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Lightning EMotors Announces EChassis for Commercial EVs
Lightning eMotors has announced the availability of the Lightning eChassis platform for commercial EV applications. The platform, which was co-developed with Metalsa, will be...
News Propulsion
Paccar Announces TX-18 Automated Transmission
Kenworth and Peterbilt have announced the availability of the new Paccar TX-18 and TX-18 Pro automated transmissions for Class 8 trucks and select off-highway applications. The TX-18...
Technology Report Propulsion
GM details Corvette’s new and mighty LT6 V8
If the end of the internal-combustion epoch truly is within sight, General Motors intends to see it out with a bang. It’s latest — who’s to say whether it’s the “last?” —...
Technology Report Aerospace
Where Key Minerals Used in EVs Come From
What minerals are used uniquely in the manufacture of electric passenger vehicles? Is the U.S. self-sufficient in these minerals, or does it rely on imports? And if the latter, what are the source...
News Energy
Hitting the Gas on Hydrogen Tech for Commercial Trucks
While not as in vogue as BEVs and other electrified vehicles, hydrogen propulsion systems have been in development since the mid-20th century by a wide variety of manufacturers for a...
Articles Design
Driving Electrified Powertrain Systems Design
The risks that come with electrification leave OEMs and Tier 1s little room for miscalculation in their product planning and development. The costliest mistakes loom largest in the powertrain...
Articles Design
Airing on the Side of Innovation
Is there a proven formula for creating a top-notch engineering organization and benchmark product from scratch? Lucid Motors CEO Peter Rawlinson shared his approach at the company’s Newark, Calif,...
Articles Manned Systems
Engineering a Marvel of a Maverick Hybrid Transmission
Ford’s 2022 Maverick combines many practical attributes that earned the new compact pickup its North American Truck of the Year title, among them a standard hybrid powertrain which...
News Data Acquisition
SAE WCX 2022: Vehicles Are the Gateway to Data, Data, and More Data
The mobility ecosystem is bursting with data from the passenger vehicles, buses, ride-share vehicles, delivery vans, and other transportation modes using driver assist and...
News Regulations/Standards
SAE WCX 2022: OEM Learnings from Level 2 ADAS
Drivers behave differently when a driver assist technology is engaged. They tend to drive faster, look away from the road more often and for longer periods of time, and they engage in...
News Transportation
SAE WCX 2022: Sustainability Is a Lifecycle Mindset
“Going green” is a mantra that most if not all automotive OEMs and suppliers profess to follow. SAE International is also committed to the dialogue, with its recently announced Office...
News Power
SAE WCX 2022: The Road to Zero Emissions Has Many Lanes
Emissions are currently one of the hottest macro topics across the automotive industry. Governments around the world are ramping up regulations over the coming decades to reduce the...
News Power
SAE WCX 2022: EV Cybersecurity Threats
With war in Europe, a waning pandemic and inflationary and supply pressures rampant, you’d think there was plenty to worry about. Those lucky enough to attend the 2022 SAE WCX panel “Cybersecurity...
Editorial Energy
Engine Technology a Decade Later
A securities analyst from New York called me recently, to ask about the future of powertrain. Specifically, she wanted my prediction for a timeframe for the demise of both gasoline and diesel IC engines....
News Regulations/Standards
SAE WCX 2022: Driveline Flexibility Is Key for Electrification
The electrification of light-vehicle powertrains is now not just probable, it is inevitable. OEMs and suppliers around the world are looking at all possible means to reduce the...
Articles Power
Electrified Propulsion for Aerospace: Where to Start?
In the eVTOL marketplace there is no common ground yet regarding the number of propulsion modules.
Articles Connectivity
The Future of Managing Mission-Critical Systems
Adhering to functional safety standards is demanding in terms of both time and money.
Articles AR/AI
Improving Battlefield Connectivity for the Modern Warfighter
Military forces worldwide are adapting their equipment and operating models to new levels of operational intensity.
Articles Unmanned Systems
How to Test a Cognitive EW System
Cognition in EW systems is an important element in achieving dominance of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Articles Manufacturing & Prototyping
Molded RF Materials for Hypersonic Sensors and Seekers
Hypersonics and the materials needed therein are critical to both our nation’s defense and our national economy, says one feature writer.
