Electronic Systems Center at Hanscom AFB, Mass., “showcased” two new combat identification systems during the recent Bold Quest demonstration at Nellis AFB, Nev., reports Monica Morales. The Laser Target Imaging Program and the Synthetic Aperture Radar Aided Target Recognition Capability proved “enormously successful,” following 18 months of “complex preparation, coordination, and relationship development,” said Rod Rendina, chief of ESC’s 630th Electronic Systems Squadron Non-Cooperative Technologies. The SAR-ATR uses high-resolution radar images to provide improved target identification, enabling sensor operations aboard an E-8 Joint STARS to distinguish targets more clearly, thus reducing target processing time. The LTIP illuminates targets at a much farther range than previously existed, which enables strike aircraft to have real-time identification capability.
Happy Birthday US Air Force: 78 Today
Sept. 18, 2025
Seventy-eight years ago today, on Sept. 18, 1947, Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred Vinson swore in Stuart Symington as the first ever Secretary of the Air Force, and the Air Force officially became the first new military service since the Revolutionary War.
