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National Defense January 2010 Stew Magnuson |
Military 'Swimming In Sensors and Drowning in Data' Synthesizing all the collections of intelligence and disseminating them quickly is a challenge facing the military. |
National Defense November 2009 Erwin, Jean & Magnuson |
Today's Fights Expose Technological Weak Spots Disruptive challenges, such as roadside bombs, combatants camouflaged as civilians, and insurgent camps that are undetectable by electronic sensors, have forced U.S. military leaders to search for new tactics and technologies. |
National Defense November 2009 Grace V. Jean |
Battlefield Intelligence: Easy to Collect, Tough to Share The U.S. military has deployed unmanned aircraft and other information collection devices at a pace that exceeds the capabilities of battlefield intelligence systems to archive, analyze and disseminate the video and imagery. |
National Defense July 2013 Dan Parsons |
U.S. Special Operations Command Seeks Intelligence Capabilities for Duty Worldwide Business opportunities abound providing communications and ISR gear for special operations. |
National Defense May 2008 Breanne Wagner |
Urban Surveillance Still Falling Short, Say Army Commanders Army commanders need more sophisticated aerial surveillance sensors to give them a wider, more detailed view of the complex urban battlefield. |
National Defense March 2011 Eric Beidel |
Eyes of Army Drones Multiply, Open Wide Even though unmanned aircraft have generally been spared from the conversation about the Pentagon's spending cuts, Army officials want to increase ISR capabilities without adding personnel or aircraft. |
National Defense July 2015 Jon Harper |
Surveillance Technology a Priority For Special Operations Forces Members of U.S. Special Operations Command's aviation component face difficult technological challenges as they seek to improve their ability to find, track and destroy the enemy. |
National Defense June 2008 Sandra I. Erwin |
More Eyes in The Sky May Not Generate Better Intelligence Military services are moving to accelerate the production and deployment of surveillance aircraft. But more eyes in the sky may not necessarily translate into better information on the ground. |
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. |
National Defense March 2006 Grace Jean |
Urban Battlefield is Proving Ground For Unmanned Aerial Systems Demand for smaller and more capable aircraft systems continues to grow but analysts say that in order to make these aircraft more effective in the urban environment, a fistful of technology improvements are needed. |
National Defense January 2006 Sandra I. Erwin |
Agency Grapples With Demand For Detailed, Timely Intelligence In response to a soaring demand for battlefield imagery and digital maps, the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency is seeking to automate the parsing and analysis of intelligence, and to make its products more easily available to front-line commanders. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2009 J.R. Wilson |
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Get Ready for Prime Time Government leaders are supportive of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) use in non-military applications such as border control, emergency response, law enforcement, and forest fire surveillance. |
National Defense April 2005 Joe Pappalardo |
Unmanned Aircraft `Roadmap' Reflects Changing Priorities More attention needs to be paid to the technology supporting the Defense Department's unmanned aircraft systems. |
National Defense November 2012 Stew Magnuson |
Wide Area Surveillance Sensors Prove Value on Battlefields Heidi Breslow, a retired Marine Corps corporal and battlefield intelligence analyst, described how she would use unmanned aerial vehicles coupled with the latest wide area airborne surveillance sensors to help protect ground troops. |
National Defense September 2004 Sandra I. Erwin |
Battlefield Information Glut Not Always Useful to Soldiers The U.S. military services need to find better ways to collect and manage intelligence in complex urban war zones, according to U.S. Joint Forces Command studies. |
National Defense January 2016 Allyson Versprille |
Affordable Surveillance a Priority for Special Operations U.S. Special Operations Command is looking to add more affordable surveillance, intelligence and reconnaissance systems to its inventory, the head of acquisition and procurement said. |
National Defense January 2009 Grace V. Jean |
Drone Operators Ask Industry For 'Open' Systems The ground-based equipment that is used to fly unmanned combat aircraft is not adequate to handle the demanding missions of current conflicts, operators say. |
National Defense October 2010 Eric Beidel |
Uncertainty, Challenges Mark Future For Military's Unpiloted Aircraft The use of unmanned aerial systems in Iraq and Afghanistan has shown that they are invaluable in uncontested airspace. But questions remain about how the current generation of U.S. drones would fair in unfriendly skies. |
National Defense January 2010 Stew Magnuson |
Ground Forces Still Want Manned Surveillance Aircraft, General Says While the U.S. military during the last eight years has become enamored of remotely piloted aircraft, the Air Force is rapidly fielding a new manned twin-propeller airplane to monitor battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan. |
National Defense June 2005 Sandra I. Erwin |
Outdated Army Training, Education Programs Get Revamped The U.S. Army is preparing to expand its intelligence workforce by as many as 15,000 officers during the next several years. |
National Defense July 2012 Eric Beidel |
Controversies Do Little to Temper U.S. Employment of Armed Aerial Drones With the war in Iraq over and the one in Afghanistan winding down, the fight against terrorists will become more decentralized, leaving experts to ponder where the United States will next employ its armed drones. |
Defense Update Issue 1, 2006 |
The Challenges of Command and Control in Urban Operations In the past, offensive military operations have usually been conducted in urban environments only when unavoidable, but conflicts are shifting into the cities, where terrorists and insurgents find safe havens. |
National Defense March 2011 Grace V. Jean |
Broadcast Television Tools to Help Intelligence Analysts Wade Through Data The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is preparing to use tools that will help war commanders sift through live and recorded video quickly to pinpoint key clips and highlight information with the ease of sports broadcasters. |
Parameters Spring 2005 Saxby Chambliss |
