Blog: Defense

AUSA 2019: A View From the Show Floor

News: Sensors/Data Acquisition

Answering Your Questions: How Will the Military Use Motion Control Technology?

INSIDER: Software

Army Hopes to Use AI to Create More-Efficient Fuel Cells

As part of an effort to address the gap the U.S. Army faces in its need for long-lasting power and batteries for warfighters, an Army-funded research team has developed an...

INSIDER: Test & Measurement

How to Dismantle a Nuclear Bomb

How do weapons inspectors verify that a nuclear bomb has been dismantled? An unsettling answer is: They don’t, for the most part. When countries sign arms reduction pacts, they do not typically grant...

INSIDER: Materials

Air Force Scientists Discover Unique Stretchable Conductor

The Air Force Research Laboratory has developed liquid metal systems which autonomously change structure so that they become better conductors in response to strain. Conductive...

INSIDER: Aerospace

Air Force Invents Aircraft Tire Change Tool

How many airmen does it take to change a cargo aircraft tire? Too many. The U. S. Air Force’s largest aircraft, the C-5M Super Galaxy, has 28 tires. The current tire changing method is...

INSIDER: Aerospace

Pilot Assistance System Enables Low-Noise Landings

Approach and landing are among the most complex phases of a flight. In order to enable pilots to fly as quietly as possible, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) developed the Low Noise...

Products: Motion Control

New Products: October 2019 Aerospace & Defense Technology

Volume Graphics (Charlotte, NC) announced the latest generation of its software solutions for non-destructive quality assurance with industrial...

Articles: Electronics & Computers

Solid-State Microwave Power Module

Articles: Aerospace

Defeating Commercial Drone Threats with Open-Source SDR

Articles: Aerospace

Defining an Open System Architecture Standard for Defense Systems

Articles: Aerospace

The Challenge of Replacing Hard Chrome

Articles: Electronics & Computers

Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Vehicles

Articles: Software

A 'STEP' Forward for Product Lifecycle Management

Application Briefs: Imaging

EO/IR Maritime Payload

Application Briefs: Communications

Counter IED System

Netline Communications Technologies Ltd., a company that develops and manufactures high-end electronic warfare and spectrum...

Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition

Drone Control System

Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics

Unmanned Helicopter Drone

Application Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics

Autonomous Multi-Sensor Maritime Awareness System

Briefs: Test & Measurement

Waveform Synthesis for Shock Response Spectrum Replication, Applied to Ground Vehicle Component Testing

Briefs: Aerospace

Influence of Leading-Edge Oscillatory Blowing on Time-Accurate Dynamic Store Separation

Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics

Green’s Function Extraction from Atmospheric Acoustic Propagation

INSIDER: Aerospace

Supersonic Aircraft Window Goes Virtual

NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) aircraft will eliminate the cockpit’s forward-facing window, replacing it with the eXternal Visibility System (XVS) that uses a 4K monitor...

INSIDER: Propulsion

Safer Electric Solid Propellants for Rocket Engines

Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Missouri University of Science and Technology, and NASA conducted experiments to understand the behavior of a...

INSIDER: Materials

Coating Improves Pilots’ Visibility in Rainstorms

An Air Force Research Laboratory-developed product called HydroSkip repels water from aircraft transparencies, addressing the issue of limited visibility caused by heavy rain that can...

INSIDER: Test & Measurement

Experiments Differentiate Between Underground Nuclear Tests and Earthquakes

Sandia National Laboratories researchers, as part of a group of National Nuclear Security Administration scientists, have wrapped up years of field experiments...