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Application Briefs: Information Technology
IT Services Support NASA Scientists and Engineers
Information technology services DB Consulting Group Silver Spring, MD 301-589-4020 www.dbconsultinggroup.com
DB Consulting Group provides NASA’s Glenn Research Center (GRC) in Cleveland, OH with a variety of professional, administrative, computational, and engineering services. These services are...
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Motion Components Optimize Performance of Liquid Chromatography System
Pricing pressures, intense competition, and strict regulatory demands are challenging scientists and researchers in the fast-growing, highly-regulated pharmaceutical, life science, biochemical, industrial, and environmental industries to make important breakthroughs faster and...
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Endo Tools Therapeutics (ETT) is a medical device company based in Brussels, Belgium that was established in 2008. The company was formed after an innovative research...
Application Briefs: Lighting
A Manchester, NH T.J.Maxx shopping plaza parking lot has been retrofitted with BetaLED luminaires. CBT Development of Greenland, NH was incurring high costs for parking lot maintenance from frequent...
Application Briefs: Lighting
The lighting needs at the 460,000-square foot headquarters facility of Maines Paper and Food Service, Inc., a food distributor serving customers in 35 states, were recently re-evaulated. Like...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A wide range of commercial applications use cameras with a zooming mechanism. Perhaps the most ubiquitous is the camera phone. Camera phones may have an optical zoom, a digital...
Application Briefs: Aerospace
Extra-Vehicular Activity Space Suit Simulator (S3)Aurora Flight SciencesCambridge, MA703-396-6304 www.aurora.aero
Aurora Flight Sciences has teamed up with professors Dana Newman and...
Application Briefs: Software
Engineering Review Board Information System (ERBIS)a.i. solutionsLanham, MD301-306-1756 www.ai-solutions.com
Managing the people, data, and activities associated with NASA’s...
Application Briefs: Imaging
Food manufacturers are held to strict agency regulations regarding product quality and consistency. Repeatable visual inspections are critical to ensure consumers receive a consistent and...
Application Briefs: Motion Control
Pricing pressures, intense competition, and strict regulatory demands are challenging scientists and researchers in the fast-growing, highly-regulated pharmaceutical, life...
Application Briefs: Imaging
Food manufacturers are held to strict agency regulations regarding product quality and consistency. Repeatable visual inspections are critical to ensure consumers receive a consistent and...
Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The desire to consolidate datacenter I/O has existed for several decades. It has been driven by I/O hardware providers who didn’t want to develop multiple versions of the same I/O card for different...
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Eddy-current displacement sensorsLion PrecisionSt. Paul, MN651-484-6544 www.lionprecision.com
Stennis Space Center, NASA’s Mississippi-based headquarters for...
Application Briefs: Information Technology
Ground system telecommunications architectureGeneral Dynamics C4 SystemsFalls Church, VA480-441-3033 www.gd.com
As part of its seven-year contract with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in...
Application Briefs: Lighting
Philips Lumileds, San Jose, CA National Semiconductor, Santa Clara, CA
Abridge lighting project was recently completed in the Chinese city of Harbin, utilizing 1,288 linear floodlights containing 12,000...
Application Briefs: Materials
Ocean LED, Nuneaton, UK Proto Labs, Maple Plain, MN
Richard Sant, Chief Designer at OceanLED, sought a fast and flexible way to make low-cost, high-quality components for the firm’s latest LED lights. He found...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
To decode the human genome and gain a greater understanding of diseases and their aetiology, advances need to be made in the rate at which the nucleotides that comprise DNA can be...
Application Briefs: Communications
The Communicator! NXT emergency notification systemPlantCML, an EADS North America companyFranklin, TN951-719-2423 www.plantcml-eads.com
NASA will use...
Application Briefs: Software
Geomagic Studio 3D scanning and processing softwareGeomagic Inc.Research Triangle Park, NC800-691-1839 www.geomagic.com
Ceramic tiles used on the underside of the...
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
A unique cavitating pump dynamics test facility has been developed at Concepts NREC (CN, White River Junction, VT) in cooperation with engineers at NASA Marshall Space...
Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Systems engineering is not about developing electronics, mechanical, or software designs. Systems engineering is really about four things:
Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
DC is not always DC. When systems are developed to operate on DC power, the DC electrical environment will have noise and may experience other disturbances. This article will explore considerations for generating low...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Organic photovoltaic (OPV) materials are an emerging alternative technology for converting sunlight into electricity. OPVs are potentially inexpensive to...
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Adept Viper 850 robot armAdept TechnologyPleasanton, CA925-245-3400 www.adept.com
NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, CA, performs research and technology in...
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Data acquisition and distribution systemsG SystemsRichardson, TX972-234-6000 www.gsystems.com
G Systems has delivered a Data Acquisition System (DAS) for the Orion crew...
Application Briefs: Imaging
A new imaging technology can quickly give users accurate three-dimensional depictions of objects being tracked, whether they are incoming missiles or the faces of...
Application Briefs: Communications
DICES Subsystem Multiplexer (Sub-MUX) communications equipment Quintron SystemsSanta Maria, CA 805-928-4343 www.quintron.com
NASA is installing Quintron’s Sub-MUX multi-channel...
Application Briefs: Imaging
e2v CCD203-82 charge-coupled device sensorse2v TechnologiesEssex, United Kingdom+44 (0)1245 493493 www.e2v.com
Six Charge-Coupled Device (CCD) imaging sensors have been...
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Robotic devices have been used in the medical industry for more than 40 years. Despite the advantages, researchers have faced unique challenges in developing effective, safe...
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