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Regional and Bizjets Refined and Redefined
There is definitely a degree of overlap in the regional and business jet sectors, both in terms of airframes and the engines that power them. At the high end of the market are aircraft such as the...
Articles Aerospace
Solutions for RF Power Amplifier Test
As wireless mobile devices grow in capability and complexity, the associated growth in power demand is driving new approaches to battery utilization and power efficiency. One of the single largest power...
Articles Defense
Maximizing Thermal Cooling Efficiencies in High-Performance Processors
Despite the continuous development of new, higher performing processors, the thirst for increased embedded computing capability remains unquenched. In fact, it seems like...
Articles Aerospace
Air-Ground Communications System Aims to Make Flying Safer
Reliance on old-fashioned radio contact by pilots and vulnerable tracking systems is still high, but satellites are set to change sky safety, thanks to international collaboration. The...
Application Briefs Defense
Flight Management System Software
Thales Paris La Défense Cedex, France +33 (0)1 57 77 86 26 www.thalesgroup.com Thales was recently selected by Northrop Grumman Corporation to have its state-of-the-art Flight Management System software,...
Application Briefs Data Acquisition
COTS Rugged Systems
North Atlantic Industries Bohemia, NY 631-567-1100 www.naii.com North Atlantic Industries (NAI) recently received an initial contract from L-3 Maritime Systems for Custom-on-Standard Architecture™ (COSA™) COTS rugged systems for the Ship to Shore Connector (SSC) Data Acquisition Unit. The advanced, rugged intelligent I/O and...
Application Briefs Photonics/Optics
Embedded Computing Subsystems
GE Intelligent Platforms Huntsville, AL 1-800-433-2682 www.geautomation.com GE’s Intelligent Platforms division recently secured orders from General Dynamics UK valued at £64 million (~$100 million) to provide a...
Application Briefs Defense
Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT) Shipsets
McMurdo Group Lanham, MD 240-790-0600 www.mcmurdogroup.com McMurdo Group, a company that specializes in end-to-end search and rescue (SAR) and maritime domain awareness (MDA) solutions, was recently...
Technology Update Manufacturing & Prototyping
Altair Optimizes 3D-Printed Structures for Complex, Lightweight Designs
Altair expects to better support the use of additive manufacturing (AM), or 3D printing, by releasing new OptiStruct solver capabilities for topology optimization. The...
Technology Update Defense
MTU Develops New Turbine Blade Material in Record Time
MTU Aero Engines announced in March that its internal experts and industry partners have jointly developed a new class of intermetallic, high-temperature materials for highly stressed...
News Automotive
2016 Camaro: GM Unleashes Its Lighter, Faster Mustang Competitor
During the early phase of 2016 Chevrolet Camaro development, Chief Engineer Al Oppenheiser one day found himself in a meeting with a group of GM Powertrain engineers he’d...
News Automotive
Direct Part Marking Replaces Labels, Saves Supplier $1 Million
A major Tier 1 automotive supplier was required by its customers to mark each of a family of plastic body panels that it produced with a 2D Data Matrix bar code. In the past,...
News Manufacturing & Prototyping
Bringing Intelligence into Fluid Power Systems
In today’s world of hydraulics, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) must determine how to deliver innovative solutions that meet the stringent customer requirements for better efficiency,...
Application Briefs Unmanned Systems
UAV Circuit Boards
Sunstone Circuits Mulino, OR 503-829-9108 www.sunstone.com Miki Szmuk is an aerospace engineer with big ideas for building better unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). As a doctoral student from the Controls Lab for Distributed...
Application Briefs Defense
Unmanned Naval Helicopter
Northrop Grumman Corporation Redondo Beach, CA 310-812-4321 www.northropgrumman.com The U.S. Navy has been conducting ship-board flight testing of the first operational MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter delivered by...
Application Briefs Defense
Anti-Hacking Software for UAVs
Galois Portland, OR 503-626-6616 http://galois.com To address growing evidence that commercial Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), automobiles and other vehicles are vulnerable to hacking and sophisticated cyber...
Articles Unmanned Systems
Connectivity in Robotic Systems
While many think of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or space probes and planet rovers when they think of unmanned systems, the field of robotics covers every environment known to man: sea, ground, air, and space....
Articles Aerospace
Controlling the Seas: Introducing a New Concept in Autonomous Surface/Underwater Vehicles
The boundary between the sea and sky is an important place to be. It’s the critical connecting layer for commercial and military information exchange...
Articles Defense
UGVs — On the Cutting Edge of Thermal Management
Thermal management of unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) is more complex than other electronic equipment because they have to operate in harsh environments such as humid tropical rainforests or...
Articles Software
Deploying Next-Generation UAS Platforms with 3U VPX
More powerful. Lighter. Cooler. These are the key criteria for the design of Line Replaceable Units (LRUs) in next-generation Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) platforms, which continue to grow in...
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Two Approaches to AWD Show Improved Fuel Economy, Reduced System Weight
The increasing popularity of all-wheel drive (AWD) is up against the regulatory demands for improved fuel economy, while the buying public also is looking for improved...
News Transportation
Top Speed on Mars: 0.1 Mph
The six-wheeled Curiosity rover exploring Mars’ surface gets its instructions from a lead driver working inside the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA.
Executive Viewpoints Power
Noise Joins Exhaust Emissions on Industry Challenge List
Off-highway vehicles may not move at the same speed as trucks or other large road vehicles, but that in itself presents challenges that on-road vehicles do not face. As emissions...
Executive Viewpoints Power
Unearthing the Solutions: The Road Ahead
The industrial engine market has the potential to total more than 15 million units by 2018, with an increase in demand projected across the globe which, coupled with increased environmental...
News Regulations/Standards
The Formula for Innovation: Customer Collaboration with Applications Engineering
The global mobile equipment market is always evolving and adapting to meet customers’ needs, driven by new government regulations, as well as market demands for...
Executive Viewpoints Power
Increasing Productivity: Top Trend for the Off-Highway Industry
Today’s emphasis on improving fuel efficiency and reducing emissions is just the beginning. In the future, increasing productivity will be the most critical trend for the...
News Robotics, Automation & Control
Building Blocks Toward Collaborative Innovation
Global trends of population growth, the consequent infrastructure replacement and expansion, and the basic need to feed people, combined with ever-increasing environmental concerns and...
Executive Viewpoints Propulsion
The Good, the Bad, and the Biodiesel
With the cost of fossil fuels continuing to rise as the quantity is depleted, there is a strong driver for continued investment in renewable fuel sources. One such approach is the use of plant-based...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
Making the Revolution--Driver Assistance Systems
The mobility technology world is abuzz with the wild explosion of technology infusion—driver assistance systems, autonomous vehicles, connected vehicles, security, infotainment,...
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