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Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2008 Courtney E. Howard	Hot components and cool enclosures Systems architects and integrators are tackling the issues of military electronics survivability with clever chassis designs.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2007 John Keller	Temperature's Rising: Designers Face Myriad Options to Cool Electronic Systems More electronic and electro-optic systems mean more electric power, and increasing heat that engineers must get rid of. Today's choices include convection, conduction, and liquid-cooling options. Tomorrow's choices will be more complex.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2006 J.R. Wilson	The great cooling dilemma: conduction, convection, or liquid Today's most advanced cooling technologies are starting to take center stage.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2009 J.R. Wilson	Electronic thermal management is heading to the wall Systems designers who are used to boosting electronic system performance by adding ever-more transistors may have to rethink their design approaches.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2008 Courtney E. Howard	A Voracious Need for Vectronics Military end users have an increasing demand for computing and networking performance in packages that are ever smaller, lighter, and more power efficient
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2010 Courtney E. Howard	By Land, by Sea, by Air: Rugged Computers Are Everywhere Military and aerospace organizations around the world tap novel rugged mobile computers for mission-critical applications.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2010 Courtney E. Howard	Empowering embedded computing Mainstream, COTS technologies combine with aerospace and defense industry innovations to deliver increased performance in compact electronics designs
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2009 Courtney E. Howard	Advanced Vetronics: Hit the Ground Running Industry heeds the warfighter's call for innovative, responsive, and reliable electronics in combat vehicles on the ground.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2005 Ram Rajan	Solving thermal-management challenges in military and aerospace applications Higher system performance -- often coupled with faster and hotter processors, and denser packaging -- can be two major nemeses for the chassis designer.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2007 John McHale	VPX, the Heir to VME, Makes its Debut Embedded-system vendors are releasing their products based on the proposed VITA 46 (VPX) standard, while traditional VME standards such as VME 64 continue to prove profitable. Meanwhile, across the standards aisle, the PICMG MicroTCA standard is creating a buzz in military circles.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2007 John McHale	Thermal-management challenges highlight Military Technologies Conference 2007 U.S. Department of Defense and industry experts to discuss thermal and power management at the Military Technologies Conference (March 27 and 28, 2007) in Boston.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008 Courtney E. Howard	Rugged Electronics Empower Tomorrow's Technology Technology companies enable our military's net-centric vision through smaller, faster, stronger computers.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2009 Courtney E. Howard	Secure Information Storage Military and aerospace equipment designers have a wealth of options available to fill the ever-increasing need for secure data storage in the field.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2008 Courtney E. Howard	Military programs adopt SprayCool liquid-cooled electronics enclosure for harsh environments The EFV is designed to assist Marines in combat by making the most of tactical surprise, minimizing vulnerability on land, and improving firepower, lethality, and survivability.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2006 Ben Ames	Engineers Balance Speed and Heat in a Single Board 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 flow, power management, and keeping boards cool.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006 Ben Ames	Rugged Computers Power the Digital Battlefield Troops are pushing rugged computers harder than ever, as manufacturers seek tougher display screens, more reliable hard drives, and faster processors. A major challenge for engineers is to keep pace with fast upgrades in COTS technology.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2008	Products Martek Power offers high-power, multichannel power modules... Aeroflex offers Battery Electronic Unit family of Li-Ion cell balancing products... Elmo offers board-mounted servo drive with 5 kilowatts continuous power... etc.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006 Randy Banton	Evolving COTS cooling for military environments A new 6U infrastructure for air cooling and conduction cooling which is extensible to 3U systems, spray-cooling and liquid-flow-through cooling systems, will enable broader use of commercial off-the-shelf systems.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2009	CSPI selects SprayCool cooling for deployments in harsh environments Engineers at CSP Inc.'s MultiComputer Division, a supplier of rugged embedded clusters in San Diego, needed a thermal management system for their company's FastCluster product line.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2004	Products Telepresence tactile feedback system... Actuators for unmanned-aerial-vehicle applications... Rugged COTS airborne computer with 3U CompactPCI cards... VME single-board embedded computer... etc.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2009	Carlo Gavazzi Introduces Rugged Air-Cooled Enclosures for Avionics and Vetronics Applications Carlo Gavazzi is introducing a series of re-circulating air-cooled rugged ATR enclosures for commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) printed circuit boards for extreme temperature, vibration, humidity, and contaminants.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2008 Courtney E. Howard	Thermal Management Targets the Enemy of Electronics: Excessive Heat Heat threatens the longevity and performance of electronics, especially vehicular electronics (vetronics), in military-aero environments.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2008 Courtney E. Howard	Driving the Demand for Data Storage Sensors span the battlefields, producing a wealth of mission-critical data that must be kept at once readily available and secure.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2007 John McHale	Customizing to Their Needs Commercial off-the-shelf technologies have streamlined components in defense applications, but some mission-critical situations call for products that must be designed from the ground up to aid war fighters on the battlefield.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2005	Rugged computers get flexible to fit any application Computer makers selling to military and aerospace systems integrators and field users understand the best design method involves modularity to -accommodate a broad range of custom and off-the-shelf needs.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2008 Courtney E. Howard	Thermal Management a Challenge for Designers of Future Military Aircraft Today's aviation, vetronics, and other military-aero applications require more power, but have less space. This contributes to higher thermal loads and less opportunity to drive the heat out.