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• From the IDEX Trade Show: New and Improved PatriotDeep inside the factory where Patriot defense systems are made, Ken Arruda stopped beside a rolling cart and pointed to a white card sprinkled with what looked like grains of sand.
• Engineers Week: An Engineer's Journey to SpaceWhen Robert Curbeam was a kid, he spent hours designing airplanes and rockets: sketching out the fins, coloring in the flames and pondering the sweep of each hand-drawn wing. But actually flying into space? That dream came later for this veteran.
• Synthetic Diamonds Get Military's AttentionSheets of laboratory-grown diamond, combined with the semiconductor gallium nitride (GaN), could someday become the core of radar, communications and electronic warfare systems.
• Navy Uses Raytheon SM-3 and Space Sensor to Destroy TargetIn a first-of-its-kind test, a Raytheon Standard Missile-3 Block IA fired from the USS Lake Erie destroyed a medium-range ballistic missile target using a remote cue from a satellite sensor system.