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Tanker Intelligent Gateway Tested During Joint Exercise with Australia, UK and US Air Force
During Joint Exercise Northern Edge 2023, participants from Australia, the United Kingdom, and the Air National Guard Air Force Reserve Test Center...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
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See the new products, including a cesium alarm clock, ethernet switches, generators, a network analyzer, and more.
Application Briefs Unmanned Systems
Adaptive Control Architecture for Unmanned Surface Vessels
Aurora Flight Sciences is developing and testing machine learning-based introspection technologies aimed to enable physical systems, in this case ships, to adapt their control laws as they encounter uncertainties or unexpected events.
Application Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
SHIP Prototype Computer Chip
The U.S. Department of Defense has celebrated a milestone achievement for the SHIP program with the delivery of the first SHIP prototype devices from Intel and Qorvo to BAE Systems.
Briefs Aerospace
Repeatability and Reproducibility of a Standard Test Method for Measuring Head-Supported Mass Properties
During development of military helmets and HMDs, materiel developers need a valid and repeatable test methodology for measuring their mass properties.
Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Methodologies and Equipment for Measuring High Temperature Tensile Properties of Subscale Specimen Geometries for Additively Manufactured Metallic Materials (Continued)
Despite the existence of standards, the issue persists where, in general, equipment is unavailable to measure maximum bending strains at elevated test temperatures.
Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Test Methods for Measuring High Temperature Tensile Properties of Subscale Specimen Geometries for Additively Manufactured Metallic Materials
With the rise of additive manufacturing for metallic materials, concerted efforts are underway to integrate the technology into present and future aerospace systems to enhance performance capability, reduce cost, and minimize production lead-times.
Briefs Unmanned Systems
Update on Machine-Learned Correctness Properties
Despite the potential advantages to be derived from employing autonomous systems, evidence-based assurance of dependability is a key to obtaining users’ trust in these systems.
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Advanced RF Simulation Reduces Cost and Schedule Risk
As RF device needs become more sophisticated and complex, new simulation software technologies must be ready to enable design teams to achieve higher performance, with greater confidence, and in a timelier manner.
Articles Materials
Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation: The Future of Lightweight Designs in Aerospace and Defense
Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation is a unique surface coating technology that specializes in light metals, aluminum, magnesium and titanium specifically. It enables the lightweighting of components that face extreme environments from a reliable and effective coating process.
INSIDER Unmanned Systems
Teledyne FLIR to Produce 1,000 Pocket-Sized Drones for Use in Ukraine
Norway's Ministry of Defense (MOD) has placed an order with Teledyne FLIR Defense to procure Black Hornet 3 Personal Reconnaissance Systems for use in Ukraine. The order...
INSIDER Manufacturing & Prototyping
Collins Opens $14 Million Aerospace Additive Manufacturing Facility in Iowa
Collins Aerospace celebrated the opening of a $14 million expansion to its additive manufacturing facility in West Des Moines, Iowa last week. The 9,000 square foot...
INSIDER Aerospace
11 Companies to Develop New Space Exploration 'Tipping Point' Technologies
A total of 11 U.S.-based companies will develop new technologies ranging from lunar surface power systems to tools for in-space 3D printing under NASA's sixth annual...
INSIDER Research Lab
Moonlighter Satellite to Host First On-Orbit Cybersecurity Challenge
Moonlighter reached low earth orbit July 5 after a short visit at the International Space Station (ISS) and is on track for its inaugural mission: to host an on-orbit...
INSIDER Defense
Apache Version 6.5 Software Upgrade on Track to Fly This Year
The U.S. Army’s AH-64 Apache helicopter is and will remain the Army’s Attack helicopter for the foreseeable future. The AH-64E Version 6.5 (V6.5), is the next version of the...
INSIDER Manned Systems
Even with Reforms, DoD Struggles with Speed of New Weapons Development
The Department of Defense (DoD) continues to face challenges quickly developing innovative new weapons. These challenges persist even with recent reforms to its...
INSIDER Software
SHARE Software Enables Reliable Tactical Edge Communications Between US, Allied Partners
The Defense Advanced Project Research Agency’s (DARPA’s) Secure Handhelds on Assured Resilient networks at the tactical Edge (SHARE) program...
Podcasts Unmanned Systems
Automating Warehouse Inventory Monitoring with Drones
Gather AI is using drones to automate inventory monitoring processes for warehouse operators to decrease the cost of inventory, improve productivity and boost revenue.
INSIDER Software
Darkhive Enters Next Phase of Drone Autonomy Development for US Air Force AFWERX
Darkhive Inc., a San Antonio-based autonomous uncrewed systems developer specializing in defense and public safety solutions, announced the award of a $5...
INSIDER Manufacturing & Prototyping
New Report Highlights Need for Department-Wide Guidance in DoD's AI Acquisition Strategy
The Department of Defense (DoD) designated artificial intelligence (AI) a top modernization area and is allocating considerable spending to develop AI...
INSIDER Software
AFMC Completes First Ever Flight of F-35 with F-22 Software
An F-35A Lightning II from the 461st Flight Test Squadron recently took flight with a complement of software applications developed by government and industry providers previously...
INSIDER Energy
Defense Leaders Developing Standards to Improve Battery Acquisition Process
Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen H. Hicks has made clear a healthy battery supply chain is essential for military capabilities and national security — and when...
INSIDER Software
US Army, DIU Partner on Prototype Software for Autonomous Ground Vehicles
Ground warfare is fast, complex, and lethal. As the Department of Defense’s (DoD) land warfare component, the U.S. Army needs to find a way to safely conduct...
INSIDER Design
New Lockheed Martin Partnership Targets Domestic Semiconductor Manufacturing
Lockheed Martin has partnered with GlobalFoundries to advance U.S.-based semiconductor manufacturing and innovation and to increase the security, reliability and...
Articles Manufacturing & Prototyping
Overcoming Machining Productivity Challenges with Aerospace Components
The demand for air travel is back. And so is the demand for new aircraft. The volume of production demand has reached 2019 levels much sooner than many aerospace component manufacturers anticipated.
Application Briefs Robotics, Automation & Control
Human Machine Teaming
Tomahawk Robotics announced that it will provide its universal command and control technology and products for the U.K.’s Army Future Capabilities Group Human Machine Teaming tactical uncrewed systems fleet program.
Application Briefs Manned Systems
Platform Agnostic In-flight Connectivity
Northrop Grumman showcased its Software Programmable Open Mission Systems Compliant (SPOC) multifunction processor in a flight test for the U.S. Air Force, highlighting the ability to integrate existing and future platforms using advanced data links.
Briefs Unmanned Systems
Characterizing Motion Prediction in Small Autonomous Swarms
Prior investigations of swarm robot control focus on optimizing communication and coordination between agents, with at most one human control scheme, or with discrete (rather than continuous) human control schemes.
Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Physics-Guided Neural Network for Regularization and Learning Unbalanced Data Sets
Directed energy deposition (DED) is a method of metal additive manufacturing (AM) by which parts are built layer by layer from 3-D computer-aided design models.
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