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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 May 2004 Sandra Erwin	Pentagon Rethinks Management Approach To Joint Tactical Radio The Defense Department's ambitious plans to replace every military radio with a single radio system are being dampened somewhat by the difficulties in coordination among the services and the sheer scope of the project.
National Defense September 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Army Under Pressure to Bring Broadband to The Battlefield In the Army's 2010 modernization roadmap, the "network" is billed as a top priority.
National Defense August 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Closest of Allies, But Not When it Comes to Radios Despite considerable advances in tactical communications technology interoperability on the battlefield between U.S. and U.K. forces remains years away.
National Defense April 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Army's Promise to War-Bound Soldiers: A Wireless Mobile Network If the Army's new tech-buying strategy goes according to plan, soldiers soon may be ditching paper maps, staticky radios and bulky satellite receivers.
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 July 2012 Dan Ward	Tactical Radios: Military Procurement Gone Awry How exactly did the Army go about making the radio better and better? By increasing its complexity, extending the schedule, spending more money and making the device larger.
National Defense September 2006 Stew Magnuson	Fears of Enemy Tampering Could Sideline New Sensors The sensors, part of the Army's Future Combat Systems project, could be fielded as early as 2008 -- if the Army can get around an impasse with the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
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 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 May 2007 Sandra Erwin	Defense Department `Bundles' Handheld Radio Procurements The Defense Department is expected to soon seek industry bids for as many as 89,000 handheld combat radios.
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.
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 January 2010	Rugged Embedded GPS Receivers for Anti-Jam Munitions Guidance Introduced by IEC AL-3 Interstate Electronics Corp. (IEC) is introducing two configurations of its anti-jam miniaturized, hardened, global positioning system (GPS) receiver and one configuration of its GPS-based navigation and guidance unit.
National Defense July 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Sticker Shock Felt As New Radios Are Acquired Despite suffering from sticker shock, the military services are proceeding with plans to install a new generation of software-based tactical radios that will be common across all weapon systems.
National Defense May 2007 Sandra Erwin	Big-Ticket Army Program Still Lacks Communications Network The communications network that is the basis for the Army's $160 billion "future combat systems" continues to suffer setbacks and its costs are expected to soar.
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.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2009 John McHale	Rockwell Collins MicroDAGR GPS Receiver Uses Commercial Applications in a Wrist-Worn Device The MicroDAGR is the latest generation of Rockwell Collins' Defense Advanced GPS Receiver (DAGR) device, used by the military for position and navigation.
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."
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.
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.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2010	Raytheon to Develop Next-Generation GPS Control Segment The U.S. Air Force awarded Raytheon Co. an $886 million contract to develop a new element of the Global Positioning System to improve the accuracy of information from GPS satellites.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2005 John McHale	Networking Tomorrow's Battlefields General Dynamics and Lockheed Martin experts are already designing and demonstrating technologies for a network-centric force on the move through the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T), the U.S. Army's next-generation battlefield network backbone.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2006	Alliant TechSystems Uses Rockwell Collins' GPS Receiver in BTERM Demonstration Alliant TechSystems logged a successful test flight of a Ballistic Trajectory Extended Range Munition (BTERM) projectile, with the help of a global positioning system unit from Rockwell Collins.
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.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2004	Software-Defined Radio and Jtrs The U.S. military's next-generation radio system is to be based on software-defined radios, which will enable one radio to communicate with several radio networks, no matter the type of radio, whether it be SINCGARS or a satellite terminal.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2008 John McHale	JTRS Program Executive to Lead SDR Discussion at Military & Aerospace Electronics Forum One of the chief architects of the U.S. military's Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) program will headline the military communications session of the Military & Aerospace Electronics Forum conference and trade show.
National Defense September 2013 Dan Parsons	Simple, Inexpensive Jammers Threaten GPS GPS presents a juicy target to potential adversaries and criminals alike, the Department of Homeland Security has recognized. Industry is preemptively developing technologies to protect the GPS signal and identify anyone trying to disrupt its transmission.
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IEEE Spectrum February 2012 David Schneider	LightSquared's GPS-Interference Controversy Comes to a Boil Cellular wannabe can't reach a deal with GPS community
National Defense March 2011 Stew Magnuson	New Radio Software Promises Improved Access to Military Satellites Radio manufacturers this year will offer to their military customers a new application that will provide easier connections to communication satellites.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2008 John Keller	Navigation and guidance meets sensor fusion Knowing where you are and where you are going no longer involves only the Global Positioning System (GPS); systems designers are integrating a growing number of sensors and data-fusion algorithms to create fool-proof, jam-proof, real-time positioning information.
Entrepreneur May 2004 Amanda C. Kooser	Where Am I? A Global Positioning System (GPS) makes sense for entrepreneurs on the road or their on-the-go sales forces.
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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.
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Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2005 John McHale	AUSA showcases technology for a network-centric force Dominating the first Gulf War was the ability of the U.S. military to fight at night as most armies do in daytime. The second Gulf War drove that home even more convincingly.
CIO April 1, 2003 John Edwards	Something GNU in Radio Imagine an infinitely flexible radio. Simply by loading in various free programs, you could turn the device into a multistandard mobile phone, a GPS locator, an AM-FM stereo receiver or even a portable TV. That's the goal of the GNU Radio project, which aims to help radio escape from its box.
Popular Mechanics September 2005 Dan Koeppel	You are (absolutely, precisely) here GPS applications are taken to the next level and help you avoid traffic, keep track of your children, or monitor your workouts.
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Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2006 Courtney E. Howard	Lockheed Martin launches modernized satellite series Spacecraft in the modernized series are designed to benefit the military with two new signals, improved encryption, and anti-jamming capabilities.
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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.
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Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2006	General Dynamics Runs JTRS With Altera Processors Engineers at General Dynamics C4 Systems needed processors for the U.S. DOD's Joint Tactical Radio System Cluster 5 design. They found a solution with the Cyclone II and MAX II programmable logic devices (PLDs) from Altera.
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