No one is laughing now. Once considered only a cut above remote-controlled toys, drones have proven their potency in Afghanistan and the Middle East, and manufacturers are eyeing U.S. agriculture as a tremendous market opportunity. ...
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Security firm FireEye has claimed that a series of targeted malware attacks detected a year ago are almost certainly part of a Chinese campaign to steal industrial secrets from US companies working in the field of UAVs (Unmanned Aerial ...
Alta Devices of Sunnyvale, CA, USA has announced reference designs for what it claims are the world’s lightest and highest-energy-density flexible military charging mats. Alta fabricates single-junction gallium arsenide (GaAs) ...
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Verizon's attempt -- unsuccessful so far -- to secure a patent for a so-called 'snooping technology,' which in this case would let television advertisers target individual viewers based on what they're doing or saying in front of their ...
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Computerworld-The 2012 Republican Party platform adopted this week calls for a more aggressive U.S.cyber deterrence policy for dealing with security threats against government and civilian targets. The platform,which lists the GOP's ...
Free-space laser comms to boost Marines'bandwidth 11 Sep 2012 US Navy awards$7M contract for ITT Exelis and Novasol to build a line-of-sight system to handle escalating data needs. Intelligence,surveillance and reconnaissance:data crunch ...
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US Air Force turns to insects for sensor inspiration 10 Sep 2012 Small business technology transfer (STTR) proposal from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research looks to imitate compound eyes. Inspired by nature aDronesa, the ...
DoD contracts round-up:summer 2012 23 Aug 2012 Substantial backing for optical countermeasure and multispectral targeting systems,including a$463million agreement with Northrop Grumman. MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter The US Department of ...
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Intevac Photonics orders hit new high 01 Aug 2012 Record bookings largely due to$10 million deal to fit Apache helicopters with night-vision cameras. Intevac's"Night Port" Intevac Photonics,the optics-focused subsidiary of the ...
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Fully charged:Lockheed Martin's Stalker Wireless power transmission,a notion whose principles were pondered by Nikola Tesla and Arthur C.Clarke amongst others,may soon be put to practical use as a means to extend the flying time of ...
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In stand F360,-hall 6 at Eurosatory,the biennial land defence and security exhibition near Paris(11-15 June),Sofradir of Châtenay-Malabry,near Paris,France(which makes cooled infrared detectors based on mercury cadmium ...
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Mid-infrared imaging for UAVs,high-speed optical networks and laser-based airborne mine detection among the other activities funded. The US Department of Defense(DoD)has awarded a number of new contracts and contract modifications for the ...
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Implementing vision,video and radar in unmanned aerial vehicles is now a task for multicore DSPs,writes Sandeep Kumar. Unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs)used by the military and in commercial applications such as fire-fighting are ...