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Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2006 J.R. Wilson	F/A-18 Fighter-Bomber's Next-Generation Radar Technology Uses COTS, is Ready for Network-Centric Warfare The first Super Hornets entered service in November 1999 with 17 cubic feet of electronics "growth space" for next-generation avionics. Block Two is making good use of that design feature with a host of upgrades.
Defense Update July 2008	New F-16 Avionics Upgrades Introduced at Farnborough 2008 Several companies, primarily U.S. based are responding to requirements from current operators, to enhance the operational life of the aircraft and introduce new technologies that could extend its usability for many years.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2007 John Keller	Raytheon to Develop Secret Aircraft Radar System for Special Operations Forces The radar system, called Silent Knight, is a multi-aircraft-common terrain-following/terrain-avoidance radar replacement for Special Operations helicopters, turboprop aircraft, and tiltrotor.
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.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2004 Ben Ames	Optoelectronics Success on the Battlefield Drives Defense Spending Analysts claim a rise in market demand for optoelectronics. Part of that growth will come from greater defense spending by European countries such as France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, as they strive to close the "technology gap" with the United States.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2006 Courtney E. Howard	Boeing Fits Peace Eagle Aircraft with MESA Antenna Engineers at Boeing equipped the first of four 737-700 aircraft being developed for Turkey's Peace Eagle airborne early warning and control program with a multifunction electronically scanned array (MESA) radar system from Northrop Grumman.
Defense Update March 2007	Advantages of AESA Radars AESA radars are emitting not only radar signals, but can also be employed for non traditional ISR, as well as electronic attack.
National Defense September 2013 Dan Parsons	Prime Contractors Chasing Big Business Retooling Old Fighters For the United States and its allies, the F-16 has proven time and again to be the perfect all-around, multi-mission fighter aircraft, and with ongoing delays in developing a revolutionary new plane, air forces are preparing to keep it flying for decades to come.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2006	ITT awarded GCA-2000 radar contract for Sweden The White Plains, N.Y. company was awarded a contract worth $5 million to supply a transportable GCA-2000 state-of-the-art air traffic control radar.
Defense Update July 2008	Boeing 737-700 Based Early Warning & Control Aircraft An Airborne Early Warning & Control (AEW&C) derivative of the Boeing 737 other special-mission aircraft family is based on a modified B-737-700.
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 September 2014 Dan Parsons	Fifth-Generation Fighters Will Determine Air Dominance in Future Conflicts The Raptor is the only combat-ready fifth-generation fighter in the world. Its thrust-vectoring engines, sensor fusion technology and stealth are what define it as a generational leap from previous fighter designs.
Defense Update July 2008	Special Missions Aircraft at Farnborough 2008 Special mission aircraft were among the hottest military topics at Farnborough 2008, highlighting the crucial role such assets provide for national security and operational capability in modern, asymmetric warfare.
Popular Mechanics January 2007 Frank Vizard	Tech Watch: Radar Goliath Project ISIS (Integrated Sensor Is Structure) provides improved surveillance capabilities of military or commercial aircraft.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2008 Courtney E. Howard	Force Modernization Drives Growth in European Land Vetronics Applications European land-based intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance (ISTAR) vehicle electronics applications continue to grow as countries modernize defense forces.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2008	ITT to Modernize Sweden's Air Defense Radar Engineers at ITT will to upgrade the Swedish Defence Material Administration's PS-870 coastal/gapfiller radar systems.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2009	In Brief Lockheed Martin delivers first Target Sight System production unit to U.S. Marine Corps... Raytheon demonstrates next-generation antenna technology during test flight... etc.
National Defense September 2014 Valerie Insinna	As F-35 Ramps Up, Legacy Fighters Face Existential Threat After 2018, the F-35 is likely to capture over a 50 percent share of the global fighter jet market, says Richard Aboulafia, aerospace analyst for the Teal Group, in a February report.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2006	Northrop Grumman Contracts Labarge to Produce Electronic Assemblies for Radar Jammer Northrop Grumman selected LaBarge Inc. to produce circuit-card assemblies for one of Northrop Grumman's latest projects: designing the AN/ALQ-135 internally mounted radar countermeasures system for the F-15K fighter aircraft.
National Defense May 2012 Dan Parsons	Commanders Feel Deficiency as Wars Hog Surveillance Platforms The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have proven the efficacy of airborne surveillance as a military tool. The conflicts have also hogged almost all of the U.S. military's manned and unmanned surveillance platforms, to the detriment of combatant commanders elsewhere.
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 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 June 2009	Turkish Navy selects ITT radar approach control system Officials in the Turkish Ministry of National Defence needed a radar system for the Cengiz Topel airbase.
National Defense July 2014 Valerie Insinna	Industry Ready to Compete for JSTARS Recapitalization Program The Air Force has ignited an effort to replace its surveillance and targeting aircraft system with modern airframes outfitted with new radar, sensors and communications equipment.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008 J.R. Wilson	Avionics Enter the 5th Generation Advanced military aircraft such as the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the F-22 air-superiority jet fighter and the E-2D Hawkeye carrier-based maritime patrol and radar surveillance aircraft, will have powerful avionics systems like never seen before.
