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Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2007 John McHale |
New communications for Navy ships based on software-defined radio Software-defined-radio technology is being used on various U.S. Navy surface ships and submarines, as well as fixed land sites, to replace several legacy radios with one system. |
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 January 2008 |
Spectrum Offers Family of Rugged Embedded Radio Modules for Size- and -Power-Constrained Applications The rugged flexComm SDR-4800 family of embedded radio modules are for tactical military communications (MILCOM), data link, defense, and civil satellite communications (SATCOM) systems. |
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. |
National Defense April 2015 Valerie Insinna |
Navy's Digital Modular Radio Gets Software Boost General Dynamics Mission Systems' digital modular radio has been deployed on Navy ships for more than 10 years. The service has focused on upgrading the radios with modern capabilities. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2008 John McHale |
Key Tactical Data Link Systems Clear Operational Testing U.S. Navy experts are moving ahead with an upgrade to the Tactical Data Link (TDL) system onboard Navy ships after testing the data link earlier this year. The TDL will transfer information quickly and securely among military assets. |
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 January 2009 Stew Magnuson |
Navy Can Text Stealthy Submarines 24/7 For years, the Navy has wanted to communicate with its submarines as they travel underwater at great depths. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2007 |
Software-Defined Radio to Play Key Role in Emerging Broadband Wireless Market Software-defined radio will play a major role in the emergence of broadband as the next growth market in telecommunications, as users seek seamless access to voice, data/web, and video in all their wireline and wireless subscriptions, according to experts. |
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. |
National Defense November 2015 Sandra I. Erwin |
Navy Command Expands Commercial IT Acquisitions The Pentagon has set out to replace outdated military information systems with commercial products that offer far better performance at lower cost. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2005 John Keller |
Transforming radio communications The next frontier of wireless radio communications is widely believed to be "cognitive radio" -- RF transceivers that use artificial intelligence, neural networks, or other advanced technologies to make informed decisions based on past usage. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2009 |
German defense forces look to Rohde & Schwarz for military software-defined radio technology Leaders of the German armed forces needed military software-defined radio technology for future military command and control technology, as well as for interoperable information and military communications networking. |
IEEE Spectrum April 2009 Koch & Prasad |
The Universal Handset Software-defined radio will let cellphones speak Wi-Fi, 3G, WiMax, and more. |
IEEE Spectrum February 2007 Roy Rubenstein |
Radios Get Smart But can they be trusted to roam the spectrum and not interfere with existing users? Some analysts say it's only a matter of time before cognitive radios get into the commercial arena, because the economics are compelling. |
National Defense July 2009 Robert H. Williams |
SATCOM Hardware Will Be Downsized on Navy Ships The Navy wants to consolidate seven SATCOM programs into two: the Naval Multiband Terminal and a commercial broadband service, known as CBSP. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008 Courtney E. Howard |
LynuxWorks Provides RTOS for Shipboard Self-Defense System Engineers at Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems have built the next-generation combat system on the LynxOS real-time operating system (RTOS) |
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. |
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. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2009 Courtney E. Howard |
Raytheon moves ahead with upgrades to Navy's Ship Self-Defense System U.S. Navy officials awarded Raytheon Co. in Tewksbury, Mass., a $23 million contract to serve as the platform systems engineering agent for the Ship Self-Defense System. |
National Defense September 2006 Sandra I. Erwin |
Defense Engineers Ponder `Modest Adjustments' for Connecting Forces Incompatible weapon systems and disjointed information networks continue to be a source of frustration at the Defense Department. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2006 |
Northrop Grumman Taps Spectrum Signal Processing's SDR-300 for Research and Development Efforts The Northrop Grumman Corp. Space Technology segment is involved in the research and development of military satellite communications waveforms as it focuses on software communications architecture (SCA) implementations. |
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 August 2008 |
In Brief Northrop Grumman receives contract for Airborne and Maritime/Fixed Station Joint Tactical Radio System... Raytheon delivers 100th AESA radar for Super Hornet and Growler jet aircraft... Boeing GPS IIF Satellite completes environmental tests... etc. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2007 |
Spectrum Signal Processing Selected for French Communication Equipment Test Initiative Antycip's FlexComm SDR-3002 systems will enable CELAR engineers to test waveforms and radios for SCA compliance. |
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 October 2008 John McHale |
Cisco maintains connectivity through self-healing network Engineers at Cisco Systems have developed router technology through their own research and development that heals broken or weak network connections in military on-the-move applications. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2007 |
