The US Missile Defense Agency has awarded Raytheon Company of Waltham, MA, USA a contract modification to develop a transition to production process to incorporate gallium nitride (GaN) components into existing and future AN/TPY-2 radars. ...
On May 6, 2014, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) published final DFARS (Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations System) rules1 to eliminate counterfeit parts from the supply chain by shifting the burden of protection onto contractors. ...
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A government and industry team led by engineers from the US Air Force Research Laboratory’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate (AFRL/RX) has completed a program to assess, improve, refine and validate a domestic source of supply ...
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Sometimes when I think of the human brain,the theme from"Star Trek"starts playing in my own head.It's the music of great unknowns—and in certain ways the human brain,with more connections between its cells than there are galaxies in ...
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AeroDef Manufacturing Summit and Exposition 2014 announces four panel discussions focused on the most critical issues facing aerospace and defense manufacturing today as part of their Executive Insights Series. AeroDef Manufacturing takes ...
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A U.S. Department of Defense spokesman on Thursday said a report suggesting the defense agency is dumping BlackBerry devices was inaccurate, and that BlackBerry is still part of ongoing DoD mobile device deployment plans. The spokesman ...
University of Notre Dame (UND) in the USA and epiwafer maker IQE have claimed record-breaking balanced frequency performance for a nitride semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistor (HEMT) using indium aluminium gallium nitride ...
Researchers at University of Notre Dame and Kopin Corp have developed high-performance nitride semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) with indium gallium nitride (InGaN) channels [Ronghua Wang et al, Appl. Phys. Express, ...
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Sp3 Diamond Technologies Inc of Santa Clara,CA,USA,a supplier of chemical vapor deposition(CVD)diamond film products,equipment and services to markets including electronics,lasers,LEDs,semiconductors and MEMS,has been awarded two patents by ...
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