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Loitering Precision Strike Missile
The Switchblade missile system is back-packable and rapidly deployable from ground platforms.
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Cryogenic-Capable Isolators Improve the Performance of Millimeter-Wave Systems by Lowering Noise Levels
Find isolators that operate optimally under cryogenic conditions.
Articles Software
Reverse Engineering the Boeing E-3 Sentry's Secondary Flight Controls
Learn about the challenges that arise when you try to reverse-engineer the console configuration for a NATO E-3 AWACS.
Briefs Aerospace
Use of Mass-Flux Measurement and Vapor-Phase Tomography to Quantify Vadose-Zone Source Strength and Distribution
New tech can improve evaluation of vadose zone source impacts on groundwater, leading to improved remediation decisions.
Briefs Test & Measurement
Correlational Analysis of Speech Intelligibility Tests and Metrics for Speech Transmission
Evaluating the quality and limitations of speech could serve as a valuable resource.
INSIDER Test & Measurement
Missile Warning Satellite Completes Thermal Vacuum Testing
The world’s most advanced missile defense satellite recently and successfully came out of almost two months of harsh simulated space environmental testing. The U.S. Space...
INSIDER Aerospace
Bell Joins U.S. Army Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft Program
Bell Textron Inc. has announced agreements with nine premier aerospace industry leaders to form Team Invictus. The companies are producing the Bell 360 Invictus prototype...
INSIDER Design
Argonne and Raytheon to Collaborate on Aircraft Engine Design
As fuel is burned in aircraft engines, temperatures reach extremely high levels, necessitating the use of thermal management strategies, such as effusion or film cooling, to...
News Propulsion
Porsche Partners to Develop 3D-Printed Pistons
Additive manufacturing (AM), aka 3D printing, is not new to Porsche. The German manufacturer heavily leverages AM processes in prototyping, and since May 2020, in production for customizable...
News Software
Embracing the Digital Transformation in Aerospace & Defense
The aerospace & defense (A&D) industry has always been known for great innovation and high expectations. Even during the difficult times with the impact of COVID-19,...
News Manufacturing & Prototyping
SAE Live: TuSimple and Penske Executives to Detail the Automated Freight Network Partnership
With pressures from the COVID-19 situation pressuring U.S. business and economic structures, development and deployment of high-level vehicle...
INSIDER Aerospace
Airbus Tests Autonomous Commercial Aircraft
Airbus has concluded tests of its Autonomous Taxi, Take-Off and Landing (ATTOL) project, achieving autonomous taxiing, takeoff, and landing of a commercial aircraft. The ATTOL project explores how...
INSIDER Aerospace
NASA to Fly Personnel on Suborbital Spacecraft
For the first time in the agency’s history, NASA has initiated a new effort to enable NASA personnel to fly on future commercial suborbital spaceflights. Commercial suborbital spaceflight...
INSIDER Aerospace
Training Drones for Acrobatic Maneuvers
Pilots have long used acrobatic maneuvers to test the limits of their airplanes – the same goes for flying drones. Researchers have developed a quadrotor helicopter that can learn to fly acrobatic...
INSIDER Robotics, Automation & Control
Army Researchers Augment Combat Vehicles With AI
When soldiers enter a new environment, their mission demands they stay one step ahead of the enemy; however, they may find it challenging to maintain a high level of alertness if they're...
INSIDER Materials
Multifunctional Nanofiber Protects Against Explosions
Since World War I, the vast majority of American combat casualties has come not from gunshot wounds but from explosions. Today, most soldiers wear a heavy, bullet-proof vest to protect...
INSIDER Test & Measurement
Nuclear Bomb Proves Compatible With F-15E Strike Eagle
Dropped from above 25,000 feet, the mock B61-12 nuclear gravity bomb was in the air for approximately 55 seconds before hitting and embedding in the lakebed, splashing a 40- to 50-foot...
Technical Innovation Power
Softing Envisions Secure, Reliable Predictive Maintenance
Modern heavy-duty vehicles, such as trucks and buses but also forestry and agricultural machines or construction equipment, are packed with E/E components that support...
News Regulations/Standards
Scalable Hardware-Software Interface Answers Overlooked AV Testing Need
In 2016, Oregon-based PolySync introduced DriveKit, a set of open-source hardware and software tools that enabled skunkworks engineering teams to electronically assume...
INSIDER Aerospace
Army Drones Change Shape Mid-Flight
Soon, the U.S. Army will be able to deploy autonomous air vehicles that can change shape during flight. A new tool was developed that can rapidly optimize the structural configuration for unmanned...
INSIDER Aerospace
NASA Helicopter Prepares for Trip to Mars
NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter will travel with the Perseverance rover through 314 million miles to get to Mars. Once there, the Mars Helicopter Delivery System will set it free from the rover’s...
Podcasts Robotics, Automation & Control
A Morphing Airplane Wing Built by Tiny Robots
Ben Jennet is a PhD student at MIT and a former space research fellow at NASA. He is working with NASA to develop a new kind of aircraft wing that's flexible and changes mid-flight.
Technology Report Manned Systems
Top Transmission Engineers Project Big Future for E-Axles, Advanced Motors
A panel of high-ranking transmission and driveline engineers projected outsized adoption for electric-axle (e-axle) technology, as well as significant expansion of...
SAE Standards News Unmanned Systems
New Cooperative Driving Automation Standard Provides Clarity to Support Advancement of Full Automation
In May, amid quarantine and lockdowns for the Coronavirus pandemic, SAE International published SAE J3216 Standard: Taxonomy and Definitions for Terms Related to Cooperative Driving Automation for On-Road Motor Vehicles. The new standard...
News Power
Mercedes-AMG Ready with Electrically-Assisted Turbocharger
In an announcement signaling automakers’ continuing R&D efforts for internal-combustion propulsion, Mercedes-AMG said it is preparing to launch a new, electrically-assisted...
News Robotics, Automation & Control
The Electric, Autonomous Revolution Lifts Off
Nearly a quarter-century ago, the Vertical Flight Society, a helicopter-industry group founded in 1943 as the American Helicopter Society, published a graphic dubbed “V/STOL Aircraft and...
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INSIDERManufacturing & Prototyping
How Airbus is Using w-DED to 3D Print Larger Titanium Airplane Parts
NewsAutomotive
Microvision Aquires Luminar, Plans Relationship Restoration, Multi-industry Push
INSIDERAerospace
A Next Generation Helmet System for Navy Pilots
INSIDERDesign
New Raytheon and Lockheed Martin Agreements Expand Missile Defense Production
ArticlesAR/AI
CES 2026: Bosch is Ready to Bring AI to Your (Likely ICE-powered) Vehicle
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Semiconductors & ICs
Advantages of Smart Power Distribution Unit Design for Automotive...
Unmanned Systems
Quiet, Please: NVH Improvement Opportunities in the Early Design...
Electronics & Computers
Cooling a New Generation of Aerospace and Defense Embedded...
Power
Battery Abuse Testing: Pushing to Failure
AR/AI
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