Sensors

It’s another development as the Marine Corps continues to push for new lethal technologies to retool its infantry squads.

The Corps is looking to equip infantry Marines with binocular goggles capable of both night vision and thermal imaging.

The Navy has tapped Raytheon’s Enterprise Air Surveillance Radar as its preferred radar for the future frigate, but Swedish defense company Saab is closely watching the program to see if an opening develops for its Sea Giraffe agile multibeam radar.

The surface Navy is planning to wrap up its over-the-horizon, anti-surface missile competition in the coming months, the Pentagon’s director of Surface Warfare Division said Tuesday.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched a program to develop affordable, environmentally friendly sensors to monitor ocean temperature, movement and other key data.

Researchers from Harvard and the Air Force want to shrink those sensors down to the size of a Band-Aid, creating a new world of possibilities and sensor applications.

Rising populations, denser urban areas and existing security threats are forcing military and civilian emergency workers underground.

A failure by Russian radars to see North Korean ICBMs could mean Russia detects missile interceptors fired by the United States as a unique threat, rather than a response to a launch by Pyongyang.