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Innovative Army Tool Enhances Electronic Warfare Capabilities
Beginning with the early stages of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, the Army has steadily increased its electronic warfare (EW) capabilities from both a manpower and...
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Explosive Destruction System Begins Eliminating Chemical Weapons
The Explosive Destruction System (EDS), designed by Sandia National Laboratories for the U.S. Army, has begun safely destroying stockpile chemical munitions.
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Continental Shows Next-Generation Highly Automated Car
A highly autonomous driving vehicle needs a suite of advanced technologies and a ready-to-take-control driver.
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2016 Honda Civic Targets Audi A3, Drives New Modular-Engineering Strategy
When it launches this summer, Honda’s next-generation Civic will debut a lot more than a sporty new design language and more efficient and spirited powertrains. The...
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BorgWarner Engineers Go Off-Highway with the DuroSpeed Fan Drive
While on/off fan drives have been the preferred solution for their durability and fuel efficiency in over-the-road applications, BorgWarner's new DuroSpeed two-speed fan drive was developed for more severe service applications, such as vocational and off-highway truck applications...
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McLaren Debuts New Entry-Level Sports Series
McLaren Automotive debuted a new entry-level model for its family of super sports cars at the 2015 New York Auto International Show, with the 570S introducing a new carbon-fiber monocoque chassis...
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Smart Collaboration Results in New Fortwo
The third-generation Smart Fortwo has a new look, but with some familiar styling cues of its predecessor, and more importantly it incorporates significant changes under the skin. Overall length...
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Laser Interferometer
4D Technology Corporation (Tucson, AZ) has introduced its newly improved AccuFiz compact laser interferometer for accurate, repeatable measurement of surface shape and transmitted wavefront quality. New features include...
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MTU Develops New Turbine Blade Material in Record Time
MTU Aero Engines announced in March that its internal experts and industry partners have jointly developed a new class of intermetallic, high-temperature materials for highly stressed...
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Scion Debuts IA and IM at New York
Toyota’s Scion youth brand has recently gotten ironically old. The company addressed that situation with a pair of new models at the 2015 New York International Auto Show that aims to refresh Scion’s...
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Honda Surprises with Civic Concept
Honda’s Civic is a critically important model for the company, one that has sold 20 million units worldwide and 10 million in the U.S. since its 1972 introduction. Nine million of those have been...
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Altair Optimizes 3D-Printed Structures for Complex, Lightweight Designs
Altair expects to better support the use of additive manufacturing (AM), or 3D printing, by releasing new OptiStruct solver capabilities for topology optimization. The...
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Selective, Sensitive, and Robust Electrochemical Detection of Anthrax
There exists an unmet need for rapid, sensitive, and field-stable assays for pathogen detection. Bacillus anthracis is the causative agent of anthrax poisoning. This Gram-positive bacterium secretes a tripartite toxin including a cell-binding protective antigen (PA), and the...
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Audi Details Piloted Driving Technology
Before autonomous vehicles make drivers obsolete, electronic technologies will depend on people to make decisions when something unusual happens. During normal driving conditions, autonomous controls could pilot the vehicle, relying on humans when complex decisions are required.
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Cadillac’s 2016 CT6 Is a Body-Engineering Benchmark
Cadillac’s all-new 2016 CT6 full-size sedan is big for such a featherweight car. It weighs about 200 lb (91 kg) less than the BMW 5 Series but offers the interior volume of the...
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Military Technologies Aid the Fight for Improved Off-Highway Efficiencies
There is a never-ending need for technologies that can improve the efficiency of off-highway equipment, while enhancing safety for both operator and the machine. The...
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The Quest for the Self-Cleaning Car
As the winter-that-wouldn’t-leave finally does so and many car owners at last dig out their buried cars, the next big issue is getting a car wash. But wouldn’t it be great if cars just shed road dirt,...
Articles Transportation
GM’s CTO Driving New Paths to Technology Leadership
Ask any car-savvy group about which companies they believe are leading the automotive advanced-technology race, and their reply is likely to put Google, Tesla, and Apple at the top of...
Articles Materials
Aluminum Prepares for Its Next Big Leap
Mike Murphy will never forget the day in 2011 at Ford World Headquarters when the aluminum industry won its biggest automotive prize: the blockbuster deal to supply the new aluminum-intensive...
Articles Transportation
Slick Solutions for Friction Reduction
Reducing internal friction has always been a priority of powertrain designers, but recently the subject has taken on greater urgency in the crunch to meet tough new global CO2 regulations. In piston...
Articles Transportation
Making Better EV Batteries — From the Bottom Up
After chemist Marina Safont sealed the door to the ultra-dry room in BASF’s Battery Material Lab, the air inside the cramped antechamber gradually grew arid, almost as if a desert Sirocco...
Articles Transportation
Hydraulics Still in Control of Off-highway Needs
Aggregations of electric vehicles will begin serving as “virtual power plants” to balance the electric grid by sourcing and absorbing power.
Articles Transportation
DEF Delivery Modeling for SCR Systems
Aggregations of electric vehicles will begin serving as “virtual power plants” to balance the electric grid by sourcing and absorbing power.
Articles Automotive
Next-gen Nsx: A Twin-turbo, Multi-material Ferrari-fighter
Three years removed from its concept-design debut, the Acura NSX supercar took to the 2015 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) stage once more, this time in its...
Articles Transportation
Off-highway Calibration Challenges — Big and Complex
The U.S. EPA Tier 4 Final emissions regulations are set for final phase-in during calendar year 2015. This final phase-in period focuses on large engines, producing greater than 560 kW...
Articles Transportation
Development Trends for Heavy Engines
Compliance to today’s emission legislations for heavy-duty (HD) diesel engines in commercial vehicles (CVs) demands a reduction of NOx and particulate matter emissions in the entire engine operating...
Articles Aerospace
Electronic Warfare Technology
Military electronic warfare (EW) systems including navigation, radar guidance, terrain mapping and others, require lightweight compact components, with radio frequency (RF) output power levels to several kilowatts...
Articles Aerospace
Cloud Security & Compliance
Not too many years ago, network security was a relatively low level priority in most organizations. That has changed today due to such high level failures as the recent breaches at Sony and Target. Closer to home,...
Articles Electronics & Computers
MicroTCA Computing for Mil/Aero Applications
Small Form Factor (SFF) embedded systems have been gaining popularity due to their small size, weight, and power (SWaP) advantages. The SFF architectures are typically purpose-built, providing just a...
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