Aerospace and defense firms advance the state of the art in acquiring, processing, and exploiting crucial still imagery and full-motion video.

Radio communications experts and antenna manufacturers wrestle with the sometimes-conflicting requirements of size, efficiency, bandwidth, and cost as they design the voice and data battlefield communications systems of the future.

Rugged displays are everywhere on and above the battlefield today. Whether systems designers are looking for a display in a cockpit, for a ground vehicle, or for a rugged tablet, there are many different factors to consider for what these displays need to do.

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) needed expertise in helmet-mounted microdisplay technology to develop an embedded head-up display to increase personal situational awareness for emergency responders.

U.S. Navy aircraft specialists needed common fiber-optic test kits for Navy aviation systems.

U.S. Air Force and Navy combat aircraft pilots operating high-performance aircraft at night needed helmet-mounted military night-vision cueing and display systems.

U.S. Air Force researchers are asking industry to develop and demonstrate large, low-noise, high-uniformity, medium-wave infrared (MWIR) detector arrays for the next generation of space-based launch detection aboard satellites similar to those that are part of the Defense Support Program (DSP) and Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) constellations of reconnaissance satellites.

U.S. Air Force aviation experts needed helmet-mounted targeting systems for the U.S. Navy, as well as for air forces in Pakistan, Belgium, Australia, Canada, Switzerland, and Finland.

U.S. Army officials needed micro unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) to equip four-to-six-soldier fire teams with video reconnaissance and situational awareness during route- and compound-clearing operations.

U.S. Army and Marine Corps communications experts needed ground-mobile antennas for the Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System (SINCGARS).

U.S. Navy combat aviation experts needed a series of airborne antennas for the AN/ALQ-99 low-band transmitter system aboard the Boeing EA-18G Growler and Northrop Grumman EA-6B Prowler carrier-based electronic warfare jets.

L-3 Communications' Warrior Systems-Insight Technology unit won a $50 million contract for Binocular Night Vision Devices (BNVD) for use by the U.S. Special Operations Command.

Industry and government join forces in the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) Consortium, a managed consortia of The Open Group, to build standards and business models for the aviation community.