54 The PCB Design Magazine • February 2016
Innovative Designs, Smart Manufacturing
Deliver Soldier Readiness
"The Army has called for increased innovation,
which is shining a spotlight on prototype designs,"
said Christopher Manning, Prototype Integration
& Testing Division chief, under the Army's Com-
munications-electronics Research, Development
and engineering Center, or CeRDeC. "However, it
is imperative that our designs can be leveraged for
mass production and sustainment."
PNC Purchases Benchtop AOI
PnC, a provider of rigid, rigid-flex and flex PCBs,
has boosted its capabilities by acquiring nordson
YeSTeCH's BX Benchtop Automated AoI.
Northrop Grumman to Design and
Produce Shipboard Laser Weapon
System Demonstrator
The U.S. navy will get a peek at a future where
high energy laser weapons could defend its ships
against attack under a contract awarded oct. 22
to northrop Grumman Corporation by the office
of naval Research (onR).
Indium Features Gold-Tin Solder Preforms
for Precision Die-Attach Applications
at AeroDef2016
Indium will feature its precision gold-tin (AuSn)
solder preforms for die-attach at the upcoming
AeroDef 2016 event in Long Beach, California.
Designed for high-reliability applications, Indium's
Pb-free and RoHS-compliant AuSn preforms are
available in a variety of standard and custom-engi-
neered designs.
Mr. Laminate Tells All: Who Would
Like a Mil-Spec Audit?
I remember when IPC-4101 was completed and
released in December 1997 and the question came
up about whether IPC should create a policeman
program to enforce it. To a person that helped cre-
ate IPC-4101, absolutely no one wanted such an
audit program ever again.
PCB Technologies Receives NADCAP
Accreditation
PCB Technologies announces that it has received
nadcap accreditation for electronics.
A Conversation with IPC President
and CEO John Mitchell
I-Connect007's Patty Goldman was able to sit down
with John Mitchell, president and Ceo of IPC, to
discuss the organization and where we are going
as an industry. We discussed IPC's four aspirational
goals—standards, education, advocacy and solu-
tions—as well as short-term goals. We also talked
a bit about going virtual and becoming paperless.
Raytheon's Development and Testing
on Track for DDG 51 Flight III
Raytheon Company announced its An/SPY-6(V) Air
and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR)team has com-
pleted the first full radar array, fully populated with
component Line Replaceable Units (LRUs), includ-
ing more than 5,000 Transmit/Receive elements,
in 140 days.
NUS Takes the Quantum Leap into Space
Galassia, a two-kilogramme nanosatellite, was
developed by students and researchers from the
Faculty of engineering; Centre for Remote Imag-
ing, Sensing & Processing (CRISP); and Centre for
Quantum Technologies (CQT).
Satellites Find Sustainable Energy in Cities
Underground heat islands in cities have an enor-
mous geothermal potential. Warm groundwater
can be used to produce sustainable energy for
heating and cooling. Researchers of Karlsruhe In-
stitute of Technology (KIT) have now developed a
new method to find underground heat islands.
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