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The Effect of Substrate Emissivity on the Spectral Emission of a Hot-Gas Overlayer
Recently, in operando optical investigations of high temperature solid oxide electrochemical cells (SOECs) have gained significant traction with several research...
Briefs Defense
Process Approach to Determining Quality Inspection Deployment
As new technologies are implemented in manufacturing areas, inspection processes will be affected. Often because product quality has increased or automated inspection equipment has...
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Experimental Setup to Assess Blast and Penetration- Induced Secondary Debris in a Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT) Environment
As part of Project Agreement on Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT), the US Army Research...
Briefs Aerospace
Non-Contact Circuit for Real-Time Electric and Magnetic Field Measurements
An energized electric power cable generates low-frequency electric and magnetic fields that are related to the voltages and currents. Especially at wavelengths...
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Simulating Thermal Expansion in Composites with Expanded Metal Foil for Lightning Protection
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is comprised of more than fifty percent carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) due to the material’s light weight and...
Articles Data Acquisition
Designing VME Power Systems With Standard Modules
Military electronics continue to push the performance envelope in all directions. Each new system design faces the same challenges: the need for more processing power, tighter specs, and shorter...
Articles Defense
Optical Ice Sensors for UAVs
The perverse thing about ice on the tailplane of a general aviation aircraft is that the pilot sits and looks forward, but the tailplane is aft. You can’t see it from the cockpit.
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Rotorcraft Icing Computational Tool Development
The formation of ice over lifting surfaces can affect aerodynamic performance. In the case of helicopters, this loss in lift and the increase in sectional drag forces will have a dramatic effect...
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Curled RF MEMS Switches For On-Chip Design
Microelectromechanical system (MEMS) switches are active components in most electronic equipment. Radio frequency (RF) MEMS are used in wireless personal communication devices, satellite communication,...
Articles Aerospace
Design Software Supports BAE System’s Mixed-Signal Chip Design
BAE Systems is a global defense and aerospace company, delivering products and services for air, land, and naval forces, as well as electronics, information technology solutions,...
Application Briefs Defense
Upmast Radar Systems
Kelvin Hughes Enfield, UK +44 19 9280 5200 www.kelvinhughes.com Kelvin Hughes recently installed its new SharpEye™ upmast radar system on four new vessels commissioned by the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force. The Damen...
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Virtual Environment-Based Training Tools
Charles River Analytics Cambridge, MA 617-491-3474www.cra.com Charles River Analytics Inc., a developer of intelligent systems solutions, has received a follow-on contract from the US Navy to develop...
Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Precision Assembly of Systems on Surfaces (PASS)
Chemiresistors represent a powerful class of chemical sensors that can be readily integrated into any electrical system, can be miniaturized, are readily multiplexed, and take nearly zero-power...
Briefs Defense
Development of a Novel Electrospinning System with Automated Positioning and Control Software
Electrospinning is a nanofiber fabrication technique that has grown in popularity due to its potential in numerous biomedical applications. The...
Briefs Defense
Advanced Multifunctional Materials for High Speed Combatant Hulls
Currently small boat combatant design focuses primarily on speed and maneuverability. It would be advantageous to expand these capabilities to include reduced radar...
Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Multifunctional Shear Pressed CNT Sheets for Strain Sensing and Composite Joint Toughening
The main goal of this work is to obtain a scientific understanding of the possibilities provided by, and the behavioral features of, a novel type high...
Articles Defense
Using SWaP-C Reductions to Improve UAS/UGV Mission Capabilities
The defense and aerospace market continues to push for reductions in size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C) to support advanced sensor/vetronics payloads onboard unmanned...
Articles Aerospace
Designing Rugged Computing Platforms for UGVs
While the military’s proliferation of unmanned aircraft, or drones, continues to grab the headlines, the deployment of unmanned ground vehicles (UGV) is also anticipated to expand based on their...
Articles Defense
Bi-manual Dexterous Manipulation for Maritime Explosive Ordnance Disposal
Since 2001, there has been a proliferation of robots within the U.S. military to assist with Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) missions. Ground robotics systems are able...
Articles Aerospace
Designing a Robot to Counter Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Devices
The use of Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Devices (VBIED) has increased each year. Current anti-VBIED technology is not only expensive, but requires months or years of...
Articles Unmanned Systems
Applying UUV Advances to Safeguard Harbors and Littoral Waters
Advances in unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) are providing government agencies and commercial organizations with new capabilities across a variety of mission requirements....
Application Briefs Defense
Unmanned Helicopter
+43 (1) 546 26-44 www.schiebel.net In five months of operation, the NGO Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) saved over 8,800 lives in the Mediterranean. By spotting and monitoring distressed vessels, Schiebel’s Unmanned...
Application Briefs Aerospace
Mini-Unmanned Aircraft System
817-234-6600 www.elbitsystems.com Elbit Systems has developed the Skylark3, a new autonomous mini-Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS), best suited for brigades and divisions in “beyond the next hill” reconnaissance,...
Application Briefs Aerospace
Predator Mission Aircrew Training Systems
L-3 Link Simulation & Training Arlington, TX 817-619-2000 www.Link.com L-3 Link Simulation & Training (L-3 Link) was recently awarded a contract option from the U.S. Air Force to build 34 new...
Application Briefs Defense
Reconfigurable Integrated-Weapons Platform
716-805-2008 www.moog.com/rwip Moog Inc. Space and Defense Group and its defense-industry partner, DRS Technologies, recently introduced a new Reconfigurable Integrated-weapons Platform (RIwP) during a...
Application Briefs Aerospace
Field Swappable Underwater Storage Unit
+39 0575 26979 www.seco.com The Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE), an executive body of NATO’s Science and Technology Organization (STO), is an established scientific facility that...
Briefs Robotics, Automation & Control
Two-Dimensional Distributed Velocity Collision Avoidance
As the number of autonomous vehicles continues to increase for both commercial and military applications, collision avoidance algorithms are of the utmost importance to successfully...
Briefs Robotics, Automation & Control
Autonomous Underwater Munitions and Explosives of Concern Detection System
The objective of Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP) Project MR-201002, Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Munitions and Explosives of...
Briefs Defense
Power-Line UAV Modeling and Simulation
The Army Research Laboratory Power-Line Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Modeling and Simulation (ARL-PLUMS) Software Tool allows a user to model, compute, and analyze the quasistatic electric and magnetic...
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