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National Defense February 2006 Frank Colucci	Truck Crews Test Anti-Sniper Acoustic Sensors To help defend U.S. soldiers in Iraq from sniper attacks, the Army will be testing a prototype acoustic sensor that will be installed in a weapon-mounted Humvee truck.
Defense Update Issue 2, 2005	Surveillance Systems for Perimeter Defense A variety of surveillance systems are employed to maintain perimeter security around military bases.
Defense Update Issue 1, 2006	Unattended Ground Sensors After several decades of rather obscure awareness in military operations, the use of passive sensors for remote battlefield applications is becoming more popular... Ground surveillance sensors... Future combat systems... etc.
National Defense August 2004 Roxana Tiron	Future of Army's `Rapid Equipping Force' Still Uncertain The U.S. Army's Rapid Equipping Force--which was created to meet soldiers' urgent technology needs--still is an experiment that keeps growing, according to service officials.
IEEE Spectrum December 2008 Steven Cherry	Spotting Snipers With Sound BBN Technologies' gunshot-detection system used for trucks in Iraq is being modified for helicopters.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2005 John McHale	iRobot and Photonics Center create sniper detection system for land robots Automation experts from industry and academia are teaming to build a robot that can help detect, locate, and destroy snipers or enemy mortar crews.
National Defense October 2014 Valerie Insinna	Hostile Fire Detection System Could Reduce False Alarms Forward operating bases in Afghanistan must sometimes contend with adversaries who quickly move in and then retreat before they can be engaged. A new fire detection system may more accurately locate explosions.
National Defense June 2007 Robert H. Williams	SADS Finds the Location of Shooters The small arms detection system (SADS) from Rafael Development Authority is able to quickly detect and pinpoint the general direction of a hostile shooter.
National Defense July 2015 William I. Oberholtzer	It's Time for a Direct Fire Breech-Loaded Mortar Military planners and war fighters tend to be enamored with high tech weapon systems and fail to recognize the potential of a tried and true weapon that has been around since before the Civil War.
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 July 2009 Grace V. Jean	360-Degree Sensor to Help Troops Nab Insurgents Nabbing insurgents before they can plant roadside bombs or finding enemy snipers before they shoot have been among the toughest challenges that the U.S. military has faced in current conflicts.
National Defense January 2013 Dan Parsons	Old Sensors Can Learn New Tricks A new consortium of defense companies is hoping to give pilots situational awareness and threat-response systems that are greater than the sum of their parts. It is one of many efforts to make troops at all levels better able to share information using existing sensors.
National Defense October 2007 Stew Magnuson	Technologists Take Aim at Enemy Snipers While countering snipers has not received the funding and attention of the IED threat, several programs are in various stages of development that researchers hope will make U.S. sniper teams more deadly.
National Defense June 2006 Stew Magnuson	High-Tech Weapons Mix Targets Urban Hazards As the Pentagon continues to invest in technologies to neutralize roadside bombs, rocket propelled grenades remain a potent threat. More than 100 soldiers have been killed since operations in South East Asia began.
Defense Update Issue 1, 2005	Non Lethal Directed Energy Weapons Anti-personnel nonlethal directed energy weapons include lasers, high power electro-magnetic pulse and directional acoustic weapons.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2005	Northrop Grumman Develops New Capability for Harbor Surveillance Engineers at Northrop Grumman's Navigation and Space Sensors division in Woodland Hills, Calif., plan to enhance maritime security in major ports across the nation with their new harbor defense system.
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.
Wired March 2007 Ethan Watters	Shot Spotter Last year there were 148 homicides in Oakland. Today, when someone fires a gun on a city street, a network of hidden microphones kicks in triangulating the exact location and alerting police.
Defense Update Issue 2, 2005	Force Protection Systems and Technology Modern armies are tasked with peacekeeping, security, and stabilization operations, primarily in low intensity conflicts. The procedures, tactics, and technology used for force protection should reflect this reality.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2010 John Keller	Multisensor Designs and Increasing Resolutions Are Major Trends in Infrared and Other Electro-Optical Sensors Infrared (IR) and other electro-optical sensors will see major technological breakthroughs in sensitivity, resolution, and overall ability to help military forces see through fog, smoke, dust, and the darkness of night.
