78 The PCB Magazine • July 2016
Global Technology Development:
HDP User Group European Meeting 2016
Delighted and honoured to be invited again to at-
tend the open session of the High Density Pack-
aging User Group (HDPUG) European Meeting, I
made my way to the picturesque Grand Duchy of
Luxembourg, a tiny principality bordered by Bel-
gium, France and Germany, and ranked among
the world's top-three nations in both wealth and
wine consumption.
What You Probably Don't Know about NASA
While at Maker Faire 2016 in San Mateo recently,
I met with George Gorospe of NASA's Ames Re-
search Center to discuss his group's recent find-
ings and projects, NASA's CubeSats and microsat-
ellites, and what the commercialization of space
travel means for the near future.
IPC Standards Committee Reports, Part 2—
Assembly and Joining, Component
Traceability, Flexible Circuits, High
Speed/High Frequency
These standards committee reports from IPC APEX
EXPO 2016 have been compiled to help keep you
up to date on IPC standards committee activities.
This is the second in a series of reports.
Illinois Researcher Receives DARPA
Contract to Design a Hybrid Robot
Illinois researcher Hae-Won Park has been awarded
a Robotics Fast Track contract from the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to de-
sign a hybrid robot that can glide, land, and walk.
International Partners Provide Science
Satellites for America's Space Launch
SLS Maiden Flight
NASA's new Space Launch System (SLS) will launch
America into a new era of exploration to destina-
tions beyond Earth's orbit. On its first flight, NASA
will demonstrate the rocket's heavy-lift capability
and send an uncrewed Orion spacecraft into deep
space.
Saab Receives Order within AEW&C
Segment
Defence and security company Saab has landed
an order within the Airborne Early Warning and
Control (AEW&C) segment worth about SEK 1.1
billion.
American Standard Circuits Enhances
Via Fill Capabilities with Double Systems
Anaya Vardya, CEO of American Standard Cir-
cuits, has announced that his company recently
enhanced their via fill capabilities with the installa-
tion of a MASS VHF300 horizontal hole filling sys-
tem with full chamber vacuum capability, accom-
panied by a MASS ES10 double-sided Scavenger
unit.
Record-breaking $65B Global Defense
Trade in 2015 Fueled by Middle East
and Southeast Asia
"The global defense trade market has never seen
an increase as large as the one we saw between
2014 and 2015," said Ben Moores, senior analyst
at IHS. "2015 was a record-breaking year." Mar-
kets rose $6.6 billion, bringing the value of the
global defense market in 2015 to $65 billion. IHS
forecasts that the market will increase further to
$69 billion in 2016.
BAE Systems Harnesses Pioneering
Technology to Power Land Rover
BAR's America's Cup Bid
BAE Systems has revealed that it is adapting cut-
ting-edge bone conduction technology for Land
Rover BAR's world class sailing team, as it seeks to
boost the team's bid to bring the America's Cup
home to Britain in 2017.
Global Military Radars Market to
Reach $13.04B by 2020
The global military radars market was valued at
USD 11.02 billion in 2015 and is projected to
reach USD 13.04 billion by 2020, at a CAGR of
3.42% from 2015 to 2020.
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