MASON, Ohio, 5 May 2013. L-3 Cincinnati Electronics in Mason, Ohio, is introducing the NightWarrior µCam 640 mid-wave infrared (MWIR) imaging system for small electro-optical payloads, thermal weapon sights, handheld systems, remote weapon stations, and tactical unmanned vehicle sensor systems.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, 2 May 2013. Officials of the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency are extending their agreement with SRI International in Menlo Park, Calif., to remanufacture obsolete and unavailable critical electronic parts for military programs in the Generalized Emulation of Microcircuits (GEM) program.

BALTIMORE, 2 May 2013. Tiny size, light weight, and low power consumption -- all with unmanned vehicles in mind -- were common themes this week at the SPIE Defense Security + Sensing conference and trade show in Baltimore, as a wide variety of sensor integrators rolled out products for the newest generations of unmanned and soldier-worn technology.

The U.S. and international militaries are teaming with industry to craft an emerging set of vehicle electronics standards, based on Ethernet, to enable rapid vetronics technology development, systems upgrades, and technology insertion.

FORT BELVOIR, Va., 1 May 2013. The U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) at Fort Belvoir, Va., is looking to Energy Research Co. (ERCo) of Plainfield, N.J., for the company's laser technology to detect explosives from standoff ranges.

ARLINGTON, Va., 30 April 2013. U.S. government researchers are asking industry for ideas on providing digital technology to infantry squads to enhance the ability of these small warfighter groups to enhance situational awareness, networked communications, and data sharing. An infantry squad is part of a platoon, and involves nine to 13 warfighters.

ARLINGTON, Va., 29 April 2013. U.S. military researches have awarded the first of what may be several contracts aimed at placing the right mobile software applications into the hands of warfighters for use on rugged smart phones and tablet computers.

EAGLEVILLE, Pa., 29 April 2013. Electro-optics systems integration and engineering specialist Clear Align in Eagleville, Pa., is boosting the company's expertise in quick-turn prototyping for tactical intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) applications with its acquisition of three co-located companies in Hudson, N.H.

NATICK, Mass., 29 April 2013. U.S. Army researchers are reaching out to industry to find companies able to provide or develop a driver for light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that significantly improves the turn-on (rise time) and turn-off (fall time) of a pulsed-illumination system.

WARREN, Mich., 26 April 2013. U.S. Army vetronics experts needed rugged Gigabit Ethernet switches for Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) armored combat vehicles headed for Afghanistan. They found their solution from Sixnet in Ballston Lake, N.Y.

SANTA BARBARA, Calif., 26 April 2013. Green Hills Software in Santa Barbara, Calif., is introducing multicore enhancements to the company's TimeMachine trace-based debugger tool suite for supporting complex interactions of software running on multicore MIPS and Renesas RH850 and V850 processors.

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, 25 April 2013. U.S. Air Force researchers would like to transfer a submicron microwave chip manufacturing process to industry, and establish a domestic open foundry able to meet the needs of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD).

WARREN, Mich., 25 April 2013. BAE Systems Land and Armaments L.P. in York, Pa., won a $28.7 million contract modification from the U.S. Army Tuesday to build M88A2 Hercules heavy equipment recovery combat utility lift and evacuation system vehicles.

WARREN, Mich., 24 April 2013. U.S. Army combat vehicle designers are extending by six months the technology development phase of a program to build a modern, networked armored fighting vehicles to replace and augment versions of the M113 armored personnel carrier, M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle, and the Stryker armored vehicle.

ARLINGTON, Va., 24 April 2013. Improvised explosive device (IED) experts at Northeastern University in Boston are joining three other research organizations in a project to develop non-contact ways to detect explosives hidden in opaque media with high water content such as mud, meat, and animal carcasses.

NEWPORT, England, 24 April 2013. RFEL Ltd. in Newport, England, is introducing the HALO low-power real-time video processing system for image-based surveillance applications in counter-terrorism and defense and security.

ARLINGTON, Va., 23 April 2013. Sensors experts at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va., are tapping a university on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to find new ways to use commercial processes for developing sensors in record time.

MAXWELL AFB, Ala., 22 April 2013. Eight U.S. information technology (IT) companies will share contracts potentially worth $6.9 billion over the next six years to provide commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) computer networking equipment.

ARLINGTON, Va., 22 April 2013. Electro-optical sensor experts at Lockheed Martin Corp. and DRS Technologies Inc. are joining a U.S. military research program to develop laser detector array and laser transmitter technologies for multiple-modality, diverse-waveform laser radar (lidar) systems.