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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...
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Made in Space Is Set to Make in Space
Made In Space, Inc.’s Archinaut One spacecraft has the go-ahead from NASA to manufacture and assemble structures in low-Earth orbit. The demonstration, funded by a $73.7 million public-private NASA...
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Raytheon to Upgrade B-52 with AESA Radars
The Boeing Company has chosen the Raytheon Company to supply modernized radar equipment for the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress radar modernization program. Under the contract, Raytheon will design,...
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...
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Sonex Aircraft Is Developing the World's Most Afforadable Jet Trainer
While small electric aircraft like Bye Aerospace eFlyer aircraft may guarantee operating costs under $50 per hour, Sonex Aircraft, LLC is carving out a niche in...
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BAE Systems Wins $4.7M from DARPA to Integrate Machine Learning into Signals Intelligence Platforms
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) officials in Arlington, Virginia, have selected BAE Systems Electronic Systems in Nashua,...
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Orion Launch Abort System Passes Full-Stress Flight Test
The Orion spacecraft – the spacecraft integral to NASA’s Artemis program – passed through another milestone in preparation for flight. Researchers from NASA and Jacobs...
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Like a Good Neighbor, Impossible Aerospace Flew over to a Nearby Construction Fire to Help Locate Hotspots for First Responders
When a four-alarm fire started burning at a Santa Clara, California construction site down the street from...
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 Manufacturing & Prototyping
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...
News Robotics, Automation & Control
Addressing Configuration Controls in an Era of Multiple Security Frameworks
We have entered the era of multiple security frameworks. Sometimes mandatory, often voluntary, security frameworks are created to provide federal and commercial...
News Connectivity
Boeing’s Next EcoDemonstrator Test Bed Will Be a 777
The Boeing Company is kicking off a new round of flight-testing to research approximately 50 technology projects related to safety, environmental sustainability, and passenger...
News Connectivity
Argus Makes Fleet Protection Cybersecurity Available to Both Automotive and Aircraft Fleets
Vehicle connectivity is beginning to unlock a range of benefits – from airline and rideshare fleet management and predictive maintenance to...
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Answering Your Questions: Are Military Standards Influencing Commercial UAV?
A reader asks our industry expert: Will air taxis be influenced by military UAV standards?
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Sciaky, Aubert & Duval, and Airbus Join Together to Combine High-Power Forging with Additive Manufacturing
Sciaky, Inc., Aubert & Duval S.A., Airbus SE, and the Saint Exupéry Institute for Research in Technology (IRT) have laid out...
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Inside Story: The Role of the SFFs in Rugged HPEC Computing
See how the shrinking of systems is impacting embedded computing design principles.
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Dragonfly Will Be NASA’s Next Solar System Explorer
NASA announced that Dragonfly – a dual-quadcopter developed for NASA’s New Frontiers Program – will be sent to Titan: Saturn’s largest moon. Dragonfly, which might be called a...
Blog Transportation
LASER World of PHOTONICS, Day 3 — Unusual Exhibits
Editor Bruce A. Bennett takes us through the unusual — and completely unexpected —at this year's LASER World of Photonics.
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New Zealand and LeoLabs Establish the First Low-Earth Orbit Regulatory Platform
LeoLabs, Inc. of Menlo Park, California has deployed the world's first dedicated regulatory platform for low-Earth orbit (LEO): the Space Regulatory and...
News Manufacturing & Prototyping
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Will Acquire Bombardier’s Regional Jet Program
After failing to establish itself in the commercial aviation market against entrenched competition from The Boeing Company and Airbus SE, Montreal-based...
News Green Design & Manufacturing
From LASER World of PHOTONICS 2019: Light as the Key to Global Sustainability
The increased use of photonics has the potential to reduce CO2 emissions — by 3-billion tons.
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L3 Makes Its C-130 Modernization Package Available to Global Operators
As of 2015, more than 2,500 Lockheed Martin (née Lockheed) C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft have been built and delivered. Originally developed in the...
News Manned Systems
Northrop Grumman Will Fit Its Scramjet Combustors to Raytheon’s Hypersonic Missile
Unlike vehicles with conventional rocket engines, which carry oxygen onboard, the Northrop Grumman’s hypersonic propulsion system – which first...
Blog Test & Measurement
LASER World of PHOTONICS 2019
The bi-annual Laser World of Photonics exhibition begins today.
News Automotive
Airbus Will Lean on Start-Ups and Research Institutes for Europe’s Future Combat Air System
Airbus intends to closely cooperate with start-ups, sole subject matter experts (SMEs), and research institutes – especially in the software...
News Test & Measurement
NASA Crash Landing Is a Complete Success
NASA just crash landed a Fokker F28 Mark 1000 Fellowship short-range, narrow-body airliner. The event, an experiment to gather crash-safety data, occurred at NASA Langley Research Center’s...
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