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Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2004 J.R. Wilson	Ballistic Missile Defense Looks to the Future Command centers that will help guide ballistic missile defense efforts are providing opportunities for a wide variety of commercial off-the-shelf computers, displays, and high-speed networking.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006 John McHale	Optoelectronic Innovation is Everywhere Military designers today are blending optics, optoelectronics, and electronic technologies to improve the capabilities of sensors, speed the throughput of communications links, and field effective laser weapons.
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 December 2006 John McHale	Sensors Light Path to Defeating Incoming Military designers are taking advantage of the latest sensor technology and signal processing systems to track and kill incoming enemy missiles.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2007 John McHale	Track It, Destroy It The key to any successful missile-defense shield is the ability of the sensors to track the missile accurately. Recent missile tests prove that an effective missile-defense shield is closer than ever before.
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 July 2011 Stew Magnuson	Troubled Space-Based Infrared Satellite Program Finally Gets Off the Ground On May 7, the Air Force successfully sent to geosynchronous orbit GEO-1, the first SBIRS satellite. It was a long, tortuous road, lasting some 15 years with a price tag that will come to $10.4 billion.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2005 Ben Ames	Optical sensors light up the battlefield Tomorrow's sensors will be modular, digital, fused, and networked
PC World February 20, 2002 Martyn Williams	Sony Focuses on 6 Megapixels Company's new image sensor will allow consumers to create professional-quality digital images -- at a price...
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2005 Jim Reeves	Industry View: Have bandwidth, will travel Technological advancements such as 'double conjugated adaptive optics' are leading to man-portable, far-reaching, low-power laser communication systems that are perfectly suited to the military's security-driven battlefield communication requirements.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008 John McHale	Improving Visibility Gen. Thomas Csnrko said he wants more visibility on the battlefield other than direct observation. Designers of improved optics sensors and infrared technology, especially in unmanned platforms, are looking to make his wish come true.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2008 Courtney E. Howard	Raytheon Delivers Prototype Missile Warning Sensor Raytheon has built and tested an integrated infrared sensor for the Risk Reduction Alternative Infrared Satellite Systems (RR-AISS) program.
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 September 2008 Courtney E. Howard	Boeing, Missile Defense Agency Test Missile Defense Sensor Integration and Netcentricity Engineers completed testing of a Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system being billed as the most complex integration to date of sensors required to support a missile intercept.
Popular Mechanics December 2008 Erik Sofge	The Hardware Behind Missile Protection The Missile Defense Agency has alternatives to deal with varying types of missile attacks.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006	Air Force Pushes Optical Data Network Air Force leaders granted optoelectronics company Srico $750,000 for a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research contract to develop a high-speed optical network.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2005 Stevens & Shmulovich	Planar lightwave circuits will be a key technology for next-generation military systems Optoelectronics, or photonics, is now becoming crucial to communications systems on a variety of military platforms and sensor applications.
National Defense March 2014 Sharp & Thurman	U.S. Military Needs Improved Missile Defense Technology The United States is confronting threats such as cruise missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles and ballistic missiles that can potentially overwhelm the Defense Department's legacy air and missile defense systems.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2005 Coble & Dela Garza	Can optoelectronics go from practical to tactical? Many automakers have already begun to deploy optoelectronics into their automotive systems in sensors, dashboard displays, motion and position sensing. Such technologies may find their way into military and aerospace products.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2007	Defense Industry Continues to Invest in Electro-Optics Electro-optic, optical, and optoelectronic components are an important part of military and aerospace platforms and systems, and are essential to controlling the battlefields of tomorrow.
National Defense August 2014 Robert G. Gard Jr.	National Missile Defense Technology Still Falls Short The United States has been attempting to develop a workable national missile defense capability since 1944.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008 Courtney E. Howard	First Air-to-Air Missile Defense System Intercepts Boosting Missile A U.S. Air Force F-16 jet fighter launched two air-to-air AIM-9X missiles, which in turn intercepted a boosting rocket launched from the White Sands Missile Range. The event marked the first time that an aircraft made a missile-defense intercept.
