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FAA Adopts NASA’s Distress Beacon Recommendations
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has adopted NASA’s Search and Rescue (SAR) office’s recommendations regarding the installation and maintenance of Emergency Locator...
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Collins Aerospace Redefines Mission Capabilities of C-130H Through Modernization Program with French Air Force
Collins Aerospace Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp., has completed the first cockpit modernization of fourteen...
INSIDER Aerospace
Northrop Grumman to Demonstrate Robotic Manufacturing in Space
Made In Space (MIS) has awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation a subcontract to support NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) demonstration of the autonomous...
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Lockheed Martin Completes NASA's Orion Spacecraft Capsule For Artemis 1 Mission To The Moon
The goal of humans again walking on the Moon is one giant leap closer. Lockheed Martin has completed building the capsule for NASA's Orion...
INSIDER Materials
Air Force Produces Light, Thin Transparent Armor
The Air Force Research Laboratory is manufacturing transparent ceramic armor for both air and ground vehicles. ALON is a transparent ceramic material composed of aluminum, oxygen, and...
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"Eyes" for the Autopilot
Automatic landings have long been standard procedure for commercial aircraft at major airports; this is usually not the case at smaller airports. Researchers have developed a completely automatic landing with...
INSIDER Sensors/Data Acquisition
Portable Gas Detection Shrinks to New Dimensions
A sensor for detecting toxic gases is now smaller, faster and more reliable, setting it up for integration into a highly sensitive portable system for detecting chemical weapons. Better...
INSIDER Aerospace
Army Rebuilding Short-Range Air Defense
The Army is now standing up short-range air defense units, known as SHORAD battalions, and offering a five-week pilot Stinger course for soldiers in maneuver units. It's all part of a critical effort...
INSIDER Electronics & Computers
Operating at the Speed of Thought
When a cyber-warrior defends a complex computer network, or a pilot commands a team of unmanned vehicles, or a submarine officer interacts with intricate sensor systems, they are often limited by...
INSIDER Aerospace
Air Force Technology Reclaims Obsolete Aircraft Parts
The average age of Air Force aircraft is over 28 years. As a result, parts can be difficult to acquire when original suppliers are no longer in existence. The Maturation of Advanced...
INSIDER Aerospace
NASA Tests Electric Aircraft Power Systems
NASA Glenn has repurposed its Hypersonic Tunnel Facility to create the NASA Electric Aircraft Testbed (NEAT), a reconfigurable facility that can accommodate power systems for large passenger...
INSIDER Aerospace
FAA’s New Rules Could Reintroduce Civil Supersonic Jets
The FAA announced two rulemaking activities on civil supersonic aircraft noise that could reintroduce supersonic passenger travel for the first time since the Concorde retired in...
INSIDER Software
Software Accelerates Hypersonic Engine Development
Argonne National Laboratory and the Air Force Research Laboratory developed a new numerical modeling tool that allows for a better understanding of rotating detonation engines (RDEs)....
INSIDER Aerospace
Learning-Based Controller Uses AI to Land Multi-Rotor Drones
Landing multi-rotor drones smoothly is difficult. Complex turbulence is created by the airflow from each rotor bouncing off the ground as the ground grows closer during descent....
INSIDER Photonics/Optics
NRL Develops Laser Processing Method to Increase Efficiency of Optoelectronic Devices
Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) discovered a new method to passivate defects in next generation optical materials to improve...
INSIDER Sensors/Data Acquisition
Army Turns to Smart Technology to Protect Military Installations
Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy and Environment Alex Beehler doesn't need proof of threats to military and government installations. He is reminded...
INSIDER Materials
AFRL Achieves “Shocking” Materials Technology Breakthrough
The Air Force Research Laboratory, along with research partners at Los Alamos National Laboratory, are working to change the shape of materials technology with a breakthrough...
INSIDER Aerospace
NASA Funds All-Electric Aircraft Research
The University of Illinois is leading a NASA-funded project to develop an all-electric aircraft. The project, called the Center for Cryogenic High-Efficiency Electrical Technology for Aircraft...
INSIDER Aerospace
Hydraulic Propulsion an Alternative to Drone Batteries
Drones require heavy batteries or lots of electrical components, which leaves little room for the actual payload. A Purdue University team came up with a method to use fluid power...
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NASA’s New UAV is 80% 3D-Printed
One of the keys to Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is exploring how different technologies and configurations of aircraft will perform in the urban environment. NASA’s newest modular unmanned aerial system, the...
INSIDER Defense
US and Japanese Scientists Conduct Joint Composites Study
Dr. Keisuke Umezawa of the Air Systems Research Center in the Japanese Ministry of Defense (JMoD) recently joined the Air Force Research Laboratory on an engineers and scientists...
INSIDER Aerospace
Projection System to Study Insect Vision Could Lead to New Navigational Aids
Development of a virtual reality-like projection system to study insect vision could eventually provide the U.S. Air Force with a new type of navigation system.
INSIDER Sensors/Data Acquisition
Wearable Sensors Could Monitor Personal, Environmental Data
In an effort to enhance soldier lethality, Army researchers are developing biorecognition receptors capable of consistent performance in multi-domain environments with the ability...
INSIDER Aerospace
Insect-Inspired Arm Improve Drones
Most drones are not able to withstand wind because of their fixed-arm design. But a new drone design works in windy conditions, is more energy-efficient, and can handle a larger payload. It was inspired by...
INSIDER Aerospace
How Flying Cars Could Change the Aerospace Industry
A new study of the environmental sustainability impacts of flying cars (electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, or VTOLs) finds that they wouldn’t be suitable for a short commute...
INSIDER Defense
Bell and Rolls-Royce Collaborate on Advanced Propulsion Systems
Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc. company, recently announced a teaming agreement with Rolls-Royce for the development of an optimized propulsion system and continued risk...
INSIDER Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Thermoplastic Drive Shaft System Developed for Aerospace Applications
herone GmbH, (Dresden, Germany) recently won the prestigious 2019 JEC Innovation Awards, in the Aerospace application category. The winning application was the company's...
INSIDER Manufacturing & Prototyping
NASA to Advance Unique 3D Printed Sensor Technology
Mahmooda Sultana recently won funding to advance a potentially revolutionary, nanomaterial-based detector platform. The technology is capable of sensing everything from minute...
INSIDER Aerospace
Public-Private Partnership to Improve Liquid Rocket Engines
NASA awarded a $5.2 million contract to Auburn University’s National Center for Additive Manufacturing Excellence to develop additive manufacturing processes and techniques for...
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