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AI-Enabled Detection System Set To Replace Aging Airspace Awareness System
Execution of new fielding and funding strategies will lead to the delivery of a cutting-edge surveillance, identification, and tracking system that monitors and...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
Vinfast Needs to Stop Digging
Startups are famous for moving quickly. Vinfast may want to slow things down.
News Sensors/Data Acquisition
Owl AI’s 3D Thermal Sensors See Further into the Dark
The race to develop low-cost and effective sensors for automated driving requires all-day effort. Getting sensors to accurately identify the world around them is easiest on a clear, sunny day, but that solves just part of the problem.
Application Briefs Imaging
Ultraviolet Spacecraft Camera
Utah State University’s Space Dynamics Laboratory is building two key flight camera systems for a NASA spacecraft that will explore the layer of the atmosphere where Earth meets space.
News Propulsion
New Lexus SUVs: GX for Show, TX for Dough?
Normally, automakers launch models one at a time. It generally ensures media, dealer and fan focus. Introducing more than one comes with the risk of one model getting more attention. That’s what...
News Connectivity
VW Introduces Singular ID.Buzz in Three-Row Layout
As automakers keep rolling out new EV models, a kind of sameness has crept into the proceedings. Put a four-door sedan or crossover on a skateboard platform with a 90-kWh-or-so battery, a...
News Software
Deere’s Ingredients for Innovation
At John Deere’s inaugural Tech Summit this past spring in Austin, Texas – the location of one of the company’s micro-technology hubs and a recently purchased farm on which to conduct R&D...
INSIDER Imaging
Teledyne FLIR to Produce 1,000 Pocket-Sized Drones for Use in Ukraine
Norway's Ministry of Defense (MOD) has placed an order with Teledyne FLIR Defense to procure Black Hornet 3 Personal Reconnaissance Systems for use in Ukraine. The order...
News Unmanned Systems
Making Sense of Next-Gen ADAS Sensing
“I don’t expect [SAE] Level 3-capable vehicles to ship in significant numbers until 2030,” asserted Rudy Burger, of Woodside Capital Partners, during May’s AutoSens 2023 conference in Detroit....
INSIDER Photonics/Optics
Euclid Space Telescope Begins Mission to Study Dark Energy and Matter
ESA’s Euclid spacecraft lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, on July 1, 2023. The successful launch marks the...
INSIDER Photonics/Optics
Filtered Rayleigh Scattering Enables Laser-Optical Measurement of Turbofan Thrust
Pratt & Whitney and Virginia Tech announced a pioneering new technology for calculating thrust using lasers to enable high-fidelity measurement of key gas...
Briefs Imaging
Automated Atmospheric Correction of Nanosatellites Using Coincident Ocean Color Radiometer Data
Researchers present a machine-learning-based method for utilizing traditional ocean-viewing satellites to perform automated atmospheric correction of nanosatellite data.
Briefs Imaging
Context-Aware Visual Search Using a Pan-Tilt-Zoom Camera
Introduced here is the formal PTZ Search Problem. In the PTZSP, a fixed PTZ camera starts at a given PTZ position and must move through the continuous 3D space of PTZ coordinates to detect as many objects of interest as possible as quickly as possible.
News Manned Systems
2025 Ram 1500 REV Driving Range Would Jump to Head of Class
Stellantis’ Ram brand introduced more details about the 2025 Ram 1500 REV electric pickup at the New York International Auto Show in early April, and one option is an enormous...
Articles Electronics & Computers
3D Scanning Provides Key Weapon for Aerospace and Defense Manufacturing
While AI, AR, and IIoT are increasing production efficiency and time to market, 3D scanning still has not been exploited by aerospace and defense manufacturers for its full potential to do the same.
News Unmanned Systems
WCX 2023: Making the ‘Smart Cockpit’ and UX Safer
The in-vehicle experience, also known as user experience (UX), is changing as technology evolves. “Everyone talks about AI for autonomy and ADAS, but I think it [artificial...
