Military Sensing

All sensing applications that apply to the defense of the United States of America.

Recent Inquiries

Current Technologies for Detecting Electromagnetic Energy

What are the current state-of-the-art technologies and equipment for detecting electromagnetic spectrum energy?

What are the U.S. Department of Defense efforts on vision-based aerial navigation?

What are the U.S. Department of Defense efforts on vision-based aerial navigation?

Open Architectures, Standards, and Communication Protocols for Collaborative and Autonomous Unmanned Systems

What open architectures, standards, and communication protocols exist for collaborative and autonomous unmanned systems?

Articles

woman standing in front of radar screen

Radar Is Advancing at Historic Speed. How Engineers Are Setting the Pace.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In a whirling geopolitical landscape of new nuclear weapons, hypersonic weapons, drones, and satellites, the US is hustling to test new kinds of radars aimed at detecting evolving threats. Many of these…

The Compact Space Plasma Analyzer will improve space weather prediction.

New Technology Improves Space Weather Monitoring

Peaceful though it may seem from Earth, space is beset by “weather” that can prove perilous for the sensitive — and expensive — technology aboard the spacecraft and satellites increasingly populating the realms outside our…

Miller Projection Main Field Declination (D) map from the US/UK World Magnetic Model 2020. (Map developed by NOAA/NCEI and CIRES)

World Magnetic Model Makes Modern Precision Navigation Possible

The World Magnetic Model is a critical piece of digital infrastructure that is key to global navigation and corrects a standard compass reading. The WMM provides declination values for all points on Earth, which NGA…

Webinars

NISAR Instrument in NASA JPL clean room

Antenna Systems for Space Applications at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Antenna developments for space applications have a long history at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Starting from the 1970s, Voyager; Galileo; Cassini; the Shutter Radar Topography mission; and, more recently,…

ARL's Transonic Experimental Facility

ARL Hypervelocity Ballistic Range Experiments

The U.S. Army Research Laboratory’s (ARL’s) Transonic Experimental Facility (TEF) is an all-purpose research firing range that has been used to investigate propulsion, materials, flight, guidance, and terminal effects across a spectrum of launch (mechanical)…

Development and Utilization of TIPS Within the FRACTALS at the DEVCOM Analysis Center

The Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) Analysis Center (DAC) has developed the Tactical ISR [intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance] Performance Suite (TIPS), a reusable code library that encapsulates the DAC sensor performance models and behavior methodologies….

Events

AOC 2024 International Symposium & Convention

From the Wars in Ukraine and Gaza to warfare in the Red Sea and tensions in the Indo-Pacific, the geopolitical situation is increasingly hostile, and tensions are increasing worldwide. Whether a nation state is monitoring…

Image of a satellite orbiting Earth.

Space Resiliency Summit

The 11th Space Resiliency Summit will bring together senior leaders, experts, and innovators to discuss the policies and operations necessary to ensure the safety and resiliency of U.S.-space based assets and missions in an increasingly…

U.S. Marines fire a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System at Camp Shorab in Helmand Province Afghanistan, Feb. 22, 2019. Marines conducted strikes in support of Operation Inherent Resolve. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Victoria Ross)

2025 Future Indirect Fires Summit

The 2025 Future Indirect Fires Summit will bring together leaders from the indirect-fire community to discuss the latest innovations in indirect fire systems, support systems, munitions, and challenges presented by the current conflict in Ukraine….