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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.
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Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2005	Optoelectronics Help Special Forces Shoot Farther and More Accurately Optoelectronic devices such as laser sights, binoculars, and infrared sensors are enabling the transformation of American special operations forces to deploy and execute their missions more quickly and more efficiently than ever before.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2007	Electro-Optics Briefs Near-infrared linear polarizers that eliminate unwanted reflections... Sensata Technologies offers image sensors to improve military and industrial vehicle safety... RPMC Lasers unveils miniature Q-switched oscillator...
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2005	Optoelectronics In Brief Photonic Products to offer Panasonic aspherical lenses... Opto Diode completes California-based LED wafer fab... etc.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2005	Optoelectronics Briefs Breakthrough in solid-state laser technology... Fiber-optic field-simulation test instrument... TTL modulation added to photon devices... New high-power optical fiber... Light-sensitive camera... High-power multimode diode bar... Laser Diode earns ISO 9001:2000 certification...
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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.
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National Defense April 2004 Michael Peck	Army Seeks to Upgrade Night-Vision Goggles Experts at the Army's night-vision laboratory predict that a new generation of goggles now in development will fix some of the shortcomings in existing devices, such as image quality and the ability to see through smoke and dust.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2009	Infrared Thermal Camera for Indian Air Force C-130J Aircraft to be Supplied by FLIR Systems FLIR Systems will supply an infrared camera system to the Indian air force under terms of a $7.2 million Pentagon electro-optical contract for foreign military sales.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2008	Electro-Optics Briefs VueMetrix delivers laser diode controller for high-power fiber lasers... DILAS offers conduction-cooled fiber-coupled laser modules for military applications... Axsys to provide infrared imaging lenses for Army CROWS program...
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2010 John McHale	U.S. Army Selects Northrop Grumman 100-Kilowatt, Solid-State Laser for Field Tests A solid-state laser system from Northrop Grumman Corp. which produces a powerful beam from a continuous-wave, electric laser is joining other speed-of-light weapons for field tests at the Army's High Energy Laser System Test Facility (HELSTF)
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2006	Northrop Grumman Solid-State Laser Intended for Several Kinds of Military Missions Scientists at the Northrop Grumman Space Technology segment are developing a high-energy, solid-state laser called Vesta that company officials claim is powerful enough to perform many basic military missions.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2008	Electro-Optics Briefs Elop introduces uncooled handheld thermal imager with target acquisition... Thermoteknix offers thermal imaging camera with 25-micron detector... Dynasil acquires Precision Optics product line... etc.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2005	Sandia Uses Presstek Diode in Shuttle Camera The LT-1110 is a CS-mounted diode- laser bar that delivers 20 watts of power at wavelengths of 808 and 915 nanometers. The lasers are useful for both commercial and solid-state pumping applications.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2010	Laser Rangefinder for Eye-Safe Laser Military Applications Introduced by Premier Premier Electronics is introducing a high-repetition, eye-safe laser rangefinder for military and aerospace applications with a range nearly 13 mile.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2006 John Keller	Northrop Grumman plans for fourth-generation LITENING AT aircraft targeting pods The fourth-generation version of LITENING will feature a 1024-by-1024-pixel forward-looking infrared (FLIR) sensor for target detection and recognition ranges under day and night conditions.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2005	Optoelectronics Briefs Phasebridge wins contract for Navy RF fiber-optic links program... FLIR Systems adds IR camera to research product line... Optex to provide telescopes for howitzer fire control... Kollsman to repair optical system on Cobra helicopter... etc.
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.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2006 John Keller	Northrop Grumman readies laser-based anti-missile system for operational deployment One Skyguard system can provide a protective shield of about six miles in diameter to defend deployed forces, a large military installation, a large civilian population, or industrial area, Northrop Grumman officials say.
