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BMW Takes Multi-Modal Route to Manufacturing
BMW’s Munich factory remains the fertile root of a century of manufacturing, including its first R32 motorcycle in 1923. But the Bavarian automaker’s oldest assembly site is transforming...
Road Ready Energy
Chevrolet Unveils 2024 Corvette E-Ray Hybrid
Rather than toasting their sports car’s 70th birthday with polite champagne sips, Chevy yanked the wraps off another edition of the eighth-generation Corvette: the 2024 hybrid E-Ray which...
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Mazda’s 2024 CX-90 Offers Turbo I-6, PHEV Propulsion
With crossover SUVs now the backbone of its North American sales volume, Mazda this week revealed the CX-90 SUV, a fullsize 3-row model to serve as the brand’s flagship when it goes...
Supplier Eye Design
Erratic Transition to the BEV Future
The bloom is slowly wilting off the rose. The last two years witnessed an unprecedented level of battery electric vehicle (BEV) investment from both the auto industry and federal government....
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Making over the World’s Leading Hybrid
Its markedly upgraded power and performance take it to a driving-dynamics place difficult to believe could be achieved.
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New Products
See the new products for February 2023, including nanocomposite material, a V8 microprocessor, machining software, and more.
Products Defense
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 Electronics & Computers
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.
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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 RF & Microwave Electronics
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 Manned Systems
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.
Articles Data Acquisition
Volvo Engineers Luminar Lidar into 2024 EX90
Consumer skepticism over autonomous vehicles is running rampant, thanks largely to Tesla’s broken-record promises to make “Full Self Driving” a reality — along with high-profile...
Articles Unmanned Systems
Inner Visions
Evolving market realities have OEMs and automated-driving developers adjusting once-aggressive timelines for deploying high-level driving automation. But new materials and safety technology for vehicle interiors continue to...
Application Briefs Design
Electric Hybrid Propulsion System
Allison Transmission has introduced the new eGen Force electric hybrid propulsion system for tracked combat vehicles.
Application Briefs Sensors/Data Acquisition
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.
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Quicker Pathways to Reduce Transportation’s Climate Impact
Current U.S. energy policies are laser-focused on addressing climate change – as they should be. Meanwhile, 2022’s soaring gasoline prices show that U.S. dependence on...
Application Briefs Aerospace
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.
News Propulsion
Toyota Punches up the Prius
An undeniable technical achievement since its U.S. launch for the 2001 model year, Toyota’s Prius never has been able to shake its weenie-mobile reputation. It’s an image formed largely by the combination...
Articles Energy
Blue Arc Amps up for EV Production
In June of 2020, while the world was still coming to grips with the COVID-19 pandemic, Spartan Motors announced that it was rebranding as The Shyft Group. Following this reorganization, Shyft announced in...
News Connectivity
Increasing Connectivity in Construction
Wouldn’t it be great if the entire jobsite – the general contractor, subcontractors, designers, owners, equipment vendors and material suppliers – were all working in sync with the data that...
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Advances in Virtual Powertrain Development
Powertrain engineers have various tools at their disposal to develop new technologies — empirical modeling, component simulation, multi-system environments and physical testing chief among them....
News Unmanned Systems
CNH Introduces Battery-Electric, Autonomous-Ready Tractor
CNH Industrial recently introduced what it says is the world’s first autonomous-ready, battery-electric light utility tractor at its Tech Day in Phoenix, Arizona. The New Holland...
News Design
Perkins Tackles Decarbonization of Off-Highway Machines
Decarbonization is currently one of the biggest buzzwords in the off-highway sector. OEMs around the globe are now offering and researching solutions for their customers so that they...
Briefs Unmanned Systems
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.
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New Defense Department Program Seeks 300,000 Drones From Industry by 2027
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Anduril Completes First Semi-Autonomous Flight of CCA Prototype
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