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DARPA Selects Texas for Open-Access Semiconductor Microsystem Fabrication Facility
Seeking to ensure America’s national security and global military leadership, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) has selected the Texas...
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Digital Transformation Updates at Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon
Executives from Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon provide updates on their adoption and development of artificial intelligence and other new digital engineering technologies.
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This Laser Clock Could Transform Satellite Navigation Accuracy
A new laser clock from the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) has achieved a record level of accuracy for optical clocks with gas cells:...
Podcasts Electronics & Computers
What Is Generative AI at the Edge?
Tyler Saltsman, CEO of EdgeRunner AI, joins the Aerospace & Defense Technology podcast to explain how the aerospace and defense industry can adopt generative AI at the edge.
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See the new products, including Durabook's major upgrade of its Z14I laptop; New Wave Design’s V6065, a next-generation heterogeneous embedded computing 3U VPX module; Teledyne FLIR's next generation of high-performance Hadron 640 dual radiometric thermal and visible camera modules; Pickering Interface’s new high channel count microwave MUX family; and more.
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Streamlined Microcomb Design Provides Control With The Flip of a Switch
Researchers at the University of Rochester describe new microcomb lasers they have developed that overcome previous limitations and feature a simple design that could open the door to a broad range of uses. Read on to learn more.
Articles Communications
To 6G and Beyond: Penn Engineers Unlock the Next Generation of Wireless Communications
In the early 2010s, LightSquared, a startup promising to revolutionize cellular communications, declared bankruptcy. The company couldn’t figure out how to prevent its signals from interfering with those of GPS systems. Now, Penn Engineers have developed a new tool that could prevent such problems from ever happening again: an adjustable filter that can successfully prevent interference, even in higher-frequency bands of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Articles Electronics & Computers
Space Lasers: Aiming Towards Next Leap in Global Communications
Space lasers are transforming the world. Not the far-off future of science fiction, but the universe of how data and communications flow today — everywhere from deep space missions to countless applications here on earth, including consumer internet services, military operations, and banking transactions. Read on to learn more.
Articles Software
Embedded Processing Advancements Enable Smarter, SWAP-Optimized Avionics Displays and Computers
Avionics developers are leveraging a combination of advanced software and scalable system-on-chip (SoC) processing modules to pack more capabilities into smaller form factors for current and next generation aircraft. Read on to learn more.
Articles Unmanned Systems
Optimizing IoMT Device Battery Life With Emulation and Profiling Software
Battery profiling and emulation software are essential for IoMT device power analysis in order to improve field operations and force safety. Profiling and emulation help improve battery life, mimic any charge and battery profile state, create more reliable and consistent test environments, and measure capacity loss and aging effects. Read on to learn more.
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How AR, Robotics are Increasing Speed of Space Payload Manufacturing at Northrop
The speed of getting to space relies on more than just the thrust of a rocket. Before any countdown begins, satellite systems must be designed, manufactured...
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Army Launches CMOSS Prototyping Competition for Computer Chassis and Cards
Embedded computing suppliers will have the opportunity to compete to develop new open system architecture chassis and cards for use in U.S. Army combat vehicles and...
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Space Docking and Satellite AI Research
Can electro adhesive forces help ease the process of docking in-orbit satellites? A team of industry and University of Colorado Boulder researchers is determined to find out.
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First Air Force Unmanned Traffic Management System Deployed at MacDill
Air Mobility Command, or AMC, in collaboration with the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, Information Directorate, began assessing the AFRL Collaborative...
News Unmanned Systems
Quantifying Generative AI in Defense Applications
DARPA seeks proposals for the new Artificial Intelligence Quantified (AIQ) program that aims to develop technology to assess and enable the guaranteed performance of generative AI.
INSIDER Communications
Space Lasers: Aiming Towards Next Leap in Global Communications
Space lasers are transforming the world. Not the far-off future of science fiction, but the universe of how data and communications flow today — everywhere from deep space...
