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Turkey's KAAN Combat Aircraft Completes First Flight - Mobility Engineering...
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FAA Expands Boeing 737 Investigation to Manufacturing and Production Lines -...
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New Video Card Enables Supersonic Vision System for NASA's X-59 Demonstrator -...
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INSIDER Electronics & Computers
European KC-135s Get Real Time Cockpit System Upgrades
Aircraft assigned to the 100th Air Refueling Wing are the first tankers in U.S. Air Forces in Europe to be equipped with a new data link system, allowing them to communicate and...
INSIDER Manned Systems
GAO Report: Maintenance and Supply Delays Continue to Impact F-35 Readiness
Maintenance challenges negatively affect F-35 aircraft readiness. The F-35 fleet mission capable rate—the percentage of time the aircraft can perform one of...
INSIDER AR/AI
DoD's New 'Adopt, Buy, Create' AI Strategy is Built on Software and Quality of Data
developed by the Chief Digital and AI Office (CDAO). The 26-page document outlines the agency's new enterprise-wide "Adopt, Buy, Create" approach to...
INSIDER Design
Identifying Optimal Designs for Deep Neural Network Accelerators
With the proliferation of computationally intensive machine-learning applications, such as chatbots that perform real-time language translation, device manufacturers often...
INSIDER Aerospace
New 'Motherlode' Tool is Revolutionizing UK Navy Helicopter Maintenance
The U.K.'s Royal Navy is rolling out the use of a new artificial intelligence (AI) software tool called "Motherlode" that is poised to revolutionize the way military...
INSIDER Defense
Quantum Sensing Enters DoD Landscape in First-of-a-Kind Gyroscope Space Demonstration
The Defense Science Board identified three areas of quantum technology that will be most relevant to the Department of Defense's (DoD) technological...
Briefs Automotive
Adapting US Army Acquisition to Ensure the Reliability and Safety of Autonomous Vehicles
This report presents several challenges that the U.S. Army will face in the transition to AVs, challenges that are only magnified in the current acquisition environment with limited testing.
Briefs Sensors/Data Acquisition
An Adaptive Pipeline From Scientific Data to Models
Under DARPA’s Synergistic Discovery and Design program, a team broadly researched and developed data driven techniques for scientific discovery and robust design, proving feasibility through program challenge problems with Yeast States, Novel Chassis, Protein Stability, and Perovskite.
Briefs Sensors/Data Acquisition
Learning Defects From Aircraft NDT Data
Non-destructive evaluation of aircraft production is optimized and digitalized with Industry 4.0. The aircraft structures produced using fiber metal laminate are traditionally inspected using water-coupled ultrasound scans and manually evaluated.
INSIDER AR/AI
Navy Deploys Automated Energy Assessment Tools to the Fleet
Engineers at the Naval Sea Systems Command have achieved an important milestone with the installation of the Global Energy Information System (GENISYS) suite onboard DDG 51...
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Optoelectronic Analog Signal Transmission Takes Center Stage Amidst Aerospace and Defense Innovation
RFoF has emerged as a game-changing technology for A&D communication. Its ability to extend communication ranges, immunity to electromagnetic interference, enhanced security, low latency and high bandwidth make it indispensable for modern A&D operations.
INSIDER AR/AI
Intelligent Gateway Connects Aircraft to Space Force Unified Data Library in Northern Edge Exercise
During the latest demonstration in the U.S. Indo Pacific Command's 2023 Northern Edge exercise series, an intelligence data gathering and...
INSIDER Defense
F-35 Crash Caused by Wake Turbulence and Flight Control System Error
The October 2022 crash of an F-35A at Hill Air Force Base (AFB), Utah was caused by wake turbulence from a preceding aircraft and erroneous air data inputs to the...
INSIDER Sensors/Data Acquisition
SHARE Software Enables Reliable Tactical Edge Communications Between US, Allied Partners
The Defense Advanced Project Research Agency’s (DARPA’s) Secure Handhelds on Assured Resilient networks at the tactical Edge (SHARE) program...
INSIDER Sensors/Data Acquisition
Northrop Grumman Developing Next Generation Inertial Sensor for US Navy
The U.S. Navy awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation a new production contract for the new AN/WSN-12 Inertial Sensor Module (ISM). Northrop Grumman’s AN/WSN-12 ISM...
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ADS-B Classification Using Multivariate Long Short-Term Memory
The increase in available data has resulted in the study of identifying trends becoming more and more prevalent in multiple facets of society to include commerce and government.
INSIDER Materials
Report Finds F-35 Program Cannot Track Millions in Spare Parts
A new 35-page report published by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) finds that the Department of Defense's (DoD) F-35 Joint Program Office has lost track of millions...
INSIDER Data Acquisition
Air Force Completes First Magnetic Navigation Flight on C-17
In a groundbreaking achievement, the Department of the Air Force-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Artificial Intelligence Accelerator (AIA) MagNav project recently...
INSIDER Design
NIST Outlines Vision for a National Semiconductor Technology Center
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released a paper outlining its vision and strategy for a National Semiconductor...
INSIDER Defense
Air Force Shifts to New Software Toolkit for Predictive Maintenance
The Air Force Rapid Sustainment Office’s Predictive Analytics and Decision Assistant leverages artificial intelligence software to transform logistics data into...
INSIDER Test & Measurement
MQ-25, H-1 Test Next-Gen Satellite Communications
The Marine Corps' UH-1Y helicopter completed an initial flight to test the data transmission of the new Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) Satellite Communications (SATCOM) capability...
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Handheld Targeting System
The U.S. Marine Corps awarded Northrop Grumman the initial production and operations contract for the Next Generation Handheld Targeting System (NGHTS).
INSIDER Motion Control
Lockheed Martin CubeSats Demonstrate Essential Maneuvers for On-Orbit Servicing
Lockheed Martin’s In-space Upgrade Satellite System (LM LINUSS™) accomplished a successful on-orbit demonstration, proving how small satellites can serve...
INSIDER Aerospace
AFRL Conducts First Flight Experiments for Communications in Terahertz Band
Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) researchers recently conducted flight experiments in Rome, New York to prove the viability of communications at radio...
INSIDER Research Lab
University of Rochester Lab Creates New 'Reddmatter' Superconductivity Material
In a historic achievement, University of Rochester researchers have created a superconducting material at both a temperature and pressure low enough for...
INSIDER Sensors/Data Acquisition
Army Integrated Sensor Architecture Modernization Effort Continues
Developers and engineers at the Program Executive Office Intelligence, Electronic Warfare and Sensors (PEO IEW&S) Integration Directorate have been modernizing the US...
INSIDER Electronics & Computers
The Future of Avionics: Machine-Learned and Certified
The emerging advanced air mobility market is driving the convergence of airborne electronic systems that are highly integrated with unprecedented functionality. Legacy avionics systems...
INSIDER Data Acquisition
DARPA AI Algorithms Transition from Simulator to Flying Modified F-16
A joint Department of Defense team executed 12 flight tests in which artificial intelligence (AI) agents piloted the X-62A Variable Stability In-Flight Simulator Test...
INSIDER Defense
US Air Force Test Center Invests $287 Million in Flight Test Instrumentation
Curtiss-Wright has been awarded a 10-year, $287 million indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract by Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) – Air Force...
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