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Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2010 |
Photonics Mast, Electro-Optical Sensor Suite for Attack Submarines to Come From Kollmorgen Kollmorgen won a U.S. Navy contract modification to build electro-optics and sensors for the U.S. Navy's Virginia-class fast attack submarines.  |
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 November 2005 |
Optoelectronics Briefs Dual-wavelength focal-plane array in development... Double-clad ytterbium fiber available for fiber-laser applications...Ultraviolet refractive beam shaper unveiled... Navy picks supplier for optoelectronic sensor systems... Air Force awards contract for high-power fiber amplifier... etc.  |
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 July 2005 |
Optoelectronics briefs Santa Barbara Infrared delivers optical test equipment... Army picks EOIR Technologies for surveillance prototypes... Pulse generator for high-resolution military photonic applications...KVH to upgrade optical navigation systems... Blue-violet laser-diode modules... etc.  |
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 January 2008 |
Products Adimec introduces OPAL-1000m, fast 1-megapixel cameras... Impulse adds two members to the Titan range of connectors... Cedip offers thermal surveillance system for military applications... Sensor fusion in a HUD... etc.  |
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 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 June 2009 |
Electro-optics Brief Machine vision system, software... Reconnaissance satellite goes operational... Green fiber lasers... Rugged flat panels for U.S. Navy CDS program... etc.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2007 |
Products Machine-vision solution... Sapphire waveplates change beam polarization state... IR laser-diode module with high pointing stability... Miniature ruggedized thermal-imaging cameras... etc.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2005 |
Optoelectronics Briefs Second-generation Fibre Channel network adapter cards... NASA turns to Adtech Optics for space optoelectronics... Toshiba unveils remote head camera IK-M44A... Low-cost multi-output pulse generator for optoelectronics research... etc.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2004 |
Briefs Navy looks to Kollmorgen for submarine photonics mast system... Army night-vision lab looks to EOIR Technologies for technical help... Corvis Corp. changes name to Broadwing, emphasizes networking...  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2008 |
Products Martek Power offers high-power, multichannel power modules... Aeroflex offers Battery Electronic Unit family of Li-Ion cell balancing products... Elmo offers board-mounted servo drive with 5 kilowatts continuous power... etc.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2005 |
Products Direct flash lamp pumped die laser... Military- and space-qualified laser diodes... Near-infrared diode laser... etc.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006 |
Optoelectronics Briefs Optical fire-control units for Army lightweight artillery... Optical security camera backup system... $49.9 million contract for shipboard infrared visual sensor systems... L-3 Communications acquires EOTech... etc.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2005 John McHale |
Scared of the dark? For thousands of years armies were wary of attacking at night. They could make use of artificial light - whether torches, searchlights, or headlights - but illumination always risked revealing maneuvers.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2009 |
Mil-Spec, Rugged Military Information LCD Display Introduced by Comark Comark is introducing the MDU19 mil-spec rugged liquid crystal display tested to MIL-S-901D Grade A shock, MIL-STD 167 for vibration, and MIL-STD 461 for EMI.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2004 |
Briefs Axsys to provide optical components for future Webb Telescope... DRS IR sensor unit achieves software-engineering milestone... Bodkin Design tapped to develop hyperspectral 3-D imager... etc.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2007 John McHale |
Laser Weapons: Moving From Promise to Performance The military's laser weapons programs are making steady progress in their transition from the laboratory to the battlefield, with deployment of initial systems expected within the next three to five years.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2008 John McHale |
Laser Weapons, on Target The U.S. military and its partners from industry are meeting major milestones in various programs as they move closer to making laser weaponry a standard part of the U.S. arsenal.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006 Ben Ames |
Three teams compete to build NOAA climate satellite The next-generation GOES-R satellites will collect 100 times more data and scan the Earth three- to-five times faster than previous systems.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2006 |
Electro-Optics Briefs BAE Systems offers infrared camera cores for military and rugged commercial applications... ITT wins Norwegian contract for night-vision systems... Sofradir wins contract for long-wave infrared detectors... etc.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2006 |
Electro-optics Briefs FLIR Systems wins order from U.S. Navy... Megapixel camera for demanding machine-vision applications... Edmund Optics expands into the ultraviolet... Toshiba offers extreme-low-light surveillance camera for homeland security... etc.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2006 |
Optoelectronics Briefs Bright future for diamond in laser and LED application... Low-cost line of green laser-diode modules... Ultraviolet camcorder available... Shortwave IR camera for military and commercial use... etc.  |
National Defense May 2008 Stew Magnuson |
To Succeed, Soldiers `Need to See the Environment' Troops fighting in Iraq's cities often complain that they cannot see the enemy and need sensors that can penetrate walls, identify foes in pitch dark and locate buried explosives.  |
