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The Marines New Installation Counter UAS System
The U.S. Marine Corps awarded a 10-year, $642 million program of record to Anduril Industries to develop and sustain their new Installation-Counter small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (I-CsUAS) technology. I-CsUAS is a platform powered by machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) to protect Marine Corps installations globally by detecting, identifying, tracking and defeating small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). Read on to learn more.
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Engineers Enable a Drone to Determine Its Position in the Dark and Indoors
MIT researchers have introduced a new approach that enables a drone to self-localize, or determine its position, in indoor, dark, and low-visibility environments. Self-localization is a key step in autonomous navigation. Read on to learn more about it.
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Low Cost Air Traffic Control for Drones
Using a network of small, low-cost radars, engineering professor Cammy Peterson and her colleagues have built an air traffic control system for drones that can effectively and accurately track anything in an identified low-altitude airspace. Read on to learn more about it.
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Aitech’s New Palm-Sized Satellite Enables Space-Based AI Processing
Aitech's new IQSat picosatellite constellation platform is small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, and comes equipped with commercial off the shelf (COTS) computing...
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Supersonic X-59 Completes Cruise Control Engine Speed Test Ahead of First Flight
The team behind NASA’s X-59 supersonic demonstrator completed another critical ground test in March, ensuring the quiet supersonic aircraft will be able to...
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Eurofighter Common Radar System Upgrade
The Eurofighter Common Radar System Mark 1 project is the next-generation Eurofighter radar that is to be fielded by the air forces of Germany and Spain. This E-Scan radar will enhance the capabilities of the Eurofighter — which Airbus produces for the German and Spanish air forces — in air-to-air and air-to-ground operations and also equip it with electronic warfare capabilities. Read on to learn more.
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Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability Makes Tremendous Progress in First Year
Just one year after signing a ground-breaking trilateral agreement, the Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability partnership is completing facilities construction at the first of three sites that will host a global network of advanced ground-based sensors. Read on to learn more.
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SpaceX Dragon Brings Stranded Astronauts Back to Earth
At 1:05 a.m. on Tuesday, March 18, NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore, along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov undocked from the space-facing port of...
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Intel's Progress on Developing Next-Generation Computer Chips for Defense Applications
Watch this video from Aerospace & Defense Technology to learn how Intel has been advancing the development of prototype computer chips for defense applications in recent years, as well as insights about their Intel18A technology.
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Startup Develops Manufacturing Breakthrough for Traveling-Wave Tubes
Traveling-wave tubes (TWTs) are a type of vacuum tube critical for many high-performance applications, including deep space missions, satellites, and electronic warfare....
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Are Defense Satellites Ready for Space-Based Laser Communications?
The Department of Defense (DoD) is developing technology for satellites to communicate via lasers. Laser communications could transmit data faster and more securely than...
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AI-Powered Radar Warning Receiver for Fourth Generation Aircraft
Raytheon has completed flight testing on its first-ever artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML)-powered Radar Warning Receiver (RWR) system for a fourth-generation...
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Centralized Computing in Next-Generation Army Vehicles
As we move toward an era of autonomous vehicle warfare, technology will need to remain a top priority to ensure mission success and the safety and security of military personnel and civilians alike. Read on to learn what this means.
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Blue Ghost Arrives in Lunar Orbit, Prepares for Landing
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1 lunar lander has entered an elliptical orbit around the Moon and captured new images as it prepares for a scheduled landing.
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DARPA is Transitioning NOM4D from Labs to In-Space Manufacturing Demos
Based on outstanding technical progress by research teams to date, DARPA has pivoted the third and final phase of its NOM4D (pronounced nō- mad) program[1] from planned...
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Dronetag's New Pocket-Sized Drone Detection System
Lukáš Brchl, CEO and Founder of Dronetag is the guest on this episode of the Aerospace & Defense Technology podcast.
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Researchers Achieve Breakthrough in New Design of Superconducting Quantum Processor
Researchers at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering have realized a new design for a superconducting quantum processor —...
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Shape-Shifting Antenna Poised to Transform Communications
By leveraging cutting-edge additive manufacturing techniques and shape memory alloys, researchers have created an antenna that can change its shape based on its temperature. This technology has transformative potential in a wide range of military, scientific and commercial applications. Read on to learn more.
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A Swarm of Sensors, Rovers and Astronauts Explore the ‘Moon’
Researchers at the German Aerospace Center have developed a new approach to networked communications that could theoretically occur on the Moon or in environments on Earth where conventional communications are unavailable. Read on to learn more.
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Revolutionizing the Waves: A Breakthrough in Surf Observation Technology for Sailors and Marines
The Office of Naval Research Global TechSolutions program — which sponsors the development of rapid prototype solutions based on direct requests from Sailors and Marines — worked with scientists and engineers from the Naval Research Laboratory and the U.S. Army’s Engineering Research and Development Center to create the latest advancement in surf observation technology. Read on to learn more.
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Blue Origin Rocket Reaches Intended Orbit on First Launch
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket reached its intended orbit during the NG-1 mission completed on Jan. 16, 2025 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. Named after John...
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Navy's Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band System Achieves IOC
The U.S. Navy declared initial operational capability (IOC) for the Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band (NGJ-MB) system in December, bringing a quantum leap in capability over legacy...
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First F-15Es Equipped With EPAWSS Ready for Flight
Two F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft equipped with the Eagle Passive/Active Warning and Survivability System (EPAWSS) arrived at RAF Lakenheath, United Kingdom, Jan. 16, 2025, marking the...
INSIDER RF & Microwave Electronics
Airbus Demonstrates Very High-Speed Optical Link Between Space and Earth
The French Space Agency (CNES) and Airbus have announced completion of the TELEO in-orbit demonstrator designed to prove that massive, rapid ground to space data...
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DoD Signs New Strategy for Countering Unmanned Systems
The Department of Defense announced that Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III has signed a new, classified strategy for countering the effects of unmanned systems, also called...
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Using Squeezed Light to Develop Sensors That Defy Defense Limits
Raytheon’s BBN Technologies is developing next-generation, compact, low-power, deployable photonic sensors that will provide users with better awareness of environmental...
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Australian Air Surveillance Radar Upgrade
Sensor solutions provider Hensoldt has signed a contract with Space Centre Australia to deliver two high-performance Air Surveillance Radar - Next Generation systems (ASR-NG), along with a 20-year sustainment plan to bolster Australia’s critical air surveillance capabilities. Read on to learn more.
Application Briefs Defense
Army Completes Satellite as a Managed Service Research Project
Intelsat has provided the U.S Army with new, flexible, and fully managed multi-orbit satellite communications (SATCOM) support, following the completion of the Army’s first-ever multi-vendor SATCOM as a Managed Service (SATaaMS) Pilot contract. Read on to learn more about it.
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