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National Defense
April 2010
Wright & Erwin |
New Attitudes about UAVs Shape Army's Scout Helicopter Program The Army has tried unsuccessfully for decades to build a new scout helicopter to replace the aging Kiowa Warrior. After canceling two multibillion-dollar helicopter programs, the Army has decided that a conventional rotorcraft is no longer the answer.   |
The Motley Fool
March 9, 2010
Rich Smith |
Boeing Wins! The winner of the $40 billion KC-X Tanker contract is all but certain. So let's all give a great big round of applause to ... Northrop Grumman! But not because it won the contract. |
National Defense
April 2010
Grace V. Jean |
Surveillance Technology Can Help Identify Hostile Vessels A Web-based software program under development aims to make identifying hostile ships among several benign vessels easier. |
Popular Mechanics
March 4, 2010
Joe Pappalardo |
Budget Wars Spell Grim Future For F-22 and F-35 Planes Senior Air Force staff are saying that cost overruns might cause an automatic Congressional review of the F-35 program, already the most expensive weapon procurement program in U.S. history, at about $300 billion. |
Popular Mechanics
March 4, 2010
Glenn Harlan Reynolds |
Can Honda Bring Corporate-Style Jet Travel to the Masses? The HondaJet represents an effort at changing all of that, by using technology and design to bring costs down and allow private-jet travel at costs that approach commercial ticket prices. |
The Motley Fool
March 4, 2010
Rich Smith |
Lockheed Martin Short-Circuits F-35 orders are getting pushed back an unlucky 13 months to allow for extra testing of the plane. |
The Motley Fool
March 4, 2010
Rich Smith |
This Just In: Upgrades and Downgrades FBR Capital hems and haws, then upgrades Spirit AeroSystems. |
National Defense
April 2010
D'Agostino & Goodwin |
What Contractors Should Know About Tax Certification President Obama's directive signals that increased enforcement measures that will be closely examining the tax certification in particular. A robust internal review process is important to ensuring accurate certifications. |
National Defense
April 2010 |
Readers Sound Off On Recent Stories Defense industry and the federal debt... The "president's perspective"... |
Popular Mechanics
March 2010
Joe Pappalardo |
How UAVs Will Replace the Air Force's Current Fleet The Air Force Research Laboratory is spending $49 million over the next four years to create a system that will allow UAVs to autonomously refuel in the air. |
Popular Mechanics
March 2010
Joe Pappalardo |
The Future For UAVs in the U.S. Air Force The next-generation aircraft envisioned by the Air Force, and modeled in the illustration opposite, would be able to dodge enemy radar, swap payloads for multiple kinds of missions and use sophisticated onboard sensors to prevent collisions with other UAVs and manned airplanes. |
The Motley Fool
February 26, 2010
Rich Smith |
A Big Ol' Buy for Boeing United's check is in the mail, and that's good news for Boeing shareholders. Just don't be too shocked when, upon opening the envelope, you discover it's not as big a check as Boeing makes it out to be. |
Popular Mechanics
February 23, 2010
Joe Pappalardo |
How Israel's Biggest Drone Could Take Out Iranian Nukes The Israeli Air Force has been buying and upgrading airplanes specifically for long-distance strikes such as a potential attack against Iran. |
The Motley Fool
February 23, 2010
Rich Smith |
6 Stocks That Never Surrender In a fight to the finish versus the S&P 500, no quarter will be asked, none given for defense industry stocks. |
IndustryWeek
February 17, 2010
Josh Cable |
Boeing's Innovative Approach to Leadership Boeing's progressive view of leadership allowed innovation to flourish. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2010
David Hambling |
Special Ops Gunships To Get Pain-Inducing Weapons The Air Force is now trying to install pain rays on Special Operations gunships, which are 98-foot-long AC-130 aircraft originally designed to haul cargo. |
National Defense
March 2010
Holmes & Palachak |
Munitions Industry Prepares for Downturn If munitions industrial capabilities disappear following ammunition budget cuts, any rescue efforts will be expensive and create significant turbulence in the sector. |
National Defense
March 2010
Fennelly & Epstein |
Defense Contractors Must Effectively Monitor Consultants As corporate ethics and compliance programs are reviewed and strengthened to meet increasing competition and government requirements, companies may not recognize the risks posed by consultants and other agents. |
National Defense
March 2010
Stew Magnuson |
Future Remotely Piloted Aircraft Will Do More Than Surveillance Military leaders are beginning think about concepts for the third-generation UAVs. In the future, they will want the drones to do a lot more than peer down on adversaries. |
National Defense
March 2010
Austin Wright |
Army Weighs Future of Unmanned Helicopters The Army's recent cancellation of the Fire Scout remotely piloted helicopter has left some wondering whether there is a future for unmanned vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft in the service. |
National Defense
March 2010
Stew Magnuson |
DARPA to Take on Major New Robotics Initiative The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced a major new initiative to create robotic autonomous manipulators that mimic the human hands, an agency program manager said. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
February 2010
John McHale |
First round accuracy Many special forces operators like to say the last thing they want is a fair fight. They want to overwhelm the enemy so that he cannot even shoot back. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
February 2010
Courtney E. Howard |
A sea change in small electronics Advancements in microelectronics are helping to reduce the size, weight, cost, and carbon footprint of various military and aerospace electronics in land, sea, air, and space applications. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
February 2010
John Keller |
Trends in microprocessors: high-end military embedded applications are beginning a shift to Intel When it comes to military embedded computing, basically only two microprocessor manufacturers slug it out for the lion's share of the defense and aerospace embedded computer market -- Freescale Semiconductor Inc. in Austin, Texas, and Intel Corp. of Santa Clara, Calif. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
February 2010
John Keller |