Articles AR/AI
Artificial Intelligence in the Battlespace
Key Considerations for a New Way of Fighting War
Briefs Aerospace
Autonomous and Resilient Management of All-Source Sensors for Navigation Assurance
As the number and type of sensors informing a system increases, so does the probability of corrupting the system with sensor modeling errors, signal interference, and undetected faults.
Briefs Test & Measurement
Evaluation of Environmental Sensors in Training: Performance Outcomes and Symptoms during Airborne and Combatives Training
Investigating the feasibility and potential validity of using biomechanical environmental sensor technologies to improve the detection of potentially concussive events that could lead to mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI).
Application Briefs Photonics/Optics
Armed Drone System
The SMART SHOOTER system successfully completed live firing tests and is currently under advanced stages of development.
Application Briefs Software
Multicore RTOS
The DO-178 Deos™ multicore real time operating system (RTOS) has been selected by Honeywell.
Application Briefs Aerospace
Mission Control System
Collins Aerospace has successfully demonstrated a ready-now mission system.
Products Electronics & Computers
New Products
Uninterruptible power supplies, single board computers, FPGA platforms, and more.
Articles Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Machining Beryllium
Because beryllium is extremely expensive, the learning curve for potential competitors is costly.
Supplier Eye Power
The Soft Underbelly of The EV Transition
The list of OEMs and suppliers that are splitting their organizations into traditional ICE powertrain and EV operations continues to grow.
Articles Regulations/Standards
Keeping Combustion in the Conversation
The signals are everywhere that the days are numbered for internal-combustion engines (ICE) for passenger vehicles. Volkswagen CEO Ralph Brandsteatter told a German magazine in early 2021 that VW...
Articles Robotics, Automation & Control
AV Powers Bring May Flowers
May Mobility is the professional boxer of the autonomous-vehicle tech space. It hit the ring in 2017 as an ambitious welterweight, full of capability, veteran AV leadership and a hint of swagger.
Articles Electronics & Computers
Ensuring No Child Left Inside
A step-change in sensing precision is underway for vehicle interior applications, with increased capabilities spurred by new technology, customer interest in occupant safety and entertainment, and global regulations.
Articles Robotics, Automation & Control
Navigating Deep Learning to Improve ADAS
The sensory information – massive amounts of data – is used to navigate, avoid obstacles, and read road markers necessary for safe driving.
Articles Motion Control
Lockered and Loaded
Udelv knows its delivery trucks need to traverse highways and byways safely, but that’s a secondary function.
Q&A RF & Microwave Electronics
Uhnder Dives Into the Ocean With Digital Radar
As the semi-conductor shortage continues to make headlines, a radar-technology company is readying a first-to-market digital radar chip application.
Technology Report Power
Valve Cuts NVH in GDI Engines
When an automotive manufacturer struggled with the release of a new fuel-injection engine technology, the company required an immediate solution.
Articles Manned Systems
Predicting Mobility in MILITARY OPERATIONAL SCENARIOS
On the battlefield, mobility is the key to survivability. It is crucial for commanders to know which vehicle(s) to deploy on what terrain(s).
Podcasts Robotics, Automation & Control
How to Make the Best Decisions (on the Moon)
The private sector is heading to the Moon – Blair DeWitt and his team at Lunar Station Corp. want to provide the next generation of explorers with answers to their biggest navigation questions.
INSIDER Aerospace
Autonomous Freight Aircraft Achieves Design/Development Milestones
Natilus, Inc., the U.S. company working to democratize global freight transport by making air cargo more competitive, recently announced major milestones in the design and...
INSIDER Test & Measurement
Optical Flow Visualization Applied to Jet Engine Testing
Working together with a local business and academic professionals at the University of Tennessee Space Institute, Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC) team members at Arnold...
INSIDER Defense
Lockheed Martin Delivers 500th C-130J Super Hercules Airlifter
Hercules history was made once again when Lockheed Martin delivered its 500th C-130J Super Hercules airlifter. This Super Hercules (Lockheed Martin aircraft #5934) is a...
Application Briefs Aerospace
Autonomous Collaborative Platform
Working alongside human-piloted aircraft, the AI-equipped Gambit military drone will enable pilots to see deeper into hostile airspace, detect threats first, and provide time and space for critical decisions and actions.
