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Space Fence, a fully digital S-band radar system, is being built for the U.S. Air Force by Lockheed Martin to better identify and track space junk to help protect military satellites and other space assets by preventing conjunctions and the creation of more debris within low-Earth orbit. |
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Radar – essential to virtually all critical military environments and a mainstay in almost all vessels – has become more difficult to integrate with actual live video feeds from various camera interfaces. |
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Several design approaches exist for implementing beamforming processing tasks, with options ranging from GPUs to multicore CPUs, DSPs, and FPGAs in radar and other signal processing systems. |
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Active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar systems built with gallium nitride (GaN)-based radio frequency (RF) power components are helping to elevate the capabilities of the modern networked battlefield. |
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Signal processing fuels radar and electronic warfare systems as each application has an unquenchable thirst for more and more bandwidth and performance that is more often than not met by FPGA-based VPX computing systems. |
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High-performance embedded computing (HPEC) is moving from the data center into the field of combat where it can reduce costs while providing ultrafast backplane speeds in a much smaller footprint. |
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We moved from buses to differential serial fabrics because we encountered the bandwidth limit of single-ended signals on copper. Very soon, we will hit the bandwidth limit of serial links on copper and be forced to move to optical. How close are we? |
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Embedded signal processing solutions are driving the bandwidth in modern military radar systems and electronic warfare designs. The market for radar is especially strong and looks to stay that way. |
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NXP Semiconductor occupied a portable in the Consumer Electronics Show’s (CES’s) central plaza, where they had two demos that caught my eye – automotive radar and smart home commissioning with NFC. |
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In the not too distant past, computers and RF were not to be in the same room, let alone the same piece of computing equipment. Then over the years the two became friendlier with the onset of microprocessors. |
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For force protection in tight areas such as coastlines and coastal zones, military leaders are leveraging small, compact surveillance radar systems. Mark Radford, CEO of Blighter Surveillance Systems, discusses this trend and talks about the technology behind small radars with Senior Editor Sally Cole. |
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Raytheon engineers upgraded the computer processor of the AN/TPY-2 ballistic missile defense radar, which will enable it to work better during raids and more quickly and accurately discriminate between threats and non-threats. |
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General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA ASI), officials announced that they flight tested a pre-production Due Regard Radar (DRR) for operations in international airspace. |
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Northrop Grumman engineers are beginning work on the APG-83 Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR) after receiving the first production order from prime Lockheed Martin. |
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Officials at Unlimited Technology, Inc., in Chester Springs, Pa., chose Blighter Surveillance Systems to provide its Blighter B400 Series e-scan radars to help secure the perimeter of a strategic air base in the Middle East. |
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U.S. Army personnel sent up a blimp armed with a new cruise-missile and drone-fighting radar system from Raytheon for operation above rural Maryland. |
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Saab Air Traffic Management (ATM) engineers chose the RadarView radar visualization software from Cambridge Pixel to support integration and optimization of its SR-3 Airport Surface Movement Radar (SMR). |
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