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Raytheon Wins Program For Detection Of Land Mines And Tunnels
El Segundo CA (SPX) Apr 27, 2009 Raytheon Company has received a $19 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for development and demonstration of technology to detect and locate buried land mines and tunnels. In Raytheon's plan, a laser radar vibration sensor, or ladar vibrometer, would reveal hidden targets by measuring ground-surface vibrations and use electronic instructions for calculation and processing known as algorithms to interpret the information. The technology demonstrator would integrate the vibrometer with acoustic and seismic sources for field-testing on a moving vehicle. Nick Uros, vice president for Advanced Concepts and Technology, listed the following examples of advanced technology Raytheon will employ on the Seismic and Acoustic Vibration Imaging program: A high-sensitivity ladar vibrometer with multiple parallel channels yielding 600 simultaneous pixels for broad area coverage. Initial military use of Raytheon's Morphable Networked Micro-architecture processor, the world's first computer whose architecture can adopt different forms depending on the application. Advanced algorithms developed for the vibrometer while compensating for vehicle, structural and acoustic vibration. "We are delighted with the opportunity to build and test the demonstrator," Uros said. "This will provide the first capability of real-time acoustic and seismic detection on a mobile platform, with significant improvement in detection stand-off range." Share This Article With Planet Earth
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Lockheed Martin F-35B Exceeds STOVL Thrust Requirement
Fort Worth TX (SPX) Apr 27, 2009The F-35B Lightning II short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) variant has demonstrated during testing that it produces excess vertical thrust - more than required to carry out its missions. The tests, conducted on a specially instrumented "hover pit," also validated the performance of aircraft software, controls, thermal management, STOVL-system hardware and other systems. |
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