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National Defense June 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Multibillion-Dollar `Internet in the Sky' Could Help Ease Bandwidth Crunch The Pentagon's bold plan to deploy a constellation of satellites that beam data via lasers is showing signs of progress, but delays and funding cuts also are in the cards, contend industry and military experts.
National Defense June 2004 Michael Peck	Expanding Communications Faced with a bandwidth crunch prompted in part by multiplying flocks of unmanned aerial vehicles that are transmitting multi-megabyte pictures, Defense Department planners are counting on a new generation of communications satellites to expand capacity
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2007 John McHale	Can You Hear me Now? Military designers are using more and more commercial-off-the shelf (COTS) equipment to provide warfighters on land, sea, and in the air with a communications network that goes beyond line of sight and provides data in real time.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2006 John McHale	Current Military Operations May Slow SATCOM Development Trends within the U.S. Department of Defense may slow development funding for next-generation satellite communications such as WIN-T, yet the promised technologies of these programs, such as Internet Protocol systems, continue to demonstrate successfully.
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.
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 August 2005 Ben Ames	Tactical military communications spending to grow to $5.7 billion by 2010 Immediate operational needs for ground forces fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, with the transformation of the force structure to adopt network-centric warfare, is driving U.S. military forces to spend billions of dollars on digital tactical military communications.
National Defense June 2004 Peter Teets	Space Programs Reflect War-Fighting Priorities Space systems increasingly have become integrated into national intelligence and war-fighting operations.
National Defense May 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Pentagon Eyes Deals With Satellite Industry to Fill Demand for Drone Communications A group of Pentagon officials was given three months to come up with a plan to boost the supply of satellite bandwidth that is needed to support the military's growing fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2004 Keller & Wilson	Information Technology is Key to Air Force 2020 As Air Force leaders look to the future, they are examining how information dominance and real-time shared situational awareness are critical to the challenges of four kinds of military operations.
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.
National Defense May 2004 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	`Information Fusion' Key to Winning Wars What made a huge difference in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, said Roche, was the fusion of information.
National Defense January 2013 Stew Magnuson	Military Space Communications Lacks Direction, Critics Say The Defense Department is at a standstill when it comes to figuring out what it will require to maintain its future military space communications architecture, both industry and government officials said at a recent industry conference -- and nobody seems to be in charge.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2008 John Keller	2009 DOD budget: A Safe Bet We'll have a new president by the time the next DOD budget request comes out, and Bush looks like he has left any hard decisions up to the next chief executive.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2005 John McHale	Air Force Brig. Gen. (S) Gary Connor to keynote Military Technologies Conference Connor has also headed the Joint STARS Program office at Hanscom and the Reconnaissance Systems Program office at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, prior to returning to Hanscom as director of the Battle Management Systems Wing, Hanscom officials say.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2009 John Keller	Finally, a DOD budget request; now Congress can get to work Congress is facing a defense budget proposal from the Obama Administration of $663.8 billion -- $533.8 billion in discretionary spending and $130 billion to pay for fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2006 John Keller	DOD Budget Keeps Growing, Despite the Odds Top-ranking experts in government and industry have been warning of substantial impending cuts in defense spending for the past 18 months, yet when Pentagon leaders released their 2007 spending proposals, the numbers just kept on growing.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2004 John Keller	Military transformation: beyond the buzzwords Military transformation is drowning in hyperbole that would have us believe that this new approach represents a reinvention of warfare itself. It doesn't. Warfare is essentially the same today as it was more than 3,000 years ago -- find and defeat the enemy, or be destroyed yourself.
National Defense April 2007 Stew Magnuson	Congress Ponders Action After Chinese Anti-Sat Test After the Chinese demonstrated their ability to destroy enemy spacecraft, analysts say U.S. reliance on satellites and make them a weak link in our defenses.
National Defense June 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	More Than Technology Is Needed to Win Wars As events unfold in Iraq, much second-guessing goes on in Washington, not just about the overall U.S. strategy or lack thereof, but also on whether the hundreds of billions of dollars allocated every year to weapon systems are being spent on the right things.
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 May 2005 Jim Reeves	Industry View: Have bandwidth, will travel Technological advancements such as 'double conjugated adaptive optics' are leading to man-portable, far-reaching, low-power laser communication systems that are perfectly suited to the military's security-driven battlefield communication requirements.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2007 John Keller	DOD Electronics Spending to Drop Along with Overall Decline in Procurement Leaders of the DOD propose spending slightly more than $28.1 billion in fiscal year 2008 for procurement and research in communications, electronics, telecommunications, and intelligence technologies, which would represent a 4% decrease from current-year levels.
Wired April 2002 Bruce Sterling	Peace Is War Get ready for the new frontier of missile defense, where peacekeeping space lasers battle a storm of rogue nukes...