National Defense December 2005 Harold Kennedy	Pentagon Eyes Growing Short-Range Missile Threat Defense Department officials are warning that terrorists soon could strike U.S. cities with short-range missiles.
Popular Mechanics July 2007 Erik Sofge	Under-the-Radar Progress at Missile Defense Agency Missile defense hit center stage as President Bush and Vladimir Putin traded words at the G8 Summit, but a dramatic test recently marked a milestone for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA).
The Motley Fool March 13, 2007 Dan Bloom	Will Image Sensors Continue to Light Micron? Image sensor growth is slowing, and it looks like the competition is getting stiffer. Investors beware.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2005	The elusive military optoelectronics market Optical technology is more important for military and aerospace applications today than ever before
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2005 John Keller	Army kicks off project to fit helmet-mounted displays with multispectral imagers The project is to enable soldiers to navigate and rapidly engage targets in total darkness and in the presence of battlefield obscurants by displaying a fused image across the entire field of view.
National Defense December 2004 Harold Kennedy	Missile Defense Agency Prepares To Deploy Interceptor Weapons The Missile Defense Agency is pressing ahead with plans to begin deploying a controversial and expensive system to protect the United States and allies against ballistic missiles.
National Defense March 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Sea-Based Missile Defense Scores Hits, But Will it Work in a Real Attack? There is still one major weakness in U.S. missile defense systems that neither the Navy nor the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency has yet been able to overcome -- the ability to discern real warheads from harmless decoys.
Popular Mechanics August 28, 2008 Erik Sofge	Inside U.S. Missile Defense Tech--and (Perhaps) a New Cold War The U.S. ballistic missile defense shield has been up and running since 2004, and it's growing.
Popular Mechanics November 11, 2008 Joe Pappalardo	How BAE's Jam Lab Develops Countermeasures Against Antiaircraft Missiles Engineers at BAE dissect and stress older targeted antiaircraft missiles to figure out how to defend against them.
Popular Mechanics December 2008	New Defensive Missiles Protect U.S. Against Rogue Attacks If a missile is headed for the United States, the Missile Defense Agency's defensive net will work. "I feel confident in the system," says Delta Crew's director, Maj. Don Mercer.
National Defense March 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Navy Prepares to Put Aegis Ships `On Alert' The Navy is speeding up preparations to deploy a sea-based missile defense system by early 2005.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2006	Market for optical communications components to grow through 2015 Optical components will shrink in size, cost, and power to enable high-performance optical networks. To do this, optoelectronic research needs to grow to support the infrastructure.
IEEE Spectrum February 2005 Tim Shorrock	U.S. Deploys Missile Defense System The rockets may not glare and bombs may not burst in the air but the Bush administration is forging ahead with construction of what it terms an "operational" missile defense system.
National Defense February 2016 Jon Harper	Homeland Missile Defense Projects Remain in Limbo Uncertainty surrounds the future of homeland missile defense at a time of budget constraints and technology challenges.
National Defense June 2004 Roxana Tiron	Missile Defense Agency Prepares For Key Flight Tests in 2005 Air Force Lt. Gen. Ronald Kadish, the head of the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency, is planning an aggressive push to get programs tested by 2005.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2005	Optoelectronics Briefs Second-generation Fibre Channel network adapter cards... NASA turns to Adtech Optics for space optoelectronics... Toshiba unveils remote head camera IK-M44A... Low-cost multi-output pulse generator for optoelectronics research... etc.
National Defense April 2014 Valerie Insinna	Joint Air-to-Ground Missile Program Inches Forward Lockheed Martin's replacement for the Hellfire missile hit a milestone in February, when the company demonstrated that the dual mode guidance section on its Joint Air-to-Ground Missile could engage targets with a laser.