Defense Electronics

Proper evaluation, validation, and integration of the amplifiers and signal generators in an EW system is necessary to achieve optimum performance.

Innovative new direct RF sampling systems promise a more simplified front-end architecture by allowing the ADC to sample the RF signal directly at its original frequency.

We're in the midst of disruptive development in almost every application space in electronics, with the modern battlefield being no exception.

The mesh radar developed by MatrixSpace provides effective detection of low-flying aircraft for USAF bases.

A DoD memorandum on brain health established safe operating distances for personnel from weapons systems, such as the howitzer, capable of generating high levels of blast over...

The technology employed in Menlo Micro's high-power MM9200 SMT Ideal Switch will be part of a reduced SWaP hybrid circuit-breaker design meant for high-speed power distribution...

The SpaceX LEOS constellation relies on robust SSPA modules to boost millimeter-wave signals from 60 to 90 GHz.

ARC-232A SDRs produced by BAE Systems will provide secure, anti-jam communications for fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft for the Republic of Korea as part of a modernization program...

Explore the foundational principles behind radar technology and how these systems are engineered to meet the demanding needs of modern applications. This article sets the stage...

The latest upscreened version of the model LX2160 microprocessor provides impressive computing power across a wide temperature range in a package measuring just 40 × 40 mm.

Working as a DoD-funded University Affiliated Research Center, Penn State’s ARL will help top DoD officials with serious matters of national security.

This compact gallium-nitride PA provides at least 70-W CW output power from 2 to 8 GHz for high signal boosts from tight places.

The Engagement Operations Center is a key IBCS subsystem for processing substantial amounts of data from multiple sensors.

Experience in tactical common data links (TCDLs) earned CAES a major contract for an international missile system data link from RTX.

This compact but powerful SOSA-aligned SBC provides extensive memory coupled with fast processing speeds to support a wide range of applications.

The BACN system is designed to communicate images, voice, and data across a diverse group of airborne, maritime, and terrestrial electronic systems.

A self-protection electronic-warfare pod being developed for the P-8A Poseidon will protect the aircraft and its crews by detecting and countering missiles and other long-range...

By integrating a common guidance system into two missile variants, such as the SM-2, manufacturing time and costs can be saved on the final products.

This OpenVPX seven-slot backplane contains enough interconnections to meet modern C5ISR requirements.

The Axon Pico AXP/ADC/401 is an eight-channel ADC DAU that's well-suited for FTI applications.

Aerospace and defense systems rely heavily on RF/microwave power amplifiers to send often complex-modulated signals to their destinations. Learn more about key specifications ...

A radiation-characterized signal processing/switching system based on multiple GPGPUs and Ethernet switches performs extensive signal routing for the LizzieSat satellite.

Numerous U.S. Navy barges are being recruited to help repair Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, damaged by the collision of a commercial barge.

Multiple nodes based on Vigilus sensor arrays can be spaced to form an underwater network for detection of threat watercraft such as submarines.

Upgrades to the SM-2 Block IIICU and SM-6 Block IU missile systems will allow for the use of a common radar guidance system to save production time and costs for the missiles....

The new defense-guided program was created by those involved with Purdue’s College of Liberal Arts’ FORCES initiative.

The agency partners with Virginia's Dominion Energy to pursue clean-energy sources for federal facilities and EVs.

Rugged power supplies supporting airborne, shipboard, and ground-based radar systems earned a pair of contracts totaling $13 million.

The F-16 is one of the many defense vehicles supported by Northrop Grumman with CAES as a major component supplier.

The advanced satcom system monitoring solution from Rohde & Schwarz helps armed forces maintain mission-critical communication links.

Lithuanian technology startup Astrolight is now working within NATO’s DIANA segment to develop free-space optical communications for secure naval ship-to-ship links.

Based on advanced DRFM technology, EA training subsystems incorporate a large library of validated jamming and deception threats to accurately mimic real-world combat conditions...

Shielded testing is part of the Block 3 upgrade to the SEWIP system, adding EA capabilities to a legacy U.S. Navy EW system for protection against anti-ship missiles.

