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National Defense October 2006 Stew Magnuson	U.S. Labs Look for Edge as Night Vision Technology Spreads While night vision technology is ubiquitous, military research labs continue the push to give U.S. war fighters nighttime optics that are several steps ahead of what can be bought at any hunting and fishing store, or duplicated by foreign militaries.
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 January 2005 Ben Ames	Optical sensors light up the battlefield Tomorrow's sensors will be modular, digital, fused, and networked
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.
National Defense April 2014 Sandra I. Erwin	Army to Equip Soldiers With New Sensors for Night Targeting The wars of the past decade exposed weaknesses in Army technology for infantry troops. Close-combat equipment such as night vision goggles and weapon sights are bulky and drain batteries fast.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2008	BAE Systems Delivers Prototype Multispectral Imaging Night-Vision Goggles to U.S. Army BAE Systems is delivering a prototype, helmet-mounted, night-vision goggle system to the Army that combines visible-light and infrared sensor technology.
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.
National Defense October 2009 Grace V. Jean	Future Night Vision Devices: More Than Just Goggles Future night-vision goggles are being designed not just to see better at night but also to allow soldiers to share images of what they see with other soldiers who may be miles away.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2009	Electro--Optic Brief Military night-vision goggles provided to British military by ITT... Rugged camera for covert surveillance introduced by Toshiba Teli America... Electro-optical infrared sensor for armored vehicle night vision is aim of BAE contract... 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.
National Defense December 2013 Valerie Insinna	Special Operators to Test Digital Night Vision Goggles Troops currently rely on analog night vision goggles that use image intensifier tubes to amplify existing light, but new digital goggles and cameras are finally making their way into the hands of special operators and pilots.
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 February 2006 Ben Ames	ITT picks Kopin display for Army night-vision goggles The Enhanced Night Vision Goggle helps improve mobility and situational awareness by providing the soldier with combined images from an image intensifier and a thermal imager.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2005 Ben Ames	Designers make incremental improvements to 2-G infrared viewers Military users of infrared scopes will have to wait another five or ten years to see full production of third-generation scopes. In the meantime, today's "2.5-generation" devices offer lighter weight, smaller size, and better power efficiency than older second-generation devices.
National Defense April 2004 Michael Peck	Army Seeks to Upgrade Night-Vision Goggles Experts at the Army's night-vision laboratory predict that a new generation of goggles now in development will fix some of the shortcomings in existing devices, such as image quality and the ability to see through smoke and dust.
National Defense August 2011 Grace V. Jean	New Sensor Aims to Give F-35 Pilots a 'Window Into the Night' F-35 fighter pilots will wear a helmet that allows them to peer into the darkness with ease -- but only if a new digital sensor proves itself as capable as or better than existing night vision technology.
National Defense October 2009 Grace V. Jean	Inadequate Displays, Shortage of Bandwidth Could Slow Advances in Night Vision Systems The military's night-vision capabilities are going digital, but displaying and sharing those electronic feeds could become a problem in the future if the dissemination of battlefield video today is any indication.
National Defense November 2004 Joe Pappalardo	High Demand for Infrared Technology on Battlefield Advances in manufacturing technology are allowing a new generation of infrared imaging devices to reach the battlefield in record numbers, according to military and industry sources.
National Defense June 2005 Robert H. Williams	Night Fighting Made Easier With Advanced Goggles The U.S. Army will be spending $560 million over the next five years on enhanced night-vision goggles that, for the first time, combine image intensification and infrared images.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2005	Army Picks ITT for Night-Vision Goggles Engineers with the U.S. Army needed better night-vision capability for soldiers on dark or foggy battlefields. They found a solution with Enhanced Night Vision Goggles (ENVGs) from ITT. The contract has a potential value of $560 million over five years.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2005 John McHale	Sensors Unlimited develops InGaAs technology for cutting-edge IR programs Indium gallium arsenide-based shortwave infrared imaging is being merged with thermal imaging for military night-vision technology to produce an imaging network with soldiers and with command-and-control authorities.
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.
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 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.
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 August 2007 Stew Magnuson	Army Helos Can Thwart Missiles, But Remain Vulnerable The Army has made progress protecting helicopters flying in Iraq from shoulder-fired missiles, but its crews and aircraft routinely are the targets of small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades.
National Defense July 2005 Robert H. Williams	Nighttime Field-of-View Doubles for Pilots The night just got a bit brighter for special operations crews. The 20 Block I panoramic night vision goggles offer pilots a 95-degree field of vision that compares to 40 degrees for standard devices.
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 October 2008	ITT Night-Vision Tubes Selected for U.S. Military Aircraft Engineers at ITT Night Vision are delivering 16-millimeter imaging intensifiers to be integrated into the Panoramic Night Vision Goggle (PNVG) and the Quad-Eye.
National Defense July 2013 Valerie Insinna	New Lightweight Infrared Systems Under Development for Army Raytheon officials said its third wave of forward-looking infrared devices, called FLIR, could be in soldiers' hands within a few years.
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 July 2013 Stew Magnuson	Battlefield Sensors Continue To Make Technological Leaps Hyperspectral and wide-area surveillance sensors are two examples of technologies that military leaders have touted as success stories.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2005	InGaAs shortwave infrared enables imaging of invisible lasers The expansion of military efforts has resulted in a dramatic increase in the number of electro-optic (EO) systems installed on military hardware. -Electro-optic imaging systems are now on everything from aircraft carriers to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to individual soldiers' rifles and helmets.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2007 Courtney E. Howard	Flexible and Wearable Display Technologies Are Critical to Today's Dismounted Soldiers The U.S. Department of Defense is increasingly investing in the advancement of display technology for military applications. The U.S. Army, in particular, is a driving force in the acceleration of display technology for defense environments.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2008	ARINC chooses ITT night-vision tubes for Navy, Air Force The aviation solutions are designed with four, rather than the traditional two, image tubes to expand the user's field of view.
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.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2007 John McHale	BAE Systems Unveils New Helmet-Mounted Display Technology Engineers at BAE Systems are using unconventional optics in the new Q-Sight helmet-mounted display technology to create a reduced-weight helmet for combat aircraft pilots.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2007	Electro-Optics Briefs Northrop Grumman awards LaBarge $2 million... StockerYale introduces LED spot projectors... Imperx adds GenCAM and GigE vision compliance to Lynx camera family... etc.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2004	BAE Systems Introduces Handheld Thermal Imagers for Law Enforcement The HHC100 Series is a low-cost, lightweight, rugged series of IR cameras. The U.S. Army recently selected BAE Systems to supply a family of next-generation thermal weapon sights for its soldiers.
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.
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.
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.
National Defense September 2009 Grace V. Jean	We Want What U.S. Troops Have: Better Night Vision Goggles Because the demand from U.S. forces for night vision goggles has been so high in recent years, major suppliers such as ITT Night Vision have focused on their Pentagon customers rather than the international market.
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 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.
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 April 2014 Dan Parsons	Wearable Computers Closer to Combat Use With the introduction of Google Glass, rumors circulated that the private sector had solved the wearable-computer conundrum the U.S. military has tackled for years.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2006 Ben Ames	Special forces demand smaller, lighter electronics Special operations forces still rely on advanced electronics to move with speed and stealth through hostile territory, but the last thing they want is one more gadget to hang on their vests.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2008	French army employs ULIS uncooled thermal sensors The uncooled thermal sensors will be affixed to the French army's thermal imaging rifle sights, multifunction goggles, and cameras for day and night operation.