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Designing Electronic Warfare to Regain Airborne Military Dominance
For decades, military aircraft have relied on electronic warfare (EW) solutions to protect assets and dominate airspace. The ability of the United States to detect and track...
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New Sensor Payload Helps Global Hawk Stay Relevant
Northrop Grumman completed its successful inaugural flight test of the UTC Aerospace Systems (UTAS) MS-177 sensor payload on an RQ-4 Global Hawk on March 1, 2017. The flight tests mark the...
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Unmanned Canada Works to Elevate Drones
The 2016 Unmanned Canada (UC) conference, hosted in Alberta, provided a venue for companies to outline their programs for new UAV technologies, capabilities, products, and services. One of the key...
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SBIR to Paint It Black, Secures Exclusive Vantablack Rights
Surrey NanoSystems has granted exclusive rights to the use of the ultra-black Vantablack S-VIS surface coating to Santa Barbara Infrared (SBIR) of Santa Barbara, CA, for military,...
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DARPA Works Toward Unmanning Aircraft
DARPA’s Aircrew Labor In-cockpit Automation System (ALIAS) program envisions flight operations with reduced onboard aircrew while improving mission performance and flight safety. This is achieved with...
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Glassy Breakthrough for Battery Performance
Steve Martin, an Anson Marston Distinguished Professor in Engineering at Iowa State University and an associate of the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory, has researched battery materials...
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SAE Is Working with Euro JV on Fast-Charging Network
SAE International is working with the joint-venture initiative looking to deploy a high-powered DC fast-charging network for battery electric vehicles (BEVs) covering long-distance travel...
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Need for Cybersecurity Awareness for Managers Grows
Automotive security has rapidly evolved from door locks and remote keyless entry to the complex world of cybersecurity. Top executives and engineering managers must quickly get up to speed...
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Wireless Re-Charging Technology to Keep Drones Flying Perpetually
Scientists from Imperial College London have demonstrated that they can wirelessly transfer power to a drone. The technology uses inductive coupling, a concept initially...
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Engineering Smart Systems for Smart Air Travel, Balancing Human Constraints
There are no shortage of predictions (or, “market outlooks,” as is the phrase) in the aerospace industry. And they are necessary as such predictive data feeds...
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Fungus-Inspired Improvements in Battery Performance
Carbon fibers derived from a sustainable source, a type of wild mushroom, and modified with nanoparticles have been shown to outperform conventional graphite electrodes for lithium-ion...
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Curled RF MEMS Switches For On-Chip Design
Microelectromechanical system (MEMS) switches are active components in most electronic equipment. Radio frequency (RF) MEMS are used in wireless personal communication devices, satellite communication,...
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Northrop Grumman Navigates on the Neuron UCAV Demonstrator
Northrop Grumman's subsidiary in Germany, Northrop Grumman LITEF, teamed with Saab Aerosystems to provide the AHRS (attitude and heading reference system) for the Neuron unmanned...
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Pseudo Satellite, Potential Disrupter, Flies on Sunlight
It used to be that the defense sector set the bar for hi-tech electronic developments, which were then adapted, subject to security veto, and then applied to commercial aviation....
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Vistara Deploys SITA AIRCOM and Network Technology
SITA and SITAONAIR have completed the joint implementation of aircraft communications, airline operations, and network connectivity for Vistara, the joint venture between Tata Sons Ltd and...
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Origami Goes High-Tech for Potential Military Applications
Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Tokyo have taken a keen interest in origami, which they...
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Airbus Streamlines Fiber Optic Cable Repair Process
Airbus put together what it describes as a transnational, transfunctional team to develop an efficient new method to repair fiber optic cables.
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Boeing Comes Clean with Self-Cleaning Lavatory
Even as the importance of reducing both noise and pollutant emissions continues to grow in modern aircraft, so too does the recognition of the importance of the passenger experience.
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Northrop Grumman Proves SYERS-2 Ready to Graduate from U-2 to RQ-4
Northrop Grumman flew a SYERS-2 (senior year electro-optical reconnaissance systems) intelligence gathering sensor on an RQ-4 Global Hawk, marking the debut of the legacy...
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Rockwell Collins Expands India Operations
Rockwell Collins recently opened a new, expanded facility in Bangalore, India, that bolsters the company’s presence in the country. The company has signed a 15-year lease for the Bangalore...
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Clamoring for a Connection
Many of today’s constantly connected consumers balk at spending a few hours without Web access. Commercials airlines are responding by forging links with satellite providers that give flyers the same...
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UCLA Researchers Develop New Strong and Lightweight Metal Nanocomposite
A team led by researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has created a super-strong yet light structural metal with a very high...
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Hot Swap Functionality for Lithium Ion Solution
Intelligent Power Vault (IPV) is a high energy density lithium-ion battery system developed by Accutronics that is particularly suitable for applications where energy reliability, flexibility,...
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Lockheed Martin System Improves Situational Awareness of the Final Frontier
Lockheed Martin recently announced that its Space Fence System, including the large-scale digital radar and turn-key facility, had met all the requirements of the...
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NASA Team Completes Third Phase of UAS Flight Testing
Technologies considered necessary for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to safely avoid other aircraft while moving through airspace recently were put to the test using NASA's remotely...
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Rockwell Collins Upgrades Direction Finder with Multi-Channel Scanning
Rockwell Collins's new DF-500 direction finder builds on the search and rescue (SAR) mission of its DF-430 predecessor. The DF-430 had been in production for over 10...
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Three Times More Power Density the Charm for Lockheed Martin Cooling System
Scientists and engineers at Lockheed Martin's Advanced Technology Center (ATC) have packed three times the power density into a key satellite cooling system whose...
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Signal Compression Technology Enables E-Fan's Flight, Potential Enhanced 'Black Box' Possibilities
V-Nova Ltd. demonstrated the capabilities of its PERSEUS data compression technology for aerospace applications as part of Airbus'...
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Lightweighting Focus for TE's Connectivity Solutions
TE Connectivity recently announced two new aerospace connectivity solutions that offer substantial weight savings: its COPALUM Lite sealed terminals and splices, and its Raychem INSTALITE...
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