Description

This edition of the Aerospace and Defense TOE describes the improvements that engineers are designing into radar systems to enable them to detect ballistic weapons, aircraft, ships, and even objects in space. These include hardware innovations such as miniaturized chips radar and software developments including sophisticated waveform processing that prevents friendly radar from being detected by an enemy.

Aerospace and Defense TechVision Opportunity Engine (TOE) delves into the technologies and applications that shape both commercial and military aviation and space exploration, ranging from engine design to the latest avionics systems. The defense portion of the publication explores the many facets of 21st century military technologies, such as UAV improvements, and cutting edge battlefield medical treatment.

The need for low power, smaller, lighter sensors with enhanced performance attributes and minimal false alarms is driving innovations in the sensors space. The Sensors and Control cluster covers innovations pertaining to technologies such as wireless sensors and networks, energy harvesting, haptics and touch, MEMS and nanosensors, Terahertz, ubiquitous/smart sensors, CBRNE, quantified-self, sensor fusion, M2M communications, and drones.

Keywords: Radar, phased-array antenna, lidar, radar camera, metamaterials, ballistic missiles