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Defense

World War II-Era Equipment Gets Restored For Today's Research Needs

It sounds like the ultimate recycling project. The Naval Research Laboratory and the Office of Naval Research, through its INTOP Program, have taken a 96,000-pound piece of...

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Defense

Army Researchers Inspire Commercial Rifle Fire Control Systems

Researchers at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory go about their business every day working on projects to help better serve the military and its members who protect our country....

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RF & Microwave Electronics

Dassault Magnifies Focus on Its 5X

The “glass cockpit” concept transitioned very rapidly in commercial aviation, replacing familiar analog cockpit layouts to embrace the adaptability of multi-functioning displays and the flexibility to...

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Defense

Architecture Developed for Monitoring and Anomaly Detection of Space Systems

The ability to interface real-time instrumentation data from remote hardware to local data analysis systems is important in the space industry. NASA, for example,...

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Automotive

Touchscreen Concepts, Thin-Foam Seats Among Interiors Topics at SAE Congress

Technical sessions focused on interiors at the SAE 2014 World Congress span the designated technology areas, including electronics, materials, and safety/testing....

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Manufacturing & Prototyping

New Auto Plant in Mexico Brings Honda N.A. Capacity to 1.92 Million Units

In 2013, more than 90% of Honda and Acura automobiles sold in the U.S. were made in North America. With the recent start of production at a new plant in Celaya,...

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Green Design & Manufacturing

Sales of Light-Duty Natural-Gas Vehicles to Reach 40 Million by 2023, Forecaster Says

Increasing supplies of low-cost, readily available natural gas, along with expanding refueling infrastructure and increasingly strict vehicle emissions...

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Electronics & Computers

Driver Distraction and Inattention Book

Driver Distraction and Inattention: Advances in Research and Countermeasures, Vol. 1 published by SAE International and Ashgate Publishing Co. explores the definition and meaning of driver distraction...

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Software

New 'Innovation Institutes' Designed to Strengthen U.S. Manufacturing Capabilities

President Barack Obama on Feb. 25 announced that the creation of two “manufacturing innovation hubs” in which the public and private sectors will work...

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Electronics & Computers

Mitsubishi Electric Introduces Advanced HMI

Mitsubishi Electric Corp. has introduced a human-machine interface (HMI) that it says predicts a driver’s needs to safely and easily operate complex HMI tasks in one or two steps and in no more...

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Automotive

New Highlander First Mid-Size SUV to Get IIHS Top Safety Pick + Rating

Toyota may have been trailing a few competitors in meeting the small offset barrier test set by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). But with the new...

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Defense

Boeing Selects Site for New 777X Composite Wing Center

Boeing has selected its Everett, WA, site as the location for a new composite wing center for the 777X program. Boeing evaluated criteria that were designed to find the wing fabrication...

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Defense

Ball Aerospace Awarded Contract for Ion Velocity Meter

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been awarded a $5.8 million contract from the Defense Weather System Directorate at the Space and Missile Systems Center in Los Angeles, CA,...

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Aerospace

Airbus and COMAC to Cooperate on Sustainable Air Transport Growth

Airbus and Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) signed a memorandum of understanding to develop a mutual understanding on new air traffic management concepts and...

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Manufacturing & Prototyping

GKN Aerospace-Led Project Automates Assembly of Aircraft Wing Structures

GKN Aerospace is leading a project under the Structures Technology Maturity (STeM) program that aims to automate the assembly of aircraft structures with the goal of...

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Automotive

Aluminum Sheet Capacity in N.A. to Increase

Constellium N.V. and UACJ Corp. recently announced their intention to form a joint venture for production of aluminum automotive sheet for body-in-white (BIW) applications. The companies plan to...

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Manufacturing & Prototyping

Vehicle Dependability Takes Hit

In a recent report, owners of MY2011 vehicles reported a higher rate of problems than did owners of MY2010 vehicles in a similar report a year ago. Lexus had the best overall score for the third year in a row...

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Energy

Ford Solar Hybrid Concept Recharges Off-Grid

One of the more noteworthy cars to debut at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was Ford’s C-MAX Solar Energi Concept, a version of its compact plug-in hybrid vehicle that can...

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Defense

Maintenance Tools for Improved Engine Bearing Performance

Of all industrial sectors, aircraft engine manufacturing and maintenance have possibly the most stringent requirements and specifications for rolling bearings and related components....

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Defense

Aurora Wins DARPA VTOL X-Plane Program Contract

Aurora Flight Sciences has been awarded a Phase I contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) X-Plane program. Aurora’s innovative...

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Nanotechnology

Transparent Display System Could Provide Heads-Up Data

Transparent displays have a variety of potential applications — such as the ability to see navigation or dashboard information while looking through the windshield of a car or plane, or...

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Aerospace

Launching the Fastest Plane of the Future

It's a sci-fi concept that's at the center of a 25-year exploratory project: building a hypersonic aircraft that takes off from the runway and doesn't need a rest, inspection or repair after it lands...

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Aerospace

Virtual Reality Immerses Passengers in "See-Through" Cabin

In the VR-Hyperspace project, Fraunhofer IAO has teamed up with eight partners from six European countries to investigate how flight journeys can be made into a more pleasant experience...

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Electronics & Computers

Hella and Vahle Co-Developing Wireless Charging for Electrified Vehicles

Two Germany-based suppliers are co-developing wireless electrified vehicle charging in which the principle of inductive power transfer moves energy through an air gap...

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Power

Hot for Powertrain

Are you looking for deep and valuable powertrain knowledge that only comes from top-level technical presentations and insider-quality networking? Then point your GPS towards North America’s “Motor City” next month...

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Power

Battery Guru: Future of 18650 Cells Unclear Beyond Tesla S

Despite Tesla Motors’ proven success with 18650-type Li-ion cells in its Model S, the industry’s best-known EV battery analyst isn’t betting that other automakers will adopt...

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Manufacturing & Prototyping

In-Sight Software

Cognex Corp.’s In-Sight Explorer 4.9 software offers an expanded set of inspection tools and an enhanced Cognex Connect communications suite that features the iQ Sensor Solution network (iQSS). This latest version of...

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Power

Delphi and Hyundai GDCI Program Aims to Top Diesel Efficiency

Can a gasoline-fueled passenger-car engine achieve diesel levels of efficiency and torque, with lower emissions and cost—in real-world operation? Delphi and Hyundai are close...

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Connectivity

Bringing Nissan’s Future into Focus

The daughter of a pair of psychologists, Rachel Nguyen took her natural inclination for psychology and combined it with a personal interest in consumer research and cross-functional teaming to pursue a...