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Military & Aerospace Electronics
March 2009
Edward J. Walsh
Navy steps out on MODERNIZATION Top Navy leaders are struggling to balance the right kind of ships, the best number of platforms, and the best mix of electronic and electro-optic technologies to meet the changing worldwide threats of the 21st century. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Military & Aerospace Electronics
March 2007
Edward J. Walsh
Shipboard Electronics Tune up for Future Conflicts Navy pushes smart engineering and open-systems architectures for the shipboard electronics and electro-optics aboard the nation's combat fleet. mark for My Articles similar articles
Military & Aerospace Electronics
March 2008
Edward J. Walsh
Navy Advances Surface-Ship Technologies Program managers go all-out on open systems and COTS to upgrade existing destroyers, cruisers, and other surface warships, while looking ahead to new destroyer and cruiser electronics and electro-optics technologies. mark for My Articles similar articles
Military & Aerospace Electronics
March 2006
Ed Walsh
The Next Step for Shipboard Electronics Growth of the U.S. Navy's fleet of surface warships and submarines is riding on systems innovation and new technologies to introduce open-systems solutions for network-centric warfare, ballistic-missile defense, and other capabilities for the 21st century maritime warfare. mark for My Articles similar articles
Military & Aerospace Electronics
March 2005
Ed Walsh
Navy looks to technology to balance budget cuts Transformational plans for the seagoing service call for vast levels of wired and wireless networking of ships, submarines, aircraft, weapons, communications systems, RF antennas, and more, to offset planned cutbacks in new platform development. mark for My Articles similar articles
Military & Aerospace Electronics
July 2006
John McHale
Aegis BMD Weapon System with Prototype Signal Processor Tracks Ballistic Missiles The Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense Weapon System, aided by a prototype signal processor from Lockheed Martin, tracked several advanced ballistic missile targets in separate tests off the coast of Hawaii in April. mark for My Articles similar articles
Military & Aerospace Electronics
December 2006
John McHale
Sensors Light Path to Defeating Incoming Military designers are taking advantage of the latest sensor technology and signal processing systems to track and kill incoming enemy missiles. mark for My Articles similar articles
Military & Aerospace Electronics
December 2007
John McHale
Track It, Destroy It The key to any successful missile-defense shield is the ability of the sensors to track the missile accurately. Recent missile tests prove that an effective missile-defense shield is closer than ever before. mark for My Articles similar articles
Military & Aerospace Electronics
June 2008
John Keller
Radar technology looks to the future Modern radar systems are combining advanced materials, solid-state modules, digital signal processors, and complex A-D converters to give a better look to military and civilian users who need the best possible capability in small, compact, and efficient packages. mark for My Articles similar articles
Military & Aerospace Electronics
January 2008
Courtney E. Howard
LynuxWorks Provides RTOS for Shipboard Self-Defense System Engineers at Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems have built the next-generation combat system on the LynxOS real-time operating system (RTOS) mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
March 2007
Sandra I. Erwin
Sea-Based Missile Defense Scores Hits, But Will it Work in a Real Attack? There is still one major weakness in U.S. missile defense systems that neither the Navy nor the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency has yet been able to overcome -- the ability to discern real warheads from harmless decoys. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Military & Aerospace Electronics
July 2005
Lockheed Martin uses Mercury computers for Aegis radar Engineers at Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems & Sensors selected the PowerStream 7000 from Mercury Computer Systems for the Aegis radar system, which it tested in February. mark for My Articles similar articles
Military & Aerospace Electronics
November 2008
John Keller
Joining sensors through data fusion Data experts are are relying on various approaches to refine sensor outputs into useful information, and essentially create a whole sensor picture that is greater than the sum of its parts. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
April 2013
Stew Magnuson
When It Comes to the Navy's Destroyers, It's a Numbers Game Providing the coverage the Navy believes it needs to patrol the world's oceans is being made more complicated by a chronic shortage of destroyers, analysts have said. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
March 2004
Sandra I. Erwin