We Have Not Correctly Framed the Debate on Intelligence Reform Over the last decade, our intelligence community has failed us. It wasn't able to penetrate the al Qaeda terrorist organization, and we paid a high price for that failure. |
National Defense November 2013 Sandra I. Erwin |
Changing World Blazes New Trails For Military Technology A striking array of challenges is reshaping the course of defense technology. The United States is entering an era characterized by fiscal austerity and the rise of "non-state" actors as enemies of nation states. |
National Defense April 2005 Roxana Tiron |
Irregular Warfare Counter-insurgency in Iraq provides a template for fighting terrorism. |
National Defense December 2007 Stew Magnuson |
U.S. Military Still Struggling to Understand Urban Environment Even after four years of combat in Iraq, industry and the Pentagon seem slow to catch up to the demands of urban war. |
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 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. |
National Defense November 2014 Sandra I. Erwin |
As Defense, Intelligence Agencies Drown in Data, Technology Comes to the Rescue The task of filtering and sorting through massive loads of data is only going to get bigger as the military and intelligence agencies collect more information than they can handle. |
National Defense June 2004 Sandra I. Erwin |
More Than Technology Is Needed to Win Wars As events unfold in Iraq, much second-guessing goes on in Washington, not just about the overall U.S. strategy or lack thereof, but also on whether the hundreds of billions of dollars allocated every year to weapon systems are being spent on the right things. |
National Defense March 2010 Stew Magnuson |
Future Remotely Piloted Aircraft Will Do More Than Surveillance Military leaders are beginning think about concepts for the third-generation UAVs. In the future, they will want the drones to do a lot more than peer down on adversaries. |
National Defense July 2011 Grace V. Jean |
Remotely Piloted Aircraft Fuel Demand for Satellite Bandwidth The communications-hungry drones consume large amounts of bandwidth to pipe battlefield video feeds and other sensor data back to intelligence centers and to forces on the ground. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2004 Ben Ames |
Military Warns Contractors About Pitfalls of Joint Weapons Design Pentagon planners are pushing the different service branches to share equipment and split the cost of customized-weapons development. This joint operation will help transform the American military into a lighter, faster force, they say. |
National Defense July 2006 Sandra I. Erwin |
Surveillance Drone Operators Find Ways to Outsmart Enemy A burgeoning fleet of unmanned aircraft is among the Army's key weapons against Iraq's insurgency. But the technology alone is not enough to gain an edge over this enemy, experts say. |
National Defense July 2006 Grace Jean |
Irregular Warfare Underscores Equipment Shortcomings While U.S. military commanders in the Middle East generally are satisfied by Pentagon efforts to move needed technologies to the front lines, much remains to be done. |
National Defense November 2011 Beidel et al. |
10 Technologies the U.S. Military Will Need For the Next War Examples are faster and quieter helicopters, advanced crowd-control weapons, lighter infantry equipment that doesn't overburden troops, ultra-light trucks and better battlefield communications. |
National Defense March 2011 Stew Magnuson |
Army Takes Wait-and-See Approach for Unmanned Cargo Resupply Aircraft As the Marine Corps moves ahead with field tests of unmanned helicopters that can resupply remote bases in Afghanistan, the Army is taking a cautious approach to the concept. |
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. |
Defense Update Issue 2, 2005 |
Turning raw data into actionable intelligence Utilizing modern commercial off the shelf technology, sensor data can be rapidly processed and presented over a common map display. These products can be used by both intelligence analysts and warfighters. |
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 January 2007 |
BAE Systems to Provide Precise Threat ID to U.S. Army BAE Systems has received a U.S. Army contract for a new generation of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) systems that will provide precise detection and identification of known and potential threats. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2009 John Keller |
Finally, a DOD budget request; now Congress can get to work Congress is facing a defense budget proposal from the Obama Administration of $663.8 billion -- $533.8 billion in discretionary spending and $130 billion to pay for fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. |
National Defense November 2005 Sandra I. Erwin |
Intelligence: The Silver Bullet That Will Beat the Insurgency Until the military can come to grips with their intelligence problem in Iraq, it will continue to pay the price in the form of casualties, which have now reached nearly 2,000 dead and more than 14,000 wounded. |
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. |
National Defense April 2013 Sandra I. Erwin |
Satellite Shortages May Choke Off Military Drone Expansion It is a perennial problem in military operations that there is never enough satellite capacity to satisfy commanders' gargantuan appetite for voice and data communications. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006 |
Global Hawk Uses Raytheon Optics Pilots of the Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) monitor enemy targets with an electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) high-resolution imaging system built by Raytheon's Space and Airborne Systems division. |
National Defense August 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
Future War: How The Game is Changing "It's hard to concentrate on a grand strategy when your house is on fire," said Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis, head of U.S. Joint Forces Command. Even as they cope with the frantic demands of two major wars, military leaders say they have a clearer sense of the future than they did in the 1990s. |
National Defense March 2013 Sandra I. Erwin |
Defense, Intelligence Agencies Struggle to Unify Data Networks It is an article of faith among military strategists that information wins wars. This dogma, however, often collides with the reality that military information systems resemble the Tower of Babel. |
National Defense October 2013 Valerie Insinna |
Navy's New Drones Taking Center Stage The Navy finally is developing its own custom unmanned air systems, with the service planning on fielding four new aircraft in the next few years. |