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INSIDER: Aerospace
Imagine a glass window that’s tough like armor, a camera lens that doesn’t get scratched in a sand storm, or a smartphone that doesn’t break when dropped. Except it’s not glass;...
Articles: Defense
As OEMs seek advantages in Size, Weight, Power and Cost (SWaP-C), focus is shifting to advancements in power electronics. Gaining an advantage requires close attention not only to...
Articles: Defense
Reliance on aging military platforms has become a global concern and military aircraft today are expected to remain in service for longer than their original life cycles....
Articles: Defense
Counterfeit semiconductor devices entering the Department of Defense (DOD) supply chain continue to pose risks to many of our country’s most sophisticated aerospace and defense systems....
Articles: Aerospace
Since the digital revolution changed forever the pilot’s working environment, innovators and suppliers of cockpit systems have strived to provide a continuous stream of new developments and products that offer increasingly...
Articles: Defense
The search for lighter weight, stronger materials to construct airplanes and spacecraft remains as important as ever. But it takes a long time for new materials in aerospace structures to make their way into...
Articles: RF & Microwave Electronics
Articles: RF & Microwave Electronics
Unlike primary radars, Secondary Surveillance Radar (SSR) calculates the range and azimuth of a target, such as an aircraft, using a bidirectional communication link to gather...
Briefs: Aerospace
Work on structural composites with tunable chiral elements has produced electronically tunable overall chiral composites, mechanically tunable chiral composites, flat lenses with soft hyperbolic...
Briefs: Materials
Advanced, Single-Polymer, Nanofiber-Reinforced Composite
A strategic goal of the U.S. Air Force is to be able to deliver munitions to targets anywhere around the globe in less than an hour. This will require very high speeds and novel lightweight and temperature-resistant materials. Nanocomposites are promising emerging materials for structural...
Briefs: Aerospace
Aging infrastructure has a major impact on safety, increasing the need to assess damage severity. Machinery, systems, and components such as...
Briefs: Aerospace
Multifunctional composites have been investigated for destruction of bio-agents. These materials’ unique properties at the nano scale, including...
INSIDER: Test & Measurement
NASA researchers are poring over data from a recent test that involved sending volcanic ash through an airplane engine. The primary issue, according to NASA, is that volcanic ash forms...
INSIDER: Motion Control
In the future, it's possible that some unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) might sport wings that flap like a bird or a butterfly. The Army Research Lab has been testing such a UAV, known...
INSIDER: Aerospace
A new modular, subscale remotely piloted aircraft offers NASA researchers more affordable options for developing a wide range of cutting edge aviation and space...
INSIDER: Aerospace
There are two ways for pilots to gain proficiency in an airplane and evaluate its handling qualities: climb into the cockpit and take off, or practice in a ground-based...
INSIDER: Aerospace
Virginia Tech researchers are urging changes in how commercial aircraft engines are designed in the wake of a possible new threat to passenger aircraft safety: drones, or...
Articles: Aerospace
Unmanned vehicles are at the forefront of an evolution, especially with the proliferation of the Internet of Things. After decades of serving mission-critical applications in...
Articles: Aerospace
The steady rise in demand for high-thrust, big-fan engines for new wide-body commercial airplanes continues to generate massive business, as the 2015 half-year results from Rolls-Royce demonstrated. But at the same time,...
Articles: Defense
As the use of UASs and UAVs increase in the modern battlefield, the need to secure these weapon platforms is of increasing importance as any flaw could have catastrophic...
Articles: Test & Measurement
Modern electromagnetic interference (EMI) receivers and spectrum analyzers used for compliance and precompliance testing employ digital intermediate-frequency (digital IF) processing technology for signal...
Articles: Weapons Systems
The Navy is developing a vehicle mounted directed energy (DE) weapon system in their Ground Based Air Defense (GBAD) Directed Energy On-The-Move (OTM) program. As part of...
Articles: RF & Microwave Electronics
In order to transmit communications through Earth’s atmosphere, satellites and space vehicles need radio equipment that can operate at higher frequencies than on Earth. These higher frequencies, until...
Briefs: Defense
The study of insider threat presents some of the most complex challenges in information security. Even defining the insider threat has proven difficult, with interpretations and scope varying depending...
Briefs: Information Technology
Defending cyberspace is a complex and largely scoped challenge that considers emerging threats to security in space, land, and sea. The global cyber infrastructure presents many challenges because of the...
Briefs: Aerospace
System administrators and cyber defenders continue to face challenges in...
Briefs: Aerospace
As the military adopts more networked...
INSIDER: Green Design & Manufacturing
To stay in the proper orbit, many satellites have thrusters – small rocket engines – that fire to change altitude or orientation in space. On Earth, where gravity dominates, five pounds of...
INSIDER: Test & Measurement
Materials scientists are busy developing advanced materials, while also working to squeeze every bit of performance out of existing materials. This is...
Top Stories
INSIDER: Propulsion

Abort Motor for NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Successfully Tested
INSIDER: Weapons Systems

How AI And Supervised Autonomy Will Change Combat
INSIDER: Test & Measurement

Scientists Work to Enhance Faster-Than-Sound Jet Engines
INSIDER: Energy

Airbus’ High-Voltage Battery Technology Prepares for Flight Test
INSIDER: Unmanned Systems

Autonomous Freight Aircraft Achieves Design/Development Milestones
INSIDER: Research Lab

Purdue Strengthens National Security Focus with New Propulsion Lab
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