ARLINGTON, Va., 7 Oct. 2012. Researchers at Penn State University in University Park, Pa., are designing a sonar-based underwater navigation system for the U.S. Navy that will enable submarines and unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) maintain position underwater safely by following known ocean-floor terrain features.

MacDILL AFB, Fla., 5 Oct. 2012. Tactical biometrics experts at U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) at MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., surveying industry for the latest technologies to conduct facial, fingerprint, and iris recognition in the field during sensitive military operations.

WASHINGTON, 4 Oct. 2012. Satellite navigation experts at the Boeing Co. Defense, Space & Security segment in Huntington Beach, Calif., are moving forward with a U.S. Navy research program to keep GPS receivers working amid jamming and interference by augmenting Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite with the Iridium commercial satellite communications system.

ARLINGTON, Va., 3 Oct. 2012. Scientists at the U.S. Defense Advanced Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va., are looking to two technology companies to find ways to increase the power efficiency of high-performance embedded computing (HPEC) systems to from today's 1 billion floating point operations per second per Watt (GFLOPS/w), to 75 GFLOPS/w.

ARLINGTON, Va., 2 Oct. 2012. Military sensors experts at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va., are approaching industry to find new ways to use commercial processes for developing sensors in record time.

WASHINGTON, 30 Sept. 2012. Electronic intelligence (ELINT) experts at the U.S. Intelligence Advanced Projects Agency (IARPA) in Washington are asking industry to develop advanced computer modeling techniques of the ionosphere as part of a program to detect, pinpoint, and characterize high frequency (HF) signals from potentially hostile radar and communications systems refracted from the ionosphere.

ARLINGTON, Va., 28 Sept. 2012. Developing laser detector array and laser transmitter technologies for multiple-modality, diverse-waveform laser radar (ladar) systems is the goal of the Laser Radar Technology (LRT) program of electro-optical sensors experts at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va.

STRATFORD, Conn., 28 Sept. 2012. Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., an aircraft manufacturer based in Stratford, Conn. and a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX), will be providing the U.S. Army with additional UH-60M Plus-Up helicopters and support for Black Hawk systems in a series of three contract modifications.

ARLINGTON, Va., 27 Sept. 2012. U.S. Navy researchers are tapping the DRS Technologies Inc. Power & Control Technologies in Milwaukee to design and demonstrate an advanced shipboard high-power electrical-control system that provides sufficient power for the future Navy Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) for Navy Arleigh Burke-class destroyers.

WASHINGTON, 26 Sept. 2012. Officials of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in Washington are asking industry to participate in a fly-off evaluation of small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and integrated UAV sensor payloads for potential use by local civil authorities maritime border and maritime security, law enforcement, search and rescue, fire, and hazardous material spill response.

ARLINGTON, Va., 25 Sept. 2012. The U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) in Arlington, Va., is asking industry to develop a mobile device common access card (CAC)-enabled virtual thin client that gives personal or government mobile devices like smart phones and tablet computers a secure way to access information and applications on U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) networks.

NASHUA, N.H., 25 Sept. 2012. In this week's Military & Aerospace Electronics Report, Skyler Frink discusses the U.S. military's recent tests of Electronic Flight Bags and what benefits they could bring to the Air Force.

JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, N.J., 21 Sept. 2012. U.S. Navy persistent-surveillance experts are awarding a $28 million contract to Logos Technologies Inc. in Fairfax, Va., for three Kestrel surveillance and reconnaissance systems for deployment on aerostats and airships operating at altitudes between 1,000 and 5,000 feet off the ground.

SAN DIEGO, 20 Sept. 2012. U.S. Navy maritime communications experts are canvassing industry to find companies able to provide Link 11 and Link 22 radio digital data link capability for the Navy's Next Generation Command and Control Processor (NGC2P) for shipboard communications and situational awareness.

THE MIL & AERO VIDEO BLOG, 18 Sept. 2012. The so-called "doomsday scenario" of defense sequestration is set to go into effect in a few short months, which threatens unemployment, reduced state and federal revenues, and compromises in U.S. military readiness, as John Keller reports this week in the Mil & Aero video blog.

FORT BELVOIR, Va., 18 Sept. 2012. U.S. Army researchers are reaching out to industry to find companies able to create complex computer algorithms to help deployed soldiers detect explosives such as land mines, improvised explosive devices (IEDs), and unexploded ordnance with handheld detectors.

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, 14 Sept. 2012. U.S. Air Force researchers are planning to establish a Center of Excellence in Guided-Wave Infrared Sources to aid in developing laser-based remote sensing and communications for Air Force applications.

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md., 13 Sept. 2012. U.S. Army head-trauma experts plan to buy several a portable eye-tracking device designed for use in the field to check soldiers for possible traumatic brain injuries caused by close proximity to explosions, accidents, or other kinds of blows to the head.

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla., 11 Sept. 2012. Munitions guidance experts at the Northrop Grumman Corp. Electronic Systems segment in Linthicum Heights Md., will help U.S. Air Force weapons scientists design precision guidance for a rocket-propelled bomb for the F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter-bomber that can attack and destroy enemy bunkers, tunnel complexes, and other important deeply buried targets.