Boeing Co. has finalized a $5.3 billion four-year agreement with the U.S. Navy to build 124 F/A-18 fighter jets and electronic attack planes, a deal that will generate savings of over $600 million.The deal, announced on Tuesday by Boeing and the Pentagon, calls for the company to deliver 66 F/A-18 “Super Hornet” fighters and 58 EA-18G airframes designed for electronic attack to … [Read more...]
Military Aerospace Firm Offers Updates on EM Environment Simulator
Northrop Grumman Corporation recently held its fourth annual conference for users of its Combat Electromagnetic Environment Simulator (CEESIM) systems. The conference is aimed at keeping users updated on system developments while providing a forum to identify potential opportunities for improving system performance and customer service. Read more from Northrop Grumman. … [Read more...]
EMC Day
October 4, 2010, was EMC Day at a hotel in Nice, France on the Mediterranean coast. The objective of the event was to educate institutional and industrial professionals to help them make appropriate decisions regarding EMC issues and respecting the regulatory requirements.Read more at the Invest in Côte d’Azur Web site. … [Read more...]
Magnetic Attraction for Fish and Crabs?
Scientists with the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are examining whether a variety of fish and invertebrates change their behavior during and after exposure to an electromagnetic field similar to those produced by marine and hydrokinetic power devices that capture energy from ocean waves. Learn more at Physorg.com. … [Read more...]
Two Scientists Win Nobel Prize in Physics for Work on Graphene
The 2010 Nobel Prize for Physics was won by two scientists for their work on a revolutionary ultra-thin material called graphene, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Tuesday.Andre K. Geim and Konstantin S. Novoselov, both scientists at the University of Manchester in England, shared the award for their development of a form of carbon that is only one atom thick. … [Read more...]
Electric Plane Wins $1.35 Million Prize
A Pennsylvania company has won a $1.35 million prize from NASA for developing a highly efficient airplane power by electricity.Pipistrel-USA.com earned the top prize in the CAFE Green Flight Challenge, sponsored by Google.The plane developed by Pipistrel doubled the fuel efficiency requirement for the competition, flying 200 miles in less than two hours while using less than a … [Read more...]
University's RFID Lab Launches Test Program for Apparel
The RFID Lab at the University of Parma's Department of Industrial Engineering in Italy will begin testing the performance of various makes and models of EPC Gen 2 ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) RFID hardware for use by European apparel retailers and manufacturers. The program, known as "RFID 4 fashion certified," is intended to determine how well the hardware performs in real-life … [Read more...]
NASA’s NPP Climate Satellite Prepares for EMC Testing
Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) has completed its pre-testing review which will lead to the agency performing electromagnetic interference and compatibility testing. A group of multi-disciplinary experts from NASA and NOAA, as well as a number of independent reviewers conducted the pre-environmental review of the five-instrument satellite. The … [Read more...]
Singapore University Unveils New Research Lab
The National University of Singapore has opened its new 11- story T-lab building, which will enable, among other things, accurate measurement of the electromagnetic properties of any substance that will help identify compounds that reduce electromagnetic interference between electronic devices.Read more Singapore’s Straits Times. … [Read more...]
Living Life at 2.4GHz
In a recent article in Gizmodo discussing why 2.4GHz was chosen for unlicensed wireless items, attention focuses on the frequency of microwave ovens. The article notes that despite heavy shielding, microwave ovens’ powerful emissions could sometimes interfere with neighboring frequencies, so it was decided that they should be given a few megahertz of space in both … [Read more...]
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