Application Briefs: Imaging
Control Platform Toolkit
Cambridge, MA
(617) 491-3474
www.cra.com
Charles River Analytics Inc., a developer of intelligent systems solutions, recently partnered with Sensics, Inc., creators of the...
Application Briefs: Propulsion
Customizable Rocket Launchers
Arnold, MO
(636) 296-5417
www.arnolddefense.com
Arnold Defense, an international manufacturer and supplier of 2.75-inch rocket launchers, has been generating considerable interest...
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Radar Sensor Systems
London, UK
+44 19 9280 5200
www.kelvinhughes.com
Kelvin Hughes recently announced a number of new coastal surveillance / Vessel Traffic Service (VTS) radar sensor sales references in...
Application Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
Counter UAV System
London, UK
+44 (0) 20 7491 8186
www.sruav.co.uk
The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is one of the most significant technological developments in the last decade. However, where once...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Designing for Compressive Sensing: Compressive Art, Camouflage, Fonts, and Quick Response Codes
Compressive sensing (CS) is a relatively new field that has caused a lot of excitement in the signal processing community. It has superseded...
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Calculation of Weapon Platform Attitude and Cant Using Available Sensor Feedback
When firing artillery, there is typically a maximum angle that the platform cannot exceed relative to the Earth plane. This is due to the large recoil forces...
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Validation of Automated Prediction of Blood Product Needs Algorithm Processing Continuous Non-Invasive Vital Signs Streams (ONPOINT4)
Hemorrhagic shock occurs frequently in natural and man-made disaster scenarios. To control bleeding and to...
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Phonon Confinement Effect in TiO2 Nanoparticles as Thermosensor Materials
TiO2 or ZnO nanoparticles (NPs) have a very strong finite-size dependency in their Raman spectra or photoluminescence (PL) spectra due to the phonon...
INSIDER: Aerospace
Evading In-Flight Lightning Strikes
MIT engineers are proposing a new way to reduce a plane's lightning risk using an onboard system that would protect a plane by electrically charging it. The proposal may seem counterintuitive, but the...
INSIDER: Defense
Analytical Methods Help Develop Antidotes for Cyanide, Mustard Gas
To develop antidotes for chemical agents, such as cyanide and mustard gas, scientists need analytical methods that track not only the level of exposure but also how the...
INSIDER: Defense
Army Aviators Test Next Generation Air-to-Ground Missile
Aviation testers have been busy testing the latest Army aviation missile, known as the Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM). The complex JAGM test was a collaborative team effort...
Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) and the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering have developed a new...
INSIDER: Aerospace
Blockage Detection System Could Prevent Aircraft Accidents
Acoustic methods have been used for detecting blockages in pipes for many years. Researchers set out to discover if similar methods could be used for real aircraft Pitot tubes,...
INSIDER: Aerospace
Origami is Key to Air Force Concepts
For scientists and engineers at the Air Force Research Laboratory, the prospect of using origami to create complex, multi-functional materials from a two-dimensional substrate is a highly attractive...
INSIDER: Aerospace
NASA Demonstrates X-ray Navigation in Space
In a technology first, NASA demonstrated fully autonomous X-ray navigation in space. This technology could work in concert with existing spacecraft-based radio and optical systems.
INSIDER: Defense
Ultrafine Fibers Could Revolutionize Body Armor
Researchers at MIT have developed a process, called gel electrospinning, that can produce ultrafine fibers - whose diameter is measured in nanometers, or billionths of a meter - that are...
INSIDER: Defense
Printing on Patrol
What if our military could dramatically reduce the amount of materials and equipment held on the front lines by printing only what they need? Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National...
INSIDER: Defense
Army Trains Robots to "Learn" From Humans
Researchers at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and The University of Texas at Austin have developed new techniques for robots or computer programs to learn how to perform tasks by interacting...
Blog: Aerospace
Sharks on a Plane? Skin Scales Lift Aircraft Design
To improve a flying vehicle, sometimes you have to turn to a reliable model that has been operating for hundreds of millions of years.
INSIDER: Materials
Nanotube Fibers Made by Hand to Cut Production Time
A method developed at Rice University allows researchers to make short lengths of strong, conductive fibers from small samples of bulk nanotubes in about an hour. It can take grams of material and weeks of effort to optimize the process of spinning continuous fibers, but the new method cuts...
INSIDER: Software
Drones Learn Autonomous Flying by Imitating Cars and Bikes
The algorithm DroNet allows drones to fly completely by themselves through the streets of a city and in indoor environments. It produces two outputs for each single input image:...
INSIDER: Aerospace
NASA Alloy Could Fold Wings in Flight
NASA has successfully applied a new technology in flight that allows aircraft to fold their wings to different angles while in the air. Part of the Spanwise Adaptive Wing (SAW) project, the...
Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
New Products: February 2018 Aerospace & Defense Technology
Themis Computer® (Fremont, CA) announced the launch of its next generation XR6 Rugged Enterprise Servers (RES)...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
Loop Thermosyphons
Two-phase cooling has been utilized in the electronics cooling industry for many decades, with possibly the most well-known adaptation being the heat pipe. Heat pipes are capillary-driven, two-phase devices that rely on...
Articles: Aerospace
Additive Manufacturing Materials for RF Components
The Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development, and Engineering Center (AMRDEC) Weapons Development and Integration (WDI) Directorate has a program known as PRIntable Materials with...
Articles: Aerospace
CompactPCI Serial Space
There are a few open specifications in the embedded industry that have been used in the extreme environments of space over the years. These include VME, CompactPCI, OpenVPX, and MicroTCA. But, prime contractors such...
Articles: RF & Microwave Electronics
NASA CubeSats: Pushing the Boundaries of Technology
NASA’s Small Spacecraft Technology Program is on the countdown clock to advance communications and proximity maneuvering capabilities for CubeSats with the Integrated Solar Array and...
Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Plain Bearings for Aerospace Applications
Plain bearings are used across a wide range of aerospace applications to help achieve better fuel efficiency, extend maintenance intervals, and lower carbon emissions. These applications include...
Articles: Aerospace
Multi-Domain Command and Control (MDC2)
We are at an inflection point in the evolution of warfare. While technology is rapidly increasing pace, it is also creating an expansion into multiple, parallel domains, and giving enemy forces more...
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