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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 September 2005 Ben Ames	Contractors balance speed and efficiency in digital signal processing Designers of DSP technology for the military are forced to weight the importance of size, weight, speed, power, and cost.
Popular Mechanics January 28, 2008 Joe Pappalardo	From Space to Sea, New Radar Tech Could Shift Military Might This month Lockheed Martin released a 280-word statement from its radar research headquarters in New Jersey announcing a breakthrough test of an advanced radar platform.
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 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.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2006 John McHale	FPGAs Enhance Military Signal-Processing Applications Field-programmable gate arrays have become commonplace on signal-processing boards for defense applications such as radar and sonar. The devices promise even more capability down the road, especially in communications technology such as software-defined radio.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2005 Ben Ames	Next-generation airborne radar demands powerful computers The radar on the Air Force Global Hawk UAV will track cars and missiles with a powerful onboard computer from Mercury Computer Systems.
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 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.
Defense Update March 2007	Advantages of AESA Radars AESA radars are emitting not only radar signals, but can also be employed for non traditional ISR, as well as electronic attack.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2006 Courtney E. Howard	Covert communique coming through loud and clear COTS suppliers in the defense industry collaborate with systems integrators to further electronic-warfare and signals-intelligence technologies.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2004 J.R. Wilson	RF and Microwave Industry Struggles to Meet the High Demands of the Military Defense and homeland-security users of radio frequency (RF)/microwave products have demanding and unique needs that the commercial market can fulfill only rarely, which shines the spotlight on this area of a U.S. military that is starved for research and development money.
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 September 2004	Product Applications Army picks Vista board for Bradley Fighting Vehicle... F-35 Joint Strike Fighter uses Actel FPGA for engine electronics... Lockheed Martin engineers streamline design cycle with Agile PLM... Aurora patrol plane uses multicomputer from Mercury... etc.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2010 Courtney E. Howard	Empowering embedded computing Mainstream, COTS technologies combine with aerospace and defense industry innovations to deliver increased performance in compact electronics designs
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2006 J.R. Wilson	F/A-18 Fighter-Bomber's Next-Generation Radar Technology Uses COTS, is Ready for Network-Centric Warfare The first Super Hornets entered service in November 1999 with 17 cubic feet of electronics "growth space" for next-generation avionics. Block Two is making good use of that design feature with a host of upgrades.
National Defense June 2008 Grace V. Jean	Cutting Through the Radar Clutter The same technology that allows fighter pilots to detect enemy planes in the skies may one day help ground troops peer around buildings in cities to track down insurgents.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2006 John McHale	Sensors Light Path to Defeating Incoming Military designers are taking advantage of the latest sensor technology and signal processing systems to track and kill incoming enemy missiles.
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 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 September 2006 John McHale	DARPA Asks Raytheon to Develop Football-Field-Size Radar for Future Surveillance Airship The goal of the Integrated Sensor is Structure program is to develop a stratospheric airship-based autonomous unmanned sensor with years of persistence in surveillance and tracking of aircraft and ground forces.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2005 John McHale	European Airborne Radar Market Grows to $5.44 Billion by 2014 Force modernization and stock replacement programs will promote strong and sustainable growth across the European airborne-intelligence, surveillance, target-acquisition, and reconnaissance (ISTAR) radar market.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2004	Briefs BAE Systems rad-hard -processors travel aboard MESSENGER to Mercury... Raytheon s ATFLIR supports combat operations from the USS John F. Kennedy... Air Force looks to Honeywell for computer security... rmy buys SAIC Mobile VACIS cargo, vehicle, and contraband inspection units... etc.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2004	Product applications Boeing uses Green Hills software for unmanned combat air system... Lockheed Martin picks Curtiss-Wright to integrate radar components... Boeing picks Thales for 7E7 cockpit displays... etc.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2010 John Keller	DARPA Eyes Foliage-Penetrating Radar Signal Processing Workstation to Detect Infantry Moving in Forests Radar signal processing experts at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are asking industry to develop a data-processing workstation to help pinpoint concentrations of foot soldiers moving in thick forests and other dense foliage.
