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National Defense February 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
Soldiers on the Move Have Yet to Profit From Information Age Army combat brigades during the past two years have been outfitted with the latest communications and networking technology. But the improved connectivity has yet to filter down to the small mobile units below the battalion level.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2005 John McHale |
U.S. Army's Pivotal Land Warrior System Close to Fielding General Dynamics C4 Systems is integrating as many as 500 Land Warrior ensembles and Stryker integration kits into a Stryker experimental battalion to conduct special tests.  |
National Defense September 2004 Sandra I. Erwin |
Urban Battles Highlight Shortfalls in Soldier Communications The chaotic door-to-door warfare seen in Iraq offers glaring proof that dismounted U.S. troops need better communications devices, experts contend. When radios failed, soldiers resorted to the only available and reliable form of communication: screaming.  |
National Defense February 2008 Grace V. Jean |
Army to Create `Hybrid' Network of Incompatible Blue-Force Trackers With a technology that is known as blue force tracking, units can "see" each other on the battlefield and communicate via text messages.  |
Defense Update Issue 4, 2004 |
Future Force Warrior Infantry Combat Suite Future Force Warrior is designed as an integrated "system of systems," as part of the army transformation to a soldier-centric force which will complement and fully integrate with the Future Combat Systems.  |
National Defense December 2003 Roxana Tiron |
Army's Blue-Force Tracking Technology Was a Tough Sell Blue-force tracking systems, such as FBCB2, let commanders pinpoint the location of friendly forces on the battlefield. During their war preparations, U.S. soldiers initially dismissed the blue-force tracking technology---touted as one of the success stories of Operation Iraqi Freedom---as an unnecessary burden.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2005 |
Army strives for battlefield awareness with FBCB2 Army tank commanders need a clearer view of the battlefield than they have today, so they can track friendly forces and enemy targets.  |
National Defense October 2005 Sandra I. Erwin |
Soldiers Test `Land Warrior' Technology Small-unit commanders in the Army soon may receive a new computer-radio suite that connects soldiers into a wireless network and tracks their location.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2008 John McHale |
SDR: Here, There, and Everywhere Software-defined radio technology, driven by the Joint Tactical Radio System program, is enhancing communications throughout the U.S. military and in civilian and commercial applications worldwide.  |
National Defense October 2010 Eric Beidel |
Army Makes New Attempt To Field Networked Soldier System The Army is making another attempt to connect infantrymen to the battlefield network with a wearable system of hands-free computers and radios.  |
National Defense August 2004 |
Mini Radio Reprogrammed With Software A pocket-sized communications device for infantry is now being produced by Raytheon, in McKinney, Tex.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2009 John McHale |
SDR: A Spectrum of Possibilities Whether it is called a disruptive technology or a paradigm shift in communications, the proliferation of software-defined radio (SDR) technology is changing the way the military and other industries view radio communications.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2007 |
In Brief Boeing awarded JDAM contract... DRS Technologies to develop high-speed electric generator for navy... Lockheed Martin's 100th Aegis weapon system ready for duty... Altera and White Electronic Designs partner on specialized FPGA packaging... etc.  |
National Defense December 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
Troops in The Digital Age, Disconnected As surprising as it may seem in today's wired culture, troops in combat zones do not have easy access to information.  |
National Defense January 2012 Eric Beidel |
Soldiers Skeptical of Smartphones in Combat Commercial smartphones are lightweight, inexpensive and most soldiers already use them in civilian settings. But the Army is finding out that the devices may not always be needed or even wanted on the battlefield.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2006 John McHale |
Patching in the warfighter Today's warfighters are all becoming cogs or nodes in one digitized network force -- as wearable computers patch them into the network.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2007 Courtney E. Howard |
Flexible and Wearable Display Technologies Are Critical to Today's Dismounted Soldiers The U.S. Department of Defense is increasingly investing in the advancement of display technology for military applications. The U.S. Army, in particular, is a driving force in the acceleration of display technology for defense environments.  |
Defense Update Issue 1, 2005 |
Combat Implementation of the NCW Doctrine Even with the most advanced technology in C4ISR available in OIF, the surprisingly ultra-rapid advance of US led coalition ground forces, often left division, corps headquarters out of the communications loop.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2008 John McHale |
JTRS HMS Program on Track Engineers at General Dynamics C4 Systems say the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) Handheld, Manpack, and Small Form Fit (HMS) radios are on track for deployment at the beginning of the next decade.  |
National Defense May 2006 Sandra I. Erwin |
`Land Warriors' Link Up With Stryker Vehicles An Army Stryker battalion will outfit hundreds of its soldiers with the high-tech "land warrior" ensemble this summer. These soldiers will help determine whether the system is suitable for combat and if the Army should continue to invest in the technology.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2005 J.R. Wilson |
Transformational Communications The world of military communications is on the verge of massive and revolutionary change, driving towards a networked battlespace. Still, what matters most is the person at the "pointy end of the spear."  |
National Defense August 2013 Dan Parsons |
Google Glass Eyed for Wearable Soldier Gear Army officials have been after a way to outfit soldiers with wearable computers for years, but have repeatedly failed to find a system that both delivers information coherently and avoids impairing troops' perception of the battlefield.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2007 Courtney E. Howard |