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Skunk Works Successfully Demonstrates AI in Air-To-Air Tactical Intercepts
Lockheed Martin Skunk Works partnered with the University of Iowa's Operator Performance Laboratory (OPL) to demonstrate the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in...
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How Sandia’s New Digital Engineering Tool Helps Reimagine Design of Radar Systems
In a whirling geopolitical landscape of new nuclear weapons, hypersonic weapons, drones and satellites, the U.S. is hustling to test new kinds of radars...
Articles Robotics, Automation & Control
Digital Twinning and Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information
Creating a digital twin is not just a technical feat; it is a strategic imperative that touches every facet of modern business. From security to sovereignty and from trust to ethics, the decisions made today about digital twin architecture will reverberate long into the future. Read on to learn more.
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New Products
See the new products, including a new family of Rohde & Schwarz power analyzers, DDC’s cyber resilient MILSTD-1553 component, Eizo Rugged Solutions' Talon RGD2443W LCD monitor, Emerson's new ASCO™ Series 148/149 safety valve and motorized actuator, Pixus Technologies' Tier 3 SOSA aligned chassis management module, Epix Inc.’s robot/drone dual camera link grabber, and more.
Application Briefs Aerospace
Morphing Aircraft Systems
Inspired by natural phenomena, a Purdue research team is developing morphing systems for hypersonic vehicles that respond to their environment.
Briefs Electronics & Computers
A New Approach to Assessing the Quality of Aerospace Components
In a study, published in the Journal Waves in Random and Complex Media, researchers from the University of Bristol have derived a formula that can inform the design boundaries for a given component’s geometry and material microstructure.
Briefs Electronics & Computers
NRL Research Physicists Explore Fiber Optic Computing Using Distributed Feedback
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) researchers have outlined a novel contribution in fiber optics computing in a paper recently published in Communications Physics Journal that brings the Navy one step closer to faster, more efficient computing technologies.
Articles Electronics & Computers
How SpaceVPX is Influencing the Design of Next Generation Spacecraft Avionics
SpaceVPX is an embedded computing standard based on bridging the VMEBus International Trade Association (VITA) OpenVPX standards to space applications. OpenVPX is a set of embedded computing system standards that are widely used in safety critical aerospace and defense platforms such as vehicles and weapons.
Articles Semiconductors & ICs
Image Sensors and Cameras Based on Colloidal Quantum Dots for Defense Applications
This article reports on the image sensor technology and the VS20 camera product developed at Emberion. The article describes the image sensor design comprising the sensor stack based on a p-i-n photodiode implementation with PbS QDs sandwiched between thin-film hole transport (HTL) and electron transport (ETL) layers as well as the CMOS ROIC architecture and pixel front-end interfacing the photodiode stack.
INSIDER Electronics & Computers
UK Flight Test Evaluates "Un-Jammable" Quantum Navigation Systems
In a first-of-its-kind achievement, the U.K. has successfully completed commercial flight trials of advanced quantum-based navigation systems that cannot be jammed or spoofed...
INSIDER Power
Four Quantum Computing Aviation Applications Being Researched by Airbus
Airbus recently published an update on some of the latest research and development that the Toulouse, France-based airplane maker has been exploring around the use of...
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Two Prototypes Selected for Air Force Collaborative Combat Aircraft Program
The U.S. Air Force has selected Anduril and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) to continue into the next phase of detailed designs, manufacture, and...
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New Products
See the new products, including Rohde & Schwarz' R&S FSPN phase noise analyzer and VCO tester, Sherwin-Williams' universal clearcoat: Aerospace Clearcoat, SWIR Vision Systems' Acuros GO 6 MP SWIR camera, Delta Electronics' M∞Vair 30 kW Wireless Charging System, Spectrum Control's Space Grade EMI filters, American Portwell's newest member of its APTNS network computing hardware platform product family, and STMicroelectronics' new devices from the second generation of its industrial microprocessors, the STM32MP2 series.
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