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Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
What Today’s Advances in Radar Technology Mean for Testing and Training
Technology advancements in RF, digital hardware, active electronically scanned arrays, synthetic aperture radar and cognitive electronic warfare have necessitated advances in test and training systems.
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Tackling Ruggedization Challenges for RF Communications in Software Defined Radios
Software Defined Radios or SDRs are used in a wide variety of design requirements.
Articles Robotics, Automation & Control
AUVSI XPONENTIAL 2023 The Blueprint for Autonomy
The Association for Uncrewed Vehicle Systems International is bringing this year’s XPONENTIAL 2023 to the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, CO, from May 8 – 11.
Articles Unmanned Systems
Breathing Life into Artificial Intelligence and Next Generation Autonomous Aerospace Systems
When it comes to image recognition in today’s AI world, a human is required to initially train the underlying system to recognize an object.
Application Briefs Defense
Army Common Tactical Truck
American Rheinmetall Vehicles and GM Defense LLC have won a contract for the first phase of the U.S. Army’s Common Tactical Truck Program.
Application Briefs AR/AI
VISTA X-62
The Lockheed Martin VISTA X-62A training aircraft was flown by an AI agent for more than 17 hours during a recent demonstration, representing the first time AI engaged on a tactical aircraft.
Briefs Sensors/Data Acquisition
Multi-Scale Structuring of the Polar Ionosphere
Ionospheric variability is a critical consideration for communication systems, GNSS, and space asset management.
Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
Stepped-Frequency Distributed Radar for Through-the-Wall Sensing
The authors are studying the application of distributed radar to through-the-wall sensing.
Briefs Aerospace
Drift Improvement with Reinforcement Training of Inertial Sensors
The main objective of the DIRT-I project is to extend the holdover time of inertial sensors in the absence of a Global Navigation Satellite System.
Briefs Photonics/Optics
Overcoming Performance Limitations of Distributed Brillouin Fiber Laser Sensors
Distributed fiber sensors are a powerful tool for structural health monitoring and environmental sensing due to their ability to remotely monitor the strain at 1,000s of locations using low-cost optical fiber.
Briefs Materials
Electro-Optic Materials Research
Here, a summary of the main lines of effort for the Electro-Optics Materials Research program including its goals and major accomplishments of the past five years.
Products Aerospace
New Products
See the new products for February 2023, including nanocomposite material, a V8 microprocessor, machining software, and more.
Products Aerospace
From the Editor: New Year, New Editor
"I will stand on the shoulders of giants while looking to introduce some new digital content elements well."
Articles Weapons Systems
Can Embedded Electronics Components Meet the Demands of Hypersonic Missiles?
Today, defense organizations in several countries are attempting to expand military capabilities by investing in hypersonic missile development.
Articles Data Acquisition
CMOSS/CMFF Trades Interoperability for Free-Thinking Innovation
Answering the challenge of increasingly complex military systems, the U.S. Army has released a set of open system architecture standards.
Articles Electronics & Computers
Heterogeneous Integration and SiPs Benefit SWaP-C Reduction
Aerospace and defense (A&D) electronic systems are being made smaller but more functional.
Articles Aerospace
The Future of Automated Guided Vehicles for Aerospace and Defense
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the first automated guided vehicle, and AGVs have been moving things around on humans’ behalf ever since.
Articles Materials
Exploring High-Performance Applications for Distributed Transport Property Thermoelectrics
This new, patented distributed transport property technology describes functionally graded materials with spatially varied transport properties.
Articles Defense
Using an Open Architecture Approach to Military Avionics
The system was developed to reduce the high number of controlled flight into terrain accidents in the southeast region of Alaska.
Application Briefs Manned Systems
Electric Hybrid Propulsion System
Allison Transmission has introduced the new eGen Force electric hybrid propulsion system for tracked combat vehicles.
Application Briefs Defense
Integrated Flight Deck
Sky Warden will become the first forward-fit deployable combat aircraft to feature Garmin's G3000 tandem integrated flight deck.
Application Briefs Manned Systems
H-1 Helicopter
Bell Textron Inc. recently completed the Program of Record for the U.S. Marine Corps H-1, with the 189th delivery of the AH-1Z.
Application Briefs Weapons Systems
Precision Attack Drone
SpearUAV has introduced what it describes as a “world first,” with its new encapsulated and launch able hovering precision attack drone, Viper.
Application Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Turbine Center Frame
The Clean Sky 2 program is made up of key industry players and subject matter experts along with academic research bodies across Europe.
Briefs Aerospace
Deep Reinforcement Learning Achieves Multifunctional Morphing Airfoil Control
Uncrewed aerial vehicles are growing in popularity for both civilian and military applications, which makes improving their efficiency an attractive objective.
Briefs Robotics, Automation & Control
DEVCOM ARL FY22 Industry Autonomy Technology Assessment Final Report on Security and Mobility
This event reflects DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory’s commitment to collaborate in robotics research with academia, industry, and other government organizations.
Briefs Power
Design and Analysis of a Small Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Power Distribution System
This report considers all aspects of design of a PDB to include shape, size, components, cost, voltage regulators, peripherals, and so on.
Application Briefs Manned Systems
Rapidly Adaptable Standards-Compliant Radio
RASOR™, L3Harris’ new Modular Open System Approach (MOSA) solution, delivers next-generation JADC2-enabling capability to the U.S. military.
Products Electronics & Computers
New Products
The new products for December 2022, including self-encrypting drives, ruggedized computing modules, a 25-hour flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder, and more.
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A New Approach to Manufacturing Machine Connectivity for the Air Force
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