Electronics Military & Defense
Annual Resource 2011

We developed this inaugural edition of Electronic Military & Defense as a resource for engineers, program managers, project managers, and other professionals involved in the design and development of electronic and electro-optic systems for a wide range of defense and aerospace applications. In the pages that follow, you will find a wealth of information — emerging trends, new technologies, helpful tutorials, and other resources — to help you succeed in today's challenging-but-rewarding military and defense market. And, to be honest, this magazine only scratches the surface of the vast amount of information the VertMarkets Electronics Group can provide you with on military and defense technology.

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• Launch Date: August 2011
• Guide Table Of Contents:
• Leveraging Commercial Electronics For Military And Aerospace Applications
• Getting Up Close And Personal With Your Local Oscillator
• SWIR For Target Detection, Recognition, And Identification
• Addressing The Challenges Of Lead-Free Technology In Mil/Aero Electronics
• Trends In High-Definition Imaging For Military Applications
• Manufacturing Reliable Defense Electronics
• Hyperspectral Imaging And High-Definition Remote Sensing For Military And Defense Applications
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Electronic Military & Defense Annual Resource 2011  • Online Buyer's Guide Index  • Online Buyer's Guide

ANTENNAS

COMPUTERS/NETWORKING

LASER/LIGHT SOURCES

OPTICAL COMPONENTS & MATERIALS

OPTICAL DESIGN & ASSEMBLY

POWER/ANALOG ELECTRONICS

RF/MICROWAVE COMPONENTS

RF MICROWAVE SOLUTIONS

RF POWER AMPLIFIERS

RF SIGNAL RECORDING

SENSORS/IMAGING

SOFTWARE

Company Profiles

Antennas

Military and commercial customers agree that Antenna Products produces reliable, long lasting equipment. The company specializes in antennas, towers, masts, and fall prevention equipment. A broad frequency range of 2 MHz to 6 GHz ensures Antenna Products is not limited in its scope of products.

Computers/Networking

Radisys — ATCA In Defense For Dummies
Learn the problem solving benefits of ATCA in defense markets. It meets the needs of network-centric warfare, including high bandwidth, interoperability and cost control. Download your free copy of our ATCA in Defense for Dummies here at www.radisys.com/ATCAMilaero

RadiSys — COM Express 2.0 For Dummies
COM Express 2.0 for Dummies features a section on using COM Express solutions in specialized designs, meeting the demanding requirements of today's military and aerospace applications. Download your free copy of COM Express 2.0 for Dummies here at www.radisys.com/COMe2Milaero

The RuggedCom designs, tests and builds military tactical network communications equipment for harsh environments. Our commercial off the shelf managed Ethernet switches, routers, serial device servers, WiMAX base stations, and media converters are designed to meet the challenging climate and environmental demands found in military tactical applications. RuggedCom products pass MIL-STD certifications including MIL-STD 901D (Shock), MIL-STD 167-1 (Vibration), MILSTD 461E (EMI), and MIL-STD 810 (Temperature and Humidity).

Lasers/Light Sources

Laser Operations LLC introduces 1550nm high peak power laser diodes for rangefinder systems, collision avoidance, and friend/ foe identification. The devices generate over 15W of peak power at 20A from a 85μm emitter width. The diodes are offered in TO-18 cans with other 9mm packages available upon request. For daylight pointing and long range non-lethal optical disruption, the Brightlock® Ultra-G® laser offers unrivaled size, weight, and power performance: up to 6W CW at 532nm, less than 0.75 mrad divergence and unmatched athermal performance from a palm-size ruggedized and sealed package.

Optical Components & Materials

Deposition Sciences, Inc. (DSI®) announces the design of a wide-angle broadband anti-reflection (BBAR) coating for gimbal windows and detector assemblies. The highly specialized coatings address the needs of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) for a highly durable, angle-insensitive (FOV 0-30 degrees) glare-reducing coating on sapphire substrates. The design is band-selective, such that minimum reflectance can be tuned to a particular detector package, while still minimizing visibility (glare) in the photopic spectral sensitivity range of the human eye. The design delivers an average reflectance of approximately 2% between 400-5000 nm.

