Insights Magazine, Second Quarter, 2008
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Insights Magazine features an in-depth look at net-centric strategies and advancements. Published quarterly by Lockheed Martin, Insights includes viewpoint editorials penned by leading government and industry officials as well as news features covering recent milestones, achievements and innovations in net-centric operations. Nowhere to Hide
Foliage Penetrating Radar Matures
Not that long ago the U.S. military lacked an ability to detect and pinpoint vehicles, buildings, and other targets, like missile launchers, in broad areas of dense forest and wooded terrain
Seeking to address this critical deficiency the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. Armys Communications-Electronics Research Development and Engineering Centers Intelligence and Information Warfare Directorate, in the late 1990s, enlisted Lockheed Martin to develop a novel, foliagepenetrating synthetic aperture radar, known as FOPEN.
With todays U.S. Army-led Tactical Reconnaissance and Counter-Concealment Enabled Radar program, or TRACER, the legacy FOPEN radar system continues to grow in capability, application, and reliability while continuous research and technology improvements have shrunk size, weight, and power consumption.
The TRACER system builds upon the FOPEN technology advancements by not only shrinking and modernizing the radar, but also by configuring it for unmanned endurance aircraft. These technology advances, coupled with lessons learned from ongoing FOPEN operations, have contributed to new concepts of operations for the system, as well.
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