Navy Prepares to Put Aegis Ships `On Alert' The Navy is speeding up preparations to deploy a sea-based missile defense system by early 2005. mark for My Articles similar articles
Military & Aerospace Electronics
August 2004
Ben Ames
Teams Build Competing Command-and-Control Systems for Littoral Combat Ships Navy planners are asking for two different prototypes of Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), the multimission warship designed to cruise shallow waters close to shore. Neither will use Aegis. mark for My Articles similar articles
Military & Aerospace Electronics
June 2004
J.R. Wilson
Ballistic Missile Defense Looks to the Future Command centers that will help guide ballistic missile defense efforts are providing opportunities for a wide variety of commercial off-the-shelf computers, displays, and high-speed networking. mark for My Articles similar articles
Military & Aerospace Electronics
August 2006
Lockheed Martin Awards Data Recording Systems Contract to VMETRO Designers at the Lockheed Martin Corp. Missiles and Space segment needed data recording systems to support their work with the Aegis ballistic missile defense weapon system. They found their solution from the Vortex VME Open Data Recording platform from VMETRO Inc. mark for My Articles similar articles
Military & Aerospace Electronics
November 2007
In Brief Boeing to develop advanced sensor for next-generation munition... Lockheed Martin delivers volume search radar antenna for U.S. Navy's Zumwalt destroyer program... etc. mark for My Articles similar articles
Military & Aerospace Electronics
June 2004
In Brief Northrop Grumman submits bid for WATCHKEEPER Battlefield Intelligence... Aeroflex partners with TestMart... Anteon to support Army forces command modularity coordination centers... etc. mark for My Articles similar articles
Military & Aerospace Electronics
November 2009
John Keller
Multi-Sensor Fusion Hits the Mainstream Once considered as futuristic, difficult, and elusive, multi-sensor fusion is coming into its own as a standard approach of processing signals from a wide variety of sensors, and making sense of incomplete and sketchy sensor data. mark for My Articles similar articles
Military & Aerospace Electronics
February 2007
In Brief Boeing to begin second phase of enhanced Polar System Payload study... Lockheed Martin completes successful tracking with open architecture, solid-state radar antenna... General Dynamics to produce tactical satellite communications terminals... mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
August 2007
Sandra I. Erwin
Inefficient Shipbuilding Jeopardizes Navy's Expansion Goals The Navy owns 277 ships, but somehow manages to keep 551 different engines in its inventory. Such inefficients partly explain why the cost of buying and maintaining ships has spiraled out of control. mark for My Articles similar articles
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... mark for My Articles similar articles
Military & Aerospace Electronics
January 2008
In Brief Boeing installs high-energy laser on Laser Gunship aircraft... Northrop Grumman develops high-speed transistor... Raytheon tests air-launched missile defense system... etc. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
January 28, 2008
Joe Pappalardo
From Space to Sea, New Radar Tech Could Shift Military Might This month Lockheed Martin released a 280-word statement from its radar research headquarters in New Jersey announcing a breakthrough test of an advanced radar platform. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
March 2015
Valerie Insinna
'Distributed Lethality' Concept Boosts Navy's Need For New Weaponry A new concept called "distributed lethality," describes how legacy vessels would be packed with off-the-shelf weapons and sensors that make them more deadly and survivable. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
August 2014
Dan Parsons
Littoral Combat Ship Will Be Modified, If Not Replaced The Navy may soon dramatically change course on its decade-long, multi-billion dollar experiment to build a relatively inexpensive surface combatant. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
January 2015
Ben Freeman
Canceling the DDG-1000 Destroyer Program Was a Mistake The U.S. Navy's DDG-1000 Zumwalt-class destroyers are extraordinarily expensive, but ending the Zumwalt program in favor of buying upgraded versions of the decades-old Arleigh-Burke DDG-51 destroyers limits the Navy's capabilities without significantly reducing costs mark for My Articles similar articles
Military & Aerospace Electronics
April 2006
John McHale
Synthetic Aperture Radar Technology Key Part of Space-Based Radar The technology of synthetic aperture radar, which has been used to map the Earth from space, will play an integral role in the U.S. Department of Defense's space-based radar programs. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
April 2014
Valerie Insinna
