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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
January 2006 |
Lockheed Martin Picks L-3 Display for F-35 L-3 Display Systems will design the Panoramic Cockpit Display (PCD) subsystem, a high-resolution, high-brightness, night-vision-compatible liquid-crystal display and a highly redundant display management computer. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
January 2006
Ben Ames |
Three teams compete to build NOAA climate satellite The next-generation GOES-R satellites will collect 100 times more data and scan the Earth three- to-five times faster than previous systems. |
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
January 2006 |
Seiler Builds Fire-Control Optics for Light Howitzer Army leaders named Seiler to supply the optical fire-control unit for the new Lightweight 155-mm howitzer under a $5.7 million contract. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
November 2005 |
Optoelectronics Briefs Dual-wavelength focal-plane array in development... Double-clad ytterbium fiber available for fiber-laser applications...Ultraviolet refractive beam shaper unveiled... Navy picks supplier for optoelectronic sensor systems... Air Force awards contract for high-power fiber amplifier... etc. |
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
January 2006
John McHale |
Infrared Products Continue to Improve Warfighter Capability Designers of infrared technology for military applications are all in agreement-business is not only good, but continued growth and support for new designs and capability are expected. Success on night battlefields has made the U.S. soldier hungry for even more products and new capabilities. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
March 2005
John McHale |
Scared of the dark? For thousands of years armies were wary of attacking at night. They could make use of artificial light - whether torches, searchlights, or headlights - but illumination always risked revealing maneuvers. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
February 2006 |
Optoelectronics Briefs L-3 Communications Cincinnati delivers FLIR imager for Stryker gun... Army names EOIR Technologies for sensor research contract... Connex is new distributor for Stratos Lightwave... Korean air force picks Elbit Systems for EO/IR imager... etc. |
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. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
April 2007
John McHale |
Sensitive and Tireless: High-Endurance UAVs Sense What Men Cannot Sensors for unmanned aircraft are evolving in efficiency and capability as payload designers look for every possible edge in surveillance, combat, and collision avoidance. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
October 2009 |
Electro-Optic Brief Photonics mast, electro-optical sensor suite for attack submarines to come from Kollmorgen... Uncooled infrared focal-plane array top supplier ranking goes to DRS Technologies.... etc. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
July 2005 |
Optoelectronics briefs Santa Barbara Infrared delivers optical test equipment... Army picks EOIR Technologies for surveillance prototypes... Pulse generator for high-resolution military photonic applications...KVH to upgrade optical navigation systems... Blue-violet laser-diode modules... etc. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
February 2010
John McHale |
First round accuracy Many special forces operators like to say the last thing they want is a fair fight. They want to overwhelm the enemy so that he cannot even shoot back. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
January 2006 |
L-3 Buys Electro-Optics Company Leaders at L-3 Communications announced in November they had acquired EOTech Inc. for $49 million. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
June 2005
Ben Ames |
Weather Forecasters Turn to High Technology From warfighting to civilian airline schedules, weather controls our lives. The modern meteorologist builds forecasting models on powerful computers, and pulls data from radars, satellites, and a global network of sensors deployed on airplanes, weather balloons, and ocean buoys. |
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
July 2008
John McHale |
Locked down, sensors everywhere Perimeters today are being protected by sensors that detect everything from x-ray scanners at checkpoints to cameras mounted on unmanned aircraft. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
January 2005 |
Products Direct flash lamp pumped die laser... Military- and space-qualified laser diodes... Near-infrared diode laser... etc. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
November 2007
Courtney E. Howard |
Training for the War on Terror Military personnel throughout the ranks hone their skills with advanced training and simulation systems. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
January 2008 |
Products Adimec introduces OPAL-1000m, fast 1-megapixel cameras... Impulse adds two members to the Titan range of connectors... Cedip offers thermal surveillance system for military applications... Sensor fusion in a HUD... etc. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
August 2006 |
Electro-Optics Briefs Jenoptik offers new infrared camera module... Boeing-led team tracks and targets simulated missile in Airborne Laser ground test... DRS Technologies receives Army contract for next-generation thermal weapon sights... |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
January 2007
Courtney E. Howard |
Thermal-Imaging Technology Turns Night Into Day for u.s. Warfighters Thermal weapon sights tap the latest infrared technologies to aid warfighters in target acquisition, location, and identification. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
January 2007 |
DRS Technologies to provide lightweight electro-optical/infrared sensors for Army FCS UAVs The sensors will provide imagery during reconnaissance, surveillance, and target-acquisition (RSTA) missions and enhanced reconnaissance and security/early-warning capabilities, which will increase situational awareness. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
