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Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2007 John McHale |
Sensitive and Tireless: High-Endurance UAVs Sense What Men Cannot Sensors for unmanned aircraft are evolving in efficiency and capability as payload designers look for every possible edge in surveillance, combat, and collision avoidance.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2008 |
U.S. Army Issues $51 Million in Orders for DRS Technologies Thermal Weapon Sights DRS Technologies wins contract to put more thermal weapon sights in the hands of soldiers.  |
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 January 2006 |
Global Hawk Uses Raytheon Optics Pilots of the Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) monitor enemy targets with an electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) high-resolution imaging system built by Raytheon's Space and Airborne Systems division.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2005 |
Optoelectronics Briefs Phasebridge wins contract for Navy RF fiber-optic links program... FLIR Systems adds IR camera to research product line... Optex to provide telescopes for howitzer fire control... Kollsman to repair optical system on Cobra helicopter... etc.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2007 John McHale |
Customizing to Their Needs Commercial off-the-shelf technologies have streamlined components in defense applications, but some mission-critical situations call for products that must be designed from the ground up to aid war fighters on the battlefield.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2010 John Keller |
Multisensor Designs and Increasing Resolutions Are Major Trends in Infrared and Other Electro-Optical Sensors Infrared (IR) and other electro-optical sensors will see major technological breakthroughs in sensitivity, resolution, and overall ability to help military forces see through fog, smoke, dust, and the darkness of night.  |
Defense Update Issue 1, 2008 |
FCS Vehicles Move On The new family of vehicles is introducing many new capabilities to the Army, including electrical propulsion for combat vehicles.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2005 Ben Ames |
Optical sensors light up the battlefield Tomorrow's sensors will be modular, digital, fused, and networked  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2006 |
Boeing and SAIC Award Honeywell Contract to Develop FCS Class I UAVs Boeing and partner Science Applications International Corp., functioning as the Lead Systems Integrator for the U.S. Army's Future Combat System program, awarded a contract to Honeywell Defense & Space Electronic Systems to develop the Class I Unmanned Aerial Vehicle System (UAVS).  |
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.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2009 J.R. Wilson |
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Get Ready for Prime Time Government leaders are supportive of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) use in non-military applications such as border control, emergency response, law enforcement, and forest fire surveillance.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2005 Ben Ames |
Marine Corps selects DRS Technologies for thermal binoculars The Tactical Range Thermal Imagers are lightweight, handheld, battery-operated, infrared binoculars for military long-range observation and reconnaissance.  |
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 September 2004 |
In Brief EOIR Technologies Wins Two Army Contracts... Texas Memory Systems and StarGen Join Hands on Embedded Applications... Alenia Aeronautica chooses Concurrent iHawk for UCAV Simulation... etc.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2007 John McHale |
No time to waste Countering improvised explosive devices is not a 5- or 10-year program but something the military needs right now, as these nasty mines continue to take the lives of American fighting forces.  |
National Defense May 2004 Roxana Tiron |
Army Unmanned Air Vehicles Proliferate in the Battlefield The U.S. Army is committing increasing resources to developing sharply enhanced surveillance, communications and weapons for unmanned aerial vehicles.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2005 |
NASA picks DRS sensor for satellite Awarded a $5.4 million contract, DRS Technologies will make advanced infrared sensor modules supporting the Wide-field Infrared Survey Experiment (WISE) mission of the NASA Medium Explorer program.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2006 |
Boeing standardizes FCS device development on Wind River Workbench Wind River's Workbench will be applied across the FCS program to develop the system-of-systems common operating environment (SoSCOE).  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2004 |
Department of Homeland Security uses Northrop Grumman UAV The Hunter UAV from Northrop Grumman, in helping the U.S. Department of Homeland Security protect the U.S.-Mexican border, will use optoelectronic infrared sensors to scan the Arizona border area 90 miles southeast of Tucson.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2005 J.R. Wilson |
UAVs Poised to Take the Next Step Into Combat The future of continued U.S. air superiority will involve a large contingent of armed UAVs and a new generation of unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs), flying missions that manned attack aircraft previously flew, often in joint missions under the control of fighter-bomber pilots.  |
National Defense November 2004 Sandra I. Erwin |
Although Combat Proven, Global Hawk Has Yet to Pass Key Tests In an upcoming evaluation of the U.S. Air Force Global Hawk reconnaissance unmanned aircraft, testers will determine whether a military system that already has seen extensive combat can pass the rigorous tests the Defense Department.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2004 John McHale |
UAV Market Shows Strong Growth Through Next Decade The market for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) appears to be growing steadily over the next ten years because of the successful deployment of these pilotless aircraft in operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, market analysts say.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2007 |
BAE Systems to Provide Precise Threat ID to U.S. Army BAE Systems has received a U.S. Army contract for a new generation of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) systems that will provide precise detection and identification of known and potential threats.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2007 Courtney E. Howard |
DRS Technologies to Provide Thermal Imaging Equipment to U.S. Army National Guard Night Vision Systems engineers will provide the National Guard's counter-drug program with hundreds of Rugged Miniature Thermal Imagers from the company's MX-2A product line.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2006 John McHale |
Robots Are Fearless The U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems program will integrate unmanned ground vehicles into a future force. Autonomous ground vehicles promise to be a major paradigm shift in ground warfare.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2005 |
