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Mechanical & Fluid Systems

The Software-Defined Technician

Companies that identify and develop the Software-Defined Technician will have a structural advantage that compounds over time.

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Automotive

Scaling SDV Development with Virtualization

As the automotive industry transitions to software-defined vehicles (SDVs), the complexity of integrating silicon, electronics, software, and vehicle systems is rapidly increasing. Automakers are...

Podcasts

Manned Systems

Accelerating Spacecraft Development with AI, Digital Twins, and Simulation

During the 2026 Siemens Realize Live conference and exhibition in Detroit, MI, the Aerospace & Defense Technology podcast interviewed Dr. Tom Stoumbos, Simulation and Test Leader at Northrop Grumman, about the company’s use of artificial intelligence (AI) and digital simulation and testing tools to design, manufacture, and produce new satellites and space technologies. Listen now!

Summits

Automotive

Battery Manufacturing & Simulation Summit 2026

Understanding the elements that contribute to successful battery manufacturing is critical to the trajectory of next-gen mobility. As demands for battery solutions and production strategies evolve,...

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Software

Introducing the Modern Virtual Test Environment: Reducing Friction in RDT&E

Federal research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) teams are operating in a data environment that looks nothing like it did a decade ago. Modern...

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Software

Automating Geometric Inconsistencies in Computer-Aided Design of Aircraft Parts

When aerospace companies build digital models of new aircraft, they often combine computer-aided design (CAD) files for individual parts into a single system....

Products

Sensors/Data Acquisition

New Products

See the new products, including Samtec's BE71A Bulls Eye® Phase & Amplitude Stable Test Assembly; Curtiss Wright's PacStar 424 Tactical Gateway; Vishay Intertechnology's new space-grade, surface-mount common mode choke designed to provide EMI filtering and noise suppression; Marotta Controls' BPE-35 Propellant Gear Pump; and more.

Articles

Aerospace

NAWCWD Engineers Turned a Threat Simulator into an Offensive Electronic Attack Weapon

Keith Yuen, a supervisory engineer at Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD) spent years building a jammer designed to defeat America’s own radars. Then the question changed: what if the same system could jam the enemy? The system is Angry Kitten. Read on to learn more about it.

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Aerospace

Edge Computing Advances Enable Smarter Spacecraft and Satellites in Orbit

As satellites take on more onboard processing — from Earth imaging to autonomy — spacecraft computing designers are pushing for higher performance under tight thermal and radiation constraints. Read on to learn how suppliers are approaching heat removal, radiation mitigation and production-scale space-grade computing for LEO and beyond.

Application Briefs

Software

Northrop Grumman’s AI Revolution in Space Engineering

Teaming with Flexcompute powered by NVIDIA, Northrop Grumman recently created a physics AI model that accurately predicts thruster impingement – a challenging simulation and modeling problem that exists when the exhaust from a spacecraft or rocket will interact or impact other nearby spacecraft or surfaces. Read on to learn more.

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Power

Express Delivery: Simulation App Speeds Up Electric Truck Battery Design

The custom simulation app developed by the LaserBATMAN consortium can be used to help produce more robust battery designs with ranges that can support highway travel over longer distances with fewer failures — all while promoting the use of green energy. Read on to learn more.

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Connectivity

AI Excites and Scares Cybersecurity Professionals at WCX

AI and SDVs are changing the face of automotive cybersecurity.

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Automotive

Enabling Certified GoogleTest for Safety-Critical Embedded Software

Parasoft’s C/C++test CT is a TÜV SÜD-certified solution for multiple functional safety standards.

Webinars

Automotive

Virtual. Physical. Connected: How Smart Testing Is Changing Automotive Development

Automotive development is changing at a structural level. Compressed timelines, escalating system complexity, and post-launch software evolution are pushing...

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Information Technology

Defense Companies Accelerate CMMC Level 2 Certifications as DoW Continues Three-Year Rollout

Defense manufacturers, engineering services providers, and suppliers are increasingly completing the requirements to achieve Cybersecurity Maturity...

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Software

Bombardier Selects CoLab AI Software for Jet Design and Manufacturing

Bombardier has signed a multi‑year, multimillion‑dollar agreement with CoLab AI Inc. to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) software supporting the design and...

Briefs

Design

RPI Researchers Harness Agentic AI for Smarter, Faster Aerospace Design

A Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute engineering professor, Shaowu Pan, Ph.D. and his team of students have integrated agentic AI into computational fluid dynamics to optimize the aerospace design process and alleviate bottlenecks. Read on to learn more.

