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New Technologies Tackle UAV Challenges
Unmanned vehicles for air, land, and water represent an increasingly-important capability for virtually all military services worldwide. Because each new generation of device technology promises...
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Software for Additive Design, Manufacturing Evolves Quickly
The aerospace industry has taken a leadership position in the adoption of additive manufacturing processes, prompting major changes in both design and manufacturing. That’s...
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Engine Air-Brakes
Airplanes, one of humanity's greatest inventions, evoke feelings of awe and amazement for most people, unless you live uncomfortably close to a major airport, in which case the feeling may become annoyance and irritation....
Application Briefs Defense
Rugged Server and Display System
General Micro SystemsRancho Cucamonga, CA(800) 307-4863www.gms4sbc.com General Micro Systems Inc. (GMS) recently announced that the U.S. Army will exclusively deploy powerful rugged server and display systems...
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Sharks on a Plane? Skin Scales Lift Aircraft Design
To improve a flying vehicle, sometimes you have to turn to a reliable model that has been operating for hundreds of millions of years.
INSIDER Software
Drones Learn Autonomous Flying by Imitating Cars and Bikes
The algorithm DroNet allows drones to fly completely by themselves through the streets of a city and in indoor environments. It produces two outputs for each single input image: a...
Briefs Materials
A Mechanistic Analysis of Oxygen Vacancy Driven Conductive Filament Formation in Resistive Random Access Memory Metal/NiO/Metal Structures
Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM) devices have drawn much interest in the last decade, particularly...
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Lockheed Martin Brings Fury Closer to Mission Readiness
Lockheed Martin’s Fury, the expeditionary, runway-independent, unmanned air vehicle (UAV), now has engine updates that will further increase its flight endurance.
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Expert INSIDER: How Mehdi Khorrami Uses Simulation to Address Aircraft Noise
NASA’s Mehdi Khorrami explains how he uses high-performance computing to handle one of the FAA’s biggest complaints: aircraft noise.
Articles Materials
New Products & Services
Metric-Sized Metal Shapes Parker Steel Company (Maumee, OH) offers metric-sized metals suitable for applications where presized metric parts are needed. Parker Steel’s cold-finished carbon steel, alloyed and...
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Quality Control for Additive Manufacturing Parts Using Non-Destructive Testing
Additive Manufacturing (AM) is growing in importance as a fabrication process for the space industry, enabling weight and cost savings through optimized designs for...
INSIDER Aerospace
A Better Understanding of Space — Via Helicopter
An algorithm that helps engineers design better helicopters may help astronomers more precisely envision the formation of planets and galaxies. The new model understands how black holes, planets, and galaxies emerge from the vortex-rich environments of space. Researchers drew inspiration from a...
Application Briefs Defense
Ruggedized Computer Rack Cases
Verotec IncManchester, NH603-821-9921www.verotec.us Verotec has been selected by Lockheed Martin to provide custom 19” 6U 600 mm deep rack cases to house part of the ISTAR system in the AJAX next generation...
INSIDER Software
Air Traffic Management Tool Wins NASA Software of the Year
When planes get caught in traffic, pilots have to keep flying until the backup clears and their runways become available for landing. This means that air traffic controllers must...
Sound-Off Software
Sound-Off: How to Simulate the Impacts of an Exoskeleton
Over the past decade, warfighters’ personal loads have increased, leading to more injuries, pain, and discomfort. To relieve the burden, the military is investigating...
INSIDER Sensors/Data Acquisition
Eye Tracking Technology Improves Imposter Detection Training
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) screens nearly one million people every day and secures and manages 328 ports of entry all over the country, including in remote areas....
INSIDER Software
AMRDEC Technologies to Improve Air and Missile Defense
Engineers at the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center (AMRDEC) are working on a trio of technologies to explore improving existing air and missile...
INSIDER Software
Language Learning Robot Could Advance Autonomous Vehicles
A Purdue University researcher and his team are developing technology to give robots the ability to learn language. A team led by Jeffrey Mark Siskind, associate professor in Purdue’s...
INSIDER Defense
Computer Model More Accurately Predicts Flight Delays
Researchers at Binghamton University have devised a new computer model that can more accurately predict delays faster than anything currently in use. The multilevel input layer...
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Graphene Advances May Lead to Improved Data Transmission, Storage
The phenomenon known as "spin filtering" is due to an interaction of the quantum mechanical properties of graphene with those of a crystalline nickel film. When the nickel...
INSIDER Software
New Web-Based Software Enables Quick Drone Design
A Utah State University aerospace engineer is offering the public a free software tool that could revolutionize the drone industry. Doug Hunsaker, an assistant professor of mechanical and...
INSIDER Software
Aircraft Arrival Technology Will Reduce Flight Delays
Flight Deck Interval Management (FIM) promises to safely increase the number of airplanes that can land on the same runway at busy airports by more precisely managing the time, or...
News Manufacturing & Prototyping
Additive Manufacturing Today, Growing Airplanes, Literally, Tomorrow?
If 3D virtual reality and additive manufacturing (AM) are indicative of one direction that disruptive developments are taking the aerospace engineering sector, then...
News Manufacturing & Prototyping
Additive Manufacturing, Virtual Reality Add to Aerospace Design Repertoire
Images of exciting and futuristic-looking aircraft might capture the imagination of the next generation of would-be aerospace engineers, but the most spectacular...
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Fiber Laser Sensor Technology for Structural Health Monitoring
According to Dr. Geoffrey Cranch, a research physicist from the Optical Sciences Division of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), none of the U.S. military services are...
Briefs Software
Using Mathematics to Make Computing on Encrypted Data Secure and Practical
In order to make computing on encrypted data more practical to use and more secure from attack, it is necessary to discover, develop, and understand the mathematics on which it is based and the mathematics that can be used to attack it.
Briefs Software
SIPHER: Scalable Implementation of Primitives for Homomorphic Encryption
Prior to the Proceed program, the main challenges preventing practical demonstrations and use of Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) were efficiency and scalability....
Briefs Software
Secret Sharing Schemes and Advanced Encryption Standard
There are many secret sharing schemes and variations available to hide and reconstruct the given secret. Shamir’s Secret Sharing Scheme, making use of linear Lagrange interpolation on the dealer-generated polynomial, was used to reconstruct the secret from the stipulated threshold number of...
INSIDER Software
Existing Navigation Data Can Help Pilots Avoid Turbulence
Detecting turbulence remains the Achilles' heel of modern-day aviation. The reports submitted by pilots, subjective and often very inaccurate, are the least expensive and the most...
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A New Additive Manufacturing Accelerator for the U.S. Navy in Guam
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Rewriting the Engineer’s Playbook: What OEMs Must Do to Spin the AI Flywheel
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2026 Toyota RAV4 Review: All Hybrid, All the Time
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F-22 Pilot Controls Drone With Tablet
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L3Harris Starts Low Rate Production Of New F-16 Viper Shield
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Hydrogen Engines Are Heating Up for Heavy Duty
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SAE Automotive Podcast: Solid-State Batteries
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A New Approach to Manufacturing Machine Connectivity for the Air Force
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Optimizing Production Processes with the Virtual Twin
