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Tag Archives: RADAR
A push for flat optics could transform light detection and ranging (LIDAR) technology.
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Posted in Articles, Energy, Photos, Rotator, Technology
Tagged DARPA, geolocation, Joshua Conway, LIDAR, Modular Optical Aperture Building Blocks, RADAR, UAV
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DARPA’s Electronic-Photonic Heterogeneous Integration (E-PHI) program has successfully integrated billions of light-emitting dots on silicon to create an efficient silicon-based laser.
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Posted in Articles, Engineering, Technology
Tagged Applied Physics Letters, Communications, DARPA, E-PHI, E-PHI demonstrator microsystems, Electronic-Photonic Heterogeneous Integration, imaging, microsystems devices, processing technologies, quantum dots, RADAR, Santa Barbara, sensing payloads, single fabrication process, state-of-the-art technologies, UCSB, University of California
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Precise control of optical frequency on a chip could offer revolutionary technology advances similar to those from the move from AM radio to FM radio in the 1940s!
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Posted in Articles
Tagged AM, atomic sensors, Broad Agency Announcement, DARPA, DARPA program manager, Direct On-chip Digital Optical Synthesizer, electronic warfare, FM, high-fidelity frequency modulation, low size, low-fidelity amplitude modulation, optical components, ORCHID, POEM, power, pre-1940 AM radio, precise timing, PULSE, quasar, RADAR, Robert Lutwak, SWaP, weight, wireless communications
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The Naval Research Laboratory and the Office of Naval Research through its INTOP Program has taken a 96,000-pound piece of equipment that was used in the 1940s and is refurbishing it for use in research today.
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Posted in Articles, Scientific Military History
Tagged Chesapeake Beach, Communications, INTOP Program, Maryland, military history, naval research laboratory, NRL, Office of Naval Research, onr, optical sciences, RADAR, remote sensing, Ship Motion System, tactical electronic warfare, Tactical Electronic Warfare Division, Tilghman Island
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Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) scientists are leading a multi-agency study which reveals that a very high-resolution Doppler radar has the unique capacity to detect individual cloud hydrometeors in the free atmosphere. This study will improve scientists’ understanding of the dynamics and …
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Posted in Earth Sciences, Featured, STEM
Tagged atmosphere, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Facility, clouds, Doppler, hydrometeors, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Marine Meteorology Division, meteorology, nasa, Naval Ordinance Test Unit, naval research laboratory, Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division, NRL, physics, RADAR, scripps institution of oceanography, space shuttle, the Federal Aviation Administration, U.S. Navy's Mid-Course Radar, weather
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Did you know that the GPS was invented by scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory? Well now you do. One of NRL’s greatest accomplishments has been the invention and development of the enabling technologies that became the Global Positioning …
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Posted in Space, Space Matters, STEM, Technology
Tagged Communications, defense, direction, Engineers, global positioning system, GPS, innovation, maps, Naval Research Center, navy, RADAR, research, scientists, space sciences
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By Staff Sgt. Heather Skinkle 451st Air Expeditionary Wing Public Affairs The massive golf-ball looking object perched on the tee-like tower at Kandahar Airfield isn’t just a useless landmark; instead the information obtained from it helps provide higher headquarters and …
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Posted in Energy, Logistics, STEM
Tagged 73rd Expeditionary Air Control Squadron, datalink, Kandahar Airfield, Maj. Richard Grecula, RADAR, radio, U.S. Air Force
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By Carla Voorhees, Defense Media Activity This is the second in a series of 10 technologies integral to the United States military since World War I. In the early twentieth century, radio was considered a wonder – it allowed long …
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Posted in STEM, Technology
Tagged 10 Technologies Through the Years, RADAR, radio equipment, WWI, WWII
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