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Report Finds F-35 Program Cannot Track Millions in Spare Parts
A new 35-page report published by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) finds that the Department of Defense's (DoD) F-35 Joint Program Office has lost track of millions...

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Army Gets a Clearer View of Multi-Domain Battlefield
The Assured Positioning, Navigation and Timing/Space Cross-Functional Team (APNT/Space CFT) takes a multi-dimensional approach to understanding and preparing for future warfare. The...

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Transforming Battlespace Communications
The Russian invasion in Ukraine has certainly raised the security stakes and intensified the need for simultaneous communications streams over a single platform.

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The Next Generation of Mission-Critical Communications Infrastructure is Here
The critical role of spectrum superiority in the success of battlefield campaigns is evidenced by the enormous investments being made in electronic warfare (EW)...

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Modeling and Simulation Software
COMSOL (Burlington, MA) announced a major update to the COMSOL Multiphysics ® software version 6.0. The update builds out the Model Manager server with a web interface — an...

Articles Electronics & Computers
What is Pulse Shaping?
Pulse shaping, as it is done today, is an effort to fix fidelity issues caused by the transmitting amplifier and is accomplished by a combination of imperfect methods, most external to the amplifier. This article...

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Portable Servers Enhance Army Geospatial Intelligence Training
The Army Geospatial Center has assisted in further modernizing the 412th Theater Engineer Command’s Engineer-Focused Intelligence Training (ENFIT), geospatial intelligence...

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New Method Accelerates AI Decision-Making
A new solution compresses and offloads critical data from battlefield machines more efficiently, enabling faster AI processing and decision-making on the battlefield.

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Special Forces Get a Small, Powerful Cyber Support Device
U.S. Special Operations Forces have a new aid in the fight against cyber-attacks. The Tactical Key Loader (TKL) cryptographic key device, which answers the Army’s call for the...

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Creating Cross-Domain Kill Webs in Real Time
Two DARPA-developed technologies – a novel decision aid for mission commanders and a rapid software integration tool – played a critical role in the recent Air Force demonstration of the...

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Making Data Logging, Replay, and Prototyping More Efficient
The development of advanced driver assistance (ADAS) and highly automated driving systems poses great challenges for OEM and supplier engineers.

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Covariance and Uncertainty Realism in Space Surveillance and Tracking
Characterizing uncertainty in estimating the state of a resident space object is one of the fundamentals of many space surveillance tasks.

Briefs Aerospace
Co-Prime Frequency and Aperture Design for HF Surveillance, Wideband Radar Imaging, and Nonstationary Array Processing
A co-prime array uses two uniform linear subarrays to construct an effective difference coarray with certain desirable characteristics, such as a high number of degrees-of-freedom for DOA estimation. In this case, the co-prime...
Briefs Aerospace
Multi-Temporal Analysis of Underbody IED Theater Events on Ground Vehicles
Recently, modeling and simulation (M&S) engineers have made impressive strides in improving ground vehicle reliability and soldier safety. This work involved...

Briefs Information Technology
Ontology for Insider Threat Indicators
The study of insider threat presents some of the most complex challenges in information security. Even defining the insider threat has proven difficult, with interpretations and scope varying depending...

Briefs Aerospace
Data Mining in Cyber Operations
Defending cyberspace is a complex and largely scoped challenge that considers emerging threats to security in space, land, and sea. The global cyber infrastructure presents many challenges because of the...

Briefs Defense
Framework for Resilient Remote Monitoring
This method provides continuous monitoring across network-attached devices to identify and mitigate targeted cyber attacks.
System administrators and cyber defenders continue to face challenges in...

Briefs Information Technology
Communication Protocol for CyAMS and the Cyber Fighter Associate Interface
This program evaluates agility maneuvers that may be employed within networks to mitigate the effect of cyber attacks.
As the military adopts more networked...

Briefs Information Technology
Reduced Order Modeling for Rapid Simulation of Blast Events of a Military Ground Vehicle and its Occupants
Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) pose a significant threat to military ground vehicles and soldiers in the field. Full-system...

Briefs Aerospace
Materials Design Principles for the Dynamic Fracture of Laminar Composite Structures
Crack bridging (e.g., from stitches or pins) and friction have profound and potentially very useful effects on delamination crack growth, controlling growth rates (damage levels) and the energy absorbed. However, the implications for structural design principles...
Briefs Information Technology
Developing and Validating Statistical Cyber Defenses
Enterprise business processes are more connected than ever before, driven by the ability to share the right information with the right partners at the right time. While this...

Briefs Information Technology
Supervisory Control State Diagrams to Depict Autonomous Activity
The military seeks to enable agile and adaptive mission management and control for a team comprised of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), unattended ground sensors (UGS),...

Briefs Aerospace
Aerodynamic Modeling of a Flapping Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
The phenomenon of flapping wing flight in nature has been studied for centuries. Recently, flapping flight for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications has become of interest....

Briefs Aerospace
Queuing Model for Supervisory Control of Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles
One critical aspect in developing a quantitative model of unmanned autonomous vehicle (UAV) operator and system performance has been to adopt a task-centric approach to...

Briefs Defense
Real-Time, High-Fidelity Simulation of Autonomous Ground Vehicle Dynamics
Integrated simulation capabilities that are high-fidelity, fast, and have scalable architecture are essential to support autonomous vehicle design and performance...

Briefs Aerospace
Software for Material/Structural Characterization Across Length Scales
Synthetic and natural micro-architectures occur frequently, and multiphase functionally graded composites are becoming increasingly popular for applications requiring...

Briefs Information Technology
Model Development Using Accelerated Simulations of Hypersonic Flow Features
Currently, the two main computational tools used by the aerothermodynamics community to model hypersonic flows are Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), and the direct...

Briefs Aerospace
Terrain Model as an Interface for Real-Time Vehicle Dynamics Simulations
In order to enable off-road vehicle dynamics analysis simulations when traveling on soft soil, a deformable Vehicle Terrain Interface (VTI) model that interfaces with...

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