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Thirsty? There’s an App for That
Clean, potable water is one thing the world universally cannot live without. It hydrates. It cleans. It keeps us alive and well. That makes water very valuable to soldiers. However, as many mission...
INSIDER Materials
Project Could Detect Damaged Aircraft Parts Earlier and Easier
UT Arlington engineering professors have received a $451,781 Air Force Office of Scientific Research grant to examine the material surface at the micro- and nano-scale level to...
INSIDER Imaging
University Opens New Ballistics and Impact Dynamics Lab
Wichita State University’s National Institute for Aviation Research recently opened a new ballistics and impact dynamics research lab in the former Britt Brown Arena at the Kansas...
INSIDER Aerospace
Sensors Monitor Aircraft Structural Health for Safer Flights
Nine Delta Air Lines commercial aircraft flying regular routes are carrying sensors that monitor their structural health along with their routine maintenance. These flight tests are...
INSIDER Green Design & Manufacturing
New Computer Codes Enable Design of Greener, Leaner Aircraft
A computer model that accurately predicts how composite materials behave when damaged will make it easier to design lighter, more fuel-efficient aircraft. Innovative computer codes...
INSIDER Communications
NASA Tool Helps Airlines Minimize Weather Delays
A NASA-developed tool, Dynamic Weather Routes (DWR), is designed to alleviate weather-induced air traffic interruptions. The computer software tool is programmed to constantly analyze air...
INSIDER Energy
Smart Lithium-Ion Battery Warns of Potential Fire Hazards
Stanford University scientists have developed a "smart" lithium-ion battery that gives ample warning before it overheats and bursts into flames. The new technology is designed for...
INSIDER Communications
New DARPA Technologies Could Make Cyber Warfare a Reality
Three years after the Defense Department named cyberspace a new domain of warfare, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is unveiling technologies that could soon make it...
INSIDER Electronics & Computers
Army Researchers Enable Night Lethality
In science fiction, technology problems are solved with the stroke of a writer's pen. In reality, science and technology research takes time, and a lot of effort.
INSIDER Electronics & Computers
Tiny Wireless Sensing Device Alerts Users to Telltale Vapors Remotely
A research team at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) has developed a small electronic sensing device that can alert users wirelessly to the presence of chemical...
INSIDER Imaging
Unmanned "Urban Beat Cop" Surveillance System Protects Soldiers
In a non-combat environment, information is typically collected by local law enforcement officers who are "walking their beat." Air Force expeditionary forces in Afghanistan...
INSIDER Aerospace
Testing Electric Propulsion
Could this be the future — a plane with many electric motors that can hover like a helicopter and fly like a plane, and that could revolutionize air travel?
INSIDER Defense
Army Selected for Joint Strike Fighter Software Assessment
The F-35 Joint Program Office has selected the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research Development and Engineering Center to perform independent software safety analyses of the...
INSIDER Defense
Researchers Work to Create Smarter Underwater Drones
An underwater drone armed with the best technology on the planet descended repeatedly to the bottom of the Indian Ocean, trying to find the remains of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, and time...
INSIDER RF & Microwave Electronics
Agile Aperture Antenna Tested on Aircraft
Department of Defense representatives were in attendance during a recent event where two of the low-power devices, which can change beam directions in a thousandth of a second, were demonstrated in an...
INSIDER RF & Microwave Electronics
DARPA Teams With Industry to Create Spaceplane
DARPA has created an Experimental Spaceplane (XS-1) to create a new paradigm for more routine, responsive, and affordable space operations. In an important step toward that goal, DARPA has awarded...
INSIDER Automotive
Custom Surface Inspection System for Safety-Critical Processes
Researchers have engineered a high-precision modular inspection system that can be adapted on a customer-specific basis and integrated into the production process. Before a...
INSIDER Materials
NASA 3D Printing Technique Creates Metal Spacecraft Parts
Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are implementing a printing process that transitions from one metal or alloy to another in a single object. JPL scientists have been...
INSIDER Photonics/Optics
Army Develops First-of-Its Kind Phase-Coherent Fiber Laser Array System
The U.S. Army Research Laboratory's Computational and Information Science Directorate's Intelligent Optics Team, and partners, recently developed, engineered, demonstrated...
INSIDER Imaging
Army to Get New IED Detector Technology
Detecting improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan requires constant, intensive monitoring using rugged equipment. When Sandia researchers first demonstrated a modified miniature synthetic aperture...
INSIDER Defense
Tiny Laser Sensor Heightens Bomb Detection Sensitivity
A team of researchers led by Xiang Zhang, UC Berkeley professor of mechanical engineering, has found a way to dramatically increase the sensitivity of a light-based plasmon sensor to detect...
INSIDER Test & Measurement
Hurricane-Tracking Unmanned Systems Win NASA Challenge
NASA has selected three winning designs solicited to address the technological limitations of the uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) currently used to track and collect data on hurricanes....
INSIDER Aerospace
Agile Aperture Antenna Tested on Aircraft to Maintain Satellite Connection
Two of Georgia Tech's software-defined, electronically reconfigurable Agile Aperture Antennas (A3) were demonstrated in an aircraft during flight tests. The low-power...
INSIDER Energy
New Fuel Cells Increase Airplane Efficiency
Washington State University researchers have developed the first fuel cell that can directly convert fuels, such as jet fuel or gasoline, to electricity, providing a dramatically more energy-efficient...
INSIDER Medical
New Technology Detects Bacterial Pathogens in Soldiers' Combat Wounds
A biological detection technology developed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists can detect bacterial pathogens in the wounds of U.S. soldiers that have...
INSIDER Imaging
Scientists Demonstrate Data Teleportation for Secure Communications
Teleportation, a long-standing staple in the world of science fiction, has become a reality for scientists at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory in terms of battlefield data and...
INSIDER Imaging
Synthetic Aperture Sonar Can Help Navy Hunt Sea Mines
Since World War II, sea mines have damaged or sunk four times more U.S. Navy ships than all other means of attack combined, according to a Navy report on mine warfare. New sonar research...
INSIDER Aerospace
NASA Tests New Rocket Booster Connection to its Limits
A critical connection between NASA's new rocket and its twin solid rocket boosters that will help it get to space proved it could withstand millions of pounds of launch stress during a...
INSIDER Aerospace
Mobile Robots Help Technicians Manufacture Airplanes
A new mobile assistant is being developed to support technicians in the airplane manufacturing industry when applying sealant, measuring, and testing — without putting them at risk. In the...
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