Optical Design & Assembly

Complex Optical Challenges Require Precision Optics Solutions
LightWorks Optics, Inc. is the clear choice for meeting your most complex optical design, development, and production challenges. From specification definition, to world-class design, prototyping, testing, and production, our highly responsive team of optical engineering and manufacturing experts deploy sophisticated optical technologies to ensure we get it right the first time — working collaboratively with your internal team to meet or exceed your product requirements on time, and within budget.

Power/Analog Electronics

SynQor Introduces the 28Vin Half-Brick Zeta Series
of Mil-COTS DC/DC Power Converters
The Half-Brick Zeta series of Mil-COTS DC/DC converters brings SynQor's field proven high-efficiency synchronous rectification technology to the military/aerospace industry. Featuring industry leading efficiency and power density, these converters are designed to supply up to 500W from MIL-STD-704 and MIL-STD-1275 input ranges in an industry standard half-brick package.

RF/Microwave Components

Antenna Research's early focus was in the field of electromagnetism and broadband antennas. This led to the development of individually calibrated antennas and test equipment for TEMPEST and EMC testing. From antennas, electromagnetism, and EMC testing, the company expanded its role into RF subsystems for communication and ECM/ECCM applications, tactical and military systems.

Switched Filter Bank
ComNav Engineering introduces the SFB series of switched filter banks.

• Custom designed to customer specifications
• Up to 8 channels are available
• Frequencies up 6 GHz
• Multi channel or multibandwidth designs are available
• Fast switching low, loss MMIC design binary or direct switching logic

Corry Micronics specializes in the design and manufacture of RF components and microwave filters. Our designs are shock and vibration resistant and are industrial temperature rated.

• RF Components and Microwave filters
• Circulators and Isolators
• RF Switches
• Bandpass Filters
• Notch Filters

Since 1961, Greenray Industries has provided high performance, high reliability frequency control solutions for the military, aerospace, and defense markets. Greenray product capabilities include OCXOs, TCXOs, VCXOs, and clock oscillators designed for demanding applications from 1Hz to 1GHz. Our state-of-the-art design, assembly and test operations enhance our ability to provide superior frequency control components, expert application support and extraordinary customer service.

Dual Channel DRFM (Digital RF Memory)
Mercury's Microwave & Digital Solutions offers SWaP optimized DRFM capability for electronic countermeasures. MDS' custom 0.18 micron CMOS ASIC comprises the baseband components of a phase-sampled DRFM. The ASIC includes the phase-sampling circuit, digital processing, signal reconstruction, and digital to analog outputs. Combining the ASIC with our line of up/down converters, MDS offers operation over the 2-18 GHz EW band.

30-512MHz Extended Range Agile Filters
Pole/Zero, the world's leading designer and supplier of agile RF filters for communications, cosite, EW, SIGINT, and other high dynamic range applications introduces a pair of the smallest 30-512MHz agile Extended Range Filters (ERF) on the market. The MINI-ERF & MICRO-ERF SMT devices integrate the highest performance 30-512MHz agile filter technology with 1W and 1mW power handling respectively.

Precision Devices (PDI) is part of Avrio Technology Group (www. avriotechnology.com). PDI is a leading global developer and manufacturer of frequency control products. With an established engineering heritage PDI can offer a comprehensive range of precision engineered crystals, crystal filters and clock oscillators, voltage controlled oscillators (VCXOs), temperature compensated crystal oscillators (TCXOs), and oven controlled crystal oscillators (OCXOs).

Located in Montreal, Canada, Renaissance Electronics Corporation is a high technology company. We design and manufacture radio frequency (RF), microwave, and millimeter wave products, which have military and commercial applications. The products cover a range of frequencies from 40 MHz to 120 GHz and include catalog as well as custom designed products. They are done at the component, subsystem and integrated system levels.

