip and counter electrode of the...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Channel Field Effect Transistors
Narrow bandgap semiconductors offer high carrier mobilities and low contact resistances, while wide bandgap semiconductors offer high breakdown voltages. A series of heterojunction transistors has been investigated and proved to be effective for improving both speed and power output. These devices include double...
Briefs: Information Technology
Considering Software Protection for Embedded Systems
Given the current trend of reprogrammable embedded devices within the Department of Defense and industry, attention needs to be refocused on the benefits or measurability of software protection applied to this domain. Modern reconfigurable embedded systems consider circuits as software and the...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Power electronic converters functioning as components in high-power systems, such as those of hybrid military ground vehicles, require fast...
Briefs: Materials
The performance of six different commercially available carbon monofluoride (CFx) materials was evaluated at four different discharge rates....
Top Stories
INSIDER: Unmanned Systems

Autonomous Freight Aircraft Achieves Design/Development Milestones
INSIDER: Weapons Systems

Anti-Radiation Guided Missile Completes Successful Live Fire Test
INSIDER: Materials

Air Force Awards $100 Million to Continue B-1 Digital Engineering Program
INSIDER: Transportation

Safran to Provide Engines for French Military Helicopters
INSIDER: Power

How to Store Liquid Hydrogen for Zero-Emission Flight
INSIDER: Weapons Systems

Army Special Operations Forces Train with Robotic Combat Vehicles
Webcasts
On-Demand Webinars: Defense
Thermostatic Technology: Improve System Efficiency with Automatic and Precise...
Upcoming Webinars: Automotive
Understanding Fluid Systems Testing for Current and Future...
Upcoming Webinars: Automotive
Preparing for the Cabin Cooling Transition: R-134a to R-1234yf
Upcoming Webinars: Automotive
Get Even More Out of Your EVs with Thermoplastics
On-Demand Webinars: Automotive
Utilizing Model-Based Systems Engineering Approach for Vehicle Development