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Software

Can Multi-Fingered Robots Transform Shipboard Operations and Autonomous Maintenance?

In dynamic, unstructured environments like ship decks and even home kitchens, robots today still struggle to perform precision tasks such as tightening bolts or handling wires. This makes critical ship maintenance tasks difficult. USC researcher Erdem Bıyık aims to advance robots’ finger manipulation and integrate human feedback to enable realtime learning for robots in an upcoming three-year, $750,000 project. Read on to learn more.

Products

Software

New Products

See the new products, including Times Microwave Systems' Levitate™ cable assembly line; Versalogic Corp.'s ultra-compact rugged computer, powered by a choice of several available high-performance Intel® 13th Gen processors; Sandvik Coromant's CoroMill® MR20, an advanced indexable milling concept engineered to deliver unmatched stability, predictable performance and exceptional metal removal rates; Omniseal Solutions' expansion of their Rulon® online shop; and much more.

Editorial Webinars

Defense

Smarter Aerospace Manufacturing & Design with Digital Twins and Agentic AI

The fusion of digital twins and agentic AI is revolutionizing aerospace manufacturing and design by enabling intelligent, adaptive, and autonomous systems. This...

Webinars

Unmanned Systems

Driving Reliability: Simulation Driven EMI Techniques for Modern Vehicle Electronics

As modern automative designs increasingly integrate higher-speed electronics, advanced driver assistance systems, and complex on-board computers and sensors,...

Podcasts

Aerospace

How Modular Computing Is Accelerating Modern Defense Technology

On this episode of the Aerospace & Defense Technology podcast, Shaun Fischer, Director of Development and Open Systems Solutions at Leonardo DRS, discusses the company’s newly launched THOR — Tactical, High‑Performance Embedded Computing, Open Architecture, Rugged — embedded computing chassis and the new military applications it is designed to enable. Listen now!

Podcasts

Aerospace

How AI Acceleration Strategies Are Changing Embedded Computing Architectures

On this episode of the Aerospace & Defense Technology podcast, we continue our Season 14 focus on military embedded computing and networking, featuring keynote remarks from the 2026 AUSA Global Force Symposium and an interview with Jeff Baldwin, Director of Engineering at Sealevel. Listen now!

News

Test & Measurement

Enabling Certified GoogleTest for Safety-Critical Embedded Software

Parasoft’s C/C++test CT is a TÜV SÜD-certified solution for multiple functional safety standards.

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Materials

Developing a Digital Twin to Model Fatigue in 3D-Printed Spacecraft Parts

The rapid production of custom components for rockets and satellites is often essential to support design modifications, repairs, and operational needs in space travel....

Application Briefs

Nanotechnology

Nanoscale Thermal Prediction for Real-World Chip Design

DARPA’s Microsystems Technology Office launched the Thermal Modeling of Nanoscale Transistors (Thermonat) effort, which aims to combine the accuracy of atom-level physics with the speed required for industry design timelines, targeting predictions within 1°C of ground truth and reducing computation time by more than 1,000x. Read on to learn more.

Articles

Aerospace

Accurate and Resilient GNSS Timing Modules for Critical Infrastructure

Precise time synchronization is the backbone of today’s connected world, keeping telecom networks, data centers, and financial systems running seamlessly. Without accurate timing, our digital infrastructure would quickly fall out of sync. Septentrio designs and manufactures world recognized Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) timing receivers for critical infrastructure and leading industry organizations. Read on to learn more.

Articles

Software

Why CFD is Stuck in the File Era

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) workflows are stuck in the file era — results disconnected from their geometry, provenance tracked in spreadsheets, certification evidence scattered across email threads. Flexcompute is building Flexcompute Thread: artifact-native simulation where every result you would normally save to result.png becomes a traceable asset that knows where it came from, automatically. Read on to learn more about it.

Products

Software

New Products

See the new products, including Signal Hound's VSG200, a 20 GHz vector signal generator offering 40 MHz of realtime streaming bandwidth; LK Metrology's innovative COREX 250; Aerotech Inc.'s launch of its AGV-CPO CORE Performance 2-Axis Laser Scan Head; VPT, Inc.'s release of the VSCPL1210SG, the first point of load DC–DC converter in its award–winning VSC Series of space–grade COTS power supplies; and more.