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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 Materials
New Diamond Super-Material Enhances Aircraft Survivability
A diamond composite is the ultimate optics and semiconducting super-material.
Briefs Sensors/Data Acquisition
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 RF & Microwave Electronics
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 Aerospace
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 Sensors/Data Acquisition
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 their...
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Miniature sensors, 3D printing platforms, lightning test systems, and more.
Articles Photonics/Optics
Detection with Quantum Radar
A new radar prototype utilizes quantum entanglement as a method of object detection.
Briefs Test & Measurement
sUAS-Based Payload Development and Testing for Quantifying Optical Turbulence
Understanding how atmospheric effects can impact operational conditions is important to the development of High Energy Laser (HEL) weapon systems.
Briefs Sensors/Data Acquisition
Bore Elevation and Azimuth Measurement System (Beams)
A newly developed laser apparatus verifies that the pointing accuracy requirement of a weapon’s fire control system is met.
Articles Unmanned Systems
High-Energy Laser Weapon Systems
The next few years will help determine whether high-energy lasers become a staple of the battlefield.
Articles Photonics/Optics
Getting the Most Out of Laser Wire Additive Manufacturing
Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) powder-based systems aren't the only ways to print metals.
Articles Sensors/Data Acquisition
Photonic Microwave Generation Using On-Chip Optical Frequency Combs
A key building block of microwave photonics is optical frequency combs, which provide hundreds of equidistant and mutually coherent laser lines.
INSIDER Photonics/Optics
Rheinmetall to Supply Laser Light Module to Swiss Army
Rheinmetall has signed a contract with Switzerland’s Federal Office for Defence Procurement (Armasuisse) to supply VarioRay LLM laser light modules to the Swiss Army. Under the...
Briefs Sensors/Data Acquisition
A Focal Plane Array and Electronics Model for CMOS and CCD Sensors in the AFIT Sensor and Scene Emulation Tool
Developing an improved model capable of generating realistic synthetic data that represents a wide range of systems can lead to new algorithms and data exploitation techniques.
Briefs Test & Measurement
Fabrication and Electrical Characterization of Correlated Oxide Field Effect Switching Devices for High Speed Electronics
The response of correlated oxides to strong electric fields and their dynamics is investigated using electrical transport measurements and electronic structure studies.
Articles Photonics/Optics
NASA Prepares for the Moon and Mars with Expanded Deep Space Network
NASA is adding a new antenna for communicating with the agency’s farthest-flung robotic spacecraft.
Application Briefs Imaging
Unmanned Aircraft System Offers Superior Surveillance Imagery
AeroVironment, Inc. recently announced the launch of Puma LE.
INSIDER Aerospace
Breaking the Temperature Barrier in Aerospace Materials Testing
University of Illinois researchers have demonstrated a new method for testing microscopic aeronautical materials at ultra-high temperatures. The test combines two commonly used...
INSIDER Wearables
Wearable Device Camouflages Its Wearer Regardless of the Weather
Researchers at the University of California San Diego developed a wearable technology that can hide its wearer from heat-detecting sensors such as night vision goggles, even...
INSIDER Communications
Changing the Face of UAV Communications
The increase in unmanned aircraft (UA) traffic is leading to an increase in communications disruptions because too many vehicles are trying to use the same limited number of frequencies.
Application Briefs Sensors/Data Acquisition
Shoulder-Launched Weapon System
Guided flight tests have been completed.
Briefs Materials
Future Advances in Electronic Materials and Processes - Flexible Hybrid Electronics
There are still significant obstacles to the manufacture and use of flexible hybrid electronics in military applications.
INSIDER Photonics/Optics
Armoring Satellites to Survive and Operate Through Attacks
Satellites do a lot of things — they help people navigate from one place to another, they deliver television programming, they search for new stars and exo-planets and they enable the...
Application Briefs Imaging
EO/IR Maritime Payload
CONTROP Precision Technologies Ltd., recently demonstrated its iSea-25HD system.
Articles Aerospace
Defeating Commercial Drone Threats with Open-Source SDR
With the emergence of highly capable, low-cost, wirelessly controlled drones, bad actors can easily execute disruptive operations.
INSIDER Imaging
Experiments Differentiate Between Underground Nuclear Tests and Earthquakes
Sandia National Laboratories researchers, as part of a group of National Nuclear Security Administration scientists, have wrapped up years of field experiments to...
Articles Aerospace
Understanding Fiber Optic Transceiver Design and Test Rules
The design of avionics systems must balance several factors. First, engineers want to increase the performance of the systems installed in aircraft or spacecraft. Second, they want to...
Briefs Imaging
Spatiotemporal Imaging Exploiting Structured Sparsity
Spatiotemporal imaging contains a large class of imaging problems, which involve collecting a sequence of data sets to resolve both the spatial and temporal (or spectral) distributions of...
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