Editorial Connectivity
Autonomous Trucking Hits Rocky Road
Within a four-week stretch – from roughly mid-February to mid-March – a steady stream of autonomous-trucking news hit. A quick summary: As several startups in the autonomous-truck development space...
Articles Weapons Systems
High-Speed Midwave Infrared Cameras Enable Military Test Range Tracking System
Infrared thermography consists of three specific wavelengths, including short-wave infrared, midwave infrared, and long wavelength infrared.
News Unmanned Systems
Snapdragon Ride Flex Puts Safety, Infotainment onto Single Chip
One chip, multiple benefits. That’s the claim made by Qualcomm Technologies about its new, scalable system-on-a-chip product family.
Technology Report Unmanned Systems
Turning the Vehicle into a Giant Microphone
When an emergency vehicle is approaching but its blaring siren isn’t heard by nearby motorists, all are put at risk. Engineers at Harman International have developed novel sensor technology that...
The Navigator Imaging
Finding Range Through Compute Efficiency
This past January, I was among tens of thousands who returned to Las Vegas for CES—the show’s reawakening after the pandemic. Some definite themes emerged from the dozens of conversations I had...
News Power
CONEXPO 2023 Image Gallery
Concept and prototype vehicles powered by hydrogen and electric propulsion systems were prevalent throughout the Las Vegas Convention Center halls and outdoor lots. And engine manufacturers were eager to showcase...
News AR/AI
CrossControl Advances Virtual Fencing and Object Detection
Industrial vehicles such as forklifts, cranes and tractors have come a long way in terms of applying technology, enhancing performance with improved operation and safety. With the...
Articles Mechanical & Fluid Systems
BMW Reapproaches Hydrogen
Automakers have raised and dashed hopes for using hydrogen to power cars and trucks, including General Motors’ notorious 2007 promise that it would sell 1 million fuel-cell vehicles annually (actual number:...
Articles Aerospace
Using an Open Architecture Approach to Military Avionics
The system was developed to reduce the high number of controlled flight into terrain accidents in the southeast region of Alaska.
News Unmanned Systems
AV Life After Argo AI
The recent shuttering of Argo AI, one of the autonomous-vehicle industry’s leading tech companies, by Ford and Volkswagen might come as a surprise to commuters in San Francisco and in Phoenix, Arizona. Those who...
INSIDER Software
New HPC4EI Project to Create 'Digital Twin' Models for Aerospace Manufacturing
A partnership involving Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory aimed at developing “digital twins” for producing aerospace components is one of six new...
INSIDER Sensors/Data Acquisition
Ball Aerospace Starts Final Assembly of Space Force's Next Generation Operational Weather Satellite
Ball Aerospace completed the spacecraft bus for the Weather System Follow-on-Microwave (WSF-M) satellite, the U.S. Space Force's...
INSIDER Imaging
Airbus Starts Testing Autonomous Landing, Taxi Assistance on A350 DragonFly Demonstrator
Airbus UpNext, a wholly owned subsidiary of Airbus, has started testing new, on ground and in-flight, pilot assistance technologies on an A350-1000...
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NASA’s Quiet Supersonic Demonstrator Jet Completes First Flight
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Algorithms for Autonomous Marine Vehicles
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F-35 Proves Nuke Drop Performance in Stockpile Flight Testing
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Using Ultrabright X-Rays to Test Materials for Ultrafast Aircraft
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Stevens Researchers Test Morkovin's Hypothesis for Major Hypersonic Flight...
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Optimizing Production Processes with the Virtual Twin
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EV and Battery Thermal Management Strategies
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How Packet Digital Is Scaling Domestic Drone Battery Manufacturing
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Advancements in Zinc Die Casting Technology & Alloys for Next-Generation...
Automotive
Vehicle Test with R-444A: Better-Performing R-1234yf Direct Replacement for...
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Vibroacoustic and Shock Analysis for Aerospace and Defense Applications