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National Defense
August 2006
Robert H. Williams |
Improved Military Weather Station Unveiled An advanced version of the TACMET II weather station is being offered by Climatronics Corp. The system, which comes in two rugged cases, operates on extremely low AC or DC power and provides weather information in real-time.   |
Food Processing
July 2008 |
Rollout: Best New Products of July 2008 It's hot outside, but these cool new products don't know the difference. |
Home Toys
December 2003 |
Personal Weather Stations -- A Home Toy that "Works" Solar powered, wireless weather stations that "look good" and have a full range of Plug-and-Play OEM-approved and supported software drivers for most home automation control systems can be purchased for around $2,000. |
Home Toys
April 2006
John Johnston |
Home Weather Station - Toy or Necessity A home weather station measures the ambient weather that defines a homeowner's microclimate. With that information and a connection to the Internet, various home automation systems can control some home functions in a near immediate response to changes in the weather. |
U.S. CPSC
August 29, 2007 |
Weather Radios Recalled by Oregon Scientific Due to Failure to Receive National Weather Service Alerts The radios could fail to receive National Weather Service alert signals in certain areas of the country. In the event of severe weather, this failure could put a consumer's life and property at risk. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
September 2009 |
Tactical Information Display Released by Z Microsystems for Digital Video Surveillance The LCD panel uses a high-powered, field-programmable gate array (FPGA) to process image-enhancement algorithms in real time for live video surveillance feeds such as those applicable to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). |
National Defense
June 2009
Robert H. Williams |
Tiny Drone Soars in Field Testing A small, battery operated unmanned aerial vehicle, called the Orbiter, was tested in a recent exercise and is now being marketed to the U.S. military. |
National Defense
December 2009
Stew Magnuson |
Wildland Firefighters Add Robotic Systems to Their Wish List Firefighters throughout the United States revealed that their number one need was a vehicle that could autonomously haul heavy equipment up and down mountains. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
August 2005
John Keller |
Navy looks into how to control next-generation autonomous unmanned aircraft U.S. Navy experts are redesigning the unmanned aerial vehicle control station of the future -- to accommodate new technologies and futuristic pilotless aircraft, and to reduce military manning levels by introducing more machine autonomy. |
PC Magazine
February 14, 2007
Errol A. Pierre-Louis |
CES 2007: XM's Infotainment Vehicle At the Consumer Electronics Show in January, XM Satellite Radio displayed an "infotainment" vehicle featuring the first personal weather-tracking system for GPS navigation, among other innovations. |
National Defense
April 2007
Robert H. Williams |
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Refueling Accomplished The Air Research Laboratory and Boeing's Phantom Works have demonstrated that unmanned aerial vehicles can be refueled in the air. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
August 2005
John McHale |
AUVSI show: AeroVironment test-flies liquid-hydrogen-powered UAV The Global Observer, a liquid-hydrogen-powered unmanned aerial vehicle, will be able to operate at altitudes to 65,000 feet for more than a week without refueling and with a flexible payload-carrying capacity of as much as 1,000 pounds. |
Wall Street & Technology
February 19, 2008
Cory Levine |
Weather Derivatives Traders Get Starter Kit Three service providers have teamed together to create the Weather Derivatives Starter Kit, combining their offerings to provide derivatives traders with a suite of services designed to enhance weather trading operations. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
May 2008
John McHale |
Unmanned Systems Impact Battlefield and the Market Despite a lowing economy, the market for unmanned systems is expect grow significantly over the next five years with various market studies seeing a double-digit billion dollar market. |
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. |
InternetNews
January 11, 2008
Kenneth Corbin |
Weather Channel Adds Forecasts To Google Map New feature ties together leading online weather information from the Weather Channel, and mapping services from Google Maps. |
BusinessWeek
December 20, 2004
Larry Armstrong |
