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Conference to Focus on Counter-Drone Technology
In 2021, SAE Media Group, which publishes this newsletter, launched a new high-level technical conference called Counter UAS Technology devoted to, as the name implies, examining current and...
INSIDER Manned Systems
JPADS Brings New Sustainment Capability to Future Fight
The Joint Precision Air Drop System (JPADS) is one of more than 250 weapons systems being experimented with during Project Convergence 2022 (PC22). PC22 is bringing together members of...
INSIDER RF & Microwave Electronics
Army Aviation Team Achieves Software Success in Live Fire Test
Less than one second. That was how long it took for an Apache helicopter in Europe to transmit a call for fire to ground forces while operating forward of the fire line. A...
News Electronics & Computers
How Nissan’s 2023 Ariya EV Keeps Its Cool
For their first battery-electric vehicle, the Leaf, Nissan engineers opted for a simple air-cooled/heated lithium-ion battery. But on their second EV, the 2023 Ariya, engineered cooling and...
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Silicon Forging Ahead for Higher-Performance Battery Anodes
Silicon-infused anodes, already widely considered one of the most promising candidate technologies for the next significant performance-improvement phase of electric-vehicle (EV)...
INSIDER Weapons Systems
MQ-9 Reapers Demonstrate New Capabilities
Air Force Special Operations Command’s Remotely Piloted Aircraft enterprise participated in an Emerald Flag exercise, using the large-force event to demonstrate the agile combat employment of MQ-9...
INSIDER Sensors/Data Acquisition
Drone Wing Could Learn How to Sense Danger Faster
The oddly satisfying small domes that you press on your soda’s to-go cup lid may one day save a winged drone from a nosedive. Patterns of these invertible domes on a drone’s wings would...
INSIDER Materials
Air Force Explores Use of Thermoplastic Fin for F-16
Collins Aerospace was awarded a contract by the Air Force Research Laboratory to build an advanced, high-impact resistant, F-16 ventral fin using Collins’ thermoplastic welding...
INSIDER Defense
Air Force’s Next Generation Combat Rescue Helicopter Hits Major Milestone
The U.S. Air Force declared Initial Operational Capability (IOC) for the HH-60W Jolly Green II Combat Rescue Helicopter, validating the platform's operational...
INSIDER Aerospace
Fly-by-Wire System for eVTOL Vehicles Will Enable Safe, Efficient, Flight
BAE Systems and Supernal announced an agreement to design and develop the flight control computer for Supernal’s electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL)...
INSIDER Aerospace
GA-ASI Announces Gray Eagle 25M for Multi-Domain Operations
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has launched its latest variant of the Gray Eagle line of unmanned aircraft systems: Gray Eagle 25M. The GE-25M brings a Modular...
News Test & Measurement
Autonomous Transit Bus Nears Its First Year of Operation
Since May 2022, Michigan State University students, faculty and staff have been able to ride within campus boundaries on an autonomous electric bus, one of the largest automated-driving...
INSIDER Manufacturing & Prototyping
MQ-9B to Get New 3D- Printed Fuel Oil Heat Exchanger
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) is working with long-time collaborator Conflux Technology on the design and manufacture of a new Fuel Oil Heat Exchanger (FOHE) for the...
INSIDER Materials
Collins Aerospace to Manufacture F-15EX Wheels and Brakes
Collins Aerospace recently announced its selection by Boeing to provide boltless wheels and carbon brakes for lots one through three on the F-15EX aircraft in production for the U.S....
INSIDER Manufacturing & Prototyping
Sentinel Missile Design and Manufacturing Processes Validated
Northrop Grumman Corporation successfully cast the LGM-35A Sentinel program’s first inert stage-one and stage-two solid rocket motor set this summer. The casting event...
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May Mobility Starts ADA-Compliant AV Transit for Rural Area
Automated-driving system developer May Mobility confirmed in late September that it launched what it called the first public-transit project to deploy American Disability Act...
INSIDER Defense
DEVCOM Forms International Partnership to Study Superhard Materials
Developing world-class advanced technology for soldiers on the battlefield is a key part of the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command’s (DEVCOM) mission. Many...
INSIDER RF & Microwave Electronics
Army Gets a Clearer View of Multi-Domain Battlefield
The Assured Positioning, Navigation and Timing/Space Cross-Functional Team (APNT/Space CFT) takes a multi-dimensional approach to understanding and preparing for future warfare. The team,...
INSIDER Weapons Systems
Raytheon Pairs Laser Weapon with NASAMS Air Defense System
One of the advanced technologies Raytheon Intelligence & Space (RI&S) is promoting at this year's AUSA Annual Meeting and exhibition is their High-Energy Laser Weapon...
INSIDER Aerospace
Northrop Grumman to Unveil the B-21 Raider
In what can arguably be considered one of the most highly anticipated aerospace industry announcements of the year, Northrop Grumman Corporation, in partnership with the U.S. Air Force, will unveil...
INSIDER Aerospace
All-Electric Commuter Aircraft Makes Maiden Flight
An aircraft maker from Western Washington provided a glimpse at one possible future for sustainable air travel — electric commuter planes. Eviation celebrated the maiden flight of an...
INSIDER Weapons Systems
The Future of Collaborative Combat Aircraft
The U.S. Air Force boasts the finest combat aircraft and pilots in the world, but even they are going to need help preserving air dominance in the coming decades. Most experts agree that a mix of...
News Transportation
Ford Puts More ‘Super’ into the All-New 2023 Super Duty
Customer woes had the full attention of the teams developing Ford’s 2023 Super Duty. But when the all-new truck reached the testing phase, another human stressor surfaced....
News Power
Battery Show 2022: Wireless EV Charging, Scaling Gigafactories
At September’s North American stop of The Battery Show 2022 in Novi, Michigan, thousands of attendees crammed into the Suburban Collection Showplace exhibition center to see...
INSIDER Electronics & Computers
Flight-Testing of New Airbus A321XLR Gathers Momentum
Following the maiden flight of A321XLR development aircraft MSN11000, two more prototypes, currently in advanced stages of manufacture, will join the certification flight-test campaign.
INSIDER Test & Measurement
5G Cellular to 5G.MIL® Pilot Network Data Transfer Demonstrated
Lockheed Martin and AT&T securely and rapidly transferred UH-60M Black Hawk health and usage data through an AT&T 5G private cellular network and Lockheed Martin’s...
INSIDER Aerospace
Air Force Conducts Aircrew Chemical Weapon Protection Test
The Air Force Research Laboratory’s 711th Human Performance Wing and the 28th Test and Evaluation Squadron recently executed an in-flight vapor purge test in a F-15E Strike Eagle....
News Power
BrightDrop Goes Grocery Shopping
BrightDrop, the business unit of General Motors developing and deploying electrified vehicles and tools targeting so-called “last-mile” commercial services, announced it has teamed with grocery giant...
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Eaton Debuts All-In-One Power Distribution for EVs
Destruction avoidance is one of the chief duties of Eaton’s battery disconnect unit (BDU) for light-duty passenger EVs. “A short circuit event in a typical battery electric vehicle is...
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