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Boeing to End 767 Production, Reduce Workforce Amid Ongoing Union Strike
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Army Receives New Robot Combat Vehicle Prototypes
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Germany's New Military Surveillance Jet Completes First Flight
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Army Evaluates 3D Printing for Bradley Fighting Vehicle's Transmission Mount
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Army Seeks to Expand 3D Printing to the Tactical Edge
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Cummins New X15 Engine Meets Upcoming Regs While Boosting Efficiency
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The Benefits and Challenges of Enabling Direct-RF Sampling
The process of converting analog radio signals to digital ones has traditionally required several analog and electronic components that can cause latency and interference issues....
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Beyond the Beam: The Impact of Coaxial Cables on Phased Array Technology
Phased array radar technology has been gaining popularity since its initial introduction in the 1960s and is now being used in a variety of applications, from military and defense to civilian sectors and even space exploration. Read on to learn more about this cutting-edge technology.
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See the new products, including EIZO Rugged Solutions' Condor™ NVA2102xX; Sealevel Systems' new family of computers, the Flexio Fanless Industrial Embedded Computers; Teledyne FLIR Defense's UltraFORCE® 380-HDc imaging system; the S-335 fast steering mirror from Physik Instrumente; Pixus Technologies' 3U and 6U handle/panel sets for OpenVPX and other architecture boards; and more.
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Cutting-Edge Drone Killer Radio Wave Weapon Developing at Pace
Delivered by Team Hersa, the Radio Frequency Directed Energy Weapon can detect, track and engage a range of threats across land, air and sea. The system uses radio waves to disrupt or damage critical electronic components inside enemy platforms, such as drones, causing them to stop in their tracks or fall out of the sky. Read on to learn more.
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How European Collaboration is Driving an Open Source Revolution in the Chip Space
The open source software ‘movement’ has already transformed computer operating systems. Can it do the same for semiconductors? European leaders think so....
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New Cognitive 'MIMO' Drone Radar Completes Flight Testing in Germany
An ever-growing number of aircraft now share the airspace over urban areas. Drones are increasingly being used for a wide range of applications, including in Class G...
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Streaming Video Over Legacy Military Tactical Networks
Joshua Cryer, President and CEO of Reticulate Micro, is the guest on this episode of the Aerospace & Defense Technology Podcast.
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Honeywell Launches New System to Counter Drone Swarms
Honeywell has announced the launch of its new Stationary and Mobile UAS Reveal and Intercept System, designed to counter drone swarms through advanced detection, tracking and...
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Barracuda: Anduril's New Software-Defined Autonomous Air Vehicles
Anduril is unveiling the Barracuda family of air-breathing, software-defined expendable Autonomous Air Vehicles (AAVs) that are optimized for affordable, hyper-scale...
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Air Force Ready to Flight Test Viper Electronic Warfare Upgrade for F-16s
Northrop Grumman’s AN/ALQ-257 Integrated Viper Electronic Warfare Suite (IVEWS) has completed U.S. Air Force testing in the service’s Joint Preflight Integration...
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Stanford Engineers Conduct Groundbreaking In-Orbit Test of Satellite 'Swarm' Navigation
Someday, instead of large, expensive individual space satellites, teams of smaller satellites – known by scientists as a “swarm” – will work in...
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EA-37B Compass Call: The US Air Force's New Electronic Attack Aircraft
The U.S. Air Force Air Combat Command received its first EA-37B Compass Call on Aug. 23 for pilot training at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona.
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Starliner to Perform Uncrewed Return Flight From International Space Station This Week
Boeing's Starliner spacecraft is scheduled to make an uncrewed return flight to Earth on Friday, Sept. 6, while the two astronauts who flew the...
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
This Laser Clock Could Transform Satellite Navigation Accuracy
A new laser clock from the German Aerospace Center has achieved a record level of accuracy for optical clocks with gas cells: in 30 million years, it would be off by just one second. Read on to learn more about it and what it could mean for satellite navigation accuracy.
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Quality Gearing Keeps Mission-Critical Systems Rotating for Combat
Power transmission and gear components must meet extreme performance and reliability demands in order to prove effective on the battlefield. That’s because they are the heart of rotating mechanisms used to rapidly detect threats, home in on targets, and fire projectiles quickly aboard combat vehicles and ships. Read on to learn more about the gear and its uses.
