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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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Rugged Servers with Skylake Architecture Themis Computer® (Fremont, CA) announced the launch of its next generation XR6 Rugged Enterprise Servers (RES) featuring the newest Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Skylake) Processors.

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Materials

Content Addressable Memory (CAM) Technologies for Big Data and Intelligent Electronics Enabled By Magneto-Electric Ternary CAM

Content addressable memory (CAM) is one of the most promising hardware solutions for high-speed data searching and...

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Aerospace

Natural DNA-Based Nonvolatile Resistive Switching Memory

Motivated by the demand for an even larger storage capacity in the information era, research efforts have been devoted to the development of more efficient and cost-effective memory elements.

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Manufacturing & Prototyping

Sandia Computer Modeling Aids Solder Reliability in Nuclear Weapons

Solder isn’t the first thing that comes to mind as essential to a nuclear weapon. But since weapons contain hundreds of thousands of solder joints, each potentially a...

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Manufacturing & Prototyping

New Research Finds Cause of Alloy Weakness

Sometimes calculations don’t match reality. That’s the problem that has faced materials scientists for years when trying to determine the strength of alloys. There has been a disconnect between...

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Aerospace

New Boeing Method Accelerates Turbulence Modeling Uncertainty Analysis

Boeing has long used computational tools as part of its aircraft design process, but now engineers at the world’s largest aerospace company are increasingly shifting...

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Aerospace

Army Partners with Marine Corps on 3-D Printed Drones

Army researchers are working with the Marines to develop 3-D printed drones as materials science, aviation technology and software development merge to deliver new capabilities.

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Defense

Super Vacuum Die Casting to the Rescue Via Improved Quality, Reduced Costs

To large manufacturers, new technologies and variations on existing technologies demand bound conditions through specifications to determine standardized design...

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Manufacturing & Prototyping

NASA Tests 3D-Printed Rocket Part

Engineers successfully hot-fire-tested an RS-25 rocket engine with a large 3D-printed part for the first time, marking a key step toward reducing costs for future engines that power NASA’s new heavy-lift...

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Defense

Spain’s Indaero Cuts Cost, Time with 3D Printed Tooling

Spanish aerospace engineering and production specialist, Indaero, recently invested in a Stratasys Fortus 450mc Production 3D Printer to complement its existing manufacturing...

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Defense

Innovate, Collaborate, Adapt—find a Way to Space

Large, traditional satellites require complex systems and often a dedicated launch vehicle to place them in orbit. The immense costs associated with these endeavors have led to growing...

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Defense

Lockheed Looks to Improve Efficiency with Ubisense IIoT Solution

As Lockheed Martin Aeronautics ramps up production of its fifth-generation F-35 fighter program, it is also looking to improve manufacturing efficiency. To address that goal,...

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Software

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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Aerospace

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.

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Aerospace

Improving the Surface Finish of Additive Manufactured Parts

South West Metal Finishing has been working on an additive manufacturing surface treatment process for the last three years and believes it could be the future choice of aircraft...

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Manufacturing & Prototyping

Using Thermoplastic Composites for Aerospace Applications

Recent advancements in composite production and processing are making thermoplastics a viable option in a wider array of aerospace applications.

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Software

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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Software

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...

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Defense

Arconic and Airbus Cooperate on 3D Printing Research

Arconic and Airbus recently announced a multi-year cooperative research agreement to advance metal 3D printing for aircraft manufacturing. Together, the companies will develop customized...

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Defense

GE Additive Unveils Project ATLAS Program’s First 3D Printer

As additive technology continues to transform the manufacturing world with lighter and stronger parts, there has been an increasing demand from many industries for additive...

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Software

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...

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Electronics & Computers

New Gaming System Helps Soldiers Test Virtual Versions of Gear

The Army is rolling out a new gaming system, called Operation Overmatch, that soldiers can use to test virtual versions of gear and operation concepts that could be implemented...

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Defense

3D Systems Unveils Next-Gen High-Production Additive Metal Solution

3D Systems' next-generation additive metal production platform is designed to allow manufacturers to scale their additive manufacturing platform for integration into the...

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Manufacturing & Prototyping

Scaled Composites Completes First Flight of Model 401

This past week, Scaled Composites announced the first flight of its experimental aircraft design, Model 401. Scaled—a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman—has built two Model 401 aircraft...

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Manufacturing & Prototyping

Shape Memory Alloys at the Core of Future Aircraft Systems

The ability to have aircraft wings fold isn’t new, and, as Boeing is proving on the 777X, the desire to do so is not going away. As with the 777X and U.S Navy aircraft, the motive...

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Aerospace

Simulation Results Could Help Quiet Jet Noise

Argonne National Laboratory engineers are working to create high-fidelity computer simulations to determine how jet turbulence produces noise. Working on Argonne’s supercomputer Mira, the team is applying computational fluid dynamics to capture the physics of the turbulence that is making the noise.

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Data Acquisition

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...

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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...

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