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Making the Torque-Transfer Transition
A reckoning has arrived at suppliers whose product portfolios, engineering resources, and R&D activities are not aligned with the EV horizon. The challenge of pivoting their focus to...
Application Briefs Photonics/Optics
Missile Protection System
BIRD Aerosystems Herzliya, Israel+972 9-972-5700www.birdaero.com BIRD Aerosystems, a global provider of defense technology and solutions that protect the air, sea, and land fleets of governments and related agencies,...
Application Briefs Imaging
Cryocooler Technology
Northrop GrummanFalls Church, VA215-675-4949www.northropgrumman.com NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, built in partnership with Northrop Grumman Corporation, is one step closer to being fully commissioned. Enabled by...
Application Briefs Unmanned Systems
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Navmar Applied Sciences Corporation (NASC)Warminster, PA215-675-4949www.nasc.com Navmar Applied Sciences Corporation (NASC) announced the ongoing development of a new, multirole, jet-engine-powered, unmanned aerial...
Application Briefs Defense
Chemical Hazard Sensor
Teledyne FLIR DefenseWilsonville, OR+1 877-773-3547www.teledyneflir.com Teledyne FLIR Defense, part of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, teamed up with MFE Inspection Solutions to integrate the FLIR MUVE™ C360...
Application Briefs Software
CAD-CAM-CNC System
Siemens Industry, Inc.Munich, Germany1-800-743-6367www.siemens.com DMG MORI manufactures a wide variety of conventional chip-cutting and ultrasonic machining centers for OEMs and production job shops serving the aerospace...
Application Briefs Weapons Systems
Anti-Ship Missile
MBDAArlington, VA703-387-7139www.mbdainc.com MBDA’s new Marte ER anti-ship missile successfully completed its final test firing at the end of November 2021. Carried out at an Italian test range in Sardinia, the firing was a...
Application Briefs Defense
Hybrid Auxiliary Propulsion System
Leonardo DRS Inc.Arlington, VA571-447-4624www.leonardodrs.com Leonardo DRS Inc. recently announced that it has again been awarded a contract by Eastern Shipbuilding Group to provide the auxiliary propulsion...
Application Briefs Defense
Electric Satellite Thruster
IVO Ltd.Bismark, ND+1 701-390-9567https://ivolimited.us/ IVO Ltd., a company that specializes in capacitive based technologies, recently unveiled the IVO Quantum Drive, the first pure electric thruster for satellites...
News Manned Systems
GM’s Hummer EV Is Still like Nothing Else
The revival of the Hummer brand has produced a vehicle that is concurrently of its time and a throwback to conspicuous consumption from the decade that spawned its predecessor. Like the original,...
News Energy
SAE WCX 2022: Paving the Way for the Hydrogen Highway
With the majority of public debate centering around the internal combustion engine (ICE)-to-EV transition, the engineering community continues to explore alternative forms of...
Executive Viewpoints Energy
Electric Mobile Machines Won’t Abandon Hydraulics
Equipment manufacturers in every major global market are launching full-electric and diesel-electric vehicles to respond to increasing market demands, reduce carbon footprints and stay...
News Unmanned Systems
Aftermarket Augments Off-Highway Autonomous Efforts
Continually transformed with more than a century’s advances in capabilities, hydraulics and fuel efficiency, today’s heavy mobile equipment must also become more intelligent and...
News Power
Solving the Challenges of Megawatt Chargers
The most significant barrier to the growth of electric vehicles (EVs) is the battery charging infrastructure. The availability of charging stations and the time required to recharge vehicles have...
Briefs Robotics, Automation & Control
Unmanned Aircraft Systems to Support Environmental Applications within USACE Civil Works
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) flood risk management (FRM) mission strives to reduce the nation's flood risk and increase resilience to disasters. FRM is inherently interdisciplinary, requiring accurate identification of environmental, physical, and infrastructure features that can reduce risk from flood and coastal storm disasters.
Briefs Defense
Dynamically Managing Task Allocation Between Humans and Machines in Surveillance Operations
Increasingly sophisticated technology must be leveraged in surveillance environments to enable eventually achieving the goal of allowing analysts to increase throughput by managing multiple simultaneous feeds.
Briefs Imaging
Modeling Space-Based Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) in Combat Simulations
During the 2021 Modeling and Simulation (M&S) Gap Forum, space intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) modeling was identified as...
Briefs Aerospace
Environmental Applications of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems in Multi-Service Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures for Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Reconnaissance and Surveillance
Environmental engineering is the study of a...
Editorial Manned Systems
EV, Give Me Heat!
Cabin heating and cooling, and their negative impact on vehicle efficiency and range, are among the challenges still to be solved in battery-electric vehicles. For drivers and passengers, interior comfort — being warm...
News Energy
New Biodiesel Strains Offer Measurable Gains
Extensive research and development of Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO) as a renewable and environmentally friendly fuel for diesel engines has been carried out by various OEMs and Tier 1s over...
News Manned Systems
SAE WCX 2022: All Transportation Modes Targeting Alternative Fuels
Although the auto industry is rushing to electrify, batteries, in their current state of development, aren’t the answer for many modes of transportation, or even many use...
News Power
Allison Purpose-Builds More Powerful TerraTran Transmission
After more than two years of field testing and development, Allison has launched its new TerraTran off-highway transmission designed to meet the harsh operating conditions common...
Technology Report Energy
SAE and NREL Partner to Strengthen EV-Charging Cybersecurity
Members of the electric vehicle industry gathered at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in early April to evaluate enhanced cybersecurity for the connections between...
News Power
Webasto Delivers Battery System for Zeus EV Chassis
Electric work trucks are beginning to roll off the line at Zeus Electric Chassis’ production facility in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. Zeus is providing the Sacramento Municipal Utility...
Editorial Automotive
Alternative Fuels, Propulsion Poised for Growth in U.S. Fleets
Fuel prices are soaring. Not breaking news, I know, yet the almost-daily alerts citing new record highs for gasoline and diesel prices are still unsettling. Consumers and...
Road Ready Automotive
2022 Ford F-150 Lightning Redefines the Pickup Paradigm
Just before the media test drives of the 2022 F-150 Lightning, the battery-electric variant of Ford’s market-dominating light-duty pickup truck, the Lightning’s specs were updated...
News Power
Electric Radiant Heat for EV Cabin Comfort
Vehicle OEMs have been steadily increasing the range of their electric vehicles (EV) and plug-in hybrids (PHEV), but the ranges they claim publicly are in ideal thermal conditions. Now comes the...
Articles Aerospace
Honda Sticking with Structural Adhesives
For the all-new 2021 Acura TLX sedan, Honda revealed a new design for its front shock towers (aka “damper housings”) that leveraged dissimilar materials, self-piercing rivets (SPRs) and...
Application Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
To the Moon and Beyond with Additive Manufacturing
Aerojet Rocketdyne uses metal 3D printing technology from Velo3D to make a critical flight component lighter, smaller, and much less expensive.
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