Joint Air-to-Ground Missile Program Inches Forward Lockheed Martin's replacement for the Hellfire missile hit a milestone in February, when the company demonstrated that the dual mode guidance section on its Joint Air-to-Ground Missile could engage targets with a laser. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
April 2015
Valerie Insinna
Questions Remain About Navy's Modified Littoral Combat Ship Instead of cutting down the program of record, the service will procure the full 52-ship buy, and the last 20 ships will be outfitted with beefed up weapons, sensors and armor, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert announced in December. mark for My Articles similar articles
Defense Update
March 2007
Advantages of AESA Radars AESA radars are emitting not only radar signals, but can also be employed for non traditional ISR, as well as electronic attack. mark for My Articles similar articles
Military & Aerospace Electronics
December 2008
In Brief Navy and Marine Corps lead BAE Systems precision-targeted weapon development program... Raytheon to modernize F-15E radar... Lockheed Martin wins contract for U.S. Air Force Self-Awareness Space Situational Awareness... etc. mark for My Articles similar articles
Military & Aerospace Electronics
December 2007
U.S. Navy Chooses Telephonics Corp. Components for Helicopter Multi-Mode Radar Systems Executives at Lockheed Martin Systems Integration needed a technology partner to aid in the delivery of spare radar system components for use in the U.S. Navy's MH-60 Seahawk helicopters. mark for My Articles similar articles
Military & Aerospace Electronics
March 2006
J.R. Wilson
F/A-18 Fighter-Bomber's Next-Generation Radar Technology Uses COTS, is Ready for Network-Centric Warfare The first Super Hornets entered service in November 1999 with 17 cubic feet of electronics "growth space" for next-generation avionics. Block Two is making good use of that design feature with a host of upgrades. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
April 2014
Valerie Insinna
Littoral Combat Ship Faces Uncertain Future On Feb. 24, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel confirmed rumors that had been swirling around the littoral combat ship program for months -- instead of going forward with its planned 52 ship buy, purchases would be limited to 32. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Military & Aerospace Electronics
February 2008
Courtney E. Howard
U.S. Navy Gains Remote Multi-Mission Vehicle to Combat Underwater Mines Lockheed Martin has delivered the Remote Multi-Mission Vehicle (RMMV) to the U.S. Navy, boosting the mine countermeasures capability of Arleigh Burke-class destroyers and littoral combat ships (LCS). mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
March 2012
Eric Beidel
Navy Leaders Want a More Flexible Fleet After fighting two land wars for a decade, the military is putting an emphasis back on the sea and is shifting its focus to the Asia-Pacific region and to a more maritime-weighted mission in the Middle East. mark for My Articles similar articles
Military & Aerospace Electronics
September 2006
Lockheed Martin Awards Data-Recording Contract to VMETRO According to the $600,000 initial contract, VMETRO's Applications Group also will develop application-specific software to meet record and playback requirements. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
April 2008
Sandra I. Erwin
As the Cost of Sailors Rises, Navy Finds Ways to Get Them Off Ships Navy ships in the future may go to sea with fewer, but perhaps happier sailors. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
February 2013
Sandra I. Erwin
Proliferation of Cruise Missiles Sparks Concern About U.S. Air Defenses The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan saw the rise of improvised explosive devices as the ultimate asymmetric weapon. Future conflicts, strategists warn, could expose U.S. forces on land and at sea to a deadly weapon that is extremely hard to detect: cruise missiles. mark for My Articles similar articles
Military & Aerospace Electronics
September 2006
John McHale
DARPA Asks Raytheon to Develop Football-Field-Size Radar for Future Surveillance Airship The goal of the Integrated Sensor is Structure program is to develop a stratospheric airship-based autonomous unmanned sensor with years of persistence in surveillance and tracking of aircraft and ground forces. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
April 2006
Grace Jean
Surface Combatants Dominate Future Fleet The Navy plans to build a total of 88 surface combatants composed of 26 next-generation destroyers and cruisers and 62 Arleigh-Burke ships. mark for My Articles similar articles
Military & Aerospace Electronics
December 2004
Product Applications Planners at the U.S. Navy choose the Advanced Display System from Lockheed Martin Corp. and DRS Technologies Inc... British air tankers will use Honeywell displays... Raytheon uses Saft battery in TOW missile... etc. mark for My Articles similar articles