Baby, Is It Cold Outside? Many of us keep our radios set so we hear the weather report as soon as we wake up. But if you want to know the weather closer to home than the nearest airport, there are gadgets that tells you what's doing right outside your door. |
Science News
February 28, 2009 |
Science Past For February 28, 1959 The United States has launched into orbit the first baby weather station in space. It was hurled into its earth-circling path at 10:55 a.m., Feb. 17, and its predicted lifetime is several decades. |
National Defense
October 2013
Sandra I. Erwin |
Pentagon Recruiting Software Developers for Drone 'App Store' The military's unmanned aircraft, like smartphones, need regular software upgrades. For the Defense Department, this is a costly proposition because drones are not disposable devices, and each technology refresh can cost millions of dollars. |
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. |
Scientific American
August 2006
Mark Alpert |
Weather Gets Personal New devices can make forecasts for your own backyard. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
July 2004 |
Unmanned vehicles: one of the hottest technologies going Unmanned air, ground, and underwater vehicles are finding important new niches in military and aerospace applications. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
IBM Teams Up With The Weather Company For Emergency Tech The Weather Company is doing something that's a long way from weather updates on cable television: emergency management software for cities. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
June 2005
John McHale |
Unmanned Vehicles: A Tactical Advantage and a Rich Market The obvious advantage on the battlefield translates into greater demand for all types of unmanned vehicles creating an industry that some estimate will have a value of about $22 billion worldwide in 10 years-and that is just for UAVs, the most mature unmanned platform. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
July 2009
John Keller |
Unmanned Vehicles Leave Boot Camp to Join the Regular Forces Unmanned vehicles are becoming plentiful on-and over-the modern battlefield, yet these automated systems until recently have been seen largely as military curiosities, not standard equipment. That's all about to change. |
National Defense
September 2004
Sandra I. Erwin |
Vice Chief Tells Air Force Staff to `Fix the Weather' Although the Air Force has some of the most sophisticated weaponry ever made, it can't battle the weather. The idea is to get weather information instantly fed into command-and-control systems so planners can make decisions based on accurate up-to-dater data. |
Popular Mechanics
December 17, 2008
Andrew Moseman |
The Navy's Fighter-Plane-Size UAV, the X-47B, Is Unveiled in California Yesterday, Northrop Grumman unveiled its first completed X-47B Navy Unmanned Combat Air System. This giant UAV could soon be one of the most lethal unmanned aircraft in the U.S. military. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
February 2007 |
European briefs U.K. team to build explosives-disposal unmanned ground vehicle... Elbit to supply unmanned turrets and electro-optic systems for Belgian armored infantry vehicle... |
Search Engine Watch
February 7, 2011
Eli Goodman |
Weather Forecast? Don't Know, Check Google While winter weather causes only moderate increases in audience visitation, it produces much more sizeable gains in engagement and search activity. Here's a look at how much more important search becomes during this time of the year. |
Macworld
July 2, 2005
Owen Linzmayer |
3D Weather Globe & Atlas 1.1 If you're interested in weather or geography, you absolutely must own 3D Weather Globe & Atlas 1.1. Its real-time weather feed is unmatched in scope and reasonably priced. And it even comes with a screen saver module that shows an amazing satellite fly-over of the Earth's surface. |
Financial Advisor
March 2012
Bruce W. Fraser |
When Mother Nature Strikes Weather risk management is growing in importance. |
CRM
January 2016
Leonard Klie |
IBM Merges Weather and Business Forecasts Big Blue's purchase of The Weather Company enhances its ability to provide business insights |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
June 2005 |
Global Hawk Uses Ethernet Switch From Performance Technologies Northrop Grumman needed a switching device for their Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle. They found a solution in the CPC6600 Embedded Ethernet Switch from Performance Technologies |
Geotimes
February 2007
Kathryn Hansen |
Creating a Formula for the Northern Lights A new formula could help researchers predict space weather events, which can affect electronic and communication systems. |
