NASHUA, N.H., 10 Dec. 2013. New capability for U.S. Navy submarines to launch reconnaissance drones while submerged, and separate-but-related DARPA and Air Force research projects to safeguard U.S. and allied radar and radio communications from enemy jamming highlight this week's Rapid Fire interview with John Keller and Ernesto Burden of Military & Aerospace Electronics.

Athens, Greece--Recent Gooch & Housego acquisition Constelex Technology Enablers announced its participation in new EU R&D and ESA space photonics projects.

For the photonics community the year begins in San Francisco, where SPIE Photonics West is expected to draw more than 20,000 attendees to listen to 4800 technical presentations, visit 1300 exhibitors, and partake of numerous networking and professional growth opportunities.

WASHINGTON, 8 Dec. 2013. Shipboard electronics experts in the U.S. Coast Guard plan to develop a new integrated navigation system for Coast Guard boats and cutters called The Standardized Scalable Integrated Navigation System-Two (SINS-2), and are asking industry to review the system's proposed specifications.

WASHINGTON, 6 Dec. 2013. U.S. Navy researchers have demonstrated a long-sought-after capability to launch unmanned surveillance aircraft stealthily from submerged submarines, which vastly extends the reach of the Navy's submarine force as a long-range reconnaissance asset.

INDIAN HEAD, Md., 5 Dec. 2013. U.S. Navy bomb-disposal experts are asking industry to submit candidate ground-based multispectral and hyperspectral imaging systems for comparative tests and evaluations scheduled for next summer.

Ilminster, England--Gooch & Housego has completed the acquisition of Constelex Technology Enablers, a company that makes low-noise, high power, and custom optical fiber amplifiers and lasers.

FORT BELVOIR, Va., 3 Dec. 2013. U.S. Army electro-optics experts say they plan to develop dual-band mid-wave infrared (MWIR)/long-wave infrared (LWIR) imaging subassemblies and electronic modules to replace the Army's existing Horizontal Technology Integration (HTI) Second Generation Forward Looking Infrared (HTI 2GF) B-Kit sub-assemblies and electronic modules.

CYPRESS Calif., 3 Dec. 2013. Flight simulation experts at Aero Simulation Inc. (ASI) in Tampa, Fla., needed projection systems for the U.S. Marine Corps AH-1W SuperCobra attack helicopter weapons systems trainer (WST) device 2F136A upgrades. They found their solution from Christie Digital Systems USA Inc. in Cypress, Fla.

Santa Barbara and Pasadena, CA--For adding a true time delay to a photonic circuit, nothing is better than an actual length of optical fiber or other optical waveguide (as opposed to "slow-light" techniques, which are less robust, can have narrow functional bands, and can be quite complex).

FORT BELVOIR, Va., 29 Nov. 2013. U.S. Army researchers are surveying industry to find companies able to develop III-V infrared focal plane array (IRFPA)-based sensors by increasing the performance and yield of antimony-based IRFPAs while reducing costs for several different kinds of military applications.

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, 27 Nov. 2013. Engineers at Raytheon Co. are taking another step toward full-scale production of an upgraded avionics sensor system that provides visible-light, infrared, laser designation, and laser illumination capabilities integrated in a single sensor package.

NASHUA, N.H., 26 Nov. 2013. An artificial intelligence program to help intelligence analysts, a new era of spectrum warfare, and the Pentagon's Mothball Strategy highlight this week's Rapid Fire interview with John Keller and Ernesto Burden of Military & Aerospace Electronics.

WASHINGTON, 26 Nov. 2013. Artificial intelligence experts at Teledyne Scientific & Imaging LLC in Thousand Oaks, Calif., are joining those at the Siemens Corp. Corporate Research And Technology Division in Princeton, N.J., Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and HRL Laboratories LLC in Malibu, Calif., on an intelligence research project to unlock secrets in the nature of knowledge in an effort to improve tools and training available to intelligence analysts.

RIDGECREST, Calif., 25 Nov. 2013. An era may be dawning when relatively small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) may be put into action as electronic warfare (EW) aircraft to enable warfighters operating on the forward edge of the battlefield to jam enemy radar, communications, and other RF systems.

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala., 24 Nov. 2013. The Raytheon Co. Missile Systems segment in Tucson, Ariz., will build the latest versions of a radio-controlled anti-tank missile that has been in the U.S. inventory since 1970 under terms of a multi-million-dollar contract announced late last week.

San Carlos, CA--The SA-30 highest-resolution head-mounted display (HMD) from SA Photonics will be unveiled at the I/ITSEC conference in Orlando, FL on December 2, 2013.

WASHINGTON, 21 Nov. 2013. Research leaders at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in Washington are releasing a six-point plan to focus research attention and money on technologies to safeguard the United States from terrorist threats to trade and travel.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill., 21 Nov. 2013. TRU-Vu Monitors Inc. in Arlington Heights, Ill., is introducing the SRM-15.6J and SRMTS-15.6J widescreen sunlight-readable monitors for military and law-enforcement applications.