DARPA moves ahead with National Cyber Range project for advanced cyber security research The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Project Agency in Arlington, Va., is awarding multimillion-dollar contracts to two research organizations to build prototype advanced computing centers to demonstrate and test cyber security, defensive information warfare, and information assurance technologies. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
February 2010
John Keller |
AeroMech team to build Sand Dragon route-surveillance UAV that runs on heavy fuels Air Force researchers are asking AeroMech to demonstrate a runway-independent launch and recovery system for the 24-hour-endurance Sand Dragon Tier II UAV, as well as the pilotless aircraft's control station, for quick deployment to the Middle East and other military operational areas. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
February 2010
John McHale |
F-35 Joint Strike Fighter leverages COTS for avionics systems Designers of the avionics systems for the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter aircraft are using commercial off-the-shelf avionics wherever and whenever possible throughout the advanced fighter's cockpit |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
February 2010
John Keller |
Intel i7 microprocessor set to produce tectonic shift in industry The military embedded computer industry has been turning backflips since last month amidst the excitement surrounding the 7 Jan. introduction by microprocessor giant Intel Corp. of the latest versions of its Core i7, i5, and i3 processors at the International Consumer Electronics Show. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
February 2010 |
In Brief Next-generation avionics for Ariane 5 launch vehicle to be provided by Astrium... UAV, UGV capabilities of Brigade Combat Team Modernization Increment 1 to enter production... etc. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
February 2010
John Keller |
Pentagon seeks to build airborne infrared sensor for ballistic missile defense Leaders of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency in Washington are trying to develop an airborne infrared sensor system within the next five years that is capable of tracking and intercepting enemy ballistic missiles in boost phase at or near engine burnout. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
February 2010
John Keller |
High-power laser on Avenger combat vehicle destroys IEDs in tests A laser weapon mounted on an Avenger combat vehicle destroyed 50 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) like those that kill U.S. service members in Iraq and Afghanistan during September testing, say officials of the Boeing Co., designer of the Avenger high-power laser. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
February 2010 |
Textron to provide armored vehicle with artillery-directing electro-optical payload The M1200 armored vehicle is for Army artillery observers who help direct artillery fire with visual observations and with laser rangefinder and laser targeting equipment. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
February 2010 |
Boeing Unveils New Display for Flight Simulation The Constant Resolution Visual System (CRVS) creates an immersive environment by providing a high-resolution, out-the-window view for training systems and for general visualization applications. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
February 2010
John Keller |
Persistent Surveillance with UAV-Mounted Infrared Sensors is Goal of DARPA ARGUS-IR Program Scientists at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are asking industry to develop staring infrared sensors able to provide long-term persistent surveillance from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
February 2010
Chris Sanders |
3D IC Integration is Poised to Drive the Next Generation of Military Imaging Sensors As military and aerospace design engineers develop imaging systems for the wired battlefield of tomorrow, they face the challenge of providing high-resolution imaging arrays that are light, small, and cheap. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
February 2010 |
Army selects DRS infrared night-vision sensor for enhanced vision in armored vehicles They found their infrared sensor solution from the DRS Technologies Reconnaissance, Surveillance & Target Acquisition Business Group in Parsippany, N.J. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
February 2010 |
Military robots to be delivered to U.S. Army by iRobot in $35.3 million contract U.S. Army leaders needed military robots for unmanned ground vehicle applications. They found their solution from iRobot in Bedford, Mass. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
February 2010 |
Northrop Grumman Hunter unmanned aircraft system employs Parvus mission computers The subsystems have been configured to operate as the payload interface unit for the Hunter unmanned aerial vehicle. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
February 2010 |
OSI Geospatial to Deliver Counter-IED Training Solution to Defense Research and Development Canada OSI will provide a Counter-IED Immersive Training Environment (CIITE) system using the company's iGEN Cognitive Synthetic Agents. |
Popular Mechanics
February 9, 2010
Matt Molnar |
Boeing's Biggest Bird Takes to the Skies The largest commercial aircraft ever built in the United States, the Boeing 747-8, took off on its maiden flight Monday afternoon. |
Popular Mechanics
February 5, 2010
Joe Pappalardo |
Are Iran's New Anti-Helicopter Missiles A Real Threat to Apaches? An Iranian colonel this week spoke publicly about a "special weapon" that was tailor-made to destroy U.S. Apache attack helicopters. |
Popular Mechanics
February 4, 2010
Benjamin Chertoff |
The Navy's New, Digital-Age Flagship in a Box To meet the new demands of a cost-conscious Department of Defense, US Naval designers have created the Deployable Joint Command and Control System, or DJC2-MV: basically, it's a flagship in a box. |
Popular Mechanics
February 3, 2010
Joe Pappalardo |
3 Programs That Lose Out in Obama's Defense Budget F-35 Lightning II (Joint Strike Fighter)... CG(X) Next-Generation Cruiser... Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle... |
Popular Mechanics
January 28, 2010
D.J. Hopson |
Addicted to Satellites? Air Force Searches For Alternatives to GPS Air Force Chief of Staff, Gen. Norton Schwartz, gave voice to a chink in the U.S. military's armor, one that many know about but few like to discuss in public: Without satellites, modern militaries lose most of their edge. |
Popular Mechanics
January 25, 2010
Joe Pappalardo |
The Big Money Behind Europe's U.S. Warplane Trash-Talk Eurofighter's Typhoon is considered a leading contender in a $10.4 billion contract to sell 126 warplanes to India. |
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