Optoelectronics Help Special Forces Shoot Farther and More Accurately Optoelectronic devices such as laser sights, binoculars, and infrared sensors are enabling the transformation of American special operations forces to deploy and execute their missions more quickly and more efficiently than ever before.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2008 |
In Brief Lockheed Martin to provide 17 radar systems to Romania... Boeing awarded second contract for F-15 radar upgrade work... Northrop Grumman to build U.S. Army missile interceptor system prototype... etc.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2007 Courtney E. Howard |
Army Officials cut FCS Program from 18 Systems to 14 U.S. Army officials have restructured the Future Combat Systems program to modernize the current force, while also providing the future force with advanced technology.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2009 John Keller |
A Detailed Look at the Pentagon's $5.4 Billion Plan in 2010 to Develop and Deploy U.S. military forces plan to spend nearly $5.4 billion next year on unmanned vehicle (UV) technology for air, ground, and maritime applications.  |
National Defense May 2008 Stew Magnuson |
Army Starts Over With Aerial Common Sensor The Army is making a second attempt at a failed joint program to create a manned aerial platform designed to provide persistent surveillance over battlefields.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2005 Ben Ames |
Smaller Sensors Make Unmanned Vehicles Smarter Army researchers are now developing another part of FCS-an armed robotic vehicle (ARV) that uses autonomous sensors and weapons to minimize soldiers' battlefield exposure.  |
Defense Update Issue 1, 2006 |
Unattended Ground Sensors After several decades of rather obscure awareness in military operations, the use of passive sensors for remote battlefield applications is becoming more popular... Ground surveillance sensors... Future combat systems... etc.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2009 John Keller |
FCS: Too Big to Fail, or Too Juicy a Target to Succeed? The U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS) program appears to be finished -- at least as originally conceived  |
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 July 2004 |
Dawn of the unmanned era While the U.S. military has used remotely piloted vehicles (RPVs) since the Vietnam War with mixed results, recent combat action in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq has proven the utility of military unmanned systems.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2006 |
In Brief Northrop Grumman to provide software support for maritime command and control system... ACT/TECHNICO improves security for PMC form-factor... Lockheed Martin awarded $120 million to develop enhanced counterfire target acquisition radar... etc.  |
National Defense January 2014 Valerie Insinna |
Sensor Allows Troops to Collect Infrared Images from Vehicles Falck Schmidt Defense Systems and Raytheon have partnered to launch the long-range reconnaissance and surveillance forward looking infrared system, a mast-mounted sensor installed on a wheeled or tracked vehicle.  |
National Defense March 2006 Grace Jean |
Urban Battlefield is Proving Ground For Unmanned Aerial Systems Demand for smaller and more capable aircraft systems continues to grow but analysts say that in order to make these aircraft more effective in the urban environment, a fistful of technology improvements are needed.  |
National Defense October 2009 Grace V. Jean |
Inadequate Displays, Shortage of Bandwidth Could Slow Advances in Night Vision Systems The military's night-vision capabilities are going digital, but displaying and sharing those electronic feeds could become a problem in the future if the dissemination of battlefield video today is any indication.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2007 |
DRS Neptune, Sentry UAVs Use Enerdyne Sensor Digital Data Link DRS required Enerdyne's system for transmitting sensor data-including video, audio, telemetry, and Internet Protocol (IP) information-from the company's Neptune and Sentry HP unmanned air vehicles (UAVs).  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008 |
Salvador Imaging to Develop Color Night-Vision Camera for Army Future Combat System Salvador Imaging will develop a night-vision camera capable of providing color, night-vision imagery for FCS unmanned ground vehicle systems, under contract terms with Lockheed Martin Missile and Fire Control  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2008 John McHale |
UAV Market Outlook Strong Defense and aerospace analysts say the most vibrant growth in the industry lays with unmanned systems, specifically unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2008 |
Northrop Grumman Selects Cubic Data Link Systems for U.S. Navy MQ-8B Fire Scout Each Fire Scout data link system comprises two components, air data terminals and ground data terminals, both of which assist in the Fire Scout's ISR (intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance) and targeting missions.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006 John McHale |
Infrared Products Continue to Improve Warfighter Capability Designers of infrared technology for military applications are all in agreement-business is not only good, but continued growth and support for new designs and capability are expected. Success on night battlefields has made the U.S. soldier hungry for even more products and new capabilities.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2009 Courtney E. Howard |
Army National Guard Unit Trains with FCS Micro Unmanned Vehicle Members of the 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard are the first warfighters to train with a gasoline-powered, micro air vehicle (gMAV) prior to their deployment to Iraq this month.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2005 John Keller |
DRS set to build optoelectronic sensors for Arrowhead attack helicopter system The DRS Technologies Optronics unit in Palm Bay, Fla. is building the Apache's pilotage and targeting receiver assemblies under a contract from Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control in Orlando, Fla., the Arrowhead prime contractor.  |
National Defense July 2012 Dan Parsons |
Teaming Pilots With Drones Hampered By Technology The Army recently found that the most cost effective solution to replace its scout helicopters was a mix of traditional rotary wing platforms and unmanned aerial vehicles flying alongside to cover more ground in a single mission.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2006 |
New Global Hawk Production Aircraft Surpass 1,000 Combat Hours Two new Air Force RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial reconnaissance systems, built by Northrop Grumman Corp., have flown approximately 50 missions and more than 1,000 combat hours in support of coalition forces since their deployment in the Persian Gulf in January of this year.  |
Defense Update March 2007 |
Smart Weapons for UAVs The Origins of Weaponized UAVs... Deployment of Weaponized UAVs... Gravity Dropped Munitions for UAVs... etc.  |