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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 Nanotechnology
Morphing Nanotubes into Tougher Carbon for Aerospace
Rice University materials scientists are making nanodiamonds and other forms of carbon by smashing nanotubes against a target at high speeds. The process will enrich the knowledge of...
INSIDER Data Acquisition
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...
INSIDER RF & Microwave Electronics
Standing Still May Improve Antennas That Scan in All Directions
Antennas often need to trace circles in the sky. For example, radar arrays atop air-traffic control towers rotate to sweep signals in all directions. But spinning large objects...
INSIDER Manufacturing & Prototyping
Lattice Structure Absorbs Propeller Vibrations
Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a lattice structure capable of absorbing a wide range of vibrations while also being useful as a load-bearing component in propellers, rotors, and...
INSIDER Test & Measurement
NASA’s Pressure-Sensitive Paint Tests Aircraft Designs
NASA’s bright pink Pressure-Sensitive Paint (PSP) is helping to test new aircraft designs. A thin coat of PSP is sprayed onto the model that will be tested in the wind tunnel and...
INSIDER Aerospace
Carbon Nanotube “Stitches” Strengthen Aircraft Composites
The newest passenger jets are made primarily from advanced composite materials such as carbon fiber reinforced plastic — extremely light, durable materials. But composite...
INSIDER Electronics & Computers
Navy Grant Fuels Effort to Improve Safety of Military Technology
An Indiana University expert in the high-tech field of computer vision will collaborate with U.S. Navy engineers to improve the quality of microelectronic components used in...
INSIDER Aerospace
Researcher Creates System to Control Robots With the Brain
A researcher at Arizona State University has discovered how to control multiple robotic drones using the human brain. A controller wears a skull cap outfitted with 128 electrodes...
Products Defense
Waveguide Mixer
Anritsu Company (Richardson, TX) has introduced the MA2806A High Performance Waveguide Mixer that can be integrated with its MS2830A Spectrum/Signal Analyzer to create a millimeter-wave (mmWave) measurement solution. When used...
Products Manufacturing & Prototyping
VPX™ ExpressFabric® Switch
Concurrent Technologies (Woburn, MA) recently announced FR 341/x06, a new 3U VPX™ ExpressFabric® switch. FR 341/x06 supports six payload boards and is based around an Avago Technologies PEX9700 series device...
Products Defense
DC/DC Converters
Gaia Converter (Laval, QC, Canada) has extended its ultra-wide input voltage range DC/DC Converters platform to the new High Rel MGDD-08 series, targeting military and airborne applications. The MGDD-08 Series 9-60V & 80V...
Products Manufacturing & Prototyping
Rugged Sunlight Readable Tablet
AMREL (Los Angeles, CA) announced the launch of APEX PX5, a 10.1" fully rugged, sunlight readable tablet. The APEX PX5 is built to meet modern demands with a tough magnesium chassis and a durable ABS plastic...
Products Defense
Rugged Data Recorders
DTS (Seal Beach, CA) has released SLICE HG, a new standalone 3-channel system; 31.75 mm in diameter × 42.52 mm; 20,000 g shock-rated; programmable bandwidth DC to 40 KHz; with adjustable sampling 10 to 500,000 sps/ch....
Products Manufacturing & Prototyping
Aerospace Composites
Victrex (West Conshohocken, PA) launched a new line of PAEK-based composites for the aerospace industry in the form of unidirectional (UD) tape and laminate panels. Introduced under the brand VICTREX® AE250 composites, the...
Products Manufacturing & Prototyping
Analog-to-Digital Converter
The new EV12AD550 1.5GSps ADC from e2v (Chelmsford, UK) supports high dynamic range at 4.5GHz and S-band direct digitization, which enables space systems to avoid costly down conversion requirements. Future Synthetic...
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Testing the Transition to Low-Carbon, Low-Noise, Electric Propulsion
As the industry’s appetite for electric propulsion continues to increase, so too does the need to understand the intricacies of the systems that are needed to make it...
INSIDER Materials
Dual-Function Aircraft De-Icer Also Prevents Freezing
Rice University scientists have advanced their graphene-based de-icer to serve a dual purpose. The new material still melts ice from wings and wires when conditions get too cold, but if...
INSIDER Test & Measurement
Engineers Use Cyborg Insects as Biorobotic Sensing Machines
A team of engineers from Washington University in St. Louis is looking to capitalize on the sense of smell in locusts to create new biorobotic sensing systems that could be used in...
INSIDER Materials
Researchers Improve Decontamination Criteria for Combat-Vehicle Coatings
When it comes to protecting warfighters from exposure to chemical agents that have contaminated combat vehicles, determining how much agent gets absorbed into the...
INSIDER Software
System Makes Airport Surface Traffic More Efficient
Researchers have developed an optimization system that identifies the optimal timing and taxiing sequences for runway use by a given aircraft. It plans detailed taxiing routes, recommends...
INSIDER Defense
New Technique Could Improve Detection of Concealed Nuclear Materials
Researchers have demonstrated proof of concept for a novel low-energy nuclear reaction imaging technique designed to detect the presence of “special nuclear materials”...
Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Multifunctional Shear Pressed CNT Sheets for Strain Sensing and Composite Joint Toughening
The main goal of this work is to obtain a scientific understanding of the possibilities provided by, and the behavioral features of, a novel type high...
Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Advanced Multifunctional Materials for High Speed Combatant Hulls
Currently small boat combatant design focuses primarily on speed and maneuverability. It would be advantageous to expand these capabilities to include reduced radar...
Briefs Data Acquisition
Development of a Novel Electrospinning System with Automated Positioning and Control Software
Electrospinning is a nanofiber fabrication technique that has grown in popularity due to its potential in numerous biomedical applications. The...
Briefs Aerospace
Precision Assembly of Systems on Surfaces (PASS)
Chemiresistors represent a powerful class of chemical sensors that can be readily integrated into any electrical system, can be miniaturized, are readily multiplexed, and take nearly zero-power...
News Defense
The Future of Better Drones Is for the Birds
David Lentink, an Assistant Professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford, has been studying birds in flight with an eye toward applying the tricks birds use to navigate changing conditions in...
INSIDER Materials
Royal Navy Uses Pilotless Aircraft to Navigate Through Ice
A tiny pilotless aircraft, built by the University of Southampton, launched from the Royal Navy’s ice patrol ship HMS Protector for the first time to assist with navigating...
INSIDER Defense
Army Scientists Synthesize High-Performing Energetic Material
Scientists at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory recently synthesized a new material called bis-isoxazole tetranitrate, or BITN, with potential applications in propulsion and...
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