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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 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 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 April 2007	Northrop Grumman to Provide Finnish Air Force Combat Jets with LITENING Advanced Targeting System Fighter-bomber pilots in the air force of Finland needed advanced optical targeting systems for their fleet of Boeing F/A-18 Hornet jet strike fighters and chose Northrop Grumman's LITENING AT system.
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 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 2005 Ben Ames	Optical sensors light up the battlefield Tomorrow's sensors will be modular, digital, fused, and networked
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2005	In Brief BAE systems to develop on-board generator for Humvee... Navy P-3C aircraft use data link from Lockheed Martin... Northrop Grumman tests software for Webb Space Telescope... Air Force eyes state-of-the-art jet fighter targeting pods... etc.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2009	In Brief Airbus integrates MTAD... FAA annual aviation forecast ... Northrop Grumman delivers SBIRS GEO-2 payload... Boeing Airborne Laser begins weapon system flight tests... etc.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2007	In Brief Boeing picosatellite mission to advance miniature satellite technology... Army awards General Dynamics $31 million for combat vehicle work... United Kingdom awards Lockheed Martin Trident missile-support contract... etc.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006	Optoelectronics Briefs Optical fire-control units for Army lightweight artillery... Optical security camera backup system... $49.9 million contract for shipboard infrared visual sensor systems... L-3 Communications acquires EOTech... etc.
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 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.
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 June 2004 J.R. Wilson	Optical Technologies Are Key to Securing U.S. Military Facilities A wide variety of optical technologies are being brought to bear on safeguarding U.S. military facilities, which for the first time have become potential targets for foreign terrorists.
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 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 February 2008 John Keller	TSAT Deserves Support From Congress and the Pentagon Transformation Satellite communication (TSAT) will provide the future high-speed network entry point for military users who do not have ground-based connections.
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.
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.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2007	Electro-optics briefs Stran Technologies qualifies fiber-optic connectors to military standards... Northrop Grumman to supply laser designators to U.S. forces under... Oakley expands military optics business with acquisition of Eye Safety Systems... etc.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2007	In Brief BAE Systems seeker detects missile target in THAAD weapon system test... Northrop Grumman wins Marine Corps contract for Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar (G/ATOR)... etc.
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.
National Defense June 2004 Michael Peck	Expanding Communications Faced with a bandwidth crunch prompted in part by multiplying flocks of unmanned aerial vehicles that are transmitting multi-megabyte pictures, Defense Department planners are counting on a new generation of communications satellites to expand capacity
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008	In Brief Boeing installs high-energy laser on Laser Gunship aircraft... Northrop Grumman develops high-speed transistor... Raytheon tests air-launched missile defense system... 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 July 2007 John McHale	Can You Hear me Now? Military designers are using more and more commercial-off-the shelf (COTS) equipment to provide warfighters on land, sea, and in the air with a communications network that goes beyond line of sight and provides data in real time.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2007	In Brief Boeing awarded U.S. Marine Corps contract to extend ScanEagle services... Lockheed Martin completes test of Space-Based Infrared System... London defense show set for September 2007... etc.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2008	In Brief Northrop Grumman receives contract for Airborne and Maritime/Fixed Station Joint Tactical Radio System... Raytheon delivers 100th AESA radar for Super Hornet and Growler jet aircraft... Boeing GPS IIF Satellite completes environmental tests... etc.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2008	In Brief Lockheed Martin to provide 17 radar systems to Romania... Boeing awarded second contract for F-15 radar upgrade work... Northrop Grumman to build U.S. Army missile interceptor system prototype... 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 December 2007	In Brief Boeing teams with Northrop Grumman to develop B-52H Core Component Jammer... Fourth modernized Lockheed Martin GPS satellite launched.. Northrop Grumman introduces Geospatial Data Appliance for defense and intelligence operations... etc.
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 August 2009 John Keller	Network-Centric Warfare Airborne Military Communications Links Approved for Deployment U.S. Air Force officials are planning to switch an airborne military communications networking link from prototype stage to deployment, which will provide a tactical gateway that links fighting forces in the field.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2005	In Brief Northrop Grumman to provide Theater Deployable Communications kits to Air Force... Air Force looks to ITT for night-vision goggles... Northrop Grumman wins Navy logistics contract for shipboard electronics... 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 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 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 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.
National Defense November 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Navy Wraps Up Review of Air-to-Ground Targeting Systems Deployed on Fighter Jets A review of three air-to-ground targeting systems designed for Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps fighter jets is expected to leave current programs intact, sources said.
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 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.
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 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.
National Defense March 2011 Grace V. Jean	Changes Possible for F-35's Communication Network F-35 program managers at prime contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. are eyeing an emerging technology that would enable them to make the full transition from copper wires to fiber-optic cables.
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 January 2007	In Brief Boeing awarded JDAM contract... DRS Technologies to develop high-speed electric generator for navy... Lockheed Martin's 100th Aegis weapon system ready for duty... Altera and White Electronic Designs partner on specialized FPGA packaging... 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.