New live-firing target service planned for British armed forces
Mar 21, 2006
Lord Drayson, minister for defense procurement for the United Kingdom, has named QinetiQ Ltd., with headquarters in Farnborough, Hampshire, as the preferred bidder in a program that will provide all subsonic aerial targets for the British armed forces over the next 20 years. ...
Anthrax detection system yields results in minutes—instead of hours
Mar 21, 2006
By Steve Grossman, Editor Universal Detection Technology (UDT) has received an order from a government of a Western European country for two of UDT's BSM-2000 Anthrax Detection Systems. ...
Eye and jitter measurement capability introduced to support rasterizers
Mar 7, 2006
Tektronix has introduced new capabilities for their WVR7100 and WVR6100 rasterizers, including eye pattern display, jitter measurements and cable length measurement for High Definition-Serial Digital Interface (HD-SDI) and Standard Definition-Serial Digital Interface (SD-SDI) signals, to meet the needs of broadcast, production and post-production applications. ...
Capacitor chips expand product line
Mar 7, 2006
AVX Corporation has expanded its Flexiterm series of capacitors by adding a high-voltage MLC chip for applications requiring ratings from 600V to 3000V. ...
Wideband SMT MMIC VCO tunes from 5 GHz to 10 GHz
Mar 7, 2006
Hittite Microwave Corporation has introduced a new SMT wideband Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO) which is well suited for military and telecom applications from 5 to 10 GHz. ...
X-band satellite services to be supplied to the DoD
Mar 7, 2006
Americom Government Services, Inc. has announced an agreement with XTAR, LLC to make high-powered, commercial X-band service available to customers within the U.S. Department of Defense, as well as other agencies and users. ...
Two developers of early-warning monitor technologies to merge efforts
Mar 7, 2006
Universal Detection Technology (UDT) has signed a joint development agreement with Michael Stapleton Associates (MSA), to cooperate in an effort to enable UDT's bio-threat technologies to operate with MSA's SmartTech explosive detection and surveillance systems.
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Amtrak officials witness bomb detector demonstration
Mar 7, 2006
By Steve Grossman, Editor HiEnergy Technologies, Inc. recently demonstrated its Atometer explosive detection system, the Siegma 3E3, before senior officials of the corporate security, assessment and planning division of Amtrak in Philadelphia.
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A low-noise, bandwidth-upgradable oscilloscope series
Feb 21, 2006
Agilent Technologies Inc. has introduced their Infiniium 80000B Series which offers superior signal integrity and probing, enhancing signal-integrity performance and provides investment protection for multi-gigahertz-bandwidth oscilloscopes. ...
U.S. Air Force to fund obsolescence management
Feb 21, 2006
Manufacturing Technology, Inc. (MTI) has been awarded a 12-month, $7.3-million follow-on contract by the 542nd Combat Sustainment Wing (CSW), Warner Robins Air Logistics Center, Robins Air Force Base, Georgia. The Company will provide obsolescence management support for more than 1800 systems, subsystems, and support equipment used on multiple aircraft types and ground equipment. ...
Department of Defense raises RFID II contract ceiling to $424.5 million
Feb 21, 2006
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has increased its RFID II contract value with Savi Technology from $207.9 million to $424.5 million and extended the ordering period for the company’s active Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) products and services through January 31, 2008. ...
Device brings compatibility to otherwise incompatible radio systems
Feb 21, 2006
To support the need for agencies to have a coordinated response to large scale disasters and comply with the National Incident Management System, Communications-Applied Technology has developed the ICRI-4TG, an interoperability device that creates up to four independent talk groups. ...
Military communications suppliers offer affordable wideband radios
Feb 21, 2006
Two military communication suppliers, Raytheon Company and ITT, are collaborating on two new, highly-affordable software communication systems, the MicroLight-3G and the Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio Advanced Improvement Program- Enhanced (SINCGARS ASIP-E)....
Infrared focal plane array shrinks pixel size by almost 50%
Feb 21, 2006
By Steve Grossman, Editor DRS Infrared Technologies, has successfully demonstrated an infrared focal plane array (FPA) with a pixel size of just 12 microns, said to be the smallest available in a device of its type. ...