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.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2008 Tom Litrenta	Advances in radar processing Single-channel radar systems require many processors to keep up with today's demanding real time I/O requirements. Thus, multicore processors have become an extremely attractive alternative.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2005	PCI radar input card Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing is offering the Osprey PCI, a radar input card that interfaces radar systems to the Curtiss-Wright line of radar-processing and display devices.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2008 John Keller	A-D Converter Designers Stress Speed, Clean Signals, and Low Power Consumption Among the most critical components in any military and aerospace optical or RF system is the analog-to-digital (A-D) converter and digital-to-analog (D-A) converter.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2009	Single-board computer designer GE Fanuc offers software development tool for embedded development The AXISLib-CL signal and vector processing library is for software development in military and aerospace applications such as defense radar, sonar system development, and signals intelligence (SIGINT).
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2007	Royal Danish Air Force Gains Lockheed Martin Surveillance Radars Lockheed Martin to provide high-quality, reliable radar used for surveillance during flight to the Tactical Air Command of the Royal Danish Air Force.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2005	Data-capture and processing board with 2-GHz sampling rate Pentek's model 6826 VME A-D converter board is available for applications in wideband signal analysis, wideband radar processing, and wideband communications processing.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2006	In Brief THAAD radar performs well in flight test... NCSA to add MATLAB/Simulink capability to SRC's computing systems... Army I-GNAT ER UAS achieves 10,000 combat flight hours... Colombian firm deploys Savi RFID-based information solution... etc.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2009	In Brief Lockheed Martin delivers first Target Sight System production unit to U.S. Marine Corps... Raytheon demonstrates next-generation antenna technology during test flight... etc.
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	Product Applications Planners at the U.S. Navy choose the Advanced Display System from Lockheed Martin Corp. and DRS Technologies Inc... British air tankers will use Honeywell displays... Raytheon uses Saft battery in TOW missile... etc.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2009	In Brief Raytheon's gallium nitride chips meet operational milestone... Northrop Grumman demonstrates interoperability between manned and unmanned platforms... Lockheed Martin to support submarine imaging system... etc.
IEEE Spectrum November 2012 David Schneider	Coffee-Can Radar How to build a synthetic-aperture imaging system with tin cans and AA batteries
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.
IEEE Spectrum November 2005 Willie D. Jones	No Place to Hide New through-the-wall radar devices that rely on ultrawideband, a fairly new technology known mainly as a promising high-speed, low-power radio communications transmission technique, are now available to municipalities and law enforcement agencies.
IEEE Spectrum January 2009 David Schneider	Winner: Radio Eye in the Sky ImSAR's synthetic-aperture radar is both small and affordable
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.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2007	U.S. Navy Chooses Telephonics Corp. Components for Helicopter Multi-Mode Radar Systems Executives at Lockheed Martin Systems Integration needed a technology partner to aid in the delivery of spare radar system components for use in the U.S. Navy's MH-60 Seahawk helicopters.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2006 Courtney E. Howard	Boeing Fits Peace Eagle Aircraft with MESA Antenna Engineers at Boeing equipped the first of four 737-700 aircraft being developed for Turkey's Peace Eagle airborne early warning and control program with a multifunction electronically scanned array (MESA) radar system from Northrop Grumman.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2008	Lockheed Martin Selects Spraycool Chassis for U.S. Army Radar Program SprayCool enables Lockheed to develop a radar system that is independent from an aircraft's environmental control system.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2004	Air Force Looks to the Next Generation of Avionics Networking In September, Air Force and industry leaders ran a time--critical targeting exercise at Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass. Their goal was to reduce the sensor-to-shooter timeline by combining data from disparate sensors, air platforms, and ground stations
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2006	VME Multiprocessor Board for Embedded Advanced Signal- and Image-Processing Applications GE Fanuc Embedded Systems is offering the NEXUS Quattro, a quad-processor 6U VME board based on Freescale's MPC7447A and MPC7448 processors containing PowerPC cores for radar, sonar, signals intelligence, and image processing applications deployed in harsh operational environments..
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2006	ITT awarded GCA-2000 radar contract for Sweden The White Plains, N.Y. company was awarded a contract worth $5 million to supply a transportable GCA-2000 state-of-the-art air traffic control radar.