THE MIL & AERO VIDEO BLOG, 22 Jan. 2013. The DARPA Upward Falling Payloads program, or UFP, envisions non-lethal weapons like distracting light strobes, blinding lasers, and electronic warfare jammers that are forward-deployed beneath the ocean and launched into the middle of an adversary's naval battle group to cause surprise, confusion, and more, as John Keller reports this week in the Mil & Aero Video Blog.

ARLINGTON, Va., 22 Jan. 2013. Laser experts at Lockheed Martin Corp. will move forward with flight tests of a futuristic laser weapon system designed to protect combat aircraft against attacks from the rear under terms of $9.5 million contract modification awarded this month from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va.

LONG BEACH, Calif., 21 Jan. 2013. The market for military electronic is being driven by sensor technology, and it's time for sensor-processing systems designers to do something about it, says Ray Alderman, executive director of the VITA embedded computing trade organization.

ARLINGTON, Va., 21 Jan. 2014. U.S. government researchers will brief industry 8 Feb. on enhancing future capability to reuse apertures, antennas, and other components from decommissioned satellites in high-Earth orbit and build new satellites robotically in orbit to reduce the costs of replacing failed satellites.

SAN DIEGO 20 Jan. 2013. U.S. Navy command and control experts needed a company to upgrade the service's Next Generation Command and Control Processor (NGC2P) -- a tactical data link communication processor that provides warfighters with critical real-time information about friendly and enemy activity during combat operations.

WASHINGTON, 18 Jan. 2013. U.S. Navy officials needed a networked sensors and weapons-management system for the future Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Thomas Hudner (DDG-116), the first of the Flight IIA: Technology Insertion versions of the destroyer. They found their solution from the Raytheon Co. Network Centric Systems segment in St. Petersburg, Fla.

PATUXENT RIVER NAS, Md., 17 Jan. 2013. U.S. Navy aviation experts needed advanced flight computers for the service's F/A-18E/F Super Hornet jet fighter bomber and E/A-18G Growler electronic warfare aircraft. They found their solution from General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems in Minneapolis.

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla., 16 Jan. 2013. U.S. Air Force test experts are surveying industry for companies able to provide unmanned marine vehicles (UMVs) and sensor payloads to help monitor and recover air-delivered test weapons and provide other support to the Air Force 96th Test Wing and its ocean test range near Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.

NASHUA, N.H., 15 Jan 2012. Skyler Frink discusses DARPA's testing of the LS3 quadruped robot and the technology behind it in this week's Military & Aerospace Electronics Report.

ARLINGTON, Va., 15 Jan. 2013. Imagine a bunch of distracting laser strobes, electronic warfare jammers, or other kinds of non-lethal weapons that pop up seemingly up without warning from the ocean's depths in the middle of one of the world's naval battle groups.

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, 13 Jan. 2013. U.S. Air Force researchers are trying to prop-up lagging domestic ability to design modern spacecraft star trackers that are affordable enough for commercial space applications. Star trackers are space-qualified optical devices that help position satellites and manned spacecraft accurately in space.

WASHINGTON, 10 Jan. 2013. U.S. intelligence experts are asking industry for help in developing new artificial intelligence theories that could enable analysts to glean valuable information from probing into the way humans understand complex and abstract concepts.

STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss., 9 Jan. 2012. U.S. Navy electro-optics researchers plan to ask industry to develop charge-coupled device (CCD) cameras and simulators as part of a future Earth-observation satellite called Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) that will study the variability of Earth's ionosphere, which can interfere with communications and geopositioning signals.

HANSCOM AFB, Mass., 8 Jan. 2013. U.S. Air Force communications experts are reaching out to industry for ideas on future common data link (CDL) capability to enable military intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) forces to operate on the network-centric warfare battlefield of the future.

ARLINGTON, Va., 6 Jan. 2013. Wireless data communications experts at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are asking industry to develop a communications link able to transmit data at 100 gigabits per second within one radio frequency channel.

ORLANDO, Fla., 3 Jan. 2013. U.S. Marine Corps power electronics researchers will brief industry 31 Jan. on a project to develop a non-grid-tied hybrid power system intended to augment traditional generators on the battlefield.

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md., 31 Dec. 2012. U.S. Army researchers are making plans to develop an all-digital satellite communications (SATCOM) terminal intended eventually to replace today's analog SATCOM terminals, which convert digital data to an analog signal in the modem.

PATUXENT RIVER NAS, Md., 30 Dec. 2012. U.S. Navy officials have issued an urgent order to equip the service's MQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned helicopter with the Telephonics Corp. RDR-1700 maritime-surveillance radar system.

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. 23 Dec. 2012. U.S. Army researchers will brief industry on 18 Jan. 2013 about the cloud computing technologies used and under development in the Army Intelligence and Information Warfare Directorate (I2WD), and about the directorate's technology shortfalls and future needs.