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Battle Tank Protection Systems Outfit Four Brigades of Army Tanks
Trophy Active Protection Systems will ultimately outfit four brigades of tanks.
Application Briefs Photonics/Optics
Secure Optical Mobile Local Communications Systems Support Royal Navy
Learn about the communications system being installed on the first three units of the Royal Navy's planned class of eight Type 26 frigates.
Application Briefs Defense
Lethal Loitering System Meets U.S. Military Requirements
UVision Air Ltd. recently unveiled its new modular weapon system: the Hero-120SF configuration.
Application Briefs Communications
Unmanned Aircraft System Offers Superior Surveillance Imagery
AeroVironment, Inc. recently announced the launch of Puma LE.
Application Briefs Sensors/Data Acquisition
Light Attack Reconnaissance Helicopter Secures Vertical Lift Dominance
Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, recently introduced RAIDER XTM, its concept for an agile, lethal and survivable compound coaxial helicopter.
Articles Energy
The Man From APPA-E
Engineers and scientists working in mobility R&D have described Dr. Chris Atkinson as a guiding light in their efforts to make future vehicle propulsion technologies more efficient— and commercially viable. One...
Articles Transportation
Mid-engine History of The Future
What do a 1901 Curved-Dash Oldsmobile, a 1936 Auto Union Grand Prix car and the 2020 Acura NSX Hybrid and the new 2020 Chevrolet Corvette have in common?
Technical Innovation Automotive
EVs Are Coming, but Challenges, Alternative Fuels Will Slow Turnover
Regulatory attacks on petroleum are sparking heavy investments in battery power, but alternative fuels continue to spar for growth. As vehicles move slowly from diesel to...
Technical Innovation AR/AI
AI Moves into Military Boards and Subsystems
Artificial intelligence (AI) is inching into high-end military markets, according to the suppliers of computer and sensor boards. However, challenges like meshing AI’s rapid advances with...
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Aptiv’s Autonomous-Vehicle ‘Air-Traffic Control’
It’s well known that the safe operation of an autonomous vehicle (AV) relies on robust sensing, path planning and compute capability. What’s often overlooked is the role of a...
News Electronics & Computers
Shifting Design of Autonomous Architectures
The controls for fully autonomous trucks must deal with inputs from a number of sensors, analyzing this data and taking actions that enable the vehicle to complete its route safely and...
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Automated Testing Ensures Top Performance of Army Radios
To keep soldiers safe and the lines of communication open, frequent testing of radios used on the battlefield is imperative. That testing is becoming more automated and efficient with...
Application Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
High-Reliability MEMS Switches for Radio Frequency Applications
The RF MEMS switch will be an important building block for a variety of wireless applications including cell phones, smart antennas, tunable filters, automated test equipment...
Articles Sensors/Data Acquisition
Ultra-Wide-Band Radar Imaging for Activity Detection
The continuing advancement of semiconductor manufacturing technology to process high-speed UltraWide-Band (UWB) signals has enabled radar technology to become more versatile and applicable to...
Application Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
Ballistic Radomes for Communications Antennas
The Army Digitized Force requires a robust communications infrastructure for its superior IT/C4ISR (Information Technologies/Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Sur veil...
Application Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
High-Cycle Life Testing of RF MEMS Switches
MEMS switch technology has many potential benefits over conventional electronic devices for switching microwave and millimeter-wave signals. MEMS switches possess very low insertion loss, miniscule...
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Synthetic Aperture Radar Image Recognition
Synthetic radar image recognition and classification are areas of interest for both the military and civilian communities. These tasks have significance in automatic target recognition, air traffic...
Application Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
New All-Digital RF Technology Simplifies the Radio Environment
The concept of a software or “cognitive” radio has been around for about 20 years, and has progressed to the point where open-source software code is available. A cognitive radio is “smart” in the sense that it is continuously aware of changes in radio frequency (RF) spectrum...
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Wireless Sensor Network with Geolocation
Maintaining situational/positional awareness in indoor and urban environments is difficult because buildings, walls, and other obstacles obstruct vision and RF propagation. Propagation channels are...
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Prognostic Health Management of an RF System Using GPS
Prognostic health management (PHM) of electronic systems presents challenges that traditionally were not worth the cost of pursuit. Recent changes in weapons platform acquisition and...
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Developing a Beam Former for Electronically Steered Antennas
There are several applications for phased arrays in Army communication systems. This spans frequency bands ranging from UHF to Ka bands and performance requirements that include...
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What We’re Driving: 2020 BMW X3 M Competition
The concept of the high-performance SUV (more appropriately, “crossover”) can be difficult to reconcile. I understand that everyone currently wants an SUV body style and performance...
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What We’re Driving: 2020 Lincoln Aviator Reserve
For my experience of Lincoln – and I’m not particularly young – I haven’t been able to understand the “sell” of the brand. Low sales numbers and decades of declining prestige...
Supplier Eye Manufacturing & Prototyping
Maintaining Supply When a Pandemic Strikes
Just when it seems that the auto industry isn’t facing enough challenges, COVID-19 swoops in out of the blue. No extraneous shock that’s hit the automotive sector in the past decade –...
Road Ready Manned Systems
All-Wheel-Drive Returns to Chrysler Pacifica for 2021
The refresh of the 2021 model-year Chrysler Pacifica minivan premiers a top-of-the-line luxury trim, the debut of a next-generation infotainment system, and the return of...
News Power
Executive Insights: BorgWarner VP and CTO Hakan Yilmaz
The automotive sector is in a time of enormous flux. As the foundational aspects of the industry shift, longstanding Tier-1 suppliers such as BorgWarner must continue to drive...
Original Equipment Energy
Hyundai Reveals Compact Electric Excavator Prototype
Hyundai Construction Equipment Americas (HCEA) demonstrated a working prototype of its electric-powered compact excavator at ConExpo-Con/Agg 2020 in Las Vegas, March 10-14. The R18E...
News Software
JLG Develops Self-Leveling Boom Lift
What started as a scale-model prototype shown at Bauma 2016 to explore the viability of a lift with a “smart” suspension has become reality for JLG Industries. At ConExpo-Con/Agg 2020, the...
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FPT Reveals Compact F28 Off-Road Diesel, Hybrid Variant
Seemingly everything at the ConExpo-Con/Agg 2020 is big – from the show’s footprint to the seemingly endless number of construction machines on the grounds. But FPT Industrial...
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New Raytheon and Lockheed Martin Agreements Expand Missile Defense Production
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Ford Announces 48-Volt Architecture for Future Electric Truck
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Active Strake System Cuts Cruise Drag, Boosts Flight Efficiency
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Accelerating Down the Road to Autonomy
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Battery Abuse Testing: Pushing to Failure
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Quiet, Please: NVH Improvement Opportunities in the Early Design Cycle
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Advantages of Smart Power Distribution Unit Design for Automotive &...
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Sesame Solar's Nanogrid Tech Promises Major Gains in Drone Endurance