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National Defense January 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Agency Grapples With Demand For Detailed, Timely Intelligence In response to a soaring demand for battlefield imagery and digital maps, the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency is seeking to automate the parsing and analysis of intelligence, and to make its products more easily available to front-line commanders.
National Defense November 2009 Grace V. Jean	Battlefield Intelligence: Easy to Collect, Tough to Share The U.S. military has deployed unmanned aircraft and other information collection devices at a pace that exceeds the capabilities of battlefield intelligence systems to archive, analyze and disseminate the video and imagery.
National Defense May 2010 Austin Wright	Making Sense of Data Overload Joint Forces Command is shipping to Afghanistan the first pieces of a video-sharing system called Valiant Angel that will make it easier for soldiers on the battlefield to plug into live surveillance feeds and archived intelligence data.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2009 John McHale	It Always Feels Like Somebody's Watching me... Today's video security technology can provide impressive detailed surveillance in many ways, but developers are using video analytics, image fusion, and high-definition methods to obtain even better night and day images.
National Defense November 2009 Erwin, Jean & Magnuson	Today's Fights Expose Technological Weak Spots Disruptive challenges, such as roadside bombs, combatants camouflaged as civilians, and insurgent camps that are undetectable by electronic sensors, have forced U.S. military leaders to search for new tactics and technologies.
National Defense June 2004	Information Fusion Becomes a Reality Lockheed Martin Corp. recently unveiled a Web-based software package---called the joint war-fighters decision support platform---that is configured on an open architecture premise and will give the troops a cohesive and clarified view of the battlefield in real-time.
National Defense June 2005 Joe Pappalardo	As More Drones Populate the U.S. Arsenal, Intel Analysts Grapple With Flood of Data An abundance of unmanned aerial vehicles in combat zones has given U.S. intelligence agencies and commanders a crucial edge in war and espionage, but managing the information flow has been fraught with problems.
National Defense May 2008 Breanne Wagner	Urban Surveillance Still Falling Short, Say Army Commanders Army commanders need more sophisticated aerial surveillance sensors to give them a wider, more detailed view of the complex urban battlefield.
National Defense May 2012 Sandra I. Erwin	Too Much Information, Not Enough Intelligence The Defense Department over the last decade has built up an inventory of billions of dollars worth of spy aircraft and battlefield sensors. Those systems create avalanches of data that clog military information networks and overwhelm analysts.
National Defense June 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Outdated Army Training, Education Programs Get Revamped The U.S. Army is preparing to expand its intelligence workforce by as many as 15,000 officers during the next several years.
National Defense November 2012 Stew Magnuson	Wide Area Surveillance Sensors Prove Value on Battlefields Heidi Breslow, a retired Marine Corps corporal and battlefield intelligence analyst, described how she would use unmanned aerial vehicles coupled with the latest wide area airborne surveillance sensors to help protect ground troops.
National Defense October 2009 Grace V. Jean	Inadequate Displays, Shortage of Bandwidth Could Slow Advances in Night Vision Systems The military's night-vision capabilities are going digital, but displaying and sharing those electronic feeds could become a problem in the future if the dissemination of battlefield video today is any indication.
National Defense February 2010 Grace V. Jean	'Culture Maps' Becoming Essential Tools of War The U.S. military has access to the world's best topographic maps. It is now trying to build "culture maps" that include details such as a region's tribal affiliations, ethnicity, religion and language.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2006 John McHale	Lockheed Martin Applies Surveillance Technology to Keep Marines Safe in Iraq Lockheed Martin experts, together with the Chicago and Los Angeles police departments, are employing counter-insurgency (COIN) surveillance technology to support urban operations conducted by the U.S. Marine Corps in Iraq.
National Defense October 2004	Army Trying to Get Better Grasp on War Zone Intelligence Under the banner of "every soldier is a sensor," the Army is pushing the notion that ground troops are primary sources of valuable battlefield intelligence.
National Defense January 2010 Stew Magnuson	Military 'Swimming In Sensors and Drowning in Data' Synthesizing all the collections of intelligence and disseminating them quickly is a challenge facing the military.
National Defense June 2008 Sandra I. Erwin	More Eyes in The Sky May Not Generate Better Intelligence Military services are moving to accelerate the production and deployment of surveillance aircraft. But more eyes in the sky may not necessarily translate into better information on the ground.
Defense Update Issue 1, 2006	The Challenges of Command and Control in Urban Operations In the past, offensive military operations have usually been conducted in urban environments only when unavoidable, but conflicts are shifting into the cities, where terrorists and insurgents find safe havens.
National Defense December 2015 Robert Smith	Lowering Costs Through Information Sharing Recognizing the significance of the moment, leaders from all U.S. forces have begun to reevaluate -- individually and collaboratively -- the nation's approach to warfare.
National Defense November 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Changing World Blazes New Trails For Military Technology A striking array of challenges is reshaping the course of defense technology. The United States is entering an era characterized by fiscal austerity and the rise of "non-state" actors as enemies of nation states.
National Defense July 2013 Dan Parsons	U.S. Special Operations Command Seeks Intelligence Capabilities for Duty Worldwide Business opportunities abound providing communications and ISR gear for special operations.
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 February 2008 Courtney E. Howard	Smart Sensors Homeland security and military personnel increasingly rely on intelligent sensor technology for surveillance and electronic intelligence.
National Defense September 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Incompatible Technologies Weaken Utility of Aerial Spies The military services operate nearly 4,000 unmanned aircraft, most of which have been deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan. The Army alone is flying 1,200 drones in surveillance combat missions.
