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AUSA 2019: A View From the Show Floor
Editor Bruce A. Bennett offers a look at the Association of the United States Army's 2019 Annual Meeting.
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Answering Your Questions: How Will the Military Use Motion Control Technology?
A Tech Briefs reader asks: What's next with military motion control?
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Army Hopes to Use AI to Create More-Efficient Fuel Cells
As part of an effort to address the gap the U.S. Army faces in its need for long-lasting power and batteries for warfighters, an Army-funded research team has developed an artificial...
INSIDER Materials
Air Force Scientists Discover Unique Stretchable Conductor
The Air Force Research Laboratory has developed liquid metal systems which autonomously change structure so that they become better conductors in response to strain. Conductive...
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Air Force Invents Aircraft Tire Change Tool
How many airmen does it take to change a cargo aircraft tire? Too many. The U. S. Air Force’s largest aircraft, the C-5M Super Galaxy, has 28 tires. The current tire changing method is performed...
Articles Defense
A 'STEP' Forward for Product Lifecycle Management
CAD is constantly changing, which predicates the need for a solution to share validated and accurately translated data.
Briefs Test & Measurement
SnowMicroPenetrometer Applications for Winter Vehicle Mobility
Characterizing the mechanical properties of snow and their impact on vehicle performance could improve vehicle winter mobility modeling.
Articles Aerospace
Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Vehicles
Helping to drive the AI trend is the availability of a new class of embedded AI processors.
Articles Manufacturing & Prototyping
The Challenge of Replacing Hard Chrome
Replacing hard chrome requires aerospace companies to critically evaluate why they used it in the first place.
Application Briefs Defense
Unmanned Helicopter Drone
A Robinson-22 helicopter converted into an unmanned drone successfully completed in-air programmed missions.
Application Briefs Software
Drone Control System
Kongsberg Geospatial recently introduced a new multi-domain control system for coordinating the use of drones in the battlespace.
Application Briefs Defense
Counter IED System
Netline Communications Technologies Ltd. Tel Aviv, Israel www.netlinetech.com Netline Communications Technologies Ltd., a company that develops and manufactures high-end electronic warfare and spectrum dominance systems for...
Briefs Test & Measurement
Waveform Synthesis for Shock Response Spectrum Replication, Applied to Ground Vehicle Component Testing
Improved test methods will help alleviate the impact of shock levels on military and commercial ground vehicle components.
Articles Electronics & Computers
Defeating Commercial Drone Threats with Open-Source SDR
With the emergence of highly capable, low-cost, wirelessly controlled drones, bad actors can easily execute disruptive operations.
Briefs Test & Measurement
Engineered Resilient Systems
A new application called TradeAnalyzer provides multiple visualization methods to examine, sort, and filter the attributes of data.
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CT Software Solutions Volume Graphics (Charlotte, NC) announced the latest generation of its software solutions for non-destructive quality assurance with industrial computed tomography (CT): Version 3.3 of VGSTUDIO MAX, VGSTUDIO,...
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Lightweight Sensing and Control System for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Monitoring
A new sensing and control system for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) allows for semi-autonomous flight. Pilots need not leave the ground to conduct routine monitoring and surveillance quickly and cost-effectively. Such systems are particularly useful during long flight...
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Coating Improves Pilots’ Visibility in Rainstorms
An Air Force Research Laboratory-developed product called HydroSkip repels water from aircraft transparencies, addressing the issue of limited visibility caused by heavy rain that can...
INSIDER Photonics/Optics
Experiments Differentiate Between Underground Nuclear Tests and Earthquakes
Sandia National Laboratories researchers, as part of a group of National Nuclear Security Administration scientists, have wrapped up years of field experiments to...
INSIDER Electronics & Computers
Army Showcases New Electronic Warfare Tech
The Army is advancing its ground-based precision navigation and timing (PNT) technology to counter spoofing threats and improve operations in a multi-domain environment.
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Developing IR Materials as Signaling Tools for Military Operations
Battle Sight Technologies has acquired a second patent license related to infrared materials as signaling tools for nighttime military operations.
News RF & Microwave Electronics
Siemens Digital Industries Software Debuts, Focuses on Delivering Digital Future of Industry Today
Siemens PLM Software has transformed into Siemens Digital Industries Software, reaffirming its focus on enabling digital industries and...
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Air Force Begins 3D Printing Nonstructural Aircraft Parts
The 60th Maintenance Squadron (60th MXS) at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, California, is the first field unit in the United States Air Force to produce approved nonstructural...
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Collins Aerospace Provides Avionics for C-130H Modernization Program
The Lockheed C-130H Hercules fleet operated by the Air National Guard and U.S. Air Force Reserve is getting new Collins Aerospace Systems avionics that will help extend...
Articles Test & Measurement
Understanding Fiber Optic Transceiver Design and Test Rules
The design of avionics systems must balance several factors. First, engineers want to increase the performance of the systems installed in aircraft or spacecraft. Second, they want to...
Briefs Defense
3D Meta-Optics for High-Energy Lasers
The scope of this research radically changed the way novel components are designed and fabricated for high-energy applications. This 3D Meta-Optics platform was, and is, essentially engineering the...
Application Briefs Aerospace
Rugged Network File Servers
Ampex Data SystemsHayward, CA650-367-2011www.ampex.com Ampex Data Systems (Ampex), a Delta Information Systems Company, recently received a Full Rate Production Lot 7 (FRP-7) contract from Northrop Grumman Systems...
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3D Optical Scanner
NVision, Inc.Southlake, TX817-416-8006www.nvision3d.com Swift work by NVision, Inc. helped a major U.S. airline quickly repair a bird-damaged Boeing 737 wing and return the restored jet back to flight in just two days. The...
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Mobile Workstation Eurocom's (Ottawa, Canada) latest mobile workstation, the Tornado F7W, features a modular MXM 3.1 slot-based GPU allowing easy reconfiguration of GPU capabilities. The GPUs offered are ISV-certified,...
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New Raytheon and Lockheed Martin Agreements Expand Missile Defense Production
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Ford Announces 48-Volt Architecture for Future Electric Truck
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Active Strake System Cuts Cruise Drag, Boosts Flight Efficiency
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Accelerating Down the Road to Autonomy
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How Airbus is Using w-DED to 3D Print Larger Titanium Airplane Parts
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Cooling a New Generation of Aerospace and Defense Embedded...
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Battery Abuse Testing: Pushing to Failure
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Quiet, Please: NVH Improvement Opportunities in the Early Design Cycle
Transportation
Advantages of Smart Power Distribution Unit Design for Automotive &...
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Sesame Solar's Nanogrid Tech Promises Major Gains in Drone Endurance