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2004 Ben Ames	Power Control is Trickier Than it Used to be Modern military equipment must be reliable and inexpensive, as designers rely on electronic components to ensure high performance on the digital battlefield.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2008 Courtney E. Howard	Computational Complexity Single-board and mezzanine-board computers deliver expanded functionality in a reduced size.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2006 John Keller	Time for a new embedded packaging standard Military technology specifiers and their suppliers in the aerospace and defense industries should come up with a new electronics packaging standard to complement -- and sometimes replace -- the venerable air transport rack described in ARINC 404A.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2008 Michael R. Palis	Advances in thermal management techniques for chassis design A new approach to thermal management involves separating the ambient environment and the operating electronics to keep out contaminants. A convenient way to do this is using compact air-to-air heat exchangers.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2007 John Keller	Cost-Sensitive Military Pressures Power Supply Makers to Shrink and Ruggedize COTS Devices Manufacturers of power electronics for military and aerospace applications say they are under pressure to shrink device size and keep a lid on prices, as well as to ruggedize and integrate off-the-shelf components.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2004 Dave Garcia	COTS Systems Streamline Costs for Military Suppliers An adroit military supplier would do well to focus on the areas that are central to its strategy and then streamline its business by outsourcing the non-value-added processes to trusted partners.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2009 John McHale	Steady as she goes The most promising applications for single-board computer designers continue to be legacy defense VME technology, a common choice among military electronics system integrators.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2007 Ben Kuster	CFD Analysis Delivers Impressive Savings for Electronics Thermal Design Computational-fluid-dynamics software is an invaluable thermal-analysis weapon for the electronics design arsenal. At VT Miltope Corp., it saves weeks of development time and thousands of development dollars-even on small projects.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2006 John Keller	The Future Has a Name: VITA 58 A new electronics packaging standard continues to take shape that has the potential to revolutionize military and aerospace systems like no standard ever has before.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2005 John Keller	Is cooling the central design issue of our time? The pace of improvements in integrated circuitry is outstripping our ability to remove unwanted heat. And engineers are starting to quip about some of the dilemmas that new cooling approaches may create.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2009	SprayCool Offers 3U Rackmount Chassis with Liquid Cooling for Avionics and Vetronics The 3U rugged enclosure is designed for armored vehicle vetronics, and aircraft avionics that require small, lightweight, low-power, and low-cost military embedded aerospace electronics.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2007	Products Mercury offers integrated UAV-based reconnaissance system... Statek crystal oscillators for unmanned vehicles... Power-amplifier module from Merrimac Industries drives UAV communications links... etc.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2006 John Keller	Demands for High Power and Optimum Size Drive Some Power-Supply Makers Away From Traditional COTS Solutions Moore's Law is placing a set of increasingly crushing demands on power-component makers who must feed the right amounts of electricity to the latest generations of microprocessor behemoths.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2010 John Long	When High Performance Really Matters in Mil-Aero: A Comparison of ATCA and VPX Solutions ATCA systems are shipping in volume, while VPX is still overcoming interoperability issues.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2005	Dilemma: Databus or switched fabric? Board designers today face a new performance bottleneck: modern processors are so fast that traditional parallel databuses cannot keep them adequately supplied with data to take advantage of their blazing speed.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2004	New Products Universal avionics digital interface... VME card for motor drive power control... VME64 bus-to-bus adapters.. Add-on network-management software for the TCP/IP stack... Self-clinching panel fasteners... etc.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008 John Keller	Supplier Base for VPX Embedded Computing Begins to Take Shape The market and supplier base for VPX and VPX-REDI single-board computers are emerging, as several companies are stepping forward to provide embedded computing that adheres to VITA-46 and VITA-48 standards.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2005 Ben Ames	Power electronics drive next-generation vehicles From electric-drive ships to hybrid Humvees, military vehicles that rely on electric motors will soon rely on advanced power electronics to handle huge voltages in their drive trains. Designers of military vehicles, in fact, see electric power as the next great frontier.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2008 Courtney E. Howard	Power to the people Advanced electronics are increasingly finding their way onto today's digital battlefield. Companies that manufacture power electronics will continue to provide products that are lighter in weight and can power at a higher range.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2006 Courtney E. Howard	Wheeled Wonders and Road Warriors Major defense industry vendors and contractors are contributing to the advancement and success of combat vehicles designed to take advantage of the best technologies available now and in the future.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2008 Courtney E. Howard	Quality control Makers of test and measurement solutions serving the mil-aero community continue to advance the technology, keeping pace with electronics advancements and the standards and deadlines to which they must adhere.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2009	Products ACT/Technico offers Gigabit Ethernet switches... Adimec offers 2-megapixel camera for unmanned vehicle applications... Aitech introduces Core 2 Duo-based single-board computer for use aboard UAVs... etc.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2010 John Keller	VPX is at the Right Place, at the Right Time, for Serious Market Growth in Embedded Systems It's been a long time in coming, but the market for VPX-based embedded computing is ready to take off.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2005 John McHale	ISR to Develop System for Thermal Management on Aging Military Aircraft Engineers at ISR, are developing next-generation common thermal-management systems for the U.S. Air Force current and future aircraft.