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SnowMicroPenetrometer Applications for Winter Vehicle Mobility
Characterizing the mechanical properties of snow and their impact on vehicle performance could improve vehicle winter mobility modeling.
Briefs Aerospace
Influence of Leading-Edge Oscillatory Blowing on Time-Accurate Dynamic Store Separation
Developing an understanding of, and potentially controlling, pitch bifurcation could improve weapons delivery.
Briefs Test & Measurement
Green’s Function Extraction from Atmospheric Acoustic Propagation
Understanding what affects acoustic waves propagating in the atmosphere is important for a variety of military applications.
Products Electronics & Computers
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Mobile Workstation Eurocom's (Ottawa, Canada) latest mobile workstation, the Tornado F7W, features a modular MXM 3.1 slot-based GPU allowing easy reconfiguration of GPU capabilities. The GPUs offered are ISV-certified,...
Articles Semiconductors & ICs
Shape-Shifting Origami Could Help Antenna Systems Adapt On-the-Fly
Conventional reconfigurable electrical and radio frequency (RF) structures commonly used in applications involving real-time reconfigurability in response to fast varying...
Articles Manufacturing & Prototyping
Operational Considerations for High-Reliability Interconnects in Military and Aerospace Applications
In the recent past, military acquisition has shifted from being locked into large long-term contracts to developing complex systems in discrete...
Articles Power
Acceleration Resistant HiK Heat Spreader
As electronic technologies advance in defense and aerospace applications, heat fluxes are becoming larger and more centralized[1,2]. In order to meet the performance specifications of new technologies,...
Articles Test & Measurement
Understanding Fiber Optic Transceiver Design and Test Rules
The design of avionics systems must balance several factors. First, engineers want to increase the performance of the systems installed in aircraft or spacecraft. Second, they want to...
Articles Aerospace
Air Caster Technology
If there is a prime example of the need for friction-free, precise and delicate equipment movement in the aerospace and defense industries, satellite positioning during the testing cycle should be at the top of the list....
Articles Manufacturing & Prototyping
NASA Eyes GPS at the Moon for Artemis Missions
The Global Positioning System (GPS), a satellite-based navigation system used by an estimated four billion people worldwide to figure out where they are on Earth at any moment, could be used to...
Application Briefs Materials
Ruggedized Bioprinter
nScrypt Inc.Orlando, FL407-275-4755www.nscrypt.com nScrypt has partnered with the U.S. Military, the Uniformed Services University 4D Bio3 Program, and The Geneva Foundation to move bioprinting out of sterile biology...
Application Briefs Aerospace
Ultra-Light Rocket Launchers
Arnold DefenseArnold, MO636-296-5417www.arnolddefense.com Arnold Defense has been awarded a $53.8 million contract for the delivery of 2.75-inch rocket launchers and sub components to support the U.S. Navy, Army and...
Application Briefs Defense
Data Recorder and Mission Computer
Curtiss-Wright CorporationAshburn, VA703-779-7800www.curtisswrightds.com Curtiss-Wright's Defense Solutions division was awarded a contract by Tactical Air Support, Inc. (Tactical Air) to provide a cockpit...
Application Briefs Aerospace
Flight Computer
Abaco SystemsHuntsville, AL866-652-2226www.abaco.com Abaco Systems’ FORCE2 flight computer has been chosen by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) to be at the heart of GA-ASI's Certifiable Ground Control...
Application Briefs Data Acquisition
3D Optical Scanner
NVision, Inc.Southlake, TX817-416-8006www.nvision3d.com Swift work by NVision, Inc. helped a major U.S. airline quickly repair a bird-damaged Boeing 737 wing and return the restored jet back to flight in just two days. The...
Application Briefs Data Acquisition
Rugged Network File Servers
Ampex Data SystemsHayward, CA650-367-2011www.ampex.com Ampex Data Systems (Ampex), a Delta Information Systems Company, recently received a Full Rate Production Lot 7 (FRP-7) contract from Northrop Grumman Systems...
Briefs Defense
Spatiotemporal Imaging Exploiting Structured Sparsity
Spatiotemporal imaging contains a large class of imaging problems, which involve collecting a sequence of data sets to resolve both the spatial and temporal (or spectral) distributions of...
Briefs Photonics/Optics
Ultrafast Optics: Vector Cavity Lasers — Physics and Technology
Fiber lasers have found widespread applications in industrial material processing, scientific research and military systems due to their advantages of easy maintenance, excellent...
Briefs Photonics/Optics
Integration of Adaptive Optics Into High-Energy Laser Modeling And Simulation
The U.S. Navy is constantly predicting future threats and contemplating new weapon technologies to counter them. One of those technologies is directed-energy (DE)...
Briefs Photonics/Optics
3D Meta-Optics for High-Energy Lasers
The scope of this research radically changed the way novel components are designed and fabricated for high-energy applications. This 3D Meta-Optics platform was, and is, essentially engineering the...
Products Test & Measurement
New Products
Temperature Elements for Flight-Critical Equipment FCI Aerospace’s (San Marcos, CA) AS-TE Temperature Element Series sensors utilize precision resistance temperature detectors (RTDs) to provide superior accuracy, repeatability...
Articles Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Preventing Ice Buildup on Electric Aircraft
Afaq Ahmed Abbasi of Northwestern Polytechnical University explains his innovative approach.
Articles Software
Peridynamic Modeling: An Alternative Approach to Analyzing Material Failure
A critical technology challenge for structural material applications is to have a means for the reliable analysis of material damage and failure.
Articles Imaging
Critical Communications Break Out of the Analog Mold
Once firmly rooted in its analog origins, critical communications is now steadily evolving to provide enhanced situational awareness. The latest public safety and military communications...
Articles Electronics & Computers
Microturbine Propulsion for UAVs
The continued use of reciprocating engines has limited the UAV market’s ability to reach its true growth potential.
Articles Communications
How Miniaturized Distributed Modular Architecture Advances Avionics Design
A centralized IMA approach offers several advantages.
Articles Imaging
Pathfinder Radar ISR and SAR Systems: Tactical Eyes for the Warfighter
Sandia National Laboratories’ (Albuquerque, NM) Radar Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) systems enable a new product paradigm in radar capabilities and...
Application Briefs Defense
Mine Roller
Rostec State CorporationMoscow, Russia+7 (495) 287-25-25https://rostec.ru/en/ Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant, part of UralVagonZavod Group belonging to Rostec State Corporation, has developed a mine roller to be installed on...
Application Briefs Defense
Land Combat Missile
MBDA IncorporatedArlington, VA703-387-7139www.mbdainc.com In early 2019, the DGA (French Procurement Agency) and the French Army (STAT) organized a campaign to test the MMP land combat missile in extreme cold conditions....
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