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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 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 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 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 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 2007 John Keller	Through with Hydraulics? Think Again Opportunity for leaks, outright breaks, clogs, and the weight of liquid and pipe have led aircraft designers to search for a way to eliminate hydraulic systems. Electric systems looked promising, but now it's back to the drawing board.
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 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 April 2009 Courtney E. Howard	Thinking Inside the Box Systems engineers and technology firms partner to equip mil-aero platforms with innovative enclosures, backplanes, and electronics packaging.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2009 John Keller	Distributed Power and Space Applications Are Major Trends in Power Integrated Circuits Designers of high-reliability power integrated circuits say they are focusing on space power applications, because many of even the most demanding military power applications can use commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) power electronics.
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 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 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 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 March 2010	Falcon Electric Finishes Deliveries of Rugged Power System for Army Humvee Shelter Applications Falcon Electric has finished shipping the company's ED Series UVS Plus power conversion system to Sechan, which is providing the Humvee-shelterized system to the Army.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2006 John Keller	Suppliers of military connectors feel the pressure for increased performance, smaller size, and lighter weight The demand is not only for connecting subsystems, but also for connecting boards and modules inside boxes.
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 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 October 2007 John Keller	Military connector buyers stress small size, light weight, and commercial interfaces Military and aerospace systems integrators today want the best of both worlds -- the benefits of commercial off-the-shelf and the durability and reliability of mil-spec components.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2009	Military Power Regulator Helps Protect Sensitive Electronics From Power Surges and Spikes Falcon Electric is introducing a solid-state voltage regulator called the SVR Pro to protect power-sensitive equipment involved in military computing, military communications, and other defense and aerospace applications.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2007	CIS Secure Computing Chooses Falcon Electric to Power Electronics Inside Military Aircraft Falcon Electronic ED Series 2400VA rack-mount unit will provide aircraft with a rugged uninterruptible power system (UPS).
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 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 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 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 June 2009 John Keller	Military hard-drive manufacturers balance the benefits of spinning-media and solid-state data storage Traditional military hard drives made from spinning magnetic media were once thought to be too delicate for punishing military systems in the field.
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 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.
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 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 November 2005	Air Force Picks Frequency Converter for C-130 Instrument Air Force engineers will use Falcon Electric's ED4KRM-1 for an electric motor in the trailing assembly of the C-130 Hercules transport.
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 July 2004 Ben Ames	Defense suppliers outsource their electronics manufacturing jobs Recent trends have driven up the market for outsourced manufacturing of electronics, which is expected reach $4.2 billion by 2007 for business in the worldwide defense and commercial aviation sector.
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 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 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 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 April 2006 Ron Storm	Form-Fit-Function Replacement Power Supplies Breathe New Life Into Old Systems The redesign and manufacture of form-fit-function replacement power supplies present unique and significant opportunities to address any shortcomings in the original design, as well as a chance to improve system performance and reliability.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2005	Method of heat removal is critical in design Far too often cooling is an afterthought in the design of the latest "black box" and by the time it is parameters such as power, volume, and weight are all at a premium.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006 John McHale	Optoelectronic Innovation is Everywhere Military designers today are blending optics, optoelectronics, and electronic technologies to improve the capabilities of sensors, speed the throughput of communications links, and field effective laser weapons.
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 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.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2010	Rugged UPS for Aerospace and Defense Applications Introduced by Acumentrics The rugged UPS has a replaceable battery and provides 15 minutes of backup power at full load (500 watts).
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2010	Falcon Electric Unveils Lightweight Lithium-Polymer Battery Pack for Mobile Military Applications Falcon's ED LIB Series 5kVA UPS is the first Department of Transportation (DOT)-certified battery for use on-board Mobile Armored Vehicle (MAV), High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV), and other mobile applications.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2008 John Keller	Unmanned Vehicles and Network-Centric Warfare Put the Squeeze on Rugged Military Connectors Environmental demands for military electrical and electro-optic connectors are becoming ever more pressing as defense systems enter the network-centric age, and as defense planners rely more heavily on unmanned vehicles.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2006	Annie Turner takes helm of Military & Aerospace Electronics Europe magazine A veteran journalist of the technology industry, Turner has written about the technical, economic, social, and political aspects of information technology and telecommunications for the last 11 years.
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.
National Defense July 2007 Stew Magnuson	Army Learns Tough Lessons From Armed Helicopter Letdown The price tag that the Army initially had estimated for its Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter has doubled.
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 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.