National Defense April 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Research Chief Takes Steps to Link Incompatible Weapons Despite years and billions of dollars spent to develop networking technologies, some major weapon systems today still lack basic connectivity to exchange information with other systems. Two initiatives are addressing this issue.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2007	In Brief Boeing picosatellite mission to advance miniature satellite technology... Army awards General Dynamics $31 million for combat vehicle work... United Kingdom awards Lockheed Martin Trident missile-support contract... etc.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006 John Keller	Reductions eyed for battle management and information technology spending Pentagon spending for network-centric warfare technology over the next decade could see real declines, and at best will remain flat, industry experts say.
National Defense November 2014 Stew Magnuson	Laser Communications to Thwart Jamming, Interception Laser communications, also known as free space opticals, hold the promise of giving the military a means to transmit high amounts of data and voice that is hard to detect and an alternative to traditional radio frequencies.
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.
Parameters Summer 2005 Cebrowski & Raymond	Operationally Responsive Space: A New Defense Business Model As the major defense power in the world, the United States military must dare to compete with itself to ensure sustained advantage. We must set our own standards. Space has long been an arena of American dominance. That must continue.
National Defense October 2005 Joe Pappalardo	As Military Becomes More Reliant On Networks, Vulnerabilities Grow If problems are not addressed, the Pentagon could spend $200 billion during the next 10 years on a network with serious vulnerabilities, according to security experts.
IEEE Spectrum November 2008 Robert N. Charette	What's Wrong with Weapons Acquisitions? Escalating complexity, a shortage of trained workers, and crass politicization mean that most programs to develop new military systems fail to meet expectations.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2007 John Keller	Pentagon Budget Faces Tough Battle on Capitol Hill President George W. Bush for 2008 has submitted to Congress one of the largest-ever budget requests for the U.S. DOD, but the Pentagon's proposed budget faces perhaps its toughest battle in Congress in the last 15 years.
Wired November 27, 2007 Noah Shachtman	How Technology Almost Lost the War: In Iraq, the Critical Networks Are Social -- Not Electronic A network-centric approach to war allows us to swiftly locate our target and destroy it, but it doesn't allow us to connect with local people to rebuild a city.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2005	Primes Creating Own Mil-Specifications An interview with Northrop Grumman's Taylor W. Lawrence, sector vice president and general manager, C4ISR and Space Sensors division on changing industry and Department of Defense trends.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2006 John Keller	Defense Spending Set to Increase for Electronics and Electro-Optics Programs in 2007 Leaders of the U.S. Department of Defense propose spending nearly $21.3 billion in fiscal year 2007 for procurement and research in communications, electronics, telecommunications, and intelligence technologies.
National Defense April 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Satellite Shortages May Choke Off Military Drone Expansion It is a perennial problem in military operations that there is never enough satellite capacity to satisfy commanders' gargantuan appetite for voice and data communications.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2009	Laser Designator Electro-Optical Sensor to be Restored by Northrop Grumman Military laser experts at the Northrop Grumman Laser Systems are restoring and refurbishing U.S. Army laser systems that can recognize and designate targets for laser guided munitions.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2008 John Keller	DOD Set to Boost Spending for Communications, Electronics, and Intelligence Leaders of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) propose spending $29.16 billion in 2009 for procurement and research in communications, electronics, telecommunications, and intelligence (CET&I) technologies.
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.
Parameters Autumn 2007 Christopher M. Schnaubelt	Whither the RMA? The present Department of Defense (DOD) focus on technological solutions to increase capabilities may be misguided by a vision of a high-tech Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA).
National Defense March 2009 Grace V. Jean	Military May Be Souring On Laser Weapons The Pentagon's enthusiasm for laser weapons is not what it used to be.
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 May 2006	Industry, DOD technology cooperation is key to realizing network-centric warfare Col. David W. Madden, director of the enterprise integration group at the Air Force Electronic Systems Center at Hanscom Air Force Base, discusses his group's most pressing technological priorities.
Parameters Autumn 2006 Michael R. Melillo	Outfitting a Big-War Military with Small-War Capabilities Unfortunately, it took the tragedy of 9/11 and the challenges posed by an adaptive enemy for the U.S. to realize it was not prepared to fight war on terms other than its own choosing.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2010 John Keller	The DOD Budget is Out, and the News is Good The Obama Administration's military budget proposals for next year are out, and we can breathe a collective sigh of relief.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2007 John Keller	The importance of military information security Will the the computer and the data network be the aircraft carrier and atomic bomb of the future?
National Defense February 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Foreign Policy Ambition Overlooks War Lessons The Obama administration has endorsed a major expansion of ground forces, and a surge in military capabilities to conduct "irregular" warfare against non-state actors.
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 November 2006 John Keller	Defense industry upbeat; military spending to stay healthy over next decade Predictions released last month say that U.S. defense spending will grow to an annual $609.4 billion over the next decade.