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Joint STARS engineers work sensor integration project

Too many senior enlisted sailors have gotten into trouble over the past several weeks — and the Navy’s top master chief wants it to stop now.Following a year in which 10 command master chiefs or chiefs of the boat were detached for cause — and an average of 54 sailors ranked E-7 and up are busted for drunken driving every year — Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (SS/SW) Rick West delivered a broadside to his top master chiefs Dec. 11.In a personal message to senior enlisted leaders, West said too many chief petty officers have gotten in trouble for driving under the influence, sexual assault, domestic violence, fraternization and general misconduct.He directed all his CMCs to meet with their chiefs’ messes to discuss the problem, and he said fleet and force master chiefs will brief him on any major disciplinary problem involving a chief.“This is unacceptable within our mess and must stop immediately,” he said in the personal message, a copy of which was obtained by Navy Times.To read West’s message and the full story, check out this week’s Navy Times, on newsstands now.Subscribers can read the electronic edition here .

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MCPON: Chiefs must shape up

IEDs: The Aftermath (click to view full) The US military is working on the next-generation of jammers to defeat improvised explosive devices (IEDs) that pose such a grave threat to US forces deployed overseas. The jammers are called Joint Counter Radio-Controlled Improvised Explosive Device (RCIED) Electronic Warfare (JCREW) devices. They are high-power, modular, programmable, multiband radio frequency jammers designed to deny enemy use of selected portions of the radio frequency spectrum. They come in 3 varieities – fixed, mounted, and dismounted. The first generations of JCREW devices were developed and deployed quickly to meet an urgent need in the field

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BAE’s LTLM Night Goggles BAE Systems’ Electronic Solutions division in Nashua, NH won a $42 million firm-fixed-price contract to supply 1,203 night vision goggles, known as laser target locator modules (LTLMs), to the US Army. The LTLMs are handheld goggles that enable soldiers to identify target locations while on foot, in daylight or at nighttime, and in obscured-visibility conditions such as fog and smoke. On Aug 10/09, BAE Systems announced that it had partnered with Vectronix to supply 200 LTLMs per month to the Army under a 5-year indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract worth up to $347 million… (more…)

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BAE Systems to Supply 1,203 Night Vision Goggles to US Army

IRST: B-2, ICU (click to view full) The F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet Block IIs are just beginning to enter service, with significantly improved AN/APG-79 AESA radars and other electronic upgrades . Recent years have seen another spreading improvement within global fighter fleets, however: Infa-Red Search & Track (IRST) systems that provide long range thermal imaging against air and ground targets. Most of these deployments have been on Russian (MiG-29 family, SU-30 family) and European (Eurofighter, Rafale) fighters, or special American exports (UAE’s F-16E/F Block 60s, F-15K/SG)

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F-18 Super Hornets to Get IRST