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National Defense February 2014 Stew Magnuson |
Military Wrestles With the High Cost of Satellite Terminals Pricey spacecraft and rockets receive plenty of attention in the press and on Capitol Hill, but terminals are where the real savings are to be found for a Defense Department challenged by decreasing budgets, industry and government officials said. |
National Defense January 2009 Stew Magnuson |
Military Services Follow Dissimilar Paths Toward Digital Communications All three services have programs in different stages of development that are designed to bring digital communications to the battlefield. |
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. |
National Defense January 2013 Stew Magnuson |
Game-Changing Laser Communications Ready For Fielding, Vendors Say Sending data with lasers, rather than radio frequencies, has the potential to revolutionize the way the military communicates, proponents of the technology have said. |
National Defense January 2008 Stew Magnuson |
Promise of `Revolution' in Satellite Communications Faces Challenges Recently, the Air Force launched the first of five Wideband Global Satcom spacecraft, marking the first in a series of four constellations that will revolutionize the military's ability to communicate with forces on the ground. |
National Defense January 2013 Stew Magnuson |
Military Space Communications Lacks Direction, Critics Say The Defense Department is at a standstill when it comes to figuring out what it will require to maintain its future military space communications architecture, both industry and government officials said at a recent industry conference -- and nobody seems to be in charge. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2006 John McHale |
Current Military Operations May Slow SATCOM Development Trends within the U.S. Department of Defense may slow development funding for next-generation satellite communications such as WIN-T, yet the promised technologies of these programs, such as Internet Protocol systems, continue to demonstrate successfully. |
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. |
National Defense June 2015 Yasmin Tadjdeh |
Trouble Integrating Waveform Leaves New MUOS Satellites With Little to Do The U.S. military's long-standing problem of aligning the deployment of spacecraft with the development of their Earth-bound terminals and ground stations is plaguing the Navy's powerful new communications satellite system. |
National Defense January 2012 Stew Magnuson |
Space Command Looks To Fill Communication Gaps as Budgets Tighten "Doing more without more," -- the mantra coming from the office of the secretary of defense -- is a challenge for the Air Force as it tries to keep pace with growing demands for its satellite communications. |
National Defense January 2008 Stew Magnuson |
Army Exploring New Ways to Beam Streaming Video to Fast-Moving Troops The Army and Marines are in the beginning stages of a joint program that will explore the possibility of real-time streaming video, voice and other communications to mobile units. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2005 Ben Ames |
Army pushes WIN-T network toward launch The Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) is the Army's next-generation communications system that will link battlefield soldiers to voice, data, and video on a single network. |
National Defense June 2008 Sandra I. Erwin |
Mobile Broadband for Roaming Troops: Pipe Dream or Reality? Soldiers on the front line have little or no access to the Internet and their communication is limited to line-of-sight radios. The Defense Department is working on improving this, but will they succeed? |
National Defense January 2013 Rich Sorelle |
How to Equip the U.S. Military For Future Electronic Warfare The Navy and Air Force have adopted "air-sea battle." The concept entails highly coordinated, cross-domain operations designed to "disrupt the adversary's intelligence collection and command and control used to employ A2/AD weapons systems. |
National Defense January 2011 Stew Magnuson |
Out-of-Synch Satellite and Terminal Programs Cost Pentagon Millions It is an example of a longtime problem in the U.S. military: a lack of coordination between those who build and launch satellites, and those who develop the devices that connect the billion-dollar spacecraft with soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines. |
National Defense January 2016 Stew Magnuson |
Marines Prepare to Fight at Sea, on the Ground, From the Air After more than a decade of slogging counterinsurgency warfare, the Marine Corps is preparing for the conflicts of the future. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2005 John McHale |
Networking Tomorrow's Battlefields General Dynamics and Lockheed Martin experts are already designing and demonstrating technologies for a network-centric force on the move through the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T), the U.S. Army's next-generation battlefield network backbone. |
National Defense December 2014 Stew Magnuson |
Powerful New UHF Satellite System Expected by End of 2015 After more than a decade of development, 2015 promises to be a key year for the Navy's mobile user objective system communication satellite. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2005 J.R. Wilson |
Transformational Communications The world of military communications is on the verge of massive and revolutionary change, driving towards a networked battlespace. Still, what matters most is the person at the "pointy end of the spear." |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum March 2005 DeBlois et al. |
Star-Crossed Should the United States, or any nation for that matter, weaponize space? From orbiting lasers to metal rods that strike from the heavens, the potential to wage war from space raises startling possibilities---and serious problems. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2008 John McHale |
Key Tactical Data Link Systems Clear Operational Testing U.S. Navy experts are moving ahead with an upgrade to the Tactical Data Link (TDL) system onboard Navy ships after testing the data link earlier this year. The TDL will transfer information quickly and securely among military assets. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2005 John McHale |
ViaSat demonstrates mobile broadband technology for command and control Engineers at ViaSat demonstrated the equivalent of a DSL connection inside a moving military Humvee during the Command and Control On-the-Move (C2OTM) demonstration by the U.S. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) Joint C4ISR Battle Center. |
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. |
National Defense June 2015 Stew Magnuson |
Air Force to Boost Budget to Prepare for Conflicts in Space A potential conflict on Earth that escalates into space has prompted the Air Force to find an extra $5 billion to spend on offensive and defensive systems to protect national security satellites. |