Articles Photonics/Optics
Everyday Life, Improved by Light: GRYPHON’s Photonic Discoveries
GRYPHON will leverage recent developments in nonlinear photonics and photonic-electronic integration to develop microwave sources with noise performance that meets or exceeds that of the best discrete oscillator modules. Read on to learn more about the endeavor.
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This Laser Clock Could Transform Satellite Navigation Accuracy
A new laser clock from the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) has achieved a record level of accuracy for optical clocks with gas cells:...
Articles Photonics/Optics
Space Lasers: Aiming Towards Next Leap in Global Communications
Space lasers are transforming the world. Not the far-off future of science fiction, but the universe of how data and communications flow today — everywhere from deep space missions to countless applications here on earth, including consumer internet services, military operations, and banking transactions. Read on to learn more.
Articles Photonics/Optics
MEMS-Based Accelerometer to Measure Microgravity for In-Orbit Manufacturing
Looking ahead, the continued development of MEMS technology will likely unlock new possibilities for space exploration and utilization, ensuring that projects like ForgeStar remain at the forefront of scientific and technological progress. Read on to learn more.
Articles Communications
To 6G and Beyond: Penn Engineers Unlock the Next Generation of Wireless Communications
In the early 2010s, LightSquared, a startup promising to revolutionize cellular communications, declared bankruptcy. The company couldn’t figure out how to prevent its signals from interfering with those of GPS systems. Now, Penn Engineers have developed a new tool that could prevent such problems from ever happening again: an adjustable filter that can successfully prevent interference, even in higher-frequency bands of the electromagnetic spectrum.
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Persistent German Airborne Surveillance System
Hensoldt, Lufthansa Technik Defense, and Bombardier Defense provided a significant program update on the highly-specialized modification work on the Persistent German Airborne Surveillance System (PEGASUS) aircraft at the 2024 Berlin Air Show. Read on to learn more.
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How AR, Robotics are Increasing Speed of Space Payload Manufacturing at Northrop
The speed of getting to space relies on more than just the thrust of a rocket. Before any countdown begins, satellite systems must be designed, manufactured...
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Army Launches CMOSS Prototyping Competition for Computer Chassis and Cards
Embedded computing suppliers will have the opportunity to compete to develop new open system architecture chassis and cards for use in U.S. Army combat vehicles and...
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Are Navy Ships Ready for 5G?
The U.S. Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) is preparing to deploy the first 5G radios and connectivity designed for the Navy's fleet of ships, according to an update released by the agency last week. The...
INSIDER Photonics/Optics
Space Lasers: Aiming Towards Next Leap in Global Communications
Space lasers are transforming the world. Not the far-off future of science fiction, but the universe of how data and communications flow today — everywhere from deep space...
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Skunk Works Successfully Demonstrates AI in Air-To-Air Tactical Intercepts
Lockheed Martin Skunk Works partnered with the University of Iowa's Operator Performance Laboratory (OPL) to demonstrate the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in...
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How Sandia’s New Digital Engineering Tool Helps Reimagine Design of Radar Systems
In a whirling geopolitical landscape of new nuclear weapons, hypersonic weapons, drones and satellites, the U.S. is hustling to test new kinds of radars...
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New Products
See the new products, including a new family of Rohde & Schwarz power analyzers, DDC’s cyber resilient MILSTD-1553 component, Eizo Rugged Solutions' Talon RGD2443W LCD monitor, Emerson's new ASCO™ Series 148/149 safety valve and motorized actuator, Pixus Technologies' Tier 3 SOSA aligned chassis management module, Epix Inc.’s robot/drone dual camera link grabber, and more.
Articles Electronics & Computers
How SpaceVPX is Influencing the Design of Next Generation Spacecraft Avionics
SpaceVPX is an embedded computing standard based on bridging the VMEBus International Trade Association (VITA) OpenVPX standards to space applications. OpenVPX is a set of embedded computing system standards that are widely used in safety critical aerospace and defense platforms such as vehicles and weapons.
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The Rise of Software-Defined Commercial Vehicles
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Avoiding Risk Analysis Pitfalls: Implementing Linked DFMEA, HARA,...
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A Quick Guide to Multi-Axis Simulation and Component Testing
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Best Practices for Developing Safe and Secure Modular Software
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Countering the Evolving Challenge of Integrating UAS Into...