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National Defense
April 2015
Stew Magnuson |
Military Seeing Different Applications, Wider Use of Aerostats and Airships Aerostats and airships are old ideas that are in vogue again in military and homeland security applications.   |
National Defense
February 2013
Sandra I. Erwin |
Proliferation of Cruise Missiles Sparks Concern About U.S. Air Defenses The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan saw the rise of improvised explosive devices as the ultimate asymmetric weapon. Future conflicts, strategists warn, could expose U.S. forces on land and at sea to a deadly weapon that is extremely hard to detect: cruise missiles. |
National Defense
November 2013
Chuck Nash |
U.S. Military Needs Better Defenses From Aerial Attacks The Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor, is a tethered, unmanned aerostat. JLENS could significantly reduce demand for conventional manned platforms and lower the overall cost of the current business model. |
The Motley Fool
April 19, 2010
Rich Smith |
Raytheon's World of Wonders The U.S. Army announced it has begun testing a fleet of blimps manufactured by Raytheon. |
National Defense
February 2016
Jon Harper |
Homeland Missile Defense Projects Remain in Limbo Uncertainty surrounds the future of homeland missile defense at a time of budget constraints and technology challenges. |
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
December 2005
Harold Kennedy |
Pentagon Eyes Growing Short-Range Missile Threat Defense Department officials are warning that terrorists soon could strike U.S. cities with short-range missiles. |
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
March 2014
Sharp & Thurman |
U.S. Military Needs Improved Missile Defense Technology The United States is confronting threats such as cruise missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles and ballistic missiles that can potentially overwhelm the Defense Department's legacy air and missile defense systems. |
Popular Mechanics
January 2007
Frank Vizard |
Tech Watch: Radar Goliath Project ISIS (Integrated Sensor Is Structure) provides improved surveillance capabilities of military or commercial aircraft. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2010
Ariel Bleicher |
The UAV Data Glut Military analysts are buried in video from surveillance drones. Some software tricks could help |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
September 2006
John McHale |
DARPA Asks Raytheon to Develop Football-Field-Size Radar for Future Surveillance Airship The goal of the Integrated Sensor is Structure program is to develop a stratospheric airship-based autonomous unmanned sensor with years of persistence in surveillance and tracking of aircraft and ground forces. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
November 2006 |
ITT awarded GCA-2000 radar contract for Sweden The White Plains, N.Y. company was awarded a contract worth $5 million to supply a transportable GCA-2000 state-of-the-art air traffic control radar. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
October 2005
Ben Ames |
Digital receivers power a new generation of electronic warfare Military technology designers have shifted from analog to digital radar receivers to deal with decentralized threats. The change is a major improvement for size, weight, and power. |
The Motley Fool
May 10, 2010
Rich Smith |
21st Century Battlefield, 19th Century Technology Even if Lockheed might prefer to win high-dollar contracts for aircraft and satellites, it's just as capable of reaping revenues from smaller-ticket items like blimps. |
National Defense
December 2015
Edward Lundquist |
Fee-for-Service Model Lowers Upfront Costs Instead of buying an expensive system with many more features than needed, it may be possible simply to pay for the service and get only the data required to accomplish the mission. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
February 2005
Ben Ames |
Next-generation airborne radar demands powerful computers The radar on the Air Force Global Hawk UAV will track cars and missiles with a powerful onboard computer from Mercury Computer Systems. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
June 2004
J.R. Wilson |
Ballistic Missile Defense Looks to the Future Command centers that will help guide ballistic missile defense efforts are providing opportunities for a wide variety of commercial off-the-shelf computers, displays, and high-speed networking. |
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. |
National Defense
April 2009
Robert H. Williams |
Research Leads to Whisper Quiet UAVs While many low altitude unmanned aerial vehicles are able to frustrate visual, radar and infrared detection, the noise they emit especially as they hone in on targets can give them away. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
June 2008
John Keller |
Radar technology looks to the future Modern radar systems are combining advanced materials, solid-state modules, digital signal processors, and complex A-D converters to give a better look to military and civilian users who need the best possible capability in small, compact, and efficient packages. |
The Motley Fool
June 16, 2005
Rich Smith |
Raytheon: Defense on the Cheap Defense contractor aims to make airplanes safe. Raytheon's argument does indeed seem defensible, and its system, economical. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
May 27, 2011
Rich Smith |
Look, Up in the Sky! It's a Bird! It's a Plane! Nope. It's Raytheon's newest, coolest drone. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
December 2008 |
In Brief Navy and Marine Corps lead BAE Systems precision-targeted weapon development program... Raytheon to modernize F-15E radar... Lockheed Martin wins contract for U.S. Air Force Self-Awareness Space Situational Awareness... etc. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
November 2009 |
Electro-Optical Infrared and Laser Sensor System for Navy Helicopters to be Provided by Raytheon Raytheon is providing 62 of its AN/AAS-52 Multi-Spectral Targeting System (MTS) airborne sensor suites for Navy UH-60R and UH-60S helicopters to enhance forward-looking infrared (FLIR) sensor capabilities |
The Motley Fool
April 11, 2008
Rich Smith |
Raytheon Joins the UAV Race Raytheon has come up with an innovative system for guarding our nation's airports against the threat of shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
July 2004 |
Unmanned vehicles: one of the hottest technologies going Unmanned air, ground, and underwater vehicles are finding important new niches in military and aerospace applications. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
February 2008 |
In Brief Raytheon to support Rapid Aerostat initial deployment systems... SAIC wins delivery order to build signature-based trainers... |
National Defense
April 2007
Robert H. Williams |
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Refueling Accomplished The Air Research Laboratory and Boeing's Phantom Works have demonstrated that unmanned aerial vehicles can be refueled in the air. |
The Motley Fool
July 9, 2008
Rich Smith |
General Dynamics Trumps the Competition In the race to defend airspace, the Counter Man-Portable Airspace Protection System demonstrates a couple new tricks. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2008
Erik Sofge |
4 New 'Blimp' Designs Bring Return of the Airship The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency recently announced funding for an innovative, ballast-free airship technology. |
National Defense
May 2008
Stew Magnuson |
Army Starts Over With Aerial Common Sensor The Army is making a second attempt at a failed joint program to create a manned aerial platform designed to provide persistent surveillance over battlefields. |