National Defense November 2014 Stew Magnuson |
Laser Communications to Thwart Jamming, Interception Laser communications, also known as free space opticals, hold the promise of giving the military a means to transmit high amounts of data and voice that is hard to detect and an alternative to traditional radio frequencies. |
National Defense March 2011 Stew Magnuson |
New Radio Software Promises Improved Access to Military Satellites Radio manufacturers this year will offer to their military customers a new application that will provide easier connections to communication satellites. |
National Defense January 2004 Sandra I. Erwin |
Military Bases at Sea: No Longer Unthinkable Staging a military campaign the size of Operation Iraqi Freedom entirely from ships at sea---with no access to land bases---would seem inconceivable to most defense planners. Nonetheless, the notion is gaining momentum at the Pentagon. |
National Defense January 2015 Stew Magnuson |
Air Force Space Programs on Hold as New Architecture Studied The Air Force is in the throes of conducting several studies that service officials say may lead to a radically new space architecture. Meanwhile, getting space system acquisition right is more important than ever. |
Parameters Summer 2005 Cebrowski & Raymond |
Operationally Responsive Space: A New Defense Business Model As the major defense power in the world, the United States military must dare to compete with itself to ensure sustained advantage. We must set our own standards. Space has long been an arena of American dominance. That must continue. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2005 John Keller |
DOD electronics spending may approach $60 billion in 2006 Leaders of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) are proposing a 7.8 percent spending increase for procurement and research in communications, electronics, and intelligence in fiscal year 2006, compared with spending for the same accounts this year. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2005 John McHale |
AUSA showcases technology for a network-centric force Dominating the first Gulf War was the ability of the U.S. military to fight at night as most armies do in daytime. The second Gulf War drove that home even more convincingly. |
National Defense September 2006 Sandra I. Erwin |
Defense Engineers Ponder `Modest Adjustments' for Connecting Forces Incompatible weapon systems and disjointed information networks continue to be a source of frustration at the Defense Department. |
National Defense December 2004 Joe Pappalardo |
Air Force Mulling Over Programs to Kill, Protect Satellites in Space Warfare Much to the consternation of advocates who oppose the use of arms in space, the Air Force is speaking bluntly about its right and intention to explore the orbital deployment of weapons platforms. |
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. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2006 |
WIN-T program is building on the success of JNN An interview with William Weiss, VP of Tactical Networks at General Dynamics C4 Systems about the Warfighter Information Network- Tactical program and General Dynamics' role in it. |
National Defense November 2015 Stew Magnuson |
Marine Corps R&D Focuses on Urban Scenarios That the Marine Corps would like to return to its expeditionary, sea-based roots after serving the past decade in Iraq and Afghanistan is well known. |
National Defense April 2007 Stew Magnuson |
Congress Ponders Action After Chinese Anti-Sat Test After the Chinese demonstrated their ability to destroy enemy spacecraft, analysts say U.S. reliance on satellites and make them a weak link in our defenses. |
National Defense March 2014 James Mazzei |
Why Military Satellites Matter At issue is the next generation of the Navy's Mobile User Objective System, a narrowband tactical satellite communications system that is designed to improve secure voice, video and data services communications for U.S. forces on the move. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2008 John Keller |
DOD Set to Boost Spending for Communications, Electronics, and Intelligence Leaders of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) propose spending $29.16 billion in 2009 for procurement and research in communications, electronics, telecommunications, and intelligence (CET&I) technologies. |
National Defense August 2011 Grace V. Jean |
Drone Sensor Data Will Overload Networks, Navy Officials Warn The expected growth of unmanned systems at sea is raising concerns that the Navy's networks are ill prepared to handle the commensurate flood of data that the sensors will produce. |
National Defense March 2012 Stew Magnuson |
Army, Marine Corps Face Pitfalls When it Comes to Modernizing Equipment As budgets tighten and the military reduces ground forces, the Marine Corps' failed attempt to field the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle may serve as a case study for those hoping to modernize military equipment. |
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 June 2005 John McHale |
RF and Microwave Technology Enable Networking on the Move Designers of RF and microwave technology say low power and small size remain the trend in product designs. Meanwhile, integrators adapt and combine RF and microwave technologies to enable networking on the move. |
National Defense March 2013 Valerie Insinna |
Vendor Plans to Launch Commercial Laser Satellite System Two of the U.S. military's long-standing communications problems could be solved if a new company manages to get its proposed laser-based satellite system off the ground. |
National Defense June 2015 Stew Magnuson |
Air Force Works on Vision of Affordable Space The words "affordable" and "national security space" systems are not often paired together. |
National Defense July 2014 Yasmin Tadjdeh |
New Chinese Threats to U.S. Space Systems Worry Officials If China continues to make strides and develops weapons that reach farther, it could one day threaten key satellites in geosynchronous orbit. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2004 Ben Ames |
Engineers Learn to Blend Technologies in Joint Fighting Platforms To work effectively in joint warfighting, systems must be designed to cooperate from their inception, not patched together after the fact, says Navy Admiral Walter F. Doran, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. |
National Defense August 2014 Dan Parsons |
Lasers Could Become Cost Effective Missile Defense Weapons The U.S. military invests more money than any other country, but its expensive high-tech defenses are increasingly countered by the proliferation of relatively cheap but effective weapons. |
National Defense December 2015 Robert Smith |
Lowering Costs Through Information Sharing Recognizing the significance of the moment, leaders from all U.S. forces have begun to reevaluate -- individually and collaboratively -- the nation's approach to warfare. |