May 2008 |
In Brief Boeing flies fuel cell-powered airplane... Lockheed Martin to support DOD high-performance computing centers... General Dynamics awarded $159 million for Abrams tank work... etc. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
November 2006 |
Electro-optics Briefs FLIR Systems wins order from U.S. Navy... Megapixel camera for demanding machine-vision applications... Edmund Optics expands into the ultraviolet... Toshiba offers extreme-low-light surveillance camera for homeland security... etc. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
July 2006 |
Electro-optics Briefs Image sensors from e2v help NASA to study Pluto... Jenoptik Laser names Coastal Optical Systems as North American distributor... High-performance IR camera for demanding applications... etc. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
July 2007 |
Products Mercury offers integrated UAV-based reconnaissance system... Statek crystal oscillators for unmanned vehicles... Power-amplifier module from Merrimac Industries drives UAV communications links... etc. |
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. |
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. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
February 2008
Courtney E. Howard |
Smart Sensors Homeland security and military personnel increasingly rely on intelligent sensor technology for surveillance and electronic intelligence. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
January 2010 |
Electro-Optic Brief Rugged display systems for Navy P-8A maritime patrol aircraft provided by Parvus... KVH wins $10.2 million in orders for fiber-optic gyros for remote weapon stations... ITT wins $19.3 million night-vision goggle contract... etc. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
July 2009
John McHale |
It Always Feels Like Somebody's Watching me... Today's video security technology can provide impressive detailed surveillance in many ways, but developers are using video analytics, image fusion, and high-definition methods to obtain even better night and day images. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
November 2007
John McHale |
Customizing to Their Needs Commercial off-the-shelf technologies have streamlined components in defense applications, but some mission-critical situations call for products that must be designed from the ground up to aid war fighters on the battlefield. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
August 2006 |
L-3 Communications Cincinnati Electronics provides thermal imagers for MK46 optical sight system L-3 Communications will provide the thermal imagers for the MK46 Optical Sight System on the U.S. Navy's Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruisers. |
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
July 2006 |
LynuxWorks LynxOS-178 to Control F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Panoramic Cockpit Display Avionics designers at L-3 Communications needed a safety-critical real-time operating system for a portion of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft. They found their solution in the LynxOS-178 DO-178B-certifiable ARINC-653 and POSIX-conformant RTOS from LynuxWorks. |
National Defense
October 2013
Valerie Insinna |
New Technologies Fuel Advancements in Night Vision Goggles Unlike the massive acquisition programs for fighter jets and combat vehicles, night vision technologies need to be refreshed every few years in order for troops to maintain their edge against adversaries. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
October 2004 |
Display technology leaps to the next generation Liquid-crystal displays still dominate military and aerospace applications, but new technologies are set to introduce flexible, conformal displays that could be part of clothing or rolled up like a scroll. |
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
December 2004 |
Air Force Eyes Combination Infrared Camera and Communications Device U.S. Air Force scientists are looking to Sensors Unlimited Inc. to develop a smart, multifunction, dual-wavelength combination video camera and communications tool for night-vision surveillance and reconnaissance applications. |
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
May 2008 |
Products Martek Power offers high-power, multichannel power modules... Aeroflex offers Battery Electronic Unit family of Li-Ion cell balancing products... Elmo offers board-mounted servo drive with 5 kilowatts continuous power... etc. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
April 2005 |
Product applications Lockheed Martin uses Evans capacitors for Arrowhead... Actel processor drives image-recognition engine... Air Force uses Cray computer for surveillance... Anteon picks Harris to manage Army training video... Boeing orders test center from Rohde & Schwarz... General Dynamics picks Enea operating system for MUOS radio... Goodrich picks Radstone processors for F-16... Navy taps L-3 for helicopter display... |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
February 2005 |
Product Applications General Dynamics uses IEC displays in Stryker... Army uses intrusion software to stop hackers... Northrop Grumman uses Vektrex power interface on F-35... etc. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
September 2006 |
Electro-Optics Briefs BAE Systems offers infrared camera cores for military and rugged commercial applications... ITT wins Norwegian contract for night-vision systems... Sofradir wins contract for long-wave infrared detectors... etc. |
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. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
June 2009 |
Electro-optics Brief Machine vision system, software... Reconnaissance satellite goes operational... Green fiber lasers... Rugged flat panels for U.S. Navy CDS program... etc. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
November 2008 |
Naval Surface Warfare Center employs FLIR Systems technology The systems will be installed on military ground vehicles to provide surveillance, identification, detection, and limited tracking capabilities in all light and weather conditions. |
