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Subjective Mapping of Dust-Emission Sources by Using MODIS Imagery
Dust storms (5 to 100 km across) often originate from multiple dust-emission sources (1 to 10 km across). Remote-sensing-based dust-source identification is a challenge. A...
Briefs Aerospace
Custom Data Logger for Real-Time Remote Field Data Collections
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), CHL, FRF, had a need for a remote real-time data collection system to control instruments and log and communicate data from five observing...
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Rotorcraft Anti-Icing Systems
Flying anytime, anywhere, in all-weather conditions is one of the most challenging technology and capability goals across the rotorcraft industry to meet a growing demand for reliability, safety and the ability to...
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Commando Helicopter
Leonardo-Finmeccanica Rome, Italy +39 06 32473313www.leonardocompany.com/ Leonardo-Finmeccanica announced recently that the first AgustaWestland AW101 Merlin Mk4 successfully completed its maiden flight at its Yeovil...
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Submarine Radar Technology
Kelvin Hughes Enfield, UK +44 19 9280 5200www.kelvinhughes.com Kelvin Hughes recently announced that it has developed a way to bring all the benefits of its innovative SharpEye™ radar technology to submarines.
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Microwave Radiometer for Advanced Nanosatellite Control Systems
Microwave radiometers measure temperature, water vapor, and cloud ice in the atmosphere, since oxygen and water vapor naturally emit signals in the microwave portion of the...
Application Briefs Defense
Upmast Radar Systems
Kelvin Hughes Enfield, UK +44 19 9280 5200 www.kelvinhughes.com Kelvin Hughes recently installed its new SharpEye™ upmast radar system on four new vessels commissioned by the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force. The Damen...
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Send in Yamaguchi!
Ted Klaus is not given to hyperbole. So when the Chief Engineer of Honda’s 2017 NSX says something is “the best,” he means it. And that’s how Klaus described hearing Jack Yamaguchi’s first impressions of the...
Articles Aerospace
Countering Cybersecurity Threats Against Unmanned Vehicle Systems
As the use of UASs and UAVs increase in the modern battlefield, the need to secure these weapon platforms is of increasing importance as any flaw could have catastrophic results....
Articles Defense
Synthetic Vision Guidance Systems Giving 2D data a 3D perspective
Synthetic Vision (SV) displays replace the pilot’s traditional 2D primary flight display (PFD) with a 3D perspective view display. The 3D SV perspective display is rendered...
Technology Update Aerospace
F-35 Gets Cold Treatment in Step Toward IOC Remedy
Since it first became an active cold-weather testing facility in 1947, the 96th Test Wing's McKinley Climatic Laboratory at Eglin Air Force Base, FL, there have been a wide variety of aircraft...
Application Briefs Aerospace
Integrated Underwater Security System
ATLAS ELEKTRONIK UK Winfrith Newburgh, Dorchester, UK +44-1305-212400 www.uk.atlas-elektronik.com SIGNALIS SAS Bezons, France +33-1-39-96-44-44 www.signalis.com Effective surveillance of coastal border...
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Unmanned Ocean Drone
Liquid Robotics Sunnyvale, CA 408-636-4200 www.liquidr.com Accurately forecasting weather conditions and currents prior to mission deployment is an invaluable intelligence tool for the warfighter. Being able to accurately...
Articles Aerospace
Submersion and Directed Flow Cooling Technology for Military Applications
As the US military shifts from boots on the ground to drones in the sky, there will be an increasing need for computing power on foreign soil, under the sea and in the...
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Chrysler Names New Head of Product Planning
Chrysler recently announced the appointment of Benjamin Winter as the new NAFTA Head of Product Planning. With this appointment, he is also named to the Chrysler Group Leadership Team. The...
Briefs Materials
Fabricating Porous Systems for Super-Dense Memories and Sensors
This project was dedicated to solving basic scientific issues and developing the scientific basis that underlies the improvement of super-dense memories, towards the terabit-per-square-inch goal and the engineering of chemical and biological sensors. Both applications rely on porous...
Application Briefs Aerospace
Unmanned Demonstrator Aircraft for Maritime Surveillance
Northrop Grumman Falls Church, VA 703-280-2900 www.northropgrumman.com The Northrop Grumman Corporation-built unmanned demonstrator aircraft used for maritime surveillance missions by the...
Articles Defense
Free Space Optical Communications System for Advancing Superiority on the Battlefield
Fixed and tactical information networking, especially for defense applications, has begun to require increasing data transmission capacity as the volume...
Application Briefs Information Technology
Intelligence Analysis System
Air Force intelligence analysts must assess an adversary’s capability to achieve their objectives, including their offensive and defensive systems, state of readiness, training, and conditions such as weather. To effectively assess these capabilities, analysts must integrate a tremendous amount of data from a number...
Application Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
Microwave Radiometers Help Keep Aircraft Safe From Icing
One of the greatest dangers to aircraft — playing a role in numerous destructive and fatal accidents around the world — comes in the form of droplets of water. In clean air, cloud...
Application Briefs Defense
Silicone Cables: Silicone Encased Cables Make Military Robots More Reliable
Cicoil’s highly flexible and durable flat silicone cables are being used on unmanned ground based military robotic vehicles that require absolute reliability in mission critical and extreme environment conditions. Unlike bulky and stiffer round cables, flat silicone...
Articles Electronics & Computers
Graphics Performance vs. Power Consumption in Embedded Systems Design
The rapid evolution of technology has given embedded developers more options than ever before in designing embedded graphics systems. The consumer electronics market, most...
Briefs Information Technology
Data Fusion of Geographically Dispersed Information for Test and Evaluation
Test and evaluation relies on computer collection and manipulation of data from a myriad of sensors and sources. More computing power allows for increases in the breadth and depth of the information collected. The same computing power must assist in identifying, ordering,...
Articles Unmanned Systems
Designing Future Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
So far, defense companies have done a credible job fielding Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs), Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs), or other water-borne robots to address critical capability...
Application Briefs Defense
Flight Simulators Help Train Unmanned Aircraft Crews
L-3 Link Simulation & Training (L-3 Link) recently delivered six additional Predator Mission Aircrew Training Systems (PMATS) and associated support equipment to two U.S. Air Force...
Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Improvements in Manufacturing BMI/Fiber Composites Using AFP
A program now in progress is dedicated to making improvements in automated fiber placement (AFP) for the manufacture of advanced composite-material (matrix/fiber) structural...
Briefs Unmanned Systems
Planning Observations by Unmanned Surface Vessels
Three algorithms, and software that implements the algorithms, have been conceived and analyzed as means of effecting automated planning of scientific observations by a fleet of unmanned surface...
Briefs Materials
Making Ultra-Hydrophobic Textured Silicone-Rubber Surfaces
Silicone-rubber surfaces microscopically textured in such a manner as to render them ultra-hydrophobic have been fabricated by a method in which breath figures are utilized. Originally,...
Briefs Physical Sciences
AFRL’s Demonstration and Science Experiments Mission
A document describes the Air Force Research Laboratory's Demonstration and Science Experiments (DSX) mission, dedicated to research needed to advance the ability to operate spacecraft in the harsh radiation environment of medium earth orbit (MEO). The DSX spacecraft, to be launched in late 2009...
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