A compact AFTU recently earned passing grades during live testing of an experimental hypersonic platform.

MPSoC modules make it possible to incorporate more processing power to already deployed electronic systems.

The Canadian Army’s C4ISR system supplies extended environmental data to help decision making in critical situations.

The DoD’s new National Defense Industrial Strategy was unveiled at the Pentagon by Dr. Laura D. Taylor-Kale, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Base Policy, and Ms....

The CAES TORNADO RF direct-to-digital converter enables processing as many as eight EW or radar transmit and receive channels from a compact 3U board platform.

The GhostEye medium-range radar sensor works with defensive command-and-control systems to identify airborne threats and provides details on appropriate responses.

The helmet-mounted SBNVG system enhances night vision and warfighter situational awareness.

M777 155-mm howitzer weapons have been donated by several nations to Ukraine in its war against Russia, and BAE Systems will continue to produce key titanium structures for the...

Lockheed Martin and Verizon recently teamed on real-time video streaming to multiple users and geolocations to enhance the connected battlefield.

These compact devices and modules become final additions for RF radios handling voice, data, and video over a wide range of frequencies and bandwidths.

Temperature-compensated, radiation-hardened crystal oscillators bring frequency stability, low phase noise, and small packages to LEO spacecraft electronics.

Though challenges persist in the defense, automotive, and IoT sectors, the microwave and RF industry continues to proliferate and is forecast to maintain that pace into the foreseeable...

The steady proliferation of space debris has led to concerns for the long-term health and well-being of active communications satellites.

F-16 fighter aircraft used in Ukraine require a steady supply of spare parts, which are being provided by the U.S. Department of Defense.

Laboratory demonstrations and testing are evaluating the readiness of a gNodeB 5G satellite base station for setting in orbit a part of a 5G.MIL military 5G wireless-communications...

Northrop Grumman’s Space Park foundry processes 4-in. high-density semiconductor wafers with III-V technology followed by extensive in-house testing.

This damaged drone on display at the Texas A&M-RELLIS campus in Bryan, Texas was scorched at a distance by an HEL system.

The Army’s newest combat vehicle, the Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle, is designed with lightweight components and the modular flexibility to adapt to changing, evolving electronic...

This encryption module provides JDAR-level protection in a housing weighing only 0.9 lb. and consuming less than 7 W of power.

A hypersonic interceptor is a weapon designed to destroy a hypersonic missile in mid-flight before it reaches a target.

SOSA ramps up heat dissipation with the latest OpenVPX chassis. This article looks at the latest trends in backplanes and chassis cooling.

The SPY-6 radar system integrates S- and X-band radar systems to protect six classes of naval vessels.

The miniature Boson thermal camera imaging module from Teledyne is being modified by NASA for takeoffs from Earth and measurements in the void of deep space.

An MQ-20 Avenger UAS was operated under autonomous control by software capable of coordinating unmanned fleet activities.

The GLIMR probe will perform imaging of oceanic and other water bodies from space to track the biological health of the oceans and rivers.

The DoD views additive manufacturing as an enabling resource for many advanced technologies, including hypersonics and microelectronics.

The HUGIN 304DF EW/SIGINT system developed by Novator can provide as many as 64 channels of coverage with direction-finding capabilities from the back of a vehicle.

The inclusion of the RFeye receiver in the Drone Dome counter-drone system provides advanced RF detection, geolocation, and data-filtering/streaming capabilities.

The StreamCaster Lite 4200 portable radio is an example of the integrated radio technology developed for battlefield use by Silvus Technologies.

Rohde & Schwarz will deliver the Heimdall comprehensive electronic warfare system to the Norwegian army to improve their scope of surveillance.

The SCi blocks family consists of RF SiPs, RF sticks, and open modules to meet the requirements of next-generation defense and aerospace systems.

Adding RF/mmWave communications capabilities to overall system designs has become much easier and cost-effective with modular functional blocks in SiPs, SoCs, and SoMs.

Radar systems are increasingly important in many industries. However, as they carry out complex techniques, they need transceivers that can meet their needs. Software-defined ...

