Addressing SWaP Challenges in Military Platforms With 65-nm FPGAs and Structured ASICs Introduction Now more than ever, size, weight, and power (SWaP) must be managed and reduced across virtually all military and aerospace applications to improve operational efficiency and logistics, increase mission life, and reduce the total cost of system ownership. System upgrades are driving added function...

india, the second most populous country in the world enjoying 6% economic growth during the last years of the twentieth century, is considered as a newly emerged power, and is predicted to be the fourth economic power by 2025. development of military might, outstanding software power particularly in space industry and entering nuclear technology arena provide a special position for india in the...

Executive Summary Packet Digital has developed and patented On-Demand Power®, a dynamic power management technology that provides real-time, system-wide energy savings for military radios, computers, and other portable electronics. Using Packet Digital’s PowerSage® power management integrated circuits, designers can shorten their design cycle and reduce the nonrecurring engineering costs to int...

Introduction Power MOSFETs exposed to particle-rich, space-like or terrestrial, environment, can exhibit Single Event Gate Rupture (SEGR) and Single Event Burnout (SEB). The use of power devices as high power solid state switches for the electric and hybrid car manufacturers, has generated new non-military, and non-space interest power device failure modes. A SEGR event is one such failure mode...

(Far Eastern National University, Vladivostok, Russia) CASE Visiting Fellow, UC Berkeley November 2008 Civil-Military Relations in Russia. Field Report Civil-military relations Civil-military relations are a very important issue for the modern Russian politics. Russia’s location and geopolitical situation required it to participate in multiple wars and conflicts over some 323 years to maintain ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Emotionally relevant pictorial stimuli utilized in studies to characterize both normal and pathological emotional responses do not include military scenarios. Failures to replicate consistent findings for military populations have led to speculation that these image sets do not capture personally relevant experiences. METHODS The Military Affective Picture System (MA...

A rthur Clarke, a science fiction writer, stated that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Although his point may be quaint it bears directly on the debate over the revolution in military affairs (RMA), which is long on description and short on explanation of future military technology. This is most evident in the promised wizardry of information warfare. The ma...

1 How the Military Shapes Dictatorships 1 Barbara Geddes UCLA All governments depend for their survival on the cooperation of the military. Although democratic regimes in industrialized countries have developed formulas for insulating most aspects of government from military influence, finding ways to insure the support of the armed forces has challenged both democratic and authoritarian govern...

Since the Cold War, the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty has been the lynchpin of the regional security architecture. The alliance served as the key mechanism to ensure U.S. military presence and commitment to the Asia-Pacific. In addition to the modernization of Japan Self Defense Force (JSDF) military capabilities, U.S. military presence manifested through bases in Japan, and Japan-U.S. military co...