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National Defense April 2010 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
Trained, Disciplined Professionals Are Key to Acquisition Excellence If we built a system with disciplined block development run by real acquisition professionals, we would be pleasantly surprised by the results.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2010 Edward J. Walsh |
Navy on the verge of major shipboard electronics breakthroughs Open-architecture and COTS technologies are critical for advances in ship propulsion, navigation and guidance, weapons control, ballistic missile defense, modular mission packages, and related systems for the nation's maritime defense.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2010 Courtney E. Howard |
Empowering embedded computing Mainstream, COTS technologies combine with aerospace and defense industry innovations to deliver increased performance in compact electronics designs  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2010 Courtney Howard |
Marine aviators complete operational assessment of advanced Precision Kill Weapon System The operational assessment provides Marine aviators the opportunity to "test drive" the system before it is deployed, and to confirm that the laser-guided, 2.75-inch rocket will meet their needs in combat.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2010 John Keller |
Air Force to use artificial intelligence and other advanced data processing to hit the enemy where it hurts Air Force researchers are emphasizing machine-to-machine intelligence communications and cooperation in this project, which will rely on technologies like artificial intelligence, ontological reasoning, and knowledge-based processing.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2010 |
UAV Avionics Covered at Avionics Europe Conference The Unmanned Systems Avionics session speakers include David Voss, senior director of unmanned aircraft at Rockwell Collins and Craig Hoover of GE Aviation Systems.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2010 |
In Brief Team K-MAX demonstrates unmanned helicopter cargo re-supply to U.S. Marine Corps... Rockwell Collins advances next-generation GPS by tracking new military signal... Sonoscan expands counterfeit identification menu... etc.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2010 |
Infrared Search and Track System for Navy F/A-18 Jet Fighter Enters Full-Scale Development Boeing has begun development of the infrared search and track (IRST) sensor system which will enable jet-fighter bombers to detect and track enemy aircraft without the use of onboard radar systems.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2010 John Keller |
Extreme-Field-of-View Surveillance Imaging Technology is Goal of DARPA FDOS Program The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is asking industry to develop high-resolution 3D imaging technology with wide field of view and depth of field for use in reconnaissance and surveillance applications.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2010 |
Draper Lab to Extend Life of Trident II Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile Guidance System Draper Lab experts will upgrade the Trident D5 missile guidance system.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2010 |
Boeing B-52 Upgraded with CONECT System Makes First Test Flight The Combat Network Communications Technology (CONECT) from Boeing will give B-52 bomber crews the ability to receive and send real-time digital information during their missions.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2010 |
Lockheed Martin Selects Protonex to Enhance HULC Exoskeleton Power Supply Protonex will evaluate fuel cell-based power solutions that can be carried by the HULC, while at the same time powering the exoskeleton and the user's mission equipment during extended dismounted operations.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2010 |
QinetiQ North America Developing Roving, Early-Warning WMD Detector for U.S. Army The program is designed to meet a stated Department of Defense need for a tactical chemical and biological defense, as well as an intelligent network that can communicate and direct sensors so they provide real-time notice of a threat.  |
National Defense April 2010 Stew Magnuson |
JIEDDO Chief Seeks Help as Roadside Bombs Plague Afghanistan The new director of the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization, wants contractors, small businesses, or inventors working in their basements to come forward with any devices or thoughts on how to defeat roadside bombs.  |
National Defense April 2010 Sandra I. Erwin |
To Defense Industry, the Future Looks Uncomfortably Unfamiliar The defense industry is the only portion of the federal budget that the president sheltered from the axe.  |
National Defense April 2010 Sandra I. Erwin |
Shortage of Acquisition Workers: It Depends on How You Look at It Before the Defense Department rushes to hire more people, it needs to better define what it means to be an acquisition worker and to identify precisely what skills are lacking  |
National Defense April 2010 Austin Wright |
U.S. Helicopter Suppliers Fear Losing Innovation War The military helicopter business is booming, but the industry mostly is making money fixing up and maintaining the Army's aging fleet. Hardly any Pentagon contracts these days pursue new aircraft designs.  |
National Defense April 2010 Grace V. Jean |
Software Helps Soldiers Cope with Electronics Clutter Aboard Trucks Manufacturers that initially balked at letting their software reside on non-proprietary hardware are adapting to accommodate demands for integrated systems.  |
The Motley Fool March 11, 2010 Rich Smith |
AeroVironment Gets Its Wings Clipped So far, all AV's showed us this year is a string of excuses about budgetary delays, tardy Pentagon procurement, and bad weather excuses.  |
The Motley Fool March 11, 2010 Rich Smith |
Force Protection Can Play Offense, Too Force Protection's CEO Michael Moody has restructured the company, rolled back Force's manufacturing infrastructure, and focused on the company's core strength in innovating new defense technologies.  |
The Motley Fool March 10, 2010 Rich Smith |
Is Boeing a $100 Stock? Yes. And that's just the start of the good news.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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...  |
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