Defense Update Issue 2, 2005	Turning raw data into actionable intelligence Utilizing modern commercial off the shelf technology, sensor data can be rapidly processed and presented over a common map display. These products can be used by both intelligence analysts and warfighters.
National Defense March 2013 Stew Magnuson	Defense, Intel Communities Wrestle With the Promise and Problems of 'Big Data' For some intelligence analysts, the glut of data coming from multiple sources is an overwhelming problem. There just aren't enough hours in the day to sift through all the potentially valuable information.
National Defense October 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Army to Deploy Web-Based Intelligence Network The Army will soon begin deploying a "joint intelligence operations capability" in Iraq -- a web-based catalog of information that soldiers at the battalion level can access from high-speed workstations.
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 January 2005 Ben Ames	Optical sensors light up the battlefield Tomorrow's sensors will be modular, digital, fused, and networked
National Defense September 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Battlefield Information Glut Not Always Useful to Soldiers The U.S. military services need to find better ways to collect and manage intelligence in complex urban war zones, according to U.S. Joint Forces Command studies.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2007 John McHale	Sensitive and Tireless: High-Endurance UAVs Sense What Men Cannot Sensors for unmanned aircraft are evolving in efficiency and capability as payload designers look for every possible edge in surveillance, combat, and collision avoidance.
National Defense December 2009 Grace V. Jean	Soldiers Track Each Other With Smart PDAs A team at Lockheed Martin Corp.'s Advanced Technology Laboratories has developed a Land Warrior-like handheld computer for small infantry units to track and communicate with each other on the ground.
National Defense January 2009 Grace V. Jean	Drone Operators Ask Industry For 'Open' Systems The ground-based equipment that is used to fly unmanned combat aircraft is not adequate to handle the demanding missions of current conflicts, operators say.
Parameters Spring 2005 Saxby Chambliss	We Have Not Correctly Framed the Debate on Intelligence Reform Over the last decade, our intelligence community has failed us. It wasn't able to penetrate the al Qaeda terrorist organization, and we paid a high price for that failure.
National Defense May 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Army Reorganizes Training for Intelligence Units "The focus now is on getting soldiers used to identifying information that could be useful" to commanders in Afghanistan, says Army Maj. Eric Butler says during a recent teleconference with military bloggers.
National Defense May 2008 Stew Magnuson	To Succeed, Soldiers `Need to See the Environment' Troops fighting in Iraq's cities often complain that they cannot see the enemy and need sensors that can penetrate walls, identify foes in pitch dark and locate buried explosives.
National Defense December 2009 Grace V. Jean	To Train Troops, Army Creates Digital Reenactments of Roadside Bomb Attacks Video footage of insurgents burying improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, is among the data collected by analysts who are assisting simulation experts at the joint training counter-IED operations integration center.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2007	In Brief Boeing teams with Northrop Grumman to develop B-52H Core Component Jammer... Fourth modernized Lockheed Martin GPS satellite launched.. Northrop Grumman introduces Geospatial Data Appliance for defense and intelligence operations... etc.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2010 John Keller	Air Force to use artificial intelligence and other advanced data processing to hit the enemy where it hurts Air Force researchers are emphasizing machine-to-machine intelligence communications and cooperation in this project, which will rely on technologies like artificial intelligence, ontological reasoning, and knowledge-based processing.
National Defense November 2014 Sandra I. Erwin	As Defense, Intelligence Agencies Drown in Data, Technology Comes to the Rescue The task of filtering and sorting through massive loads of data is only going to get bigger as the military and intelligence agencies collect more information than they can handle.
National Defense November 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Intelligence: The Silver Bullet That Will Beat the Insurgency Until the military can come to grips with their intelligence problem in Iraq, it will continue to pay the price in the form of casualties, which have now reached nearly 2,000 dead and more than 14,000 wounded.
National Defense October 2012 Eric Beidel	Smile: Software Captures Faces in Bad Surveillance Imagery New Hampshire-based Animetrics has developed technology to create clear 3-D facial renderings from low-quality photos and videos.
National Defense December 2010 Eric Beidel	Jack Daniel's Corporate Jet Transformed Into Flying Intel Lab A jet once used by executives at Jack Daniel's may improve military intelligence-gathering operations.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2007	BAE Systems to Provide Precise Threat ID to U.S. Army BAE Systems has received a U.S. Army contract for a new generation of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) systems that will provide precise detection and identification of known and potential threats.
National Defense March 2008 Stew Magnuson	Goal of a `Network-Centric' Military Seems Distant Unblocking communications and data sharing barriers is necessary if the military will achieve its longtime goal of becoming a network-centric force.
National Defense July 2006 Grace Jean	Sensor-Fusion Software Technology Replacing Traditional Security Systems As more and more security cameras are being installed around the globe, companies are developing software solutions and other technologies that increasingly advance the intelligence of such monitoring systems.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2005	In Brief Modus Operandi wins Army contract... Elbit Systems to supply imagery intelligence systems... Nanotechnology IC sales to reach $172 billion by 2014... etc.
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 June 2005 Harold Kennedy	Industry Lab Seeks to Prove Value Of Networks in Homeland Defense A U.S. defense contractor has designed and built a high-tech facility for the sole purpose of helping military and homeland security agencies understand the applications of networked systems.
National Defense March 2011 Eric Beidel	Eyes of Army Drones Multiply, Open Wide Even though unmanned aircraft have generally been spared from the conversation about the Pentagon's spending cuts, Army officials want to increase ISR capabilities without adding personnel or aircraft.