National Defense July 2009 Stew Magnuson	Navy Awaits Arrival of Powerful New Radar-Equipped Aircraft The Navy's new E-2D Advanced Hawkeye surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft has a powerful new radar.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2006 John Keller	Military Aircraft Funding to Peak This Year, Decline Over Next Decade U.S. military aircraft spending will peak this year at $47 billion, and decline to $41 billion in 2017, predict analysts of the Government Electronics and Information Technology Association.
Defense Update July 2008	Saab Debut '2000 Special Mission Aircraft at Farnborough The first Saab Erieye 2000 airborne early warning aircraft is currently undergoing flight testing in Grenada, Spain and expected to continue throughout the fall of this year.
National Defense June 2015 Yasmin Tadjdeh	Thales Eyes Military Customers for Radar Thales is looking to sell its lightweight ground and maritime radar to U.S. military customers.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2009	Brazil selects ITT to provide transportable precision approach radar system ITT's transportable PAR-2000 system is designed to enhance Brazil's radar capability at locations that do not have radar coverage.
Defense Update July 2008	The Russian Fighter's Comeback - Farnborough 2008 Sukhoi 35 and MiG-35 will soon join other Russian fighters at the stables of Russia's national United Aircraft Corporation.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2006	European Helicopter Market to Remain Substantial Over the Next Decade The European military helicopter market will remain healthy due to new requirements, particularly in naval applications, coupled with the need to replace large numbers of surviving airframes dating from the 1960s and 1970s.
Popular Mechanics July 24, 2009 Linda Yin	Inside the Battle for India's Warplane Dollars: Gallery The Indian military is seeking 126 jets that can dogfight and drop bombs, and defense officials there announced that they will begin a year-long series of field trials in August.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2006 John McHale	DARPA Asks Raytheon to Develop Football-Field-Size Radar for Future Surveillance Airship The goal of the Integrated Sensor is Structure program is to develop a stratospheric airship-based autonomous unmanned sensor with years of persistence in surveillance and tracking of aircraft and ground forces.
National Defense August 2015 Stew Magnuson	Primes Line Up to Compete for JSTARS Recap Program The next version of the Air Force's joint surveillance and attack radar aircraft will have a smaller airframe, along with updated radar, communications and battle management suites.
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.
National Defense May 2012 Dan Parsons	Companies Seek Profits In Fee-For-Service Surveillance Aircraft Airborne surveillance has become so popular that even countries that can't afford their own platforms are scrambling to acquire the capability.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2008	In Brief Navy and Marine Corps lead BAE Systems precision-targeted weapon development program... Raytheon to modernize F-15E radar... Lockheed Martin wins contract for U.S. Air Force Self-Awareness Space Situational Awareness... etc.
National Defense November 2013 Valerie Insinna	Company Takes Risk on New Light Strike Plane Textron Inc. and AirLand Enterprises in September debuted their new Scorpion prototype, a tactical jet aircraft that the companies funded without government dollars.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2009	SELEX Galileo Radar Selected for U.S. Customs and Border Protection Citation Fleet SELEX Galileo will upgrade the Customs and Border Protection C-550 Citation Tracker Aircraft with the company's Vixen 500E intercept radar and associated mission management system.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2007 Courtney E. Howard	Northrop Grumman to Produce E-2D Advanced Hawkeye for U.S. Navy U.S. Navy officials awarded the contractor a $408 million contract to build three E-2D Advanced Hawkeye carrier-based airborne early warning and battle management command and control aircraft through 2010.
National Defense February 2012 Dan Parsons	Military Helicopter Fleets Showing Their Age Many models are expected to reach the end of their operational lives in the 2030 to 2040 timeframe.
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.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2004	Air Force Looks to the Next Generation of Avionics Networking In September, Air Force and industry leaders ran a time--critical targeting exercise at Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass. Their goal was to reduce the sensor-to-shooter timeline by combining data from disparate sensors, air platforms, and ground stations
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2004	Briefs Northrop Grumman awarded contract for B-2 bomber radar modernization... BiTMICRO to advance iSCSI target appliances... Radstone and Ultra Electronics Datel partner on DO-178B solution... General Dynamics to modify M1A2 Abrams SEP tanks... etc.
National Defense February 2016 Jon Harper	Air Force Facing Budgetary Train Wreck Absent a major increase in topline funding, the Air Force acquisition budget will experience a crunch in the 2020s, analysts said.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2009 Edward J. Walsh	Warship radar technology designers set sights on next-generation Navy cruiser The companies are stressing compliance with Navy "open-architecture" mandates, technology risk reduction, and the need to meet new airborne and missile threats.
National Defense May 2012 Dan Parsons	Special Operations Boost Demand for Helicopters Special operations forces have a dedicated fleet of tricked-out helicopters at their disposal, but as their workload grows, they are increasingly reliant on conventional aircraft to get their jobs done.