Electronic Warfare 103: Active Electronic Protection 1/31/2011

Electronic protection (EP) comprises those actions taken to protect personnel, facilities, and equipment from any effects of friendly or adversary employment of EW that degrade, neutralize, or destroy friendly combat capability. In other words, EP is concerned with minimizing the effects

Advancements in Non-Traditional Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance 1/28/2011

Operations within Iraq and Afghanistan in recent years have pushed defence organisation's intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities to their limits. Due to the nature of the threat being faced by international forces from insurgents, ISR is playing a

The Right to Fight: Womens' Role in the Military 1/18/2011

Now that ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ is off the discussion table, and its repeal signed into law, the decision to let gays serve their country openly has brought other cultural debates to the forefront for the military, particularly gender equality. Women&r

Is Political Correctness Weakening Today?s Military? 1/13/2011

An Officer and a Gentleman is not only a classic film starring Richard Gere it is also the term for the standard of expected behavior for the commissioned leadership of the United States Armed Forces. But what exactly does this phrase mean and what are the actions and words th

Alternative and/or Augmentation to Field Batteries: the Light Engine 1/3/2011

Rechargeable and non-rechargable batteries are currently used as power sources for portable warfighter devices such as field radios, night vision devices, weapon sights, GPS units, etc.  In terms of battery capacity, average warfighter electronics consume power equivalent to that of

The IEEE International Communications Conference (ICC), the premier venue dedicated to the advancement of wireless and wireline communications worldwide, has begun the registration process for its annual event to be held June 10 – 15 at the Ottawa Convention Centre in Ottawa, Canada.

Harris Corporation, an international communications and information technology company, has received orders totaling $10.7M from the Federative Republic of Brazil for Falcon III VHF Combat Net Radios and Falcon III Secure Personal Radios (SPR) to support a wide range of mission requirements.

Boeing has received authorization from the U.S. Air Force to produce and launch the eighth and ninth Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellites.

The KB-39500 Frequency Synthesizer from EM Research operates fixed at 39.5 GHz, features low phase noise (<-80 dBc/Hz MAX @ 10 KHz) and +18 dBm output power. The unit locks to an external 10 MHz reference.

M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc. (M/A-COM Tech), a leading supplier of high performance analog semiconductor solutions, introduced recently seven new products covering Networks and Aerospace and Defense applications.

Raytheon Company's (NYSE: RTN) Mobile Ad hoc Interoperability Network GATEway (MAINGATE) radio system successfully provided tactical networking capabilities at two major U.S. Army exercises, giving soldiers reliable battlefield information.

Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has been awarded a $27.4 million contract by the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center for development of a Global Positioning System (GPS) Launch and Checkout System (LCS), which will provide early launch and checkout of GPS III satellites starting with the first GPS III launch in 2014.