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Army Fields New Chemical Detection Technology
Chemical weapons pose a serious threat to civilian and warfighter lives, but technology from the U.S. Army Small Business Technology Transfer program reduces those risks. Researchers developed a...
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30mm Airburst Ammo Will Give Soldiers New Capabilities
Northrop Grumman Corporation received a contract from the U.S. Army’s Project Manager for Maneuver Ammunition Systems (PM-MAS) to develop the next generation airburst cartridge for...
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Venting for EV Battery Packs
Batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) need protection from harsh external conditions. Generally located on the underside of the vehicle, EV battery enclosures protect the cells from exposure to water, dust,...
INSIDER Aerospace
Nontoxic, Salt-Based Propellant Could Power Rockets
In smaller spacecraft such as CubeSat satellites, a salt-based monopropellant is showing promise. The propellant, called FAM-110A, is a mixture of two commercially available salts. It can...
INSIDER Aerospace
Simulating Lunar Human Landing and Urban Air Mobility
NASA Ames researchers in the Vertical Motion Simulator (VMS) are designing the Human Landing System (HLS) to deliver humans to the lunar surface as part of the Artemis project. The VMS...
INSIDER Aerospace
New Heat Conduction Method for More Efficient Aircraft
An engineer at Virginia Tech has developed an aircraft thermal management technology that stands ready for adaptation into other areas. The planar bridging-droplet thermal diodes...
Podcasts Unmanned Systems
An ‘Aerodrome’ Testing Ground for Unmanned Aircraft
Before delivery drones start carrying packages (and passenger drones start delivering ourselves), engineers will need to keep refining an unmanned aircraft's ability to navigate and...
News Energy
Engineering to Beat the Battery Boundaries
It’s a big step from motor racing technology, hypercars and jet fighters to a baby’s mobile incubator able to withstand a 20g-impact, but that’s the usual business at Williams Advanced...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
Is Ground-Penetrating Radar the Next Innovation for Automated-Vehicle Sensing?
Most of the existing autonomous-vehicle (AV) localization strategies try to replicate how human drivers perceive the world. But reliable autonomy requires new...
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Reconstructing Accidents in the ADAS Age
With advanced driver-assist systems (ADAS) evolving rapidly, the technology will continue to improve safety as it augments the skill and attention of human drivers. Accidents will still occur,...
Articles Sensors/Data Acquisition
Special Delivery – by ‘Bot
When road users and pedestrians in downtown Ann Arbor, Michigan, first view the REV-1 in action, they see a funky little electric three-wheeler quietly navigating the city’s streets on its own. Observers...
Articles AR/AI
Training Data-Hungry AI Algorithms
Training the algorithms of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based systems for autonomous or highly automated driving requires enormous volumes of data to be captured and processed. The algorithms must be able...
Application Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
Damage & Repair Tracker
The UK's fleet of Merlin Mark 2 helicopters has been testing the tlmNexus' Damage & Repair Tracker (DaRT).
Application Briefs Aerospace
Rear Fuselage Packer
To date, the rear fuselage packers have been used in the production of over 500 aircraft.
Application Briefs Robotics, Automation & Control
Mars Rover Electric Motors
A number of maxon's precision DC and BLDC motors were designed into the Perseverance rover.
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Directed-Energy System to Defeat Small Unmanned Aircraft System Swarms
New weapons technology is needed to combat the proliferation of small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS).
Articles Materials
New Diamond Super-Material Enhances Aircraft Survivability
A diamond composite is the ultimate optics and semiconducting super-material.
Briefs Defense
WIAMan Technology Demonstrator Sensor Codes Conforming to International Organization for Standardization/Technical Standard (ISO/TS) 13499
The Warrior Injury Assessment Manikin (WIAMan) Project is in the process of developing anthropomorphic test devices.
Application Briefs Electronics & Computers
Solar-Powered Structures
Pvilion, a solar-powered fabric provider, was recently awarded a contract by the United State Air Force (USAF).
Application Briefs Data Acquisition
Operating System Software
Learn about the The INTEGRITY-178 tuMP RTOS.
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Army Advances Materials for New Low-Profile Antenna
Army scientists have developed a first-of-its-kind antenna that could change how ground vehicles and airborne systems communicate, transmit, and receive radio frequency communications.
Products Test & Measurement
New Products
Docking stations for satellite phones; aircraft wiring; spectrum analyzers; and more.
Articles Electronics & Computers
Thermal Management for Directed Energy Weapons
Advanced thermal management is one of the keys to bringing directed energy weapons online and to allow them to operate at peak performance.
Application Briefs Electronics & Computers
Rocket Engine Technology
This effort will mark the first representative flight of an aerospike engine after many decades of research and abandoned flight efforts.
Articles Electronics & Computers
From DC to Daylight — How Innovations in Microwave Absorbers Shield the Warfighter
While the flashiest military innovations like new fighter jets attract the most attention, advancements in RF/microwave absorbers are crucial enablers of these larger innovations.
Briefs Weapons Systems
Beam Propagation Model Selection for Millimeter-Wave Directed Energy Weapons
See how Modeling and Simulation (M&S) can be used to explore the design trade space of directed energy weapons.
Application Briefs Aerospace
Remotely Piloted Aircraft
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems recently flew its SkyGuardian in the skies above Southern California as part of a joint flight demonstration with NASA.
Briefs Aerospace
Experimental Design of a UCAV-Based High-Energy Laser Weapon
The day of the first deployable UCAV armed with a high-energy laser weapon is not far away.
Articles AR/AI
Development of a Secure Private Neural Network Capability
Learn how to fully implement a Secure Private Neural Network.
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