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Technology Electronic Military & Defense Annual Resource, 4th Edition 23 TRIOPTICS - Your Partner for IR Optics Testing Providing the Largest Range of Test Equipment for IR Optics Worldwide. Testing of Lenses and Complex Optical Systems in NIR, SWIR, MWIR and LWIR. TRIOPTICS offers a wide range of technologies: • Lens centering, air spacing and center thickness inside of assembled IR optics • Image quality testing with MTF and measurement of EFL, distortion, chromatic aberration, etc. • Testing and active alignment of IR camera modules • Surface profiling with Shack-Hartmann Sensors or interferometers We offer standard and customized solutions for R&D;, production and quality control. Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Protection Hollywood has used many scare tactics over the years, and EMP threats are a common plot line. The 1983 movie The Day After suggested that automobiles may not keep functioning after an EMP attack. In the 2012 movie Red Dawn, an EMP weapon disables the domestic defensive infrastructure of the U.S. In the 2013 film Pacific Rim, a gargantuan creature fires an EMP that disables the electrical systems of two robots defending a city. Although electromagnetic pulses were movie makers' fictional ideas for paralyzing enemy forces and eliminating strategic deterrents, the risk of an EMP attack today may be even greater than before due to compact nuclear weapons. A high-altitude electromagnetic pulse could easily be formed from the detonation of a nuclear warhead at altitudes of about 25 miles over a target for widespread effect or at ground level for a more localized result. Electronics can be manipulated and even destroyed by being subjected to an EMP, and as electronic devices have become portable, so too have EMP generators. Today they are as small as a briefcase. Resultant critical equipment and infrastructure failures could seriously jeopardize our forces' ability to execute their mission tasks, since the coordination of military operations is totally dependent on telecommunications and information systems. U.S. military forces routinely consider EMP threats and outcomes in their missions — such as the damage an EMP could cause to vehicles carrying mission-critical electronic equipment, to data storage in U.S. embassies, or to the operational systems in a military base. Portable EMI tents can be an effective military tool for surviving an EMP attack as well. Ensuring EMC Another use for EMI enclosures is to ensure that products are able to function correctly in their designed environments and are not susceptible to ambient electromagnetic noise and interference. Along with radiated and conducted RF requirements, ESD (electrostatic discharge), magnetic fields, main power