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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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Popular Mechanics December 2008 Erik Sofge |
The Hardware Behind Missile Protection The Missile Defense Agency has alternatives to deal with varying types of missile attacks. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2007 John McHale |
Laser Weapons Are Getting Closer to Reality U.S. Department of Defense experts are close to fielding the Airborne Laser (ABL) for missile defense and several other high-energy laser weapons programs received new funding this year. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2006 John McHale |
Airborne Laser completes laser ground tests During the tests, experts demonstrated lasing duration and power at levels suitable to destroy several classes of ballistic missiles, Boeing officials say. |
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. |
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 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. |
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. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2007 Courtney E. Howard |
Aided by Electronics It is a busy time for technology companies and defense organizations in the electronic warfare and signals intelligence industry. |
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. |
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 September 2008 Courtney E. Howard |
Boeing, Missile Defense Agency Test Missile Defense Sensor Integration and Netcentricity Engineers completed testing of a Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system being billed as the most complex integration to date of sensors required to support a missile intercept. |
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. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2009 John McHale |
Boeing Airborne Laser team begins weapon system flight tests But the Obama Administration has proposed cancelling the ABL program. Congress will consider this proposal this summer and fall. |
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. |
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. |
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 June 2009 Edward J. Walsh |
Warship radar technology designers set sights on next-generation Navy cruiser The companies are stressing compliance with Navy "open-architecture" mandates, technology risk reduction, and the need to meet new airborne and missile threats. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2008 John McHale |
Incoming! Precision Guidance Keeps Munitions on Target Lasers, global positioning systems, and other modern technologies have made hitting fixed targets with missiles and bombs extremely efficient. Now defense experts are designing systems to hit targets on the move and beyond line of sight. |
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. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2009 |
ABL High-Power Laser Weapon Moves Toward Missile Shoot-Down Demonstration Missile defense experts fired the high-power laser aboard the Airborne Laser (ABL) aircraft in flight for the first time in August, to move the airborne military laser closer to an actual missile shoot-down demonstration. |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum February 2005 Tim Shorrock |
U.S. Deploys Missile Defense System The rockets may not glare and bombs may not burst in the air but the Bush administration is forging ahead with construction of what it terms an "operational" missile defense system. |
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. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2004 John McHale |
The Airborne Laser: It's Huge, it Flies, and it Blows up Missles The world's largest directed-energy weapon, the U.S. Defense Department's Airborne Laser, employs hundreds of complicated optics and several lasers to track down and destroy incoming missiles, and it is expected to be deployed by the end of the decade. |
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. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2009 |
Northrop Grumman-built laser demonstrates long-duration, lethal lasing onboard Airborne Laser aircraft Test settings can be used for future testing, including the planned shootdown of a ballistic missile with laser weapons scheduled to occur later in the year, according to company officials. |
National Defense June 2004 Roxana Tiron |
Missile Defense Agency Prepares For Key Flight Tests in 2005 Air Force Lt. Gen. Ronald Kadish, the head of the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency, is planning an aggressive push to get programs tested by 2005. |
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. |
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 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. |
National Defense December 2004 Harold Kennedy |
Missile Defense Agency Prepares To Deploy Interceptor Weapons The Missile Defense Agency is pressing ahead with plans to begin deploying a controversial and expensive system to protect the United States and allies against ballistic missiles. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2007 |
In Brief Boeing awarded U.S. Marine Corps contract to extend ScanEagle services... Lockheed Martin completes test of Space-Based Infrared System... London defense show set for September 2007... etc. |
National Defense August 2014 Robert G. Gard Jr. |
National Missile Defense Technology Still Falls Short The United States has been attempting to develop a workable national missile defense capability since 1944. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2004 |
Test Moves Missile-Defense Laser Program Closer to Deployment The future U.S. Airborne Laser system took another step forward last month when modules of the system's megawatt-class chemical oxygen-iodine laser were test fired for the first time while linked together as one unit. |
Popular Mechanics October 6, 2008 Erik Sofge |
Robotic Mirror Fleet May Boost Boeing's Airborne Laser Accuracy In the history of comic books, rarely has a mastermind come up with a weapon quite as unabashedly cool as the Airborne Laser. |
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. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2009 |
In Brief Airbus integrates MTAD... FAA annual aviation forecast ... Northrop Grumman delivers SBIRS GEO-2 payload... Boeing Airborne Laser begins weapon system flight tests... etc. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2007 |
In Brief BAE Systems seeker detects missile target in THAAD weapon system test... Northrop Grumman wins Marine Corps contract for Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar (G/ATOR)... etc. |
Popular Mechanics December 2008 |
New Defensive Missiles Protect U.S. Against Rogue Attacks If a missile is headed for the United States, the Missile Defense Agency's defensive net will work. "I feel confident in the system," says Delta Crew's director, Maj. Don Mercer. |
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. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008 Courtney E. Howard |
First Air-to-Air Missile Defense System Intercepts Boosting Missile A U.S. Air Force F-16 jet fighter launched two air-to-air AIM-9X missiles, which in turn intercepted a boosting rocket launched from the White Sands Missile Range. The event marked the first time that an aircraft made a missile-defense intercept. |