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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 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 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 2005 Estro Vitantonio	Military and aerospace component manufacturers learn from the commercial market Military and commercial component suppliers traditionally have done business in different ways. Not so much anymore, however. And the changes are all for the better.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2006 John Keller	Could RoHS Mean the End of COTS as we Know it? The electronics industry's move away from using solders containing lead is setting up a clash between private industry, both here and in Europe, and the U.S. military that may well lead to the end of the COTS era as we have come to know it.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2005 Coble & Dela Garza	Can optoelectronics go from practical to tactical? Many automakers have already begun to deploy optoelectronics into their automotive systems in sensors, dashboard displays, motion and position sensing. Such technologies may find their way into military and aerospace products.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2006 John Keller	The Re-Emergence of Mil-Spec Technology We've seen the end of extremes that have marked the COTS movement over the past decade, thanks to the often-painful real-world lessons learned from military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2007 John McHale	Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Ronald c. Jost to Keynote Military & Aerospace Electronics Forum Conference in March Session topics include: COTS integration panel discussion, COTS acquisition, software-defined radio and the Joint Tactical Radio System program, IPv6 and its influence on military systems, information assurance, and more.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2010	DC-DC Converter Power Electronics Module Introduced by VPT for Avionics and Military Power Applications VPT is introducing the commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VPT100+ 2800 DC-DC converter military power supply module for military applications, and other high-power electronics systems.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2006 Mike Murphy	Lead-Free Solder Regulation Unfairly Given a Bad Name for Military Applications Letter to the editor: Why doesn't nonlead solder work for the military?
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2006	Lead-Free Solder Regulation Unfairly Given a Bad Name for Military Applications Does lead-free solder really not provide the reliability needed for military applications.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2008 Ron Storm	COTS Power Supplies: The Solution or the Starting Point? With the proliferation of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products being offered for military use since the 1990s, it is all too easy to be lulled into believing that COTS products are always the most economical. That is not always true.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2005 John Keller	Chip manufacturers expand their options for radiation-hardened solid-state memory Use of radiation-hardened and radiation-tolerant solid-state memory chips is on the rise with applications in manned and unmanned space vehicles, military electronics, and even in high-altitude aircraft avionics.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2008	Military and aerospace applications rank last on list of top markets for power-management ICs The largest share of all power-management integrated circuits (ICs) shipped in 2007 were for consumer electronics.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2004 John Keller	21st Century Challenges for Test and Measurement Test and measurement, where military and aerospace systems are concerned, is at a critical stage, the dimensions of which cannot be understated, and the ramifications of which cannot be underestimated.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2010 John Keller	Revenge of COTS Procurement: Counterfeit Parts A decade and a half after military commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) procurement burst onto the scene in a big way, the scourge of high tech counterfeit electronic parts is still with us, but industry finally seems to be getting off the dime to do something about it.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2009 John Keller	It is Time to Take Anti-Tamper Technology Seriously U.S. defense electronics suppliers must get serious about building hardware security into their components and subsystems to provide anti-tamper protection.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2004 David Johnson	Let's be Open About COTS Building complex military systems from commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components is a great idea, but does it work?
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2005 John Keller	Lead-Free Solder: A Train Wreck in the Making Companies are walking away from leaded solders because they see their economic futures elsewhere, driven primarily by the European program to limit the use of lead. Where this trend places the military, at least in the short term, is in a lot of trouble.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008 John McHale	COTS Integration and Acquisition is Focus of Military & Aerospace Electronics Forum Dr. Stephen M. Jarrett, chief technologist of the U.S. Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems (SPAWAR) will discuss solutions to COTS integration challenges and other issues facing defense COTS electronics designers.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2007 John Keller	Military Officials Take a Hard Look at Their Needs for COTS Rugged Rack-Mount Computers With the advent of a commercial computing industry that has come into its own and has surpassed military systems in performance, ease of use, and price, converting to COTS for most military applications seems an obvious choice.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2008 John McHale	Misunderstanding of COTS can hurt the military, says embedded computer expert Commercial off-the-shelf military embedded suppliers have done well in recent years, but many misperceptions still remain about the term COTS and how it affects the final product deployed to troops in the field
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 June 2006	Rugged VME Power Supply for Mission-Critical Applications Behlman Electronics' VME-1000 power supplies offer low-cost COTS and modified COTS solutions for VME-based mission-critical applications.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2008 Bogdanski & Lamparter	Component and Design Considerations for Extended Product Lifecycles Choosing the right component supplier can be as important as choosing the right component, especially when long-term planning and upgrades are considered, or when special features are required.
