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Integrated Underwater Security System
ATLAS ELEKTRONIK UK Winfrith Newburgh, Dorchester, UK +44-1305-212400 www.uk.atlas-elektronik.com SIGNALIS SAS Bezons, France +33-1-39-96-44-44 www.signalis.com Effective surveillance of coastal border...
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New Serenity Payload Detects Hostile Fire
Two government-developed sensors are working together to increase the security of deployed soldiers. The Firefly and Serenity sensors employ government developed algorithms, software, and hardware to...
Products Defense
Camera to SWIR Imaging
A clip-on system from UTC Aerospace Systems converts a camera to a day/night short wave IR (SWIR) imaging system. The Sensors Unlimited Warrior C2S lightweight, field-ready module and covert laser illuminator locks into the front of a Canon EOS 5D camera (Mark II and Mark III models) to provide operators with SWIR imaging...
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RF Photonics for Avionics Signal Processing
The maturity of RF photonic components has reached the point where fiber optic links are being system-tested to replace traditional copper coax links on avionic platforms. Many demonstrations of RF...
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Adaptive Zoom Riflescope Prototype Has Push-Button Magnification
When an Army Special Forces officer‑turned engineer puts his mind to designing a military riflescope, he doesn’t forget the importance of creating something for the soldiers...
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University Opens New Ballistics and Impact Dynamics Lab
Wichita State University’s National Institute for Aviation Research recently opened a new ballistics and impact dynamics research lab in the former Britt Brown Arena at the Kansas...
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New DARPA Technologies Could Make Cyber Warfare a Reality
Three years after the Defense Department named cyberspace a new domain of warfare, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is unveiling technologies that could soon make it...
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Army Researchers Enable Night Lethality
In science fiction, technology problems are solved with the stroke of a writer's pen. In reality, science and technology research takes time, and a lot of effort.
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Fully Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles
Lockheed Martin Bethesda, MD 866-562-2363 www.lockheedmartin.com/unmanned Lockheed Martin, in collaboration with the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC),...
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Unmanned "Urban Beat Cop" Surveillance System Protects Soldiers
In a non-combat environment, information is typically collected by local law enforcement officers who are "walking their beat." Air Force expeditionary forces in Afghanistan...
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Custom Surface Inspection System for Safety-Critical Processes
Researchers have engineered a high-precision modular inspection system that can be adapted on a customer-specific basis and integrated into the production process. Before a...
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Army Develops First-of-Its Kind Phase-Coherent Fiber Laser Array System
The U.S. Army Research Laboratory's Computational and Information Science Directorate's Intelligent Optics Team, and partners, recently developed, engineered, demonstrated...
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Army to Get New IED Detector Technology
Detecting improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan requires constant, intensive monitoring using rugged equipment. When Sandia researchers first demonstrated a modified miniature synthetic aperture...
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Unmanned Aircraft Must Rise Above Barriers for Commercial Applications
Historically, the unmanned aircraft system (UAS) market has been dominated by military applications from surveillance to active engagement. In the near term, the market’s...
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Scientists Demonstrate Data Teleportation for Secure Communications
Teleportation, a long-standing staple in the world of science fiction, has become a reality for scientists at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory in terms of battlefield data and...
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Synthetic Aperture Sonar Can Help Navy Hunt Sea Mines
Since World War II, sea mines have damaged or sunk four times more U.S. Navy ships than all other means of attack combined, according to a Navy report on mine warfare. New sonar research...
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Will ‘Recalls’ Become ‘Upgrades’?
"The nice thing about the digital world is that, when you enter it, you don't know where you will end up," said Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) Research and Development Director, Dr. Wolfgang Epple....
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New Displays Could Lower Risk of Small Aircraft Midair Collisions
Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed new modifications for technology that helps pilots of small aircraft avoid midair collisions. The modified tools...
Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Design and Fabrication of a Radio Frequency Grin Lens Using 3D Printing
Engineered electromagnetic materials and meta-materials have been researched to explore devices that enable access to electromagnetic properties that are not available in nature. This new class of devices can not only open the door to new functionality, but also be effectively...
Articles Defense
Using Forensic Lasers in Modern Warfare
In the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the enemy’s guerilla tactics have muddled the distinction between terrorism and warfare. To deal with the challenges of this new type of combat, the military...
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Air And Missile Defense System To Get Smarter Software
When a missile is launched against an enemy target, it would be nice to have a lot of good information about that target. But when "decision makers push the fire button, they may have very...
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Confocal Imaging System for Ultra-Fast, Three-Dimensional Transport Studies in Thermal Management Applications
The objective of this work was to develop a high-speed, three-dimensional (3D) confocal imaging system to study coupled fluidic and...
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F-16 Full Mission Trainers
L-3 Communications announced that its Link Simulation & Training (L-3 Link) division has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Wright- Patterson Air Force Base near...
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Video Compression Module
An enhanced version of the ICS-8580 high-definition video compression XMC module from GE Intelligent Platforms (Huntsville, AL) allows moving images to be captured, transmitted, and stored with low latency and minimal...
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Thermal-to-Visible Face Recognition
For nighttime surveillance, acquisition of visible light imagery is impractical due to the lack of illumination. Thermal imaging, which acquires mid-wave infrared or long-wave infrared radiation naturally...
INSIDER Imaging
Air Force Uses 3-D Scanner to Model Aircraft
When the 46th Test Wing's Air Force SEEK EAGLE Office purchased a 3-D laser scanner system six months ago, they had no idea how much of an impact the system would make.
Application Briefs Defense
Embedded Graphics Processor
Rockwell Collins (Cedar Rapids, IA), a designer of communications and avionics systems for the aerospace and defense industries, has selected the AMD Radeon™ E2400 embedded graphics processor for inclusion in its...
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Surveillance Systems
New Surveillance System Provides Round-the-Clock Coverage Logos Technologies has begun delivery of the first two electro- optical/infrared Kestrel wide-area persistent surveillance systems to the U.S. Army for deployment...
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Rugged Handheld Displays
IEE (Van Nuys, CA) offers a line of rugged, military-qualified handheld control display units (CDUs). The display sizes and resolutions range from 4-line 2.8" character displays up to full graphic displays and from 3.5"...
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