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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.   |
Popular Mechanics
August 2007
Barbara S. Peterson |
End of Flight Delays? FAA's GPS Fix Could Bust Sky Gridlock The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has been quietly using Alaska as a testbed for technologies that could radically transform the nation's antiquated air traffic control (ATC) system from ground-based radar to space-based GPS. |
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. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Verizon And NASA To Monitor U.S. Drone Traffic NASA and Verizon are collaborating on ways to monitor the U.S.'s commercial and civilian drones from cell-phone towers. |
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
May 2008
John Keller |
Navigation and guidance meets sensor fusion Knowing where you are and where you are going no longer involves only the Global Positioning System (GPS); systems designers are integrating a growing number of sensors and data-fusion algorithms to create fool-proof, jam-proof, real-time positioning information. |
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. |
Popular Mechanics
June 3, 2008
Joe Pappalardo |
Inside the Government's Backup Plan for GPS Failure With the threat of everything from antisatellite weapons to solar flares, the Department of Homeland Security is upgrading an old navigation system to eLORAN to track signals across the country, Lost-style. |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2011
Paden et al. |
A Next-Generation Ice Radar Scientists can now probe polar ice sheets better than ever using synthetic-aperture radar |
National Defense
June 2010
Austin Wright |
Lightweight Radars to Monitor Ice from Above NASA plans to replace ground-based ice-sensing radars with lightweight devices that could monitor glaciers from above. |
National Defense
October 2010
Stew Magnuson |
British Model May Hold Key to Solving Wind Energy, Radar Clutter Problem The clean energy industry has found itself clashing with the Defense Department and FAA in recent years over the location of windmills, which are sprouting up across the nation from the prairies to the shores. |
CIO
July 15, 2005
Megan Santosus |
Stuck in Traffic? IT Can Ease the Commute Some methods of decreasing traffic involve heavy costs and manual labor, but there are technological workarounds. For example, some technologies relay detailed traffic information to properly equipped cars. Traffic signals can also be improved. |
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. |
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
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. |
National Defense
January 2010
Stew Magnuson |
Israel Pushes New Satellite as Solution to U.S. Space Radar Needs Israel Aerospace Industries has joined with Northrop Grumman in hopes that they can sell time on a radar imaging satellite to U.S. government agencies. |
National Defense
December 2015
Edward Lundquist |
Fee-for-Service Model Lowers Upfront Costs Instead of buying an expensive system with many more features than needed, it may be possible simply to pay for the service and get only the data required to accomplish the mission. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
January 2006 |
NASA Tests Clear View for Pilots In an effort to make flying safer, more than a dozen NASA, airline, industry, and government pilots are testing technology to synthetically give pilots a clear view of their surroundings. |
BusinessWeek
September 10, 2007
Adam Aston |
Untangling The Traffic Jam In The Air The technology already exists to make flying simpler, safer, and more efficient. |
BusinessWeek
February 26, 2009
Stephen Baker |
Mapping a New, Mobile Internet A nascent industry involving the likes of Google and Nokia is pinpointing the movements and behaviors of millions of cell-phone users. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2011
Richard Stevenson |
Long-Distance Car Radar Affordable radar will let every car see through fog, brake on its own, and track other vehicles hundreds of meters ahead |
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
November 2006 |
U.S. military adopts Falcon Electric rugged power protection for its air-traffic-control systems A determining factor in the product selection was the firm's need for a UPS supplier with vast experience working with the military, and the ability to accommodate lead times that can extend several weeks or months. |
Fast Company
April 2010
Damian Joseph |
What's Next: Solar Flares In February, NASA launched a satellite to measure solar activity. The goal: to one day predict the solar system's weather. |
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
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
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. |
AskMen.com
September 10, 2002
Peter Richmond |
Radar Detectors: Avoiding Speeding Tickets Unfortunately, the radar detector industry has produced few effective detectors that can actually counter police radar fast enough to give you sufficient time to react before it's too late. That's why I took the challenge to find the world's best radar detector. |
