Sensors

Pentagon tech chief wants an ‘all in one’ sensor

It is one of several critical technologies that Heidi Shyu, the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, included in remarks at SOFIC.

9 months ago

Marine Corps wants money for ships, missiles, sensors

Money is coming, but not exactly at the level or timing that Marine leaders have wanted.

10 months ago

Information Warfare

To win battles of information, the US Army will need deep sensing and data handling

The service wants to use sensors to "see" across the larger distances expected for future battles. And deeper sensing makes more data to process and understand.

Army orders 2 prototype sensor suites for next-generation surveillance plane

The sensors will be part of the Army’s High Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System (HADES), an undetermined aircraft that will be one piece of the service's family of deep-sensing systems.

20 months ago

With the submarine threat on the rise, the US Navy looks to autonomous water sensor drones

The Navy is upgrading its fleet of underwater sensing drones.

24 months ago

Secrets of Tempest’s ground-breaking radar revealed

Radar engineers on the sixth-generation Tempest fighter program say they will break data-processing records by way of miniaturization and going digital.

2 years ago

Thales launches small AESA radar for small aircraft

The French defense ministry wants the AirMaster C sensor for its future Guépard helicopter, according to the company.

2 years ago

Air Force doesn’t have enough drone pilots or sensor operators, GAO says

The shortage of drone pilots and sensor operators is making it harder for the Air Force to balance those airmen’s time between engaging in combat operations and conducting non-combat activities.

3 years ago

Where the next iteration of the Army’s network capabilities is heading

The Army is finishing up a list of requirements for technologies it needs for the next round of its network modernization capabilities, known as Capability Set 23.

3 years ago

Three obstacles are slowing space sensors for hypersonic threats

Three obstacles impede progress on America's ability to track both emerging hypersonic missiles and today’s ballistic missile threats.

3 years ago

Done deal: Boeing will have to rip and replace KC-46 sensor and camera systems on its own dime

Boeing will have to do a comprehensive redesign of the Remote Vision System's hardware and software.

3 years ago

BAE nabs next-gen seeker design work for US Army’s missile defense system

BAE Systems has won a contract from Lockheed Martin to design a next-generation seeker for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense weapon system.

3 years ago

Raytheon plows ahead to build US Army’s future radar

Raytheon's first Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor antenna array has passed through initial tests and heads to outdoor testing.

3 years ago

Top enlisted soldier tries 'do-it-all’ goggle being tested by Army, Marines

The Army wants to begin buying 40,000 sets of IVAS starting next year.

3 years ago

The Army wants to buy 40,000 ‘mixed reality’ goggles

The goggle would go to "top tier" Army units first.

3 years ago

Army's multidomain sensing wishlist

The Army wants to know if industry can provide a series of sensors for the service’s largest unmanned platform as a way to help see past enemy defenses.

3 years ago

Congress slashes funding for the Navy’s LCS sensors — again

Appropriators are set to slice 77 percent from the Navy’s mine countermeasures module, shuffling part of it to another section of the budget.

3 years ago

How the Army wants to use your boots to generate juice (and keep tabs on you)

A new patent shows promise for using boot insoles as tiny electrical generators.

3 years ago

A ‘mixed reality’ goggle with target ID, tracking and weapon link could field by 2021

Researchers are using the Microsoft HoloLens 2 platform to design the goggle.

3 years ago

Corps issues new IED detectors more capable of identifying buried command wires

Combat engineers, infantrymen, military police, artillery and light anti-aircraft defense Marines will get the detector later in fiscal year 2020.

3 years ago

Sensors inform the mission in places and in ways like no other technology can, whether mounted on spacecraft or a tactical vehicle, providing mission-critical intelligence.

It is one of several critical technologies that Heidi Shyu, the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, included in remarks at SOFIC.

Money is coming, but not exactly at the level or timing that Marine leaders have wanted.

The service wants to use sensors to "see" across the larger distances expected for future battles. And deeper sensing makes more data to process and understand.

The sensors will be part of the Army’s High Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System (HADES), an undetermined aircraft that will be one piece of the service's family of deep-sensing systems.

The Navy is upgrading its fleet of underwater sensing drones.

Radar engineers on the sixth-generation Tempest fighter program say they will break data-processing records by way of miniaturization and going digital.

The French defense ministry wants the AirMaster C sensor for its future Guépard helicopter, according to the company.

The shortage of drone pilots and sensor operators is making it harder for the Air Force to balance those airmen’s time between engaging in combat operations and conducting non-combat activities.

The Army is finishing up a list of requirements for technologies it needs for the next round of its network modernization capabilities, known as Capability Set 23.

Three obstacles impede progress on America's ability to track both emerging hypersonic missiles and today’s ballistic missile threats.

Boeing will have to do a comprehensive redesign of the Remote Vision System's hardware and software.

BAE Systems has won a contract from Lockheed Martin to design a next-generation seeker for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense weapon system.

Raytheon's first Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor antenna array has passed through initial tests and heads to outdoor testing.

The Army wants to begin buying 40,000 sets of IVAS starting next year.

The goggle would go to "top tier" Army units first.

The Army wants to know if industry can provide a series of sensors for the service’s largest unmanned platform as a way to help see past enemy defenses.

Appropriators are set to slice 77 percent from the Navy’s mine countermeasures module, shuffling part of it to another section of the budget.

A new patent shows promise for using boot insoles as tiny electrical generators.

Researchers are using the Microsoft HoloLens 2 platform to design the goggle.

Combat engineers, infantrymen, military police, artillery and light anti-aircraft defense Marines will get the detector later in fiscal year 2020.