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| 01.01.2009 |
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Unmanned, Persistent ISR
The market for unmanned aircraft used in intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions could reach $44.5 billion in the next decade General Atomics’ RQ-1 Predator first flew as an Advanced Concept Technology Demonstrator in 1994. Northrop...
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| 01.01.2009 |
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Product Focus: Switches
Many of the small bits and pieces in the avionics world don’t change much from year to year. That’s true of a lot of technologies. But every decade or so comes a fresh new approach that shakes one of those traditionally staid businesses to its...
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| 12.01.2008 |
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Product Focus: Databus Technology
Just a year ago, it appeared that aircraft databus technology was poised to break into the 200 Mbps range, multiplying traditional data communications rates by 100-fold or more. Initial tests were promising, but the technical challenge of making such a...
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| 12.01.2008 |
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Acronym & Abbreviation Guide
Avionics Magazine proudly presents the fourth edition of our biennial Aerospace...
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| 11.01.2008 |
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Engine Indications
Managing optimal engine performance is becoming increasingly critical, not only for safety and reliability, but for fuel burn savings so important to airlines and business jet operators. Advances in heat-resistant sensors and in full authority digital...
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| 11.01.2008 |
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Q&A: IS&S: Display Systems Provider
Now in its 20th year, Innovative Solutions & Support (IS&S) has evolved from being a supplier of discrete avionic instruments to providing advanced, integrated display systems as well as air-data products, fuel gages and engine instruments. The...
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| 11.01.2008 |
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Product Focus: Wire and Cable
The mantra for designers and manufacturers of avionics-grade wire and cable is to do more with less. The "more" relates to the bandwidth capability and throughput that make it possible for airlines and corporate operators to load their in-flight...
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| 11.01.2008 |
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Net-Centric Operations Supplement: Editor's Note: Connecting Systems
Nowadays, the interconnectedness of systems is becoming more important than the systems themselves. Fifth-generation fighters like the F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II, with their ability to penetrate enemy air defenses, bring much in the way of stealth...
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| 11.01.2008 |
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Net-Centric Operations Supplement: Battlespace Transformation
In less than 10 years, the Network-Centric Operations (NCO) concept has emerged from the pages of scholarly journals to become a major military initiative commanding a significant portion of U.S. defense spending. Also known as Net-Centric Warfare, the...
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| 11.01.2008 |
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Net-Centric Operations Supplement: Beginning JTRS
After more than a decade in development, the Pentagon’s software-defined Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) has never been closer to reality. Major contracts have been awarded, and the program’s Airborne, Maritime and Fixed Site (AMF) radios are...
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| 11.01.2008 |
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Net-Centric Operations Supplement: A Networked NATO
The growing United States commitment to Net-Centric Operations and the rise of coalition military operations are driving the development of international net-centric initiatives. Since the allied actions in Kosovo in the 1990s, several European nations and...
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| 11.01.2008 |
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Net-Centric Operations Supplement: Future Combat, Unmanned Systems
The U.S. Army’s Future Combat Systems (FCS) program, its technology development and modernization plan, is best known for its terrain-bound vehicles like the Non-Line-of-Sight Canon and the unmanned ground vehicle, as well as the network systems that...
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| 11.01.2008 |
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Embedded Overall
Despite driving key technologies in systems ranging from pacemakers to fighter aircraft, embedded software has not received nearly the recognition of high-profile enterprise applications. The embedded market “is not as big as the enterprise software...
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| 10.01.2008 |
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Cover Story: SVS Virtual Sight Lines
Humans are visual creatures — if forced to give up one of our five senses, not many of us would choose to be blind. Living in a dark or blurry world is a scary thought, so we tend to pursue anything that enhances vision, from eyeglasses and binoculars...
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| 10.01.2008 |
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Beating Ballistic Threats
Rocket Propelled Grenades (RPG) and small arms fire remain deadly, plentiful threats to helicopters forced to fly close to concealed enemies. Unlike Man-Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS) countered by missile warning receivers, flare dispensers, and...
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| 10.01.2008 |
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Determinaistic Ethernet for Avionics
The AEEC has been documenting methods for transferring digital information between avionics boxes since the 1960s. However, it wasn’t until the implementation of ARINC 429 as a reliable, high-integrity digital databus that provides deterministic message...
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| 10.01.2008 |
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Product Focus: RTOS
At 35,000 feet, the market for real-time operating systems (RTOS) is embracing the concept of virtualization as a way to wring more functionality out of avionics systems. In that respect, aviation is following in the footsteps of server-based computing in the...
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| 09.01.2008 |
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Product Focus: Test Equipment
In one of the largest aircraft test equipment procurement contracts in recent memory, the U.S. Navy was in the process of writing a request for proposals (RFP) to replace the roughly 600 Consolidated Automated Support System (CASS) test systems in its...
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| 09.01.2008 |
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AESA’s Advantages
The operational launch of the F-22 Raptor clearly signaled a changing of the guard for the United States fighter force. Bristling with advanced sensors and weapons systems, the fifth-generation Raptor, along with the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, will take the...
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| 09.01.2008 |
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Satcom Solutions
The aeronautical satellite communications field, long dominated by Inmarsat, has seen Iridium grow at a rapid rate to become the most widely used network. But the race to restore the Ku-band connectivity once offered to airlines by Boeing’s Connexion...
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