Tuesday, April 21, 2009, 10:18 am EDTCONCORD, NH –Nanocomp Technologies, Inc., a developer of energy saving performance materials and component products from carbon nanotubes (CNTs), today announced that it has been awarded two new contracts by the United States Air Force under the Department of Defense’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program.The light weight and … [Read more...]
Air Force Looks to Nanotechnology for Shielding
NH-based Nanocomp Technologies, Inc. has won two SBIR (small business innovation research) contracts from the U.S. Air Force. The light weight and conductive nature of CNTs (carbon nanotubes) have made them ideal candidates for aerospace applications although practical applications have been limited. Under the terms of the first SBIR, Nanocomp will continue to develop CNT-based … [Read more...]
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TWT Amplifiers Meets Demands HIRF EMC Testing in Commercial AircraftA series of new high-power, pulsed TWT (traveling wave tube) instrumentation microwave amplifiers has been introduced by UK-based TMD Technologies, Ltd. These amplifiers have been optimized to meet the latest stringent demands of high intensity RF (HIRF) EMC testing. The PTC6000 and the PTC7000 TWTAs between … [Read more...]
Reverberation Chamber for EMC Testing
The reverberation chamber provides the most realistic simulation/equivalency for electronics functioning within a cavity Er-Ping Li, Ph.D.; Xing-Chang Wei, Ph.D., Electromagnetic Labs, Singapore National Institute of High Performance Computing Singapore Introduction The problem is familiar, but growing. The widespread and ever-growing use of electronic devices with high-speed … [Read more...]
Major Aerospace and Defense Cuts
Aerospace giant Boeing has announced that it will shed 10,000 employees, or more than six percent of its workforce. Workforce reductions will involve attrition, retirements, reductions in contract labor, and layoffs. This word of job cuts comes amid media reports of significant cancellations of orders for Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner, once touted as the aircraft that would dominate … [Read more...]
Software Toolbox Provides Environmental Models Magnetic Field, Gravity, & Atmosphere
Aerospace Toolbox 2.2 from the MathWorks provides reference standards, environment models, and aerodynamic coefficient importing for performing advanced aerospace analysis for developing and evaluating designs. Options for visualizing vehicle dynamics include a six-degrees-of-freedom MATLAB animation object and interfaces to the FlightGear flight simulator and Virtual Reality … [Read more...]
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High-Voltage Disc Capacitors Suit Aerospace and Industrial ApplicationsThe Cera-Mite 715CxxKT series, a family of single-layer devices from Vishay Intertechnology, are screw-mount disc capacitors offered in a wide range of diameters and capacitance values over rated voltages from 10 k VDC to 40 k VDC. With low AC and DC coefficients and a negligible … [Read more...]
High-Voltage Disc Capacitors Suit Aerospace and Industrial Applications
AVX HV02-HV06 DIP leaded stack capacitors, SV conformally coated radiated leaded capacitors, and high voltage MLCCs (>/= 1kV) are now available in DO-160 tested versions rendering them suitable for use in flight applications. The typical civilian aircraft is struck by lightning approximately every 1000 flight-time hours, posing a possible threat to increasingly complex and … [Read more...]
Northrop Grumman Announces Consolidated Aerospace Systems Sector
Northrop Grumman, a well-known name in aviation and defense, recently announced structural changes intended to improve performance and growth potential and to enhance cost competitiveness. Instead of seven key sectors, the newly aligned corporate structure has five as the company’s Integrated Systems sector and its Space Technology sector have been combined into the new … [Read more...]
Engineers Reject Boeing Contract Offer
In another sign of turbulent times in the aerospace industry, just last week engineers at Boeing’s Wichita, KS facility voted down Boeing’s latest contract officer. Following the recommendations of union negotiators, members of the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA), Local 2001 voted 209 to 28 to reject the offer. Boeing has offered three-percent … [Read more...]
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