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Air Force Begins 3D Printing Nonstructural Aircraft Parts
The 60th Maintenance Squadron (60th MXS) at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, California, is the first field unit in the United States Air Force to produce approved...
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Explainable-AI Image Recognition Is the Next Step for U.S. Air Force Unmanned Aircraft
Z Advanced Computing, Inc. (ZAC), a Potomac Maryland-based start-up, will develop 3D image recognition technology for U.S. Air Force unmanned aerial...
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Rolls-Royce Optimizes Maintenance, Service, Product Development with IFS Maintenix, Real-Time Data
Rolls-Royce officials in London are optimizing maintenance, service, and product development using data gleaned from its Trent aircraft...
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Lockheed Martin Rolls out Cybersecurity Standardization Model
Lockheed Martin Corporation cyber security experts have released a new Cyber Resiliency Level (CRL) model. CRL a risk-based, mission-focused and cost-conscious framework that...
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Boeing's Latest Contract Secures New Wings for Remaining A-10 Fleet
After wrapping up a wing swap on 173 Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II close air support attack aircraft, the Boeing Company was awarded with another Indefinite...
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Impossible Aerospace US-1 Makes Long-Distance Flight over Nevada Salt Flats
During a public demonstration, an unmodified production Impossible Aerospace Corporation’s US-1 quadcopter, carrying both a FLIR Duo Pro R thermal camera and...
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ULA’s Vulcan Centaur Will Launch Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Dream Chaser Spaceplane
United Launch Alliance (ULA) will supply launch vehicles for the Dream Chaser Cargo System. Starting in 2021, Dream Chaser – Sierra Nevada...
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Space Launch Providers Submit Proposals for National Security Space Launch Program
Four companies – Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems, SpaceX, and United Launch Alliance (ULA) – recently submitted proposals for the U.S....
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Embraer’s New Praetor 500 Is Awarded Type Certification in São Paulo During LABACE
Embraer’s new Praetor 500 midsize business jet was awarded Type Certification from Brazil's National Civil Aviation Authority (Agência Nacional de...
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HondaJet Is the Most Delivered Very Light Business Jet in 2019
Honda Aircraft Company’s HondaJet is outpacing its competitors in the very light business jet category with the most aircraft delivered in the first half of 2019, according...
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What Dragonflies Teach Us About Missile Defense
Be grateful you’re not on a dragonfly’s diet. You might be a fruit fly or maybe a mosquito, but it really wouldn’t matter the moment you look back and see four powerful wings pounding...
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Army Awards Combat Laser Weapon System Contract
The U.S. Army issued a contract award to accelerate the rapid prototyping and fielding of its first combat-capable laser weapon system. This prototype will deliver 50 kilowatt-class lasers...
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Air Force Scientists Study Artificial Silk for Body Armor, Parachutes
Who doesn’t like to feel warm in the winter and cool in the summer?
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AirMap and Skyguide Deploy Swiss National Flight Information Management System for Drones
Swiss air navigation service provider, skyguide, AirMap, Inc. – the leading global airspace intelligence platform for drones, and the Swiss...
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Industry Veteran and SAE Member Shares a Lifetime of Aerospace Experience, from Bombers to Space Suits
Looking back on an organization’s history can help to give perspective and chart the path forward. SAE International, initially...
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New Boeing Facility Will Improve V-22 Quality, Safety
Outside of Philadelphia, a 350,000-square-foot facility has been transformed into a modern factory where the Boeing Company will build fuselages for the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey...
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Bell Incorporates Bird-Deterring Lights as Standard Equipment on Bell 407 Helicopters
Helicopter manufacturer and Textron Inc. subsidiary, Bell Flight, is adding a new piece of standard equipment to its Bell 407GXi single-engine, civil...
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HTX Labs Adapts Its VR Platform for the Air Force Pilot Training Next Initiative
Houston-based HTX Labs, LLC was awarded with Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II funding to continue adapting its EMPACT Virtual Reality (VR)...
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Raytheon, DARPA Push Forward with Hypersonic Weapon Design
Raytheon Company and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have made progress in hypersonic flight with the Tactical Boost Glide (TBG) hypersonic weapons program....
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Temperature Elements for Flight-Critical Equipment
FCI Aerospace’s (San Marcos, CA) AS-TE Temperature Element Series sensors utilize precision resistance temperature detectors (RTDs) to provide superior accuracy,...
Articles Aerospace
How Miniaturized Distributed Modular Architecture Advances Avionics Design
A centralized IMA approach offers several advantages.
Articles Aerospace
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 Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Mine Roller
Rostec State Corporation
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
Spectra Group
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 Defense
Tiltrotor Aircraft
Bell Helicopter
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 Manufacturing & Prototyping
Hydraulic Thermal Bypass Valve
ThermOmegaTech
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...
Application Briefs Sensors/Data Acquisition
Land Combat Missile
MBDA Incorporated
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...
Briefs Defense
Feasibility Study of Portable Water Desalination Systems for Water Contingencies at Remote Navy Installations
The Navy is exploring ways to ensure an uninterrupted supply of potable water at remote installations.
Briefs Aerospace
Hands-on Cybersecurity Studies: Multi-Perspective Analysis of the WannaCry Ransomware
This research involves a multi-perspective analysis of the WannaCry ransomware in the form of a cybersecurity exercise.
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