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.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2008 |
Electro-optics Briefs Thermal and CCD camera for military applications... small LEDs for lighting applications... IR illuminator with adjustable angles and power settings... etc.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2007 |
Electro-Optics Briefs Edmund Optics offers versatile UV microscope... Northrop Grumman opens facility for high-energy lasers... Salvador Imaging announces color night-vision camera... etc.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2004 |
Display technology leaps to the next generation Liquid-crystal displays still dominate military and aerospace applications, but new technologies are set to introduce flexible, conformal displays that could be part of clothing or rolled up like a scroll.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2005 Stevens & Shmulovich |
Planar lightwave circuits will be a key technology for next-generation military systems Optoelectronics, or photonics, is now becoming crucial to communications systems on a variety of military platforms and sensor applications.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2007 Courtney E. Howard |
Thermal-Imaging Technology Turns Night Into Day for u.s. Warfighters Thermal weapon sights tap the latest infrared technologies to aid warfighters in target acquisition, location, and identification.  |
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 January 2010 |
Electro-Optic Brief Rugged display systems for Navy P-8A maritime patrol aircraft provided by Parvus... KVH wins $10.2 million in orders for fiber-optic gyros for remote weapon stations... ITT wins $19.3 million night-vision goggle contract... etc.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2007 |
In brief Boeing awarded Laser JDAM contract... Raytheon ships ARTEMIS sensor for on-demand surveillance from space... Air Force awards Lockheed Martin weather systems contract...  |
National Defense January 2013 Stew Magnuson |
Game-Changing Laser Communications Ready For Fielding, Vendors Say Sending data with lasers, rather than radio frequencies, has the potential to revolutionize the way the military communicates, proponents of the technology have said.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2005 |
In brief U.S. Army awards contract for next-generation thermal weapon sights... Contract awarded for aerostat system... NASA selects software vendor for software for certification & accreditation... U.S. Navy award Advanced Display System contracts... etc.  |
National Defense April 2004 Michael Peck |
Army Seeks to Upgrade Night-Vision Goggles Experts at the Army's night-vision laboratory predict that a new generation of goggles now in development will fix some of the shortcomings in existing devices, such as image quality and the ability to see through smoke and dust.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2006 |
Optoelectronics briefs TSAT laser communications development passes crucial milestone... QuickSwitch MEMS-based fiber-optic mirror switch provides gigabyte network switching... L-3 Communications to acquire SSG Precision Optronics... etc.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2006 |
Electro-optics Briefs Image sensors from e2v help NASA to study Pluto... Jenoptik Laser names Coastal Optical Systems as North American distributor... High-performance IR camera for demanding applications... etc.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2009 |
Electro-Optics Brief Thermal cameras for digital video surveillance offered by Premier Electronics... RPMC delivers military laser for harsh-environment uses... Coherent introduces modular diode laser system with 400 watts of power... etc.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008 Courtney E. Howard |
Rugged Electronics Empower Tomorrow's Technology Technology companies enable our military's net-centric vision through smaller, faster, stronger computers.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2005 |
InGaAs shortwave infrared enables imaging of invisible lasers The expansion of military efforts has resulted in a dramatic increase in the number of electro-optic (EO) systems installed on military hardware. -Electro-optic imaging systems are now on everything from aircraft carriers to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to individual soldiers' rifles and helmets.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2006 |
Electro-Optics Briefs Jenoptik offers new infrared camera module... Boeing-led team tracks and targets simulated missile in Airborne Laser ground test... DRS Technologies receives Army contract for next-generation thermal weapon sights...  |
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.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2006 John McHale |
Future weapons: Solid-state lasers Industry and military scientists are moving forward in the quest to develop solid-state lasers for use as weapons by warfighters of the future.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2006 |
Optoelectronics Briefs DOD looks to Edmund Optics for optics manufacturing technology... GIG-BE high-speed fiber-optic network up and running... Army takes delivery of prototype shortwave IR cameras... etc.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2005 John McHale |
Chasing the goal of an efficient battlefield laser U.S. DoD researchers aim to develop small lasers for use in tactical air missions. The engineering challenge has been taken up by contractors including Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2008 |
In Brief Boeing flies fuel cell-powered airplane... Lockheed Martin to support DOD high-performance computing centers... General Dynamics awarded $159 million for Abrams tank work... etc.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008 Courtney E. Howard |
Weapons at the Speed of Light Laser weaponry will be a tool in the U.S. military's arsenal much sooner than many think, with the first applications for missile defense from the ground and the air.  |