Find out about the challenges associated with mmWave and high-frequency systems within defense aircraft and what system architects and engineers should be concerned with when ...

Mercury Systems' Ken Hermanny and Rodger Hosking discuss the company's deployment of Direct RF technology in its signal-processing products for defense and aerospace applications...

High-performance software-defined-radio platforms deliver MIMO functionality and enhanced effectiveness at accelerated rates to meet advanced communication network needs.

Dual-band tracking antennas enable switching between two different frequency bands to select the range that overcomes the presence of jammers and interference.

Specifying RF connectors, cables, and cable assemblies for military UAVs, especially as they increase their use of mmWave frequencies, requires an intelligent balance of many ...

Novator Solutions’s updated HUGIN 2000 receivers deliver improved signal quality, more flexibility/usability, and greater up-time for COMINT applications.

Advances in electronic-warfare systems are packing more performance into smaller packages in attempts to keep a step ahead of the adversary.

Software-defined radios can monitor the integrity of satellites and ground stations and ensure the functionality of GPS tracking, autonomous driving, automation, and financial...

What are the solutions and services that can help buyers and engineers mitigate and navigate the current semiconductor market shortage?

At the boundary of the digital and analog domains is the ADC and DAC, both of which have numerous architectures. The article discusses the types of performance characteristics...

Public-safety and intelligence agencies must monitor the spectrum environment, identify suspicious signals of interest, and mitigate interference sources in real-time.

The SDR is destined to become the receiver architecture of choice in most systems and the ADC, with its continually increasing sampling rates and instantaneous bandwidth, will...

Large airports rely on wireless signals on a wide range of frequencies, managing thousands of takeoffs and landings each day. Any disruption caused by RF interference can end ...

The latest in portable test and evaluation equipment puts a lot of free-range functionality into the hands of engineers and technicians.

For institutions, organizations and individuals operating applications using RF, it can be very important to know who and what is making use of the spectrum.

Learn about a tool that can be used to detect and locate cell phones and other contraband devices, helping to keep prison populations, staff, and the public safer. This is the...

The host and radios must be matched for optimum performance in a software-defined-radio environment.

One of the fastest-growing segments of military electronics is the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in guided weapons, which lets them do some of the thinking...

VITA Executive Director Jerry Gipper provides insights about what’s on tap and what’s coming in rugged hardware design.

Microwaves & RF chats with Rick Gentile about the changing technological landscape in the military and aerospace industries, and the systems, tools, and techniques used to help...

Signal switching is critical in many RF applications, so it’s important for users to select the correct type of switch for their high-power apps.

The trends in growing markets such as communications, automotive, and defense are creating challenges for the test and measurement industry.

The U. S. Army is exploring the use of directed-energy weapons including those based on lasers and microwave energy to counter low-cost enemy weapons.

Software-defined radio is a flexible radio communication and signal-processing system that performs at very high levels for applications across radar, MRI, GNSS, low-latency links...

The U.S. Government’s auction of flight-test telemetry bands has resulted in crowded frequencies in the remaining spectrum. But the transition to the C-band has been slow. Here...

Will directed-energy weapons be the solution, bringing some sort of answer to the “humane” part of the question that has lingered on since the turn of the last century?

Directed-energy weapons—with either EM waves or high-power laser beams—are coming to nondestructively stop enemy threats.

Raytheon Missiles & Space is a major part of the new Raytheon Technologies Corp., formed by the stock merger of Raytheon Co. and United Technologies.

A market forecast projects some of the technologies that will be needed by the U.S. Armed Forces for the development of new weapons systems.

Take a tour through the various means of cooling rugged computer systems designed for military programs and harsh operating environments.

Weapons systems compatibility among the different armed service branches is, no doubt, vital, and the SOSA standard is being looked upon as the solution.

SOSA, an open C4ISR standard based on OpenVPX, is expected to be critical for modularity and compatibility among future U.S. military weapons systems.

SOSA, the Sensor Open Standard Architecture, is new and there are plenty of myths emerging that need to be addressed.

Embedded military systems that implement Power over Ethernet (PoE) devices, which mix Ethernet data and electric power over a single cable, can reap significant SWaP benefits....