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Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2005 John Keller	Is cooling the central design issue of our time? The pace of improvements in integrated circuitry is outstripping our ability to remove unwanted heat. And engineers are starting to quip about some of the dilemmas that new cooling approaches may create.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2005 John Rhea	New terrorist challenge: North Korea It's a challenge the United States can ill afford to ignore. North Korea's WMDs are not illusory. Moreover, its missiles make Saddam Hussein's look puny by comparison.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2005 John McHale	DHS turns to high tech to control borders Border agents cannot possibly check every car or every traveler. So U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials are relying on new technologies -- such as those noted here -- to tighten the country's borders.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2005 Ben Ames	Power electronics drive next-generation vehicles From electric-drive ships to hybrid Humvees, military vehicles that rely on electric motors will soon rely on advanced power electronics to handle huge voltages in their drive trains. Designers of military vehicles, in fact, see electric power as the next great frontier.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2005	In Brief Lockheed Martin to provide missile-defense radar upgrades... Northrop Grumman to develop network-management system... KVH fiber-optic gyros to be used on remote gun turret... Army fuel-cell truck completes cross-country test... Aerospace dominates Russian trade in 2004... etc.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2005 John Keller	NASA researchers choose Crystal Group rugged servers for flight experiments Crystal group is providing CS500 servers to fly in the nose cones of NASA's WB-57 high-altitude research jet aircraft to collect data from onboard cameras as NASA works toward returning to space with the launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2005 Ben Ames	Air Force tunes nonlethal directed-energy weapons The U.S. Air Force wants the Active Denial System, which fires painful but nonlethal, energy, to be more portable. And U.S. Navy and Coast Guard vessels may get a smaller version of the Long Range Acoustic Device, which generates a focused beam of sound to dissuade attackers.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2005 Ben Ames	Private business lags behind Pentagon in rush to new Internet protocol Two years ago, leaders at the U.S. Department of Defense announced a policy that would make their entire Global Information Grid IPv6-enabled by 2008. There is just one problem: everyone else, from corporate America to the rest of the federal government, is dragging their feet.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2005	L-3 uses BAE Systems autopilot for P-3 Orion The Digital Autopilot Systems from BAE Systems Platform Solutions will be used by avionics designers at L-3 Communications in the P-3 Orion aircraft, to be used by the Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2005	Lockheed Martin picks Barco for submarine displays Belgium-based Barco will provide rugged flat displays and RGB video frame grabbers for Lockheed Martin's AN/UYQ-70 program, which addresses various U.S. Navy applications.
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