Bae Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.

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Bae Systems Land & Armaments L.p.

Allister McNeish

Eric Charles Hoenes

Michael McElroy

Louise C Sengupta

Somnath Sengupta

Valent Horvatich

Harvey L Berger

Mark Brown

Alvaro D Lewin

Leon Bademian

Keith Andrew Kunz

Joseph Wesley Coltman, Iii

Edmund Popp

Mark W Leiby

Kenneth G Grove

James J Cerul

A method and apparatus of detecting laser in a laser warning receiver is disclosed. A panoramic lens assembly utilized in cameras is combined with a laser detection focal plane. Incident laser light is refracted in the panoramic lens and made to illuminate a multiplicity of individual sensor elements. By determining the corresponding intensity of the laser light on the sensors, the angle of arrival resolutions superior to the element angular resolutions can be achieved. The combination of a panoramic lens with a laser detection focal plane provides a low cost laser warning for wrap around ground based situational awareness.

Panoramic laser warning receiver for determining angle of arrival of laser light based on intensity

In the structure for providing protection for the human body from ballistic projectiles which includes one or more ballistic resistant panels overlying at least a portion of the body, wherein the improvement comprising one or more electronic devices integrated into at least one of the ballistic resistant panels.

Structure for integrating soldier system electronics with body armor

Methods and systems are provided for making more accurate range and marksmanship determinations in laser-based military engagements. These methods and systems allow a shooter and a target in a laser engagement system to be paired with one another in a substantially unambiguous manner. Such pairing allows the lasers to be used at full power and is particularly well suited for clustered environments in which multiple combatants may be in close proximity to one another. The methods and systems are also particularly well suited for testing new or experimental weapon systems by virtue of the more accurate range and marksmanship estimates provided.

Laser backrange and marksmanship apparatus and method

An optical guidance system for guiding a projectile is disclosed. The optical guidance system includes a laser, a first and second cylindrical holographic lenses and a variable zoom lens. The laser generates a laser beam, and the first and second cylindrical holographic lenses transform the laser beam into a x-direction and y-direction scan patterns, respectively. The variable zoom lens projects the x-direction and y-direction scan patterns in the form of multiple scan fields, each within a scan corridor, in order to guide a projectile along a flight path towards a target.

Apparatus for guiding a rifle-launched projectile

A body armor plate is configured to provide ballistics protection to a wearer of the plate. For example, the plate may be configured to protect the upper torso of the wearer from high-speed, ballistic projectiles like bullets, shrapnel, and/or other projectiles. In some implementations, the plate may include one or more electronic modules formed integrally therewith. Formation of the electronic modules integrally with the plate may enhance the functionality of the plate, may enhance the convenience (e.g., the form factor, the weight, the portability, etc.) of the electronics modules, robustness of the electronics modules, and/or other aspects of the electronics modules. The combination of the plate and the electronics modules may specifically provide various enhancements to, for example, military or law enforcement personnel that rely on the plate for ballistics protection.

Body armor plate having integrated electronics modules

The present invention relates to an apparatus and process for producing a thin organic film on a substrate using an ultrasonic nozzle to produce a cloud of micro-droplets in a vacuum chamber. The micro-droplets move turbulently within the vacuum chamber, isotropically impacting and adhering to the surface of the substrate. The resulting product has a smooth, continuous, conformal, and uniform organic thin film, when the critical process parameters of micro-droplet size, shot size, vacuum chamber pressure, and timing are well-controlled, and defects such as 'orange peel' effect and webbing are avoided. The apparatus includes an improved ultrasonic nozzle assembly that comprises vacuum sealing and a separate, independent passageway for introducing a directed purging gas.

Process for coating three-dimensional substrates with thin organic films and products

A method for increasing the tunable range of a single acousto-optic tunable filter includes the steps of generating an active steering beam on a piezoelectric transducer and configuring the electrodes of the piezoelectric transducer to reduce the tuning frequency at short wavelengths and increasing the tuning frequency at long wavelengths. The piezoelectric transducer is mounted in relation with an optically transparent crystal at an angle such that the fixed launch angle in combination with the driving frequency provides a greater that one octave spectra to be filtered in a single AOTF.

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Allister McNeish