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Tiltrotor Aircraft
Bell HelicopterFort Worth, TX817-280-2011www.bellflight.com During the thirty years since the V-22 Osprey first flew, the tiltrotor aircraft, built by Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc. company, and Boeing, has fundamentally...
Application Briefs Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Hydraulic Thermal Bypass Valve
ThermOmegaTechWarminster, PA877-379-8258www.thermomegatech-adg.com A system supplier to the U.S. Department of Defense recently approached ThermOmegaTech® to obtain a custom thermal bypass valve. Installed into a...
Briefs Defense
Feasibility Study of Portable Water Desalination Systems for Water Contingencies at Remote Navy Installations
The Navy is exploring ways to ensure an uninterrupted supply of potable water at remote installations.
Briefs Software
Hands-on Cybersecurity Studies: Multi-Perspective Analysis of the WannaCry Ransomware
This research involves a multi-perspective analysis of the WannaCry ransomware in the form of a cybersecurity exercise.
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Thermal Conductivities of Some Polymers and Composites
Thermoset polymers are good electrical insulators that are used in applications ranging from electronics to composite armor. They are rather poor thermal conductors, however.
Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
Nominal High-Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse (HEMP) Waveforms
Predictions of these signals were difficult to make due to the complexity of the physics unleashed by the detonation.
Briefs Research Lab
Real-Time Heuristics and Metaheuristics for Static and Dynamic Weapon Target Assignments
Projectile weapons have been a consistent threat of hostilities throughout history. Military advantage has always been aided by the capacity to inflict damage from a distance. In the 20th century, missile technology advanced to the point that an adversary had...
Briefs Defense
Hybrid Ultra-Low VOC and Non-HAP Rain Erosion Coatings
Numerous military aircraft and shipboard surfaces, such as radomes, antennas, gun shields, wing leading edges, and helicopter blade leading edges, are coated with a specialized...
Products Electronics & Computers
New Products
Lange Couplers The construction and port orientation of the Lange Coupler from SemiGen (Londonderry, NH) makes it useful as both a power combiner and splitter for RF and microwave applications. It is a specific type of directional...
Articles Semiconductors & ICs
Broadband 1.2- and 2.4-mm Gallium Nitride (GaN) Power Amplifier Designs
The US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) has been working with Raytheon to design efficient, broadband, linear, high-power amplifiers and robust, broadband, low-noise...
Articles Sensors/Data Acquisition
The FACE™ of Military Modernization
U.S. rival countries have been rapidly modernizing their militaries, with publicized advances that pose credible challenges to U.S. supremacy in all aspects of warfare: air, land, sea, space and cyberspace....
Articles Materials
Coating Technology Enables Effective Missile Countermeasures
Heat-seeking missiles have been in use against both rotorcraft and fixed wing aircraft since the mid-1950s, and countermeasures to deceive their guidance systems have been employed...
Articles Data Acquisition
Multi-Agent RF Propagation Simulator
A desirable interface between multi-agents is through over-the-air RF connections that include not only the intended direct RF communications paths but also highly variable multi-ray propagation, range...
Articles Sensors/Data Acquisition
Panoramic Thermal Imaging Technology
SPYNEL sensors are passive wide area surveillance systems with automatic intrusion detection and tracking capabilities. The 360° thermal sensors offer 24/7 situational awareness by detecting and tracking an...
Articles Aerospace
Eyes in the Sky: HD Ethernet Cameras Take Flight Test Imagery to New Heights
There is increasing demand for high-quality High Definition (HD) video for airborne applications such as Flight Test Instrumentation (FTI). Ideally, such new camera...
Articles Manufacturing & Prototyping
Machining Titanium Aero-Frames
The rise of titanium for aerospace applications has been well documented in recent years. Equally, the challenges associated with the efficient, productive and high-quality machining of this popular material, have...
Articles Materials
Getting the Most Out of Industrial CT Scanning
Quality assurance and flight certification of critical aerospace parts and assemblies have reached new levels of sophistication in recent years. Leading aerospace and defense manufacturers...
Articles Manufacturing & Prototyping
Aerospace Work Platforms — More than Meets the Eye
For maintenance personnel in the aerospace industry to do their jobs effectively, they need to be able to get physically close to the equipment they are working on. This statement sounds...
Application Briefs Sensors/Data Acquisition
Helicopter Load Sensor
Sensor Technology Ltd.Banbury, Oxon, UK01869 238400www.torqsense.com A newly developed intelligent wireless helicopter load sensor has a choice of two displays, offering simple or comprehensive data read outs, so that...
Application Briefs Weapons Systems
Active Protection System
RADA Electronic Industries Ltd.Netanya, Israel+972-9-892-1111www.rada.com RADA Electronic Industries Ltd., a company that specializes in the development and production of tactical land radar for force and border...
Application Briefs Aerospace
Video Graphics Modules
WOLF Advanced TechnologyStouffville, Ontario, Canada905-852-1163https://wolfadvancedtechnology.com WOLF Advanced Technology (“WOLF”) recently announced that NASA has chosen two WOLF video graphics modules to take part...
Application Briefs Defense
Counter-Drone Technology
Citadel DefenseSan Diego, CA760-224-3393www.dronecitadel.com Citadel Defense has developed a Counter-drone (CUAS) technology called Titan that reliably detects, identifies, and defeats unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV's or...
Application Briefs Aerospace
Modified USAF T-1A Aircraft
Field AerospaceOklahoma City, OK405-219-3400www.fieldaero.com Field Aerospace recently completed the first flight of a U.S. Air Force (USAF) T-1A aircraft with a modernized flight deck. The first fully modified...
Briefs Sensors/Data Acquisition
Electrical Characterization of Crystalline UO2, THO2 and U0.71TH0.29O2
Tracking and identifying radiation sources in the age of nuclear proliferation and well- resourced non-state actors is a national priority. Current neutron detection methods...
Briefs Defense
ONR Short Pulse Research, Evaluation and non-SWaP Demonstration for C-sUAV Study
The OSPRES (ONR Short Pulse Research, Evaluation and non-SWaP) program performed fundamental work in the areas of Silicon (Si) and Gallium Nitride (GaN) based...
Briefs Research Lab
Matrix-Free Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization Using Metal-Organic Frameworks
Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) is a soft ionization technique that is widely applied in the characterization of large biomolecules using...
Products Mechanical & Fluid Systems
New Products
Ultra-Low Temperature Elastomer Greene Tweed’s (Kulpsville, PA) Fusion™ FKM 665, a new generation, ultra-low-temperature and chemical-resistant elastomer, was specifically formulated to meet and exceed the requirements of...
Articles Electronics & Computers
Underwater Drone Technology
Finding ways to overcome physical limitations so that humans can dive deeper and stay underwater longer has been an ongoing quest. Back in the 15th century, Leonardo Da Vinci drew sketches of a submarine and a robot....
Articles Communications
The CAN Bus: Driving the Future of Autonomous Military Vehicles
It’s a crisp November day in Michigan, and a convoy of British and American resupply vehicles are rumbling along at a comfortable 25 miles per hour. In the lead is a British Army...
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