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Transportation

Manufacturers Must Take the Wheel to Scale SDV Success

The automotive industry is moving rapidly toward software-defined vehicles (SDVs), where cars are as much about software as they are about mechanics. The race to SDV is driven by...

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RF & Microwave Electronics

What Changes Are Needed for Counter UAS Regulations in Civilian Airspace?

Lisa Ellman, Executive Director, Commercial Drone Alliance (CDA), is the guest on this episode of the Aerospace & Defense Technology podcast.

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Imaging

Blue Ghost Arrives in Lunar Orbit, Prepares for Landing

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1 lunar lander has entered an elliptical orbit around the Moon and captured new images as it prepares for a scheduled landing.

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Defense

How a Cloud-Based Remote ID System Helps Monitor Random Drone Sightings

Taylor Sinatra, Chief Operating Officer of AeroDefense, is the guest on this episode of the Aerospace & Defense Technology podcast.

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Unmanned Systems

The Intersection of Autonomy and Cybersecurity

The race to greater autonomy is on in the industrial and commercial transportation industry and for good reason. Autonomous vehicles have the potential to transform commercial trucking,...

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Manned Systems

Blue Origin Rocket Reaches Intended Orbit on First Launch

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket reached its intended orbit during the NG-1 mission completed on Jan. 16, 2025 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. Named after John...

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RF & Microwave Electronics

Airbus Demonstrates Very High-Speed Optical Link Between Space and Earth

The French Space Agency (CNES) and Airbus have announced completion of the TELEO in-orbit demonstrator designed to prove that massive, rapid ground to space data...

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Data Acquisition

Atomic Fountain to Host Defense Research for Quantum Sensing

Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) physicists are on track to bring the institution’s new atomic fountain online – the largest of its kind in the world – for applications to...

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AR/AI

Integrating Sensor Data: Selecting an ADAS Decision-Making Process

Governments have been studying Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) since at least the late 1980s. Europe’s Generic Intelligent Driver Support initiative ran from...

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Defense

Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination: The Army's Future Vision for Fused AI

U.S. Army leadership discusses how the Army wants to use AI and ML for processing, exploitation, and dissemination.

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News
Software

Qualcomm Expands Line of SOCs

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. president and CEO Cristiano Amon is not humble. While announcing updates to the Snapdragon Cockpit Elite and Snapdragon Ride Elite platforms during the 2024 Snapdragon Summier in...

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Weapons Systems

Why the Air Force Is Using the Virtualitics AI Approach to Weapon Sustainment

Michael Amori, CEO and co-founder of Virtualitics, is the guest on this episode of the Aerospace & Defense Technology podcast to explain how the Air Force is using Integrated Readiness Optimization for weapons sustainment.

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Data Acquisition

New Report Analyzes Decline in Number of Aircraft Operated by the Army

In analyzing the availability and use of aircraft by the U.S. Army from 2000 to 2023, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) published a 16-page report finding that the...

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Electronics & Computers

Developing a Data-Driven Digital Strategy for Space Force Operations

Dan Laubach, Raft LLC's Senior Director of Programs, is the guest on episode 2 of season 5 of the Aerospace & Defense Technology podcast.

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Electronics & Computers

Replacement Data Storage Drive for F-16 Test Equipment

Arraid LLC is supplying the U.S. Air Force with 45 replacement data storage drives for automatic test equipment stations designed to support F-16 fighter jets operated by the Air National Guard and allied foreign militaries. Read on to learn more about it.

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Data Acquisition

Streaming Video Over Legacy Military Tactical Networks

Joshua Cryer, President and CEO of Reticulate Micro, is the guest on this episode of the Aerospace & Defense Technology Podcast.

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AR/AI

BMW, Classiq Find Better Architectures Through Quantum Computing

As part of BMW’s Emerging Technologies team, Lukas Müller picks apart new ideas to evaluate if they are relevant for the automaker. He wasn’t the first at BMW to look...

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Propulsion

Modern Commercial Jets Create Longer Living Contrails Than Older Aircraft, Study Finds

Modern commercial aircraft flying at high altitudes create longer-lived planet-warming contrails than older aircraft, a new study has found.

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RF & Microwave Electronics

EA-37B Compass Call: The US Air Force's New Electronic Attack Aircraft

The U.S. Air Force Air Combat Command received its first EA-37B Compass Call on Aug. 23 for pilot training at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona.

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Data Acquisition

AgilePod Brings Fiber Optic Sensing to Flight Testing

The Air Force Test Pilot School’s research division, in partnership with the 586th Flight Test Squadron at Holloman AFB and NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center, recently conducted a flight test campaign verifying the use of the new AgilePod. Read on to learn more about the topic.

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RF & Microwave Electronics

This Laser Clock Could Transform Satellite Navigation Accuracy

A new laser clock from the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) has achieved a record level of accuracy for optical clocks with gas cells:...

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Manned Systems

Realizing Software-Defined Commercial Vehicles

Severe driver shortages, rising fuel and material costs, escalating demand for freight transport, higher sustainability requirements – there is no shortage of challenges facing the transport...

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Data Acquisition

Are Today’s Sensors Ready for Next-Level Automated Driving?

SAE Level 3 automated driving marks a clear break from the lower levels of driving assistance since that is the dividing line where the driver can be freed to focus on things...

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AR/AI

Research Focuses on Safety of Electric Scooter Riders, Other Vulnerable Road Users

Passenger vehicles traveling alongside electric scooters is an increasingly common road sharing scenario rife with safety issues such as an e-scooter rider...

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RF & Microwave Electronics

Space Lasers: Aiming Towards Next Leap in Global Communications

Space lasers are transforming the world. Not the far-off future of science fiction, but the universe of how data and communications flow today — everywhere from deep space...

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Aerospace

Boeing Adopts New Airplane Manufacturing Quality and Safety Metrics

Boeing has published a new 11-page summary of actions being implemented to prevent airplane manufacturing quality and safety issues such as those that led to the in-flight...

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RF & Microwave Electronics

UK Flight Test Evaluates "Un-Jammable" Quantum Navigation Systems

In a first-of-its-kind achievement, the U.K. has successfully completed commercial flight trials of advanced quantum-based navigation systems that cannot be jammed or spoofed...

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Aerospace

UAV In-Flight Software Upgrades

During a recent demonstration, Collins Aerospace and Parasanti proved they could use UAVs to install software upgrades on other UAVs to update them in-flight.

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Design

Advancing HMI Development of ADAS and Active Safety Systems

The advancement of vehicles with enhanced safety and infotainment features has made evaluating human-machine interfaces (HMI) in modern commercial and industrial vehicles crucial....

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