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Briefs Weapons Systems
Counter-Directed Energy Weapons: Defense of Air Assets
The global proliferation of directed energy weapon technology presents a new threat for the United States.

Briefs Materials
Review of Recent Capability Improvements in Ultrashort Pulse Laser Sources: Closing the Relevancy Gap for Directed Energy Applications
The horizon for directed energy (DE) applications, using ultrashort pulse lasers (USPLs), is quickly approaching.

Articles Aerospace
Communicating Via Long-Distance Lasers
There’s a better way to use light to communicate over long distances: lasers.

Application Briefs Photonics/Optics
Fighter Jet Armaments
The F3-R Rafale generates images in both the visible and infrared ranges.

Products Mechanical & Fluid Systems
New Products
Coaxial connectors, tactical servers, test benches, surge protectors, and more.

Application Briefs Photonics/Optics
Multi-Sensor Electro-Optic Platform
Silent Sentinel’s offering includes a dual Electro-Optic/Infra-Red camera payload, a laser range finder, and a panoramic surveillance camera.

INSIDER Energy
NRL’s Hybrid Tiger UAV Soars at Demonstration
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory engineers recently demonstrated Hybrid Tiger, an electric unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with multi-day endurance flight capability. The team integrated...

Articles Photonics/Optics
Developing a 6DoF Aircraft Munitions Optical Tracking System
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation software estimates the trajectory of separation between the aircraft and the store. But how reliable is the CFD model in real-life situations?

Briefs Sensors/Data Acquisition
A Comparative Evaluation of the Detection and Tracking Capability Between Novel Event-Based and Conventional Frame-Based Sensors
This research establishes a fundamental understanding of the characteristics of event-based sensors.

Briefs Sensors/Data Acquisition
Characterization of Turbulent Unsteady Separation Using Photonic Micro-Skin Friction and Wall Pressure Sensors
Learn about a photonic skin friction and wall pressure sensor.

Briefs Photonics/Optics
Frequency Agile Plasmonic Antennas and Sensors
A new way of assembling individual nanostructures will facilitate better design principles for plasmonic photonic devices.

Application Briefs Defense
Missile Protection System
The AMPS-MLRD missile protection system provides enhanced protection for military and civilian aircraft against the growing threat of ground to air missiles.

Application Briefs Aerospace
Laser Cleaner Robot
A robotized system automatically removes primers and other protective coatings from F-35 wing components.

Articles Photonics/Optics
More Bang for the Buck: A New Design and Manufacturing Method for Deep Penetrating Bomb Cases
There is a new way to design penetrators and projectiles: Composites.

Briefs Photonics/Optics
An Ultrafast Testbed for Comprehensive Characterization of Photonics, Electronic, and Optoelectronic Properties of Integrated Nanophotonic Structures
High-speed testing technology will enable advances such as new digital signal processing and computing platforms in the optical domain.

Briefs Semiconductors & ICs
Atomistic- and Meso-Scale Computational Simulations for Developing Multi-Timescale Theory for Radiation Degradation in Electronic and Optoelectronic Devices
One particular semiconductor, gallium arsenide (GaAs), has received considerable attention due to its potential electronic applications.

Application Briefs Unmanned Systems
Light Tactical Vehicle
The MRZR Alpha is the newest light tactical vehicle from the military provider Polaris Government and Defense.

INSIDER Aerospace
A Prototype Fuel Gauge for Orbit
Liquids aren’t as well behaved in space as they are on Earth. Inside a spacecraft, microgravity allows liquids to freely slosh and float about. The National Institute of Standards and Technology...

Application Briefs Aerospace
3D-Printed NACA Inlet
A company's first metal additively manufactured part took to the skies on a SkyGuardian Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) test flight.

Application Briefs Software
Reverse Engineering Technology
A company was retrofitting older avionics and needed a CAD model of the panel to see how it would fit.

Products Test & Measurement
New Products
Network analyzers, FPGAs, mobile surface measurement, and more.

Application Briefs Propulsion
Laser Wire Additive Manufacturing System
ADDere printing not only a rocket combustion chamber and nozzle, but seamlessly merged them into one full size rocket thrust chamber assembly.

Briefs Aerospace
Analysis of Broadband Metamaterial Shielding for Counter-Directed Energy Weapons
Given the importance of electronics in modern warfare, the ability to rapidly develop a counter to such weapons will be essential to sustaining military operations.

Articles Photonics/Optics
Thermal Management for Directed Energy Weapons
Advanced thermal management is one of the keys to bringing directed energy weapons online and to allow them to operate at peak performance.

Articles Photonics/Optics
New Diamond Super-Material Enhances Aircraft Survivability
A diamond composite is the ultimate optics and semiconducting super-material.

Briefs Weapons Systems
Directed-Energy System to Defeat Small Unmanned Aircraft System Swarms
New weapons technology is needed to combat the proliferation of small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS).

Briefs Test & Measurement
Beam Propagation Model Selection for Millimeter-Wave Directed Energy Weapons
See how Modeling and Simulation (M&S) can be used to explore the design trade space of directed energy weapons.

Briefs Photonics/Optics
Experimental Design of a UCAV-Based High-Energy Laser Weapon
The day of the first deployable UCAV armed with a high-energy laser weapon is not far away.

INSIDER Photonics/Optics
New Enhanced Visual Acuity System Will Help Pilots Fly More Safely
Collins Aerospace Systems, a unit of Raytheon Technologies Corp., is helping the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps transition from analog to digital night vision systems with...

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