Technology report
Defense Update Technology Channel - January 2011
- U.S. Navy Selects Integrators to Evaluate Four Competitive Cyber-Warfare Concepts
- E-BCT Program Decisions Announced
- U.S. Air Force Awards $214 Million to Improve Space Situational Awareness
- Compact JP-8 Diesel-Powered Fuel-Cell Demonstrates Long Operation Durability
- Raytheon Awards More Contracts for Mobile Centurion Subsystems
- New Meta-Material Could Render Submarines Invisible to Sonar Detection
- ONR Team Demonstrates Source for Future 100KW FEL Laser
- New Guided Missiles, Programmable Munitions Enhancing The Infantry Precision Fire Effects
Photo Above: Illinois professor Nick Fang developed a two-dimensional acoustic cloak that makes objects in the center invisible to sonar and other ultrasound waves. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer (read more...)
U.S. Navy Selects Integrators to Evaluate Four Competitive Cyber-Warfare Concepts
Four system integrators were selected by the U.S. Navy Space and Naval Warfare Systems (SPAWAR) to develop cyberspace operations systems for the U.S. Navy, supporting the tactical, operational and strategic levels. The four include General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, (GD-AIS) Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC), Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. and Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. At its preliminary phase, the program addresses architecture assessment, examination, and demonstration, assessing operations requirements and analysis, concept formulation and development, feasibility demonstrations and operational support. Further phases include software design and implementation as well as systems integration, test and evaluation and demonstration. (Read More...)
E-BCT Program Decisions Announced
The Department of the Army announced today that it decided to continue low-rate initial production of two elements of the Early-Infantry Brigade Combat Team (E-IBCT) program – the Small Unmanned Ground Vehicle and tactical network system. The E-IBCT investment of network technologies and software provide a foundation for growth of the Army’s tactical network. (Read More...)
U.S. Air Force Awards $214 Million to Improve Space Situational Awareness
Tens of thousands of small man-made objects known as ‘space junk’ are orbiting the earth, posing significant hazard to satellites, the International Space Station and other space hardware. Some objects are debris that separated from spacecraft in orbit while others are complete satellites that have ended their life and maintained in ‘parking’ orbit around earth. (Read More...)
Compact JP-8 Diesel-Powered Fuel-Cell Demonstrates Long Operation Durability
The Department of Defense (DOD) has more than 100,000 electrical generator systems (“gensets”) deployed around the world. Supporting field installations with power for lighting, air conditioning, run computers, communications or medical equipment, these generators are major consumers of fuel. (Read More...)
Raytheon Awards More Contracts for Mobile Centurion Subsystems
Raytheon has awarded Curtiss-Wright Controls, Inc. a subcontract worth US$5.7 million providing for rugged single board computers (SBC), digital signal processors (DSP) and buffer memory cards to be used with the Centurion Counter-Mortar and Rocket Weapon System destined for the U.S. Army. (Read More...)
New Meta-Material Could Render Submarines Invisible to Sonar Detection
A research team from the University of Illinois, led by mechanical science and engineering professor Nicholas Fang, have demonstrated a technology that renders underwater objects invisible to sonar and other ultrasound waves. (Read More...)
ONR Team Demonstrates Source for Future 100KW FEL Laser
The Free Electron Laser (FEL) program is undergoing Office of Naval Research’s (ONR) preliminary design review (PDR) this week, following the successful critical demonstration of an injector capable generating the electron flow for the megawatt-class FEL laser. (Read More...)
New Guided Missiles, Programmable Munitions Enhancing The Infantry Precision Fire Effects
The 'Smart Weapon' approach is a more complex, expensive solution that could offer much higher precision – at the disadvantage of weight, complexity and cost. Lightweight weapons employ 'fire and forget' systems, enabling the missile to home-in on a designated target. Missiles are packing 'tandem' warheads for direct attack or Explosive Formed Projectile warheads for 'top attack', both capable of defeating even the world's heaviest, most protected tanks. (Read More...)