RF/Microwave Solutions

Military/RF Microwave Solutions
Skyworks has the RF products you need to speed your design from concept to production. Whether your project includes radar, radio communications (land mobile radio), software defined radio (JTRS and others), global positioning system (GPS) receivers, electronic countermeasures equipment (surveillance receivers or jammers), avionics systems, instrumentation or microwave subsystems, Skyworks can help you.

RF Power Amplifiers

AR Modular RF — The improved Model KMW1031KT is a portable, lightweight, waterproof, fully automatic band-switching RF booster amplifier kit for multiband VHF/UHF tactical radio equipment employing legacy, proprietary, and emerging waveforms. The amplifier covers the frequency band of 30-512 MHz using six highspeed auto switching filters to assure harmonic suppression and is SINCGARS, HAVE QUICK, and ECCM compatible. The amplifier includes Voltage Spike Suppression, RF sensing, T/R switching, Automatic Level Control (ALC), six automatically switched harmonic filter bands (DAMA capable), and protection against antenna mismatch and over-temperature.

ECM Transmitters For Next-Generation Military Airborne Applications
Designed as standard aircraft microwave power sources, this high-efficiency suite of transmitters has undergone extensive environmental testing to ensure optimal reliability up to 60,000 feet. dB Control's modular architecture enables rapid configuration of custom designs, and facilitates easy field maintenance. RAM- or ECS air-cooled units are available immediately in production quantities as line-replaceable units.

RF Signal Recording

X-COM Systems, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bird Technologies Group, provides advanced RF signal recording, analysis and generation solutions for the Department of Defense and the commercial wireless industry. X-COM engineers custom RF test solutions targeting the areas of: tactical radio, software-defined radio, signal storage, waveform creation, jammer development, IED countermeasures and analysis software for radar and electronic warfare applications.

Sensors/Imaging

Photron's Fastcam SA5 is the world's fastest mega pixel highspeed digital camera available today, capable of a top speed of over one and a half million (1,550,000) frames per second (fps) at reduced resolution. The SA5's super light sensitive 12-bit CMOS sensor provides mega pixel resolution to 7,500 fps and can record with a global shutter time of 370 nanoseconds (ns), independent of the frame rate selected. The SA5's interframe time of 223ns has made it the camera of choice for particle image velocimetry (PIV) applications, while its unmatched precision means it enjoys similar success with the digital image correlation (DIC) community.

Precision Temperature Sensors
Custom Temperature Probes — Design Services —
Assembly Services — NASA & Military Qualified Test Lab
Founded in 1977, QTI has been supplying COTS, MIL, and Space Grade temperature sensors to the U.S. Prime Contractor community in some of the most challenging, high cost of failure thermal applications imaginable. QTI is a U.S. small business, and understands the stringent vendor requirements of the most sensitive military and aerospace programs. QTI maintains an AS9100 and ISO9001:2008 quality system to provide for the highest level of product quality, with the most aggressive on-time delivery available.

Sterility Test Isolators - Over the past decade, the use of positive pressure Barrier Isolator systems for aseptic applications has increased dramatically. At Sensors Unlimited - Goodrich ISR Systems now offers the GA-1280J-15A - 1.3 Mpixel, InGaAs video camera with the highest sensitivity available in a military-hardened NIR-SWIR camera. The highresolution SWIR camera features 1280 x 1024 pixels, with 15μm pitch and 60Hz full frame rate. Compact (less than 4.3 cubic in.) and lightweight (less than 125g), the camera easily fits on-board most UAS or UGS hand-held and mobile surveillance systems. The camera is also available in an OEM model for integration into higher-level systems.

Software

Mician is a leading developer of EM software tools for passive microwave components, horn antennas, and feed networks. Mician's signature product μWave Wizard combines the flexibility of 2D/3D FEM with the speed and accuracy of traditional Mode Matching techniques. The benefit of using Mode Matching lies in its ability to perform and combine sub-circuit type full wave simulations, in conjunction with full parameterization of structural geometries for use with our built-in optimizers.