Military microprocessor technology expands, but requires less silicon space The rapidly advancing pace of technology shows few signs of slowing. In fact, microprocessor and microcontroller suppliers continue to expand product portfolios with their latest innovations.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2005 Ben Ames |
Digital receivers power a new generation of electronic warfare Military technology designers have shifted from analog to digital radar receivers to deal with decentralized threats. The change is a major improvement for size, weight, and power.  |
National Defense February 2013 Paul J. Kern |
U.S. Troops Deserve a Competitive Equipment Advantage The Army can take advantage of commercial competitive practices for fast-moving technologies, rather than lengthy bureaucratic processes. The armed forces should have the best capability when they need it -- and at a more affordable price in a time of lean defense budgets.  |
National Defense January 2012 Stew Magnuson |
Rise of Smartphones May Sound Death Knell for Old Push-to-Talk Radios Handing an infantryman a device the size and shape of a brick that can only perform one task, voice communications, may soon be akin to issuing him a musket.  |
Popular Mechanics May 2007 Shachtman & Coburn |
The Army's New Land Warrior Gear: Why Soldiers Don't Like It There's a half-billion dollars invested in the gear hanging off the heads, chests and backs of the soldiers. But do the soldiers find all the high tech gear useful?... The global battlefield...  |
National Defense May 2006 Grace Jean |
New Blue-Force Tracking System on the Horizon A combat team in California has been testing a situational awareness aid that could replace the digital battle-tracking system on its Stryker vehicles.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2009 |
Rugged FPGA for Aerospace and Military Embedded Systems Introduced by Xilinx The Virtex-5Q family of field-programmable gate arrays is for aerospace and military embedded systems involving secure military communications, electronic warfare, aircraft avionics and vetronics, radar technology, and missiles.  |
National Defense February 2013 Valerie Insinna |
Radio Competition Reaches Final Stretch Companies competing for the Mid-Tier Networking Vehicular Radio have one more test before the Army awards a contract this year.  |
National Defense October 2012 Eric Beidel |
Industry Ready to Pounce on Embattled Radio Programs After nearly two decades and billions of dollars spent, the Joint Tactical Radio System, once a grand plan to build do-it-all radios common to the military services, is in a state of flux.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2007 John McHale |
FPGAs enable signal processing Field-programmable gate arrays are becoming the choice of systems designers over their longtime preference of digital signal processing hardware.  |
National Defense October 2010 Grace V. Jean |
Radios for Every Infantryman: Marine Company Tests Experimental Communications Gear A marine rifle company recently experienced something that few of its peers have - operating in a combat scenario with a radio in the hands of every member of the unit.  |
National Defense December 2007 Grace Jean |
Industry Pushing Ahead with Software-Based Radios The U.S. Defense Department's troubled program to replace its radios with a family of software-based communications devices is plodding along slowly.  |
Defense Update Issue 4, 2004 |
Land Warrior & Stryker Warrior Programs The goal of Land Warrior is to enhance a soldier's mobility, situational awareness, lethality, sustainability and survivability.  |
Defense Update Issue 3, 2005 |
Building Blocks of C4 Systems C4 systems have the flexibility to allow more applications to be fielded and new services to become available as the use increases allowing commanders to improve their situational assessment.  |
Defense Update Issue 1, 2005 |
Military Wireless Data Networks High speed wireless data networks are integrating communications between different command levels down to the divisions and brigades.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2007 |
European Briefs TEWS Technologies offers FPGA-based 3U CompactPCI quad serial communications controller... United Kingdom Ministry of Defence selects Raytheon MicroLight radio for Army's FIST program trials... etc.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2010 John Keller |
Navy Looks to Software-Defined Radio to Supplement or Replace Satellite Communications Raytheon engineers will investigate new modular, software-defined digital radio architectures to improve data link performance with high-throughput waveforms in all frequency bands.  |
National Defense March 2006 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army `Land Warrior' Not Yet Ready For War, Gears Up for Next Tryout After a disappointing evaluation by users of a new high-tech soldier ensemble, the Army is redesigning portions of the system to make it lighter and easier to use, officials said.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2008 |
Xilinx Introduces Large, High-Performance FPGAs for Space Applications Xilinx is introducing radiation-tolerant Xilinx Virtex-4QV field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) for space applications in video, audio, radar streams, and packet processing functions.  |
National Defense September 2005 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army, Marines Buying Loads Of Radios In response to booming Army and Marine Corps tactical radio orders, manufacturers rapidly are expanding their production capacity to meet this extraordinary demand.  |
The Motley Fool June 29, 2005 Rich Smith |
General Dynamics Ready to Deploy $30 million Land Warrior contract could be just the beginning. As good as the program looks for U.S. war-fighters, it looks even better for investors.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2009 Courtney E. Howard |
Raytheon moves ahead with upgrades to Navy's Ship Self-Defense System U.S. Navy officials awarded Raytheon Co. in Tewksbury, Mass., a $23 million contract to serve as the platform systems engineering agent for the Ship Self-Defense System.  |
Defense Update Issue 1, 2005 |
Battlefield Applications of Wireless Networks Traditionally, land forces combat and service support units rely on voice communications for operations, coordination and control  |
InternetNews March 9, 2004 Michael Singer |
Xilinx to Transcend with Triscend The chip developer acquires R&D projects along with the maker of customized microcontrollers.  |