U.S. Navy adopts ViaSat MIDS JTRS and tactical networking terminals Personnel at the U.S. Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command chose ViaSat Inc. to provide non-recurring terminals to support government air worthiness testing related to the Multifunctional Information Distribution System Joint Tactical Radio System. |
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 March 2005 John Keller |
DOD electronics spending may approach $60 billion in 2006 Leaders of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) are proposing a 7.8 percent spending increase for procurement and research in communications, electronics, and intelligence in fiscal year 2006, compared with spending for the same accounts this year. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2009 |
Curtiss-Wright Debuts FPGA-Based VITA 57 Embedded Computer The ADC513 is designed for demanding military embedded systems that involve direct RF down conversion, digital video surveillance, military signals intelligence, satellite communications, and software-defined radio applications. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2005 John McHale |
RF and Microwave Technology Enable Networking on the Move Designers of RF and microwave technology say low power and small size remain the trend in product designs. Meanwhile, integrators adapt and combine RF and microwave technologies to enable networking on the move. |
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. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2009 |
GE Fanuc Offers A-D PMC for Software-Defined Radio and Other Military Communications GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms is introducing the ICS-1556B A-D converter PCI mezzanine card (PMC) for demanding military communications applications, such as software-defined radio and signals intelligence (SIGINT). |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2007 John Keller |
Harris RF Designers Expand Into Networked Sensors Applications Harris' RF Communications Division is making a strategic expansion into networked sensors applications to augment their state-of-the-art military radios that operate securely in bands ranging from HF to satellite communications. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2007 |
NASA Selects Green Hills Software for Space-Telecommunications Radio-System Prototype NASA engineers are employing the Green Hills platform for software-defined radio (SDR) with Spectrum Signal's flexCommTM SDR-4000 reconfigurable, multifunction communications platform. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2009 |
SATCOM RF Booster Amplifier Military Radio Communications Introduced by AR Modular RF The 50-watt auto-tuning, multi-band tactical RF amplifier can help soldiers maintain constant, reliable military radio communications in demanding environments. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2009 |
Aeroflex Provides Marines with Radio Test Equipment for Legacy and Software-Defined Radio Aeroflex engineers will supply the company's 7200 Configurable Automated Test Set (CATS) to the U.S. marine Corps' Ground Radio Maintenance Automatic Test Systems (GRMATS). |
IEEE Spectrum January 2007 Jean Kumagai |
Radio Revolutionaries A cellphone based on software-defined radio would be lighter, smaller, cheaper, and more power efficient. What's more, it would be better at making calls. |
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. |
National Defense July 2012 Antoine Martin |
Promising Outlook for Navy's Unmanned Aviation The U.S. Navy has ambitious plans to deploy new families of unmanned aircraft over the next decade. |
National Defense August 2011 Grace V. Jean |
Drone Sensor Data Will Overload Networks, Navy Officials Warn The expected growth of unmanned systems at sea is raising concerns that the Navy's networks are ill prepared to handle the commensurate flood of data that the sensors will produce. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2009 John Keller |
Military laser weapon research aims at defending U.S. Navy ships at sea U.S. Navy researchers are asking two U.S. defense contractors to develop military laser prototypes of a future laser weapon of megawatt power to defend warships at sea from future maritime threats. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2010 |
Raytheon Wins $38 Million U.S. Air Force Delivery Order to Modify Weapons Training Equipment Raytheon is modifying weapons data link equipment used in pilot training for F-15 fighter aircraft under terms of a $37.9 million contract from the U.S. Air Force for the Air Force Training Frequency Relocation (TFR) program. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2010 |
In Brief GeoEye selects Lockheed Martin to build remote sensing satellite system... Boeing Phantom Eye hydrogen-powered UAV begins development... AAI's advanced boresight equipment selected for U.S. Air Force platforms... etc. |
National Defense February 2014 Stew Magnuson |
Military Wrestles With the High Cost of Satellite Terminals Pricey spacecraft and rockets receive plenty of attention in the press and on Capitol Hill, but terminals are where the real savings are to be found for a Defense Department challenged by decreasing budgets, industry and government officials said. |
National Defense July 2011 Grace V. Jean |
Remotely Piloted Aircraft Fuel Demand for Satellite Bandwidth The communications-hungry drones consume large amounts of bandwidth to pipe battlefield video feeds and other sensor data back to intelligence centers and to forces on the ground. |
National Defense August 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
Inefficient Shipbuilding Jeopardizes Navy's Expansion Goals The Navy owns 277 ships, but somehow manages to keep 551 different engines in its inventory. Such inefficients partly explain why the cost of buying and maintaining ships has spiraled out of control. |
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 June 2008 John Keller |
Radar technology looks to the future Modern radar systems are combining advanced materials, solid-state modules, digital signal processors, and complex A-D converters to give a better look to military and civilian users who need the best possible capability in small, compact, and efficient packages. |