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.
CIO August 25, 2014 Mike Gualtieri	How Sensors Can Add Zing to Your Apps The addition of sensor data can turn boring applications into exciting ones that impress your customers, a Forrester analyst says.
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 January 2005 Ben Ames	Optical sensors light up the battlefield Tomorrow's sensors will be modular, digital, fused, and networked
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2009	Infrared Sensor for Armored Vehicle Night Vision is Aim of BAE Contract BAE Systems will produce a system of infrared sensors and related vetronics that provide 24-hour, all-weather visibility to operators of U.S. Army and Marine Corps armored vehicles.
National Defense December 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Controlling Iraq's Crowded Airspace No Easy Task The Air Defense Artillery Center is working to avoid collisions between unmanned drones and helicopters over Iraq. Future airspace control plans include defense against cruise missiles, rockets, artillery and mortars.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008 John Keller	Night-Vision Devices to Blend Infrared Technology, Image Intensifiers The next steps for improving thermal sensors and light intensifiers for night-vision devices will involve combining information from several kinds of sensors.
BusinessWeek January 31, 2005 John Carey	Taking Quick Aim Against Snipers The Pentagon needed a way to counter attacks in Iraq. It got results in short order, illustrating how the demands of war are a powerful spur to progress.
Defense Update Issue 3, 2005	Vehicular C4 Applications (Vetronics) At the basic level of the C4 hierarchy are the individual elements of Battle Management Systems integrated into armored fighting vehicles.
National Defense April 2009	Border Security The U.S. has limited ability to prevent dangerous materials from reaching the shores.
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 2014 Dan Parsons	Covert Weapons Top Special Ops Wish List Special Operations Command in late April released a detailed solicitation of equipment Commander Adm. William McRaven envisions as "game-changing" technologies for future commandos.
National Defense April 2009 Robert H. Williams	Research Leads to Whisper Quiet UAVs While many low altitude unmanned aerial vehicles are able to frustrate visual, radar and infrared detection, the noise they emit especially as they hone in on targets can give them away.
National Defense February 2009 Grace V. Jean	Coming Soon: Cockpits in Combat Trucks Cockpit-like technology could turn plain humvees into multimedia hubs. It also would allow soldiers to control sensors and weapons from the safety of their armored cabs.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2005 Sansone & Emslie	Fiber sensing receives renewed interest History will remember optical-fiber technology as one of the truly great inventions of the 20th century: it is the driver behind the telecommunications revolution and the very backbone of the Internet, telephony, and Cable TV
National Defense December 2007 Stew Magnuson	Military Researchers Seek Ways to `Interrogate' Buildings Buildings may hide weapon caches, bomb-making factories, enemy combatants or command and control centers -- and more often than not -- innocent civilians who may have nothing to do with these nefarious activities.
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.
National Defense September 2009 Robert H. Williams	Military Testing Moving Mine, Tunnel Detector The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is sponsoring development of a moving vehicle combined technology demonstrator that detects land mines and tunnels.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2005 John Keller	Northrop Grumman teams with Clear Align on optical acoustic systems The companies are developing fast optical switching techniques to reduce the costs and improve reliability of current submarine systems.
Science News December 16, 2006	Science Safari: Sounds of the Seasons A growing interest in acoustic ecology calls attention to the myriad ways in which sounds influence human behavior. Here is a link to a website that explains why.
National Defense March 2014 Dan Parsons	Industry Melds Smartphones to Rifles The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has been seeking smart-rifle technologies for years.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2008	DARPA Looks to Sensors Unlimited to Develop Next-Generation Night-Vision Technology The night-vision sensor technology will be for helmet-mounted and micro vehicle applications.
National Defense March 2008 Grace V. Jean	Robots Get Smarter, But Who Will Buy Them? While the technologies to enable fully autonomous vehicles have advanced, robotics experts say there is still more to be done to make them viable in military and commercial applications in the next decade.