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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...
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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...
Briefs Aerospace
Undersea Communications Between Submarines and Unmanned Undersea Vehicles in a Command and Control Denied Environment
Nuclear powered submarines can stay submerged for days at a time and only have to come to periscope depth (PD) for...
Briefs Robotics, Automation & Control
Two-Dimensional Distributed Velocity Collision Avoidance
As the number of autonomous vehicles continues to increase for both commercial and military applications, collision avoidance algorithms are of the utmost importance to successfully...
Briefs Robotics, Automation & Control
A Modular Approach to Video Designation of Manipulation Targets for Mobile Manipulators
Currently fielded EOD (explosive ordnance disposal) robots are limited in terms of both mechanical ability and autonomous capabilities when compared to the...
Briefs Robotics, Automation & Control
Design of a Multi-Segmented Magnetic Robot for Hull Inspection
Hull, deck plate, and tank inspection for corrosion, deformation, and fractures is a necessary part of ship maintenance to ensure functional integrity and proper operation of the...
Briefs Defense
Power-Line UAV Modeling and Simulation
The Army Research Laboratory Power-Line Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Modeling and Simulation (ARL-PLUMS) Software Tool allows a user to model, compute, and analyze the quasistatic electric and magnetic...
Briefs Aerospace
Autonomous Underwater Munitions and Explosives of Concern Detection System
The objective of Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP) Project MR-201002, Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Munitions and Explosives of...
INSIDER Materials
New Material Eliminates the Need for Aircraft Deicers
Scientists have developed a liquid-like substance that can make aircraft wings and other surfaces so slippery that ice cannot adhere. The slick substance is secreted from a film on the...
INSIDER Test & Measurement
Material Sniffs Out Fuel Leaks and Fuel-Based Explosives
Alkane fuel is a key ingredient in combustible material such as airplane fuel. Yet it’s difficult to detect and there are no portable scanners available that can sniff out the...
INSIDER Software
Slim Wing Can Reduce Aircraft Fuel Use and Emissions by 50%
NASA and Boeing are designing a longer, thinner, and lighter wing that requires a brace, or truss, to provide it with extra support. The lower-drag wing will reduce both fuel burn...
INSIDER Robotics, Automation & Control
UAV Can Launch Aerial Missions from Underwater
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, have developed an innovative unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that can stay on station beneath the water...
Products Defense
AdvancedTCA Chassis
Pixus Technologies (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) now offers a 15U AdvancedTCA (ATCA) chassis that exceeds 400W/slot cooling capability and meets stringent NEBS requirements. The Pixus chassis leverages the original Kaparel...
Products Defense
12A POL DC-DC Converters
TDK Corporation (National City, CA) has introduced the 12 Ampere TDKLambda iCH series of POL (Point of Load) non-isolated DCDC converters. Accepting a wide range input of 4.5 to 14 VDC, the series can operate from...
Products Manufacturing & Prototyping
RF Amplifier System
Empower RF Systems (Inglewood, CA) has begun shipping the Model 2180 RF amplifier system covering 1 to 2.5 GHz and delivering 2 kW CW of broadband output power in a 8U, air-cooled chassis. Features include: user selectable...
Products Manufacturing & Prototyping
720W AC-DC Switching Power Supplies
Acopian (Easton, PA) announced that the 1U Switching Regulated 720W ACDC Power Supply family is now RoHS Compliant and certified to UL Safety Standards UL 60950 (Information Technology Equipment), and UL 508...
Products Manufacturing & Prototyping
31–36 GHz Receiver
Richardson RFPD (Geneva, IL), Inc. announced the availability and full design support capabilities for a new receiver from M/A-COM Technology Solutions. The XR1020-QH is a 31–36 GHz receiver with a noise figure of 3 dB...
Products Defense
Axial and Radial Seals
Morgan Advanced Materials’ (Windsor, UK) Seals and Bearings business offers quality axial and radial seal components for applications with severe service conditions. Morgan’s components are highly thermally...
Products Manufacturing & Prototyping
50 GHz Handheld Combination Analyzer
Keysight Technologies, Inc. (Santa Rosa, CA) has added six millimeter-wave models to its family of FieldFox handheld analyzers. The flagship model is the industry’s first handheld combination analyzer to...
Products Defense
Military Wide Band Amplifier
Lansdale Semiconductor, Inc. (Phoenix, AZ) has announced the continued availability of the ML1590/BGA military wide-band RF amplifier, National Stock Number (NSN) 5962-01-280-2203. The ML1590 is supplied in (8) lead...
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Collier Research Corporation Newport News, VA 757-825-0000 http://hypersizer.com When announcing the completion of the Bell V-280 tiltrotor fuselage at a press conference, Bell Helicopter leadership applauded the Bell...
Articles Materials
Turbine Flow Meters: Technology-of-Choice for Measuring Critical Fluid Flow Applications
The aerospace industry has some of the most difficult operating conditions imaginable. Sensors of all kinds used in this industry must stand up to the...
Articles Materials
Managing the Impact of Nanomaterials in Aerospace Manufacturing
As the aerospace industry continues to make improvements to safety, comfort and affordability of aircraft, nanomaterials are making their way into more elements of aircraft...
Articles Sensors/Data Acquisition
Next Generation FPGAs for Electronic Warfare Systems
Designers of virtually all electronic warfare system applications exploit CPUs and FPGAs, each offering unique strengths and advantages for handling a wide range of tasks. This diversity...
Briefs Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Molecularly Imprinted Polymer (MIP)-Coated Microbeam MEMS Sensor for Chemical Detection
Monitoring trace gases is of great importance in a wide range of applications. Detecting a diverse range of chemical agents requires an adaptable sensor...
INSIDER Aerospace
Flexible Skin Traps Radar Waves and Cloaks Objects
Iowa State University engineers developed a new flexible, stretchable, and tunable metamaterial skin that uses rows of small, liquid-metal devices to cloak an object from the sharp eyes of...
News Software
Probing Ways to Dampen Sonic Boom
One of the reasons there is not a supersonic plane flying in and out of an airport near you is because of that not-so-little thing known as a sonic boom. And that particular reason also has a lot to do with...
News Manufacturing & Prototyping
GE Scanner Enhances Defect Detection for Industrial CT
GE Measurement & Control is offering its proprietary scatter|correct technology to industrial microCT users of GE’s phoenix v|tome|x m CT (computed tomography) system. It provides...
News Manufacturing & Prototyping
A High-Level Look at the Global MRO Market
Aerospace and defense (A&D) companies that provide maintenance repair and overhaul (MRO) services increasingly find themselves out of their comfort zone as the recent appetite for new...
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