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Military & Aerospace Electronics Magazine, July 2002 Articles
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Volume: 13 Issue: 7
July 2002
 
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Special Report
Wearable computers help make individual soldiers part of the digital battlefield
Wearable computers — devices that are attached or integrated into an individual's clothing — were once considered mostly useful as bulky maintenance devices, but are now considered to be the electronic heart of the soldier of the future.

Technology Focus
End of the circuit breaker: smart power makes its mark
Computer control of power distribution on aircraft and other integrated platforms is helping systems integrators improve reliability

News
Army unveils new SIGINT electronics
Army leaders are rolling out their newest signals-intelligence system, called Prophet

New small arms weapon helps soldiers shoot around corners
U.S. Army engineers are aiding the battlefield digitization effort with their work on the Objective Individual Combat Weapon

House bill would be a step backward for military electronics
Members of the electronics industry are lining up to oppose a new "Buy American" bill pending in the U.S. House of Representatives

The new non-proliferation concern:unmanned aerial vehicles
Leaders of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) have warned Congress that one of the technology advances that U.S. forces have used so effectively in Afghanistan could become a serious threat to American national security

JTRS program developing common system architecture for spectrum of tactical communications needs
A single family of software-defined tactical radios currently being developed under the U.S. Department of Defense's Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) program will amount to a $9 billion market over the next 20 years

ABM treaty dies as new missile defense test succeeds
The Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, signed by the United States and the former Soviet Union in 1972, officially died June 13 with the formal withdrawal of the U.S.

In Brief
War on terrorism to boost military research spending by 41 percent, DRS Technologies boosts power business by buying Eaton Navy Controls, MORE...

Air Force seeks proposals for defending against advanced electro-optic and infrared threats
Scientists are asking industry to propose research projects for the Day/Night EO/IR Tracker Countermeasures (DETCM) Advanced Technology Demonstration.

Departments
Report from Washington and Elsewhere
UAV role expanding — again
The idea is to take out the enemy radars and surface-to- air missiles to prepare the way for manned-aircraft strikes.

Viewpoint
Adopting software strategies is part of homeland security
There is a lot of talk around Washington about how the military and aerospace sector will choose to spend its increased budget allocations for homeland security

Letters to the Editor
COTS on the wrong road
There is another aspect to your article entitled "Could the COTS movement be heading in the wrong direction?" that appeared in the June issue of Military & Aerospace Electronics.

Design Watch
NIST researchers looking for advanced ladar sensors for unmanned ground vehicles
Researchers are looking for ideas from industry on how to develop advanced laser radar — or ladar — for unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs).

Surprise: internally developed General Dynamics board becomes hot stand-alone seller for vetronics
Officials at General Dynamics Canada find their boards are becoming part of numerous U.S. Army vehicular and airborne applications

NSA certifies L-3 Communications OMNI secure terminal
Experts from the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) certified the OMNI voice and data security unit for U.S. military and other government uses.

Product Applications
Product Applications
Enabling technologies for military and aerospace electronics designers

 
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