Briefs Aerospace
Foreign Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems: Developments in the International Arms Markets
A growing number of counter-UAV systems are being offered by foreign vendors.
INSIDER Defense
How AI And Supervised Autonomy Will Change Combat
In the cockpit of a fifth-generation fighter, somewhere high over the ocean, an Air Force pilot gets a heads-up: hostile fighters are airborne and closing. The call didn’t come over the...
INSIDER Aerospace
Next-Generation Polar is Indispensable in Highly Contested Space
On the battlefield, snipers rarely work alone. Snipers act as part of a system with a spotter who surveys a wide area to identify potential targets.
INSIDER Manned Systems
DEVCOM Tests Airdrop System for Rapid Deployment in the Field
For U.S. Army soldiers on the move, getting a vehicle in the field increases their survivability and mobility. Safely airdropping the vehicle and quickly de-rigging it is...
INSIDER Aerospace
Abort Motor for NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Successfully Tested
Northrop Grumman Corporation and Lockheed Martin successfully performed the final full-scale ground test of the abort motor for NASA’s Orion spacecraft Launch Abort System...
INSIDER Data Acquisition
Purdue Strengthens National Security Focus with New Propulsion Lab
Purdue University’s work in national security took another giant leap forward with university trustees’ approval of a state-of-the-art high-speed propulsion laboratory,...
INSIDER Test & Measurement
Scientists Work to Enhance Faster-Than-Sound Jet Engines
Almost 75 years ago, U.S. Air Force pilot Chuck Yeager became the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound. Engineers have been pushing the boundaries of ultrafast flight...
News Test & Measurement
Homing in on STEM Innovation
Constraints are sometimes just new ways to open doors. High school senior Victor Cai (above), an 18-year-old from Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania, learned this lesson working on a short-range, narrow-bandwidth...
Application Briefs Unmanned Systems
Communications Infrastructure UAVs
Solar-powered unmanned aircraft can provide a resilient inter-vendor, mesh-based communications infrastructure to provide over-the-horizon networks that are self-aware and can cover large areas beyond line-of-sight.
News Mechanical & Fluid Systems
GM: Ultium Heat-Pump System Boosts EV Range, Reduces Charge Times
On the same day that General Motors president Mark Reuss confirmed there will be a fully electric version of the company’s Corvette along with a hybrid model, the company...
INSIDER Design
NASA Builds Welding Test Article for SLS Exploration Upper Stage
NASA completed manufacturing of a hydrogen tank barrel that will be tested as a weld confidence article for the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket’s Exploration Upper Stage...
INSIDER Mechanical & Fluid Systems
GA-ASI Installs First V-Tail from GKN Aerospace onto MQ-9B RPA
The first V-tail from GKN Aerospace has been received by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) and installed onto an MQ-9B SkyGuardian® Remotely Piloted Aircraft...
INSIDER Aerospace
Developing Design Tools for Outer Space Structures
Achieving affordable space exploration will require lightweight structures for vehicles, solar arrays and antennas. Lightweight materials also will be used for components of structures like...
News Automotive
Airflow Concept Presents Chrysler EV Direction
In a far corner of the main exhibition hall of the 2022 New York International Auto Show, its display flanked by the latest products from Ram and Jeep, Stellantis rolled out a second edition...
News Connectivity
In-Vehicle Software and Services Are Transforming the Industry
The auto industry is undergoing its most dramatic transformation in more than a century, and tomorrow’s vehicles will not only be electrified but as directly linked to the...
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FAA to Replace Aging Network of Ground-Based Radars
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A New Additive Manufacturing Accelerator for the U.S. Navy in Guam
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Rewriting the Engineer’s Playbook: What OEMs Must Do to Spin the AI Flywheel
Road ReadyPower
2026 Toyota RAV4 Review: All Hybrid, All the Time
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F-22 Pilot Controls Drone With Tablet
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L3Harris Starts Low Rate Production Of New F-16 Viper Shield
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Hydrogen Engines Are Heating Up for Heavy Duty
Energy
SAE Automotive Podcast: Solid-State Batteries
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SAE Automotive Engineering Podcast: Additive Manufacturing
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A New Approach to Manufacturing Machine Connectivity for the Air Force
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Optimizing Production Processes with the Virtual Twin