T.H.E. Journal
April 2004 |
PASPORT Personal Weather Monitor The PASPORT Personal Weather Monitor allows students to gain new insight into the science of weather. |
The Motley Fool
March 12, 2007
Rich Smith |
AeroVironment Lifts Off The unmanned aerial vehicle maker's superb results revive this fallen IPO star. Investors, take note. |
Popular Mechanics
August 14, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
Autonomous Autos: New Kit Converts Any Vehicle Into a Robot (With Video) Utah-based Kairos Autonomi sells a conversion kit called the Pronto4 Strap-On Autonomy System that can transform any steered vehicle into an autonomous unmanned ground vehicle. |
CIO
May 28, 2013
Maryfran Johnson |
Exploiting Big Data From the Heavens The weather is good for more than just small talk. It's a big business, with companies like The Weather Channel and AccuWeather selling data analytics to businesses like DHL and Sears, who use weather data to make timely decisions. |
National Defense
May 2005
Robert H. Williams |
Long-Endurance Aerial Killer Passes Test A 500-pound inert weapon has been dropped successfully from a medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. The test was conducted by Northrop Grumman Corporation, working in conjunction with Scaled Composites. |
National Defense
November 2007
Sandra I. Erwin |
Pentagon Publishes New Safety Guidelines For Unmanned Vehicles These comprehensive safety guidelines cover the design and operation of joint-service unmanned vehicles -- including unmanned aircraft and ground- and sea-based vehicles. |
National Defense
September 2013
Yasmin Tadjdeh |
Small UAV Demand By U.S. Army Ebbs as Overseas Market Surging The U.S. Army is the biggest buyer of small unmanned systems in the world, but as the United States largely leaves the Middle East, the market will take a nose dive, said Phil Finnegan, director of corporate analysis at The Teal Group |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2006 |
Modeling Toward Accurate Storm Forecasting For the time being, getting the weather right will still require a large dose of good fortune. But continued improvements in our weather predicting capabilities will eventually take the guessing out of storm prediction and bring us to the moment when wagering on the weather will be a safe bet indeed. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
June 2005
Ben Ames |
Weather Forecasters Turn to High Technology From warfighting to civilian airline schedules, weather controls our lives. The modern meteorologist builds forecasting models on powerful computers, and pulls data from radars, satellites, and a global network of sensors deployed on airplanes, weather balloons, and ocean buoys. |
National Defense
May 2004
Roxana Tiron |
Joint-Service Focus Shapes UAV Roadmap The Pentagon is working on a new roadmap for unmanned aerial vehicles to accommodate the rapid growth in UAV programs seen in the past several years. |
National Defense
July 2005
Robert H. Williams |
Drone Developed for Small Infantry Units A vertical launch unmanned aerial vehicle that is designed to support infantry platoon and company operations recently twice negotiated a course of 10 waypoints in southern California. The ducted fan aircraft is being developed under a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program. |
Information Today
August 11, 2011 |
Social Media Features Included in New AccuWeather for Android App AccuWeather has introduced an AccuWeather for Android application for Android phones. |
Popular Mechanics
February 11, 2010
Anne Casselman |
The High-Tech Weather Forecasting in the 2010 Winter Olympics Weather forecasting during the Olympics is always critical, but it will be even harder than usual this time around. |
National Defense
October 2005
Robert H. Williams |
Sensor Measures Multiple Cloud Layers An improved laser ceilometer -- which can measure up to four layers of cloud cover from zero to 30,000 feet -- has been unveiled by All Weather Inc. The airport weather sensor relies on advanced signal processing algorithms and eye-safe light detection and ranging optical radar. |
National Defense
April 2005
Joe Pappalardo |
Marines Refine Tactics for Unmanned Aircraft Lessons from the battlefield are driving the second generation of these machines, including integrating them with ground assets, teaming them in pairs and improving their sensor capabilities. |
National Defense
December 2005
Robert H. Williams |
Would You Believe Space Weather Forecasts? The Air Force Weather Agency has perfected a space weather modeling capability that offers 72-hour forecasts from near earth to 40,000 miles out in space |
