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CES 2025: Bosch Goes Right with Wrong-Way Alerts, Racing Hand Controls
Bosch took to CES 2025 with positive messages about its safety, accessibility and AI technologies, which it said will impact both the people who drive vehicles with its...
Editorial AR/AI
Autonomous Timeline: Following the Money
Acquisitions, mergers and outright departures from the sector serve as almost weekly reminders not just that significant consolidation of autonomous-vehicle (AV) development is underway. Right in...
News Energy
2018 Nissan Leaf SV
Uncoiling the fat-diameter charge cord from its kit bag, I plugged the Nissan’s new Leaf into the 120-V outlet on my garage’s exterior wall. Handling the cord, which was dirty from the previous night’s charging,...
Application Briefs Defense
Turret Aiming and Stabilization System
Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions DivisionAshburn, VA+1-703-779-7800www.curtisswrightds.com Curtiss-Wright’s Defense Solutions division recently completed significant enhancements to the production...
Application Briefs Photonics/Optics
Joint Effects Targeting System
U.S. Army Operational Test CommandFort Hood, TX254-287-9993www.otc.army.mil Forward observers, experts in directing artillery and mortar fire onto enemy targets, have been testing a new piece of targeting...
Application Briefs Defense
Gun-Mounted Rangefinder
Optics 1, Inc. (Safran)Bedford, NH603-296-0469www.optics1.com Optics 1, Inc. (Safran) recently announced that its Integrated Compact Ultralight Gun-mounted Rangefinder (ICUGR) has been selected by the United States...
News Energy
Driverless Cars and Freeway Traffic Flow
The integration of driverless cars onto multilane freeways brings challenges for vehicle and infrastructure planners, not the least of which is ever increasing congestion. The threshold for serious...
Briefs Robotics, Automation & Control
Gesture-Based Controls for Robots: Overview and Implications for Use by Soldiers
Afuture vision of the use of autonomous and intelligent robots in dismounted military operations is for soldiers to interact with robots as teammates, much like...
Articles Aerospace
Analyzing Radar Signals with Demodulation
In the electronic warfare milieu, one of the most common RF applications is that of radar systems. Radar, which uses RF energy to determine the range, angle, and/or velocity of objects, detects...
Briefs Defense
A Modular Approach to Video Designation of Manipulation Targets for Mobile Manipulators
Currently fielded EOD (explosive ordnance disposal) robots are limited in terms of both mechanical ability and autonomous capabilities when compared to the...
Articles Aerospace
Counterfeit Electronics in the DOD Supply Chain
Counterfeit semiconductor devices entering the Department of Defense (DOD) supply chain continue to pose risks to many of our country’s most sophisticated aerospace and defense systems. However,...
Application Briefs Defense
Tracking WiFi Signals to Passively See Through Walls
University College London (UCL) researchers are investigating passive radar technologies that can see through walls using WiFi radio waves. The novel research required a real-time, passive...
Technology Update Aerospace
Redesign of composite parts for structural integrity
In the case of composite materials, material properties are vastly dependent on the manufacturing process. While shifting the manufacturing process of a composite part from preimpregnated to...
Articles Test & Measurement
Phoning It In: Making Smartphones Secure Enough for Tactical Communications
You suddenly find yourself pinned down by enemy gunfire. What do you do? Whip out your smartphone and call for an airstrike? Yes, if the U.S. Marine Corps has its way.
Articles Test & Measurement
An Improved SDR FPGA Verification Methodology for Emerging OFDMA Waveforms
The rapid evolution of commercial technologies such as Long Term Evolution (LTE) is becoming more attractive for Software-Defined Radio (SDR) and public safety...
Articles Aerospace
How Digital “Sand Tables” Will Guide Future Military Strategy
Throughout history, the use of sand tables has been common practice in rehearsing military strategy in the field. Built on piles of sand with scale models of operational units,...
Articles Test & Measurement
Improving Battlefield Connectivity for Dismounted Forces
The warfighter couldn’t take it anymore. His team’s mission was to sweep villages, collect fingerprints, photograph irises, and compare these biometric indicators against a registry...
Articles Photonics/Optics
Laser Detection System Technology
While most ordnance is now laserguided, there is still much work to be done on the defensive detection of laser designators. Hence the growing need for advanced laser-warning systems (LWS). While multiple...
Articles Electronics & Computers
Improving Software Reliability in Satellite and Spacecraft Applications
In the space industry, much of the effort to refine system engineering processes has been done by hand using tools as divergent as Microsoft PowerPoint to IBM Rational...
Articles Aerospace
Automating Radiation Effects Mitigation with FPGA Synthesis
FPGA designers of aerospace and defense applications have long wrestled with radiation effects. More recently, due to shrinking technology nodes, concerns have arisen about...
Articles Photonics/Optics
Designing COTS Optics Into Defense Projects
When settling in to design a new optical device for a defense application, it is often desirable to use Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) optical components wherever possible. COTS optics offer many...
Articles Electronics & Computers
Using Static Analysis and Code Verification to Improve Embedded Software
Modern software development and test processes encompass a wide range of best practices and development methodologies. Personal preferences and lessons learned — both...
Briefs Physical Sciences
Gesture-Directed Sensor-Information Fusion Gloves
Current chemical-protection gear for warfighters on the ground inhibits electronic communication via keyboards, cell phones, and remote-control devices. To improve communications capabilities...
Articles Aerospace
Interaction Methods for Virtual Reality Applications
The potential of Virtual Reality (VR) technology has not been fully realized because the user interfaces are not designed to effectively support the user. One of the most critical interface...
Briefs Medical
Portable Simulator for Training in Robot-Assisted Surgery
Aportable apparatus is being developed as a means of training surgeons in robot-assisted surgery, including laparoscopic and other forms of minimally invasive surgery. The apparatus can be characterized as a virtual reality system that includes not only a computer and a visual display...
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Breaking Barriers in Space Communication with Optical Technology