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 January 2005 Stevens & Shmulovich	Planar lightwave circuits will be a key technology for next-generation military systems Optoelectronics, or photonics, is now becoming crucial to communications systems on a variety of military platforms and sensor applications.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2008 Todd Wallinger	Risky business: testing commercial nonvolatile memory chips for military applications Commercial off-the-shelf programs are all about saving money, and integrated circuits provide COTS buyers with some of their biggest savings.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2006 Allan Whitlow	Integrators Must Take Measures to Protect Themselves From Counterfeit Electronic Parts Counterfeit electronic parts, which have come to the forefront in the electronics manufacturing industry in recent months, are particularly vexing to high-reliability manufacturers of military and aerospace products where component failure is not an option.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2005 John Keller	Industry Scores a Win with Military Technologies Conference We sat down with a panel of experts representing the most important corners of our industry. Their insights led us to craft three separate conference segments: sensor fusion for command and control; transformational communications, and directed-energy systems.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2004 John Rhea	New Approach to Missile Electronics: 3-D Packaging Navy engineers are working on a three-dimensional approach to weapons technology, in which designers embed the components inside a printed circuit-card assembly to handle higher G forces and thermal stresses than are possible with conventional technology.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2006 John McHale	Microprocessor IP cores battle obsolescence Intellectual-property cores enable designers to control their own destiny, plan on 10-to-15-year lifecycles, and get all the advantages of COTS chips without the disadvantage of obsolescence.
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 2008 John McHale	Managing Thermal Efficiency of Modern Processors Discussed at Military & Aerospace Electronics Forum Current and future-generation processors are creating escalating thermal demands on military designers.
National Defense January 2013 Stew Magnuson	Military Space Communications Lacks Direction, Critics Say The Defense Department is at a standstill when it comes to figuring out what it will require to maintain its future military space communications architecture, both industry and government officials said at a recent industry conference -- and nobody seems to be in charge.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2008 John McHale	JTRS Program Executive to Lead SDR Discussion at Military & Aerospace Electronics Forum One of the chief architects of the U.S. military's Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) program will headline the military communications session of the Military & Aerospace Electronics Forum conference and trade show.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2009 John McHale	Balancing Power with Performance in Rad-Hard Processors The methods for making processors and integrated circuits (ICs) radiation hardened (rad-hard) have not changed much, but the chips themselves are getting smaller, faster, and generating more heat than ever before.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2009	Curtiss-Wright Debuts FPGA-Based VITA 57 Embedded Computer The ADC513 is designed for demanding military embedded systems that involve direct RF down conversion, digital video surveillance, military signals intelligence, satellite communications, and software-defined radio applications.
Defense Update Issue 1, 2005	Tactical Satellite Communications Networks With flexible operational services and compact ground terminals, Satellite Communications (SATCOM) services offer attractive solutions for military users in theater and on global links.
National Defense January 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	'Milspec' Technology Makes a Comeback A rising propensity to "militarize" the Defense Department's information networks will be making it more difficult for the Pentagon to take advantage of cutting-edge technologies from the commercial sector, say analysts and industry experts.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2008	C&K Offers Rectangular Connectors for Military and Aerospace Applications C&K Components is introducing high-reliability rectangular connectors for military, aerospace, and medical applications.
National Defense July 2010 Stew Magnuson	Military Looks to Small Satellites as Costs for Large Spacecraft Grow After some 50 years of launching large, complex, multi-million dollar spacecraft, the military and industry are rethinking the way satellites are built and acquired.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2006 John McHale	A Message from the Editor The Military Technologies Conference will zero in on the hottest and most promising technologies that will make the network-centric American fighting force a reality.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2008 John Keller	COTS or military: sometimes it's hard to tell The two design approaches do not represent clearly different technologies, but instead the two are simply opposite sides of the same coin.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2004 John McHale	European Militaries Show Steady Appetite for American Electronics Designers of military electronics systems in the U.S. find that growth in the European military market is steady, but import/export regulations and new security measures tend to stymie companies that do not have European-based manufacturing.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2007 John Keller	Defense Executive: News for Defense Industry Managers Defense Executive will inform senior managers in the military and aerospace industries about the latest and most timely information on emerging markets, contract awards, contracting opportunities and more.
IEEE Spectrum May 2008 Sally Adee	The Hunt for the Kill Switch Are chip makers building electronic trapdoors in key military hardware? The Pentagon is making its biggest effort yet to find out
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008	Aeroflex Offers Radiation-Tolerant Solid-State Memory Chips The QCOTSTM (Quantified Commercial Off-the-Shelf) family of SRAMs is for satellite and communications payload systems integrators who need an assured memory solution for high-reliability environments.
National Defense April 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Satellite Shortages May Choke Off Military Drone Expansion It is a perennial problem in military operations that there is never enough satellite capacity to satisfy commanders' gargantuan appetite for voice and data communications.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2005 Peter Cavill	COTS: The Reality The prognosis for COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) solutions in the defense market is positive. Where potentially damaging geographical divergences existed, a new unity of vision is becoming apparent.