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Lockheed Martin’s Next-Gen, 360-Degree Vision System Flies on the Bell V-280 Valor
Lockheed Martin Corporation’s (Lockheed Martin) next-generation, multispectral, 360-degree imaging system flew for the first time on the Bell V-280 Valor...
News Electronics & Computers
Mettis Aerospace to Serve as Testbed for World’s First Wi-Fi 6-Enabled Smart Factory Technologies
As part of its ongoing Wi-Fi 6 program, the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) – an industry association focused on next generation Wi-Fi...
INSIDER Manufacturing & Prototyping
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...
INSIDER Aerospace
NASA Unveils Radically New Airplane Wing
NASA built and tested a radically new kind of airplane wing assembled from hundreds of tiny identical pieces. It could provide a significant boost in aircraft production, flight, and maintenance...
News Test & Measurement
Kepler Communications Will Flight Test a Transmission Optimizing “Smart Radiator Device” on Its Next Satellite Mission
Kepler Communications, Inc.’s (Kepler’s) TARS six-unit cubesat – the company’s third satellite scheduled for...
News Internet of Things
Volocopter’s All-Electric UAM Vehicle Benefits from Honeywell’s Advanced Navigation and Flight Tech
Honeywell International Inc. will lend its expertise in autonomous sensing and flight technologies to the navigation and automatic...
News Defense
Stratolaunch All-Composite Aircraft Achieves First Flight
Stratolaunch Systems Corp., founded by Paul G. Allen, in Seattle, Washington, has completed the first flight of the Stratolaunch, the world’s largest all-composite aircraft, with a...
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Next-Generation Honeywell Turboshaft Engine Could Power Sikorsky-Boeing’s Future Vertical Lift Family
The latest version of Honeywell Aerospace’s seven-stage axial compressor T55 turboshaft engine is nearing the final phase of...
News Aerospace
AVIC Subsidiary Continental Aerospace Will Power the Upcoming Diamond DA50, Expands into Electric Propulsion
Continental Aerospace Technologies (Continental) of Mobile Alabama – a subsidiary of Beijing-based Aviation Industry Corporation...
News Manufacturing & Prototyping
Chevrolet Finally Confirms Mid-Engine Corvette, Marks July Reveal
Having pondered since the late 1950s the concept of a mid-engine layout for its classic Corvette sportscar—and in the subsequent decades rumored to repeatedly revisit the...
News Data Acquisition
Approved Vendor List Supplier Reduction: Everyone Is Doing It
Every quality-run organization has a supplier vetting process. The one common denominator always heard in supplier audits is: "We simply must reduce our list of suppliers."
News Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Bridgestone Joins JAXA and Toyota on International Space Exploration Mission
Bridgestone Corp. in Tokyo and Nashville, Tennessee, is joining Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Toyota Motor Corp. in an international space...
News Power
Goodfellow Corporation Offers Graphene Variant Produced Through a New “Metal-Free” Methane Process
Coraopolis, Pennsylvania-based Goodfellow Corporation (Goodfellow) is taking graphene and going “green,” offering an ultra-pure,...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
Bye Aerospace’s Sun Flyer Is Now the “EFlyer”
In an effort to more accurately represent the aircraft – which will no longer feature wing-mounted solar panels as a standard option – Denver-based Bye Aerospace is renaming its...
INSIDER Defense
Scalable Agile Beam Radar Migrates to Multiple Platforms
Northrop Grumman Corporation has successfully integrated the advanced AN/APG-83 SABR system onto multiple configurations of F-16 aircraft and is now taking the next step in expanding...
INSIDER Defense
Boeing Introduces New Unmanned System for Global Defense Customers
Boeing has introduced its newest unmanned platform, the Boeing Airpower Teaming System. Designed for global defense customers by Boeing Australia, it is the company’s...
INSIDER Sensors/Data Acquisition
MAPS-Enabled Countermeasures Defeat Threats in U.S. Army Field Tests
In a series of live-fire tests, systems equipped with MAPS-enabled countermeasures defeated 15 out of 15 anti-tank guided missiles by jamming their signals, causing them...
News Connectivity
General Atomics Moves Toward Global RPA Flight Certification for MQ-9B SkyGuardian
A General Atomics Aeronautical System, Inc. (GA-ASI) MQ-9B SkyGuardian remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) was controlled – from takeoff to landing – by an...
News Robotics, Automation & Control
WCX 2019: IAMTS Association Will Establish Standardization and Testing for Connected Vehicles
In pursuit of developing and growing an international portfolio of advanced mobility testbeds that meet the highest quality implementation and...
News Robotics, Automation & Control
WCX 2019: The AV “Money Race” Is On
Automated-and-connected vehicles may be on a longer adoption path than the hype around them suggests, but AVs and their related technologies will eventually become a multi-trillion-dollar market,...
News Regulations/Standards
WCX 2019: Regulators Grapple with Autonomous Challenges
The long reach of autonomous vehicles clearly extends to the regulatory environment, which will undergo changes that are as significant as those seen in the discipline of engineering...
News Unmanned Systems
WCX 2019: Validation Can’t Replace Roadway Tests
Simulations and validations are necessary elements in the development of driverless cars, but they aren’t going to fully replace real world testing. Virtual testing will help engineers...
News Unmanned Systems
WCX 2019: Mobileye’s Quest for Super-Human Perception
Human drivers typically approach driving by following traffic rules and exercising a sense of caution in certain driving situations and road conditions. So, it makes sense that...
News Regulations/Standards
2019 HEICE Symposium Kicks off Week of Valuable Engineering Insights
The 2019 SAE High Efficiency Internal Combustion Engine (HEICE) Symposium kicked off a week’s worth of SAE World Congress events in Detroit on Sunday, April 7. Now in...
News Manned Systems
UTC’s Project 804 Hybrid-Electric Demonstrator May Increase Regional Jet Efficiency by 30 Percent
United Technologies Corporation (UTC) is collaborating with its subsidiaries Pratt & Whitney and Collins Aerospace to develop a...
News AR/AI
WCX 2019: Start Your Self-Driving Racecars
The world’s first electric driverless racecars are about to hit the accelerator pedal. “In order to create this new type of motorsport, we had to design and build vehicles—because they didn’t...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
WCX 2019: Cybersecurity Hackers Help Vet Vehicle Systems
They’re non-traditionalists who wear white hats. They are the now well-known “whitehat” researchers who help identify and catch cybersecurity vulnerabilities. While the general...
News Test & Measurement
“The Grid” Promises to Be the Most Advanced Electric Propulsion Laboratory in the Aerospace Industry
Collins Aerospace, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation (UTC), has laid out its plans for what is calling “The Grid” –...
News AR/AI
Engineers Balance Today’s Programs with Tomorrow’s Mobility Future
Engineers are seeing the automotive industry pivot to advanced mobility. It’s a changing landscape with new lifeblood for the internal combustion engine and a...
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