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Sensors/Data Acquisition

Researchers Introduce New Digital Calibration Method for 'Born Qualified' Parts

The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, is developing a comprehensive suite of capabilities to ensure that additively...

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Materials

Army Advances Additive Manufacturing From Experimental Tech to Enterprise Sustainment Tool

The U.S. Army’s adoption of additive manufacturing took another major step forward in March with the opening of a new “Additive Makerspace” at...

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Defense

How Biomanufacturing Could Transform Defense Material Production

Biomanufacturing uses biological materials to create new materials. For example, bioengineered spider silk is lighter than carbon fiber and stronger than Kevlar — making it...

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Weapons Systems

New Raytheon and Lockheed Martin Agreements Expand Missile Defense Production

The Defense Department has announced new separate framework agreements with RTX’s Raytheon and Lockheed Martin aimed at rapidly scaling production of both...

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Aerospace

Additive Manufacturing Lab Boosts Operational Readiness for Legacy Air Force Aircraft

A small team at the Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, is using cutting-edge additive manufacturing technology to...

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Manned Systems

Breakthroughs in Testing Solid-Fuel Ramjets Advance Research

Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory are developing the next generation of solid-fuel ramjet (SFRJ) propulsion, addressing one of the field’s most persistent...

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Defense

Army Unveils New Prototype M1E3 Abrams Tank

The U.S. Army unveiled the first M1E3 Abrams early prototype at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit recently.

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Defense

Scaling Precision: Designing and Manufacturing the Army's Next-Generation Strike Missile

As the U.S. Army transitions into a new era of modernization, its Precision Strike Missile program is a powerful example of how innovation at scale can...

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Manufacturing & Prototyping

Australian Researchers Create Stronger, Cheaper 3D-Printed Titanium Alloy

Engineers from RMIT University — based in Melbourn, Australia — have produced a new type of 3D-printed titanium that’s about a third cheaper than commonly used...

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Manufacturing & Prototyping

Hadrian Raises $260 Million to Launch AI-Powered Factory in Arizona Next Year

Torrance, California-based defense technology startup Hadrian has received $260 million in new capital and major expansions of its manufacturing footprint in...

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Manufacturing & Prototyping

3D-Printing Trainer Drones and Munitions Leads to Cost Savings for Misawa Exercise

The Innovation Lab at Misawa Air Base in Japan is helping Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) teams across the Indo-Pacific train smarter, faster and cheaper...

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Materials

A New Platform for Developing Advanced Aerospace Metals at Scale

Companies building next-generation products are often limited by the physical constraints of traditional materials. In aerospace, defense, energy, and industrial tooling,...

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Design

Assembly and Testing Milestone for Artemis II Spacecraft

Lockheed Martin has completed assembly and testing of NASA's Orion Artemis II spacecraft, transferring possession to NASA's Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) team earlier this month....

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Government

How the Air Force Leverages Simulation to Explore Lethality Before it's Built

Before a new weapon system is ever built, flown or fired, it begins in a simulated environment digitally constructed, dynamically tested and refined in real time....

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Power

Lasers Destroy Drones as Additive Manufacturing Builds Them

In February, the Joint Interagency Field Experimentation team at the Naval Postgraduate School executed another highly collaborative week of rapid prototyping and defense demonstrations with dozens of emerging technology companies. Read on to learn more about it.

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Manufacturing & Prototyping

3D Printing Parts for Ships, Submarines and Underwater Vehicles

Additive manufacturing has been a game-changer in helping to create parts and equipment for the Department of Defense’s (DoD's) industrial base. A naval facility in...

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Aerospace

Airbus Starts Operating 'Historic' First C295 Assembly Line in India

Airbus operates assembly lines and production sites around the world, but the Indian C295 program is the first time the company has deployed the entire production system...

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Manufacturing & Prototyping

Anduril Takes Software-Defined Approach to Hyperscale Defense Manufacturing

Anduril, the California-based defense autonomous systems startup, published a 32-page report on its new software-defined approach to defense manufacturing...

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Manufacturing & Prototyping

Army's New Artillery Projectile Metal Parts Facility Begins Operations in Texas

The Army has inaugurated a new modular metal parts facility in Mesquite, Texas, the Pentagon announced Thursday, May 30, 2024.

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Software

How Sandia’s New Digital Engineering Tool Helps Reimagine Design of Radar Systems

In a whirling geopolitical landscape of new nuclear weapons, hypersonic weapons, drones and satellites, the U.S. is hustling to test new kinds of radars...

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Design

Four Companies to Design Air Force Enterprise Test Drone Prototypes

The U.S. Air Force Armament Directorate (AFLCMC/EB) and the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) have partnered to identify and prototype commercial and dual-use technology...

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Design

Air Force Researchers Design, Build and Fly Drone in 24 Hours

In an open area of the Eglin Air Force Base range known as B-70, a group of Air Force field grade officers and black-shirted innovators huddled together above an eight-pound...

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Unmanned Systems

Navy to Evaluate Three Large Displacement Unmanned Underwater Vehicle Prototypes

Undersea warfare is critical to success in the Pacific and other contested environments, providing needed autonomous underwater sensing and payload delivery in dispersed, long-range, deep, and contested environments is key.

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Defense

Palantir to Build Prototypes for Army’s First AI-Defined Targeting Station

Palantir Technologies has been awarded a prime agreement for the development and delivery of the Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node (TITAN) ground station...

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Weapons Systems

Army Launches $50 Million Advanced Manufacturing Initiative for Aviation and Weapon Systems

The U.S. Army has awarded a $50 million three-year research project to Auburn University to understand how new manufacturing materials and methods...

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Mechanical & Fluid Systems

How the US Navy Uses Organic Manufacturing to Combat Supply Chain Constraints

When supply chain constraints make it challenging to source parts for aircraft maintained at Fleet Readiness Center East (FRCE), the depot’s organic...

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Manufacturing & Prototyping

Autonomous Navigation Kits

Defense Innovation UnitWashington D.C. info@DIU.milwww.DIU.mil The Department of Defense (DoD) operates a vast array of military vehicles crucial for both sustainment and combat operations. Traditionally, these...

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Manufacturing & Prototyping

Bombardier to Start Building New Army HADES Prototype Spy Plane

Bombardier Defense has received a new contract award to develop a prototype spy plane for the Army’s High Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System (HADES) program. Under...

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Aerospace

New Mobile Rocket-Launching System to Support Counter UAS Operations in Ukraine

The U.S. Navy will complete the delivery of a new rocket-launching counter unmanned aircraft system (CUAS) weapon system to Ukraine this month. The new...