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 November 2009	In Brief Rockwell Collins virtual avionics procedure trainer selected for Iraqi coalition force... (K)DC-10 with Boeing-modified cockpit completes certification flight tests... Northrop Grumman supplies U.S. Army with laser rangefinders... etc.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2009	Electro-optics Brief Digital video recorder system selected for Sikorsky helicopters... CACI wins order to support U.S. Army forward looking infrared systems... Dilas introduces fiber-coupled diode laser bar... etc.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008 Courtney E. Howard	Weapons at the Speed of Light Laser weaponry will be a tool in the U.S. military's arsenal much sooner than many think, with the first applications for missile defense from the ground and the air.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006 John Keller	Northrop Grumman shoots 27-kw beam of light for 350 seconds from solid-state laser Potential uses include protective and strike capabilities for ships, manned and unmanned aircraft, and ground vehicles.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2007	Electro-Optics Briefs Edmund Optics offers versatile UV microscope... Northrop Grumman opens facility for high-energy lasers... Salvador Imaging announces color night-vision camera... etc.
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 September 2006 John McHale	Northrop Grumman Proposes High-Energy Ground Laser to Defend Commercial Aircraft The defense company proposed a ground-based, high-energy laser system called Skyguard as part of a layered airport defense to protect commercial jetliners from terrorists firing shoulder-fired missiles.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2009	Premiere Electronics Offers Rugged Camera Electro-Optical Sensor for Surveillance Applications Premiere Electronics is introducing an armored dome rugged camera for surveillance and homeland security applications... Northrop Grumman cryocooler improves data collection in future astrophysics missions... etc.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2004	Laser weapons prove their worth in guarding against mortar attacks "For the first time, we have a way to protect our forces, and those of our allies, against almost daily mortar attacks," says Patrick Caruana, vice president of Space and Missile Defense for Northrop Grumman Space Technology.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2007 John Keller	Northrop Grumman to Develop Coast Guard Shipboard Warning System Developing the Detection and Unambiguous Warning System (DUWS) will use the Northrop Grumman Venom system, a gimbaled version of the company's combat-proven lightweight laser designator rangefinder.
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.
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 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.
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Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2006 John Keller	FLIR Systems multisensor device to help Army soldiers with urban warfare The airborne thermal imaging system may help U.S. Army ground forces anticipate the behavior of terrorist and irregular militia forces who are fighting in urban terrain like Baghdad.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2006	In Brief Northrop Grumman to provide software support for maritime command and control system... ACT/TECHNICO improves security for PMC form-factor... Lockheed Martin awarded $120 million to develop enhanced counterfire target acquisition radar... etc.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2008	Naval Surface Warfare Center Selects FLIR Systems' Handheld Imagers FLIR Systems are delivering an indefinite quantity of the company's Recon III long-range, handheld imagers.
National Defense April 2005 Frank Colucci	Army Developing Tactics for Armed Robotic Aircraft The topic of armed UAVs is gaining attention at the Defense Department. Examples: The Army's Hunter unmanned aerial vehicle is being outfitted with precision-guided weapons for duty in Iraq. And Boeing's unmanned Little Bird helicopter is being tested at Fort Eustis.
National Defense July 2009 Robert H. Williams	Weapons Grade Laser Validated in Military Test Scientists and engineers have scored a first in achieving more than 105 kilowatts of electric light ray intensity in the final demonstration milestone of the military's Joint High Power Solid State Laser Program
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2004	In Brief EOIR Technologies Wins Two Army Contracts... Texas Memory Systems and StarGen Join Hands on Embedded Applications... Alenia Aeronautica chooses Concurrent iHawk for UCAV Simulation... etc.
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.
IndustryWeek December 16, 2009	On the Rise -- FLIR Systems Says the Best is Yet to Come Lower prices and higher volumes spell growth for the manufacturer of thermal imaging infrared cameras.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2009	Army, Marines Select FLIR Systems for Situational Awareness Technology FLIR Systems will put forward-looking infrared technology in the hands of more military personnel to improve their situational awareness.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2008	U.S. Air Force Employs FLIR Systems Thermal Imagers The portable SeeSpot III is designed for applications requiring not only high-resolution thermal imaging, but also the ability to see the aiming point of a laser designator.
National Defense July 2013 Valerie Insinna	New Lightweight Infrared Systems Under Development for Army Raytheon officials said its third wave of forward-looking infrared devices, called FLIR, could be in soldiers' hands within a few years.