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Airbus Will Lean on Start-Ups and Research Institutes for Europe’s Future Combat Air System
Airbus intends to closely cooperate with start-ups, sole subject matter experts (SMEs), and research institutes – especially in the software...
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SAE International Establishes a New AI Standards Committee at Le Bourget
SAE International announced the formation of a new artificial intelligence (AI) standards committee during the 53rd International Paris Air Show. The SAE G-34 Committee...
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ANSYS Will Help Airbus Develop AI-Enabled Flight Controls for the FCAS Program’s Autonomous Wingmen
Airbus Defence and Space, a division of Airbus SE, is partnering with Pittsburgh-based ANSYS, Inc. to develop software for advanced...
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Software Accelerates Hypersonic Engine Development
Argonne National Laboratory and the Air Force Research Laboratory developed a new numerical modeling tool that allows for a better understanding of rotating detonation engines (RDEs)....
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Artificial Intelligence Could Reduce CV-22 Osprey Maintenance
The Raytheon Company is testing a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool developed to help determine when the multi-mode radar installed on U.S. Air Force CV-22 tiltrotor...
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The Rodney Dangerfield of Automated-Driving Sensors?
The emerging era of highly-automated driving comes courtesy of much-vaunted sensor technology—spinning lasers, penetrating radar and sonar blips. But the sensor that gets the least...
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Gaming Tech Helps Apache Maintainers Reduce Training Time
Lockheed Martin Corporation has released the latest version of RELY3D, its advanced visualization and training tool for sensor system maintainers working on the Boeing AH-64 Apache...
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Aerospace Composites Experts Will Meet in Wichita This Month, Focusing on Validating Repairs Techniques
The amount of composite material in modern aircraft is staggering – nearly half of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner’s airframe is made up of...
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Cepton Technology’s Newest Highspeed Lidar Sensor Can Spot a Tow Hitch on a Vehicle Traveling 50 Miles per Hour
Cepton Technologies, Inc., a San Jose, California-based 3D lidar developer, has added a line scanning lidar (light detection...
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Sikorsky’s Autonomous Black Hawk Helicopter Takes Flight
Lockheed Martin Corporation subsidiary Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation tested a new full-authority, fly-by-wire flight control technology kit for the first time on a Sikorsky UH-60...
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Wind River and Airbiquity Partner to Update Autonomous and Connected Vehicle Software Through Cloud-Based, Over-The-Air Technology
Wind River Systems, Inc. is partnering with Airbiquity, Inc. to develop a solution to proactively manage the...
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Honeywell Debuts Fly-By-Wire System for Urban Air Mobility, Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing Aircraft
Honeywell (NYSE:HON) engineers in Phoenix have packed the “brains” of an airliner’s flight controls into a “fly-by-wire”...
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Aerospace Work Platforms — More than Meets the Eye
For maintenance personnel in the aerospace industry to do their jobs effectively, they need to be able to get physically close to the equipment they are working on. This statement sounds...
Articles Materials
Getting the Most Out of Industrial CT Scanning
Quality assurance and flight certification of critical aerospace parts and assemblies have reached new levels of sophistication in recent years. Leading aerospace and defense manufacturers...
Articles Aerospace
Machining Titanium Aero-Frames
The rise of titanium for aerospace applications has been well documented in recent years. Equally, the challenges associated with the efficient, productive and high-quality machining of this popular material, have...
Articles Aerospace
Eyes in the Sky: HD Ethernet Cameras Take Flight Test Imagery to New Heights
There is increasing demand for high-quality High Definition (HD) video for airborne applications such as Flight Test Instrumentation (FTI). Ideally, such new camera...
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Lange Couplers The construction and port orientation of the Lange Coupler from SemiGen (Londonderry, NH) makes it useful as both a power combiner and splitter for RF and microwave applications. It is a specific type of directional...
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Panoramic Thermal Imaging Technology
SPYNEL sensors are passive wide area surveillance systems with automatic intrusion detection and tracking capabilities. The 360° thermal sensors offer 24/7 situational awareness by detecting and tracking an...
Briefs Materials
Matrix-Free Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization Using Metal-Organic Frameworks
Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) is a soft ionization technique that is widely applied in the characterization of large biomolecules using...
Articles Test & Measurement
Multi-Agent RF Propagation Simulator
A desirable interface between multi-agents is through over-the-air RF connections that include not only the intended direct RF communications paths but also highly variable multi-ray propagation, range...
Articles Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Coating Technology Enables Effective Missile Countermeasures
Heat-seeking missiles have been in use against both rotorcraft and fixed wing aircraft since the mid-1950s, and countermeasures to deceive their guidance systems have been employed...
Articles Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The FACE™ of Military Modernization
U.S. rival countries have been rapidly modernizing their militaries, with publicized advances that pose credible challenges to U.S. supremacy in all aspects of warfare: air, land, sea, space and cyberspace....
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Electrical Characterization of Crystalline UO2, THO2 and U0.71TH0.29O2
Tracking and identifying radiation sources in the age of nuclear proliferation and well- resourced non-state actors is a national priority. Current neutron detection methods...
Articles Aerospace
Broadband 1.2- and 2.4-mm Gallium Nitride (GaN) Power Amplifier Designs
The US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) has been working with Raytheon to design efficient, broadband, linear, high-power amplifiers and robust, broadband, low-noise...
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Siemens Debuts Capital Load Analyzer Software to Accelerate Certification, Reduce Risk
Mentor, a Siemens business, in Wilsonville, Oregon, is introducing its Capital Load Analyzer software, intended to help simplify aircraft electrical...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
Lockheed Martin’s “Non-Operational” Space Fence Detects Indian Anti-Satellite Operations While Still in Test Mode
A breakup field from a recent Indian anti-satellite test was detected by the Lockheed Martin-developed U.S. Air Force...
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Law Enforcement Agencies Used DroneSense’s UAS-Management Platform to Support Indy 500 Security Operations
During the 2019 Indianapolis 500 IndyCar race, unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) pilots from the Speedway Police Department,...
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AGI and ANSYS Partner to Integrate Next-Gen Digital Modeling into Engineering Design
ANSYS – through a new partnership with global mission simulation leader, Analytical Graphics, Inc. (AGI) – has begun integrating mission analysis into its...
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Breakthroughs in 3D-Printing Give Way for Promising Textile Lithium Battery Technology
At the convergence of 3D-printing and lithium battery technology, Hong Kong researchers develop a promising textile-based, foldable battery that may find...
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