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How Miniaturized Distributed Modular Architecture Advances Avionics Design
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Pathfinder Radar ISR and SAR Systems: Tactical Eyes for the Warfighter
Sandia National Laboratories’ (Albuquerque, NM) Radar Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) systems enable a new product paradigm in radar capabilities...
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Preventing Ice Buildup on Electric Aircraft
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Critical Communications Break Out of the Analog Mold
Once firmly rooted in its analog origins, critical communications is now steadily evolving to provide enhanced situational awareness. The latest public safety and military communications...
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Land Combat Missile
Arlington, VA
703-387-7139
www.mbdainc.com
In early 2019, the DGA (French Procurement Agency) and the French Army (STAT) organized a campaign to test the MMP land combat missile in...
Application Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Mine Roller
Moscow, Russia
+7 (495) 287-25-25
https://rostec.ru/en/
Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant, part of UralVagonZavod Group belonging to Rostec State Corporation, has developed a mine roller to be...
Application Briefs: Data Acquisition
Tactical Communications System
Tysons, VA
202-818-8429
www.spectra-group.us
Spectra Group (US), a specialist provider of secure voice, data and satellite communications systems, specifically optimized for use...
Application Briefs: Aerospace
Tiltrotor Aircraft
Fort Worth, TX
817-280-2011
www.bellflight.com
During the thirty years since the V-22 Osprey first flew, the tiltrotor aircraft, built by Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc. company, and...
Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Hydraulic Thermal Bypass Valve
Warminster, PA
877-379-8258
www.thermomegatech-adg.com
A system supplier to the U.S. Department of Defense recently approached ThermOmegaTech® to obtain a custom...
Briefs: Defense
Feasibility Study of Portable Water Desalination Systems for Water Contingencies at Remote Navy Installations
Briefs: Defense
Hands-on Cybersecurity Studies: Multi-Perspective Analysis of the WannaCry Ransomware
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Thermal Conductivities of Some Polymers and Composites
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Nominal High-Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse (HEMP) Waveforms
Briefs: Defense
Real-Time Heuristics and Metaheuristics for Static and Dynamic Weapon Target Assignments
Projectile weapons have been a consistent threat of hostilities throughout history. Military advantage has always been aided by the capacity to inflict damage from a distance. In the 20th century, missile technology advanced to the point that an adversary...
Briefs: Defense
Hybrid Ultra-Low VOC and Non-HAP Rain Erosion Coatings
Numerous military aircraft and shipboard surfaces, such as radomes, antennas, gun shields, wing leading edges, and helicopter blade leading edges, are coated with a specialized...
INSIDER: Aerospace
Collins Aerospace Redefines Mission Capabilities of C-130H Through Modernization Program with French Air Force
Collins Aerospace Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp., has completed the first cockpit modernization of fourteen...
INSIDER: Aerospace
Lockheed Martin Completes NASA's Orion Spacecraft Capsule For Artemis 1 Mission To The Moon
The goal of humans again walking on the Moon is one giant leap closer. Lockheed Martin has completed building the capsule for NASA's Orion...
INSIDER: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Northrop Grumman to Demonstrate Robotic Manufacturing in Space
Made In Space (MIS) has awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation a subcontract to support NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) demonstration of the autonomous...
News: Robotics, Automation & Control
Inside Story: Allied Motion
Many medical devices — from robotic surgery to autonomous delivery robots in hospitals, to dialysis equipment — use motion control products to operate. Allied Motion’s long and successful experience as a...
INSIDER: Imaging
"Eyes" for the Autopilot
Automatic landings have long been standard procedure for commercial aircraft at major airports; this is usually not the case at smaller airports. Researchers have developed a completely automatic landing with...
INSIDER: Materials
Air Force Produces Light, Thin Transparent Armor
The Air Force Research Laboratory is manufacturing transparent ceramic armor for both air and ground vehicles. ALON is a transparent ceramic material composed of aluminum, oxygen, and...
INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Portable Gas Detection Shrinks to New Dimensions
A sensor for detecting toxic gases is now smaller, faster and more reliable, setting it up for integration into a highly sensitive portable system for detecting chemical weapons. Better...
INSIDER: Defense
Army Rebuilding Short-Range Air Defense
The Army is now standing up short-range air defense units, known as SHORAD battalions, and offering a five-week pilot Stinger course for soldiers in maneuver units. It's all part of a critical...
INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Operating at the Speed of Thought
When a cyber-warrior defends a complex computer network, or a pilot commands a team of unmanned vehicles, or a submarine officer interacts with intricate sensor systems, they are often limited by...
INSIDER: Aerospace
FAA’s New Rules Could Reintroduce Civil Supersonic Jets
The FAA announced two rulemaking activities on civil supersonic aircraft noise that could reintroduce supersonic passenger travel for the first time since the Concorde retired in...
INSIDER: Test & Measurement
NASA Tests Electric Aircraft Power Systems
NASA Glenn has repurposed its Hypersonic Tunnel Facility to create the NASA Electric Aircraft Testbed (NEAT), a reconfigurable facility that can accommodate power systems for large passenger...
INSIDER: Aerospace
Air Force Technology Reclaims Obsolete Aircraft Parts
The average age of Air Force aircraft is over 28 years. As a result, parts can be difficult to acquire when original suppliers are no longer in existence. The Maturation of Advanced...
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