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German Researchers Develop New Approach to Detecting Ice Accumulation in Flight
Researchers at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) have developed a new approach to detecting ice formation resulting from the accumulation of large droplets of...
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Palantir to Build Prototypes for Army’s First AI-Defined Targeting Station
Palantir Technologies has been awarded a prime agreement for the development and delivery of the Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node (TITAN) ground station...
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Rydberg Technologies Shows Potential of Long-Range RF with Quantum Sensor at NetModX23
Rydberg Technologies demonstrated the use of an atomic receiver for long-range RF applications during the NetModX23 event. Shortly after the completion of the NetModX event, Aerospace & Defense Technology caught up with Rydberg CEO David Anderson to discuss the demonstration of their atomic receiver prototype and the future potential of quantum sensing in real-world military RF applications.
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New Report Finds Need for Defense Laboratories to Improve Quantum Workforce Planning
Quantum technologies build on quantum physics to process and communicate information in ways that existing technologies can't. Nations leading quantum...
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DARPA-Funded Research Leads to Quantum Computing Breakthrough
A team of researchers working on the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s (DARPA’s) Optimization with Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum devices (ONISQ) program has...
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ATHENA Sensor Brings Generational Leap to Airborne MANPAD Protection
Since their introduction, Man-Portable Air Defense Systems – heat-seeking, shoulder-fired missiles – have been a persistent threat to U.S. Army aviation. Infrared...
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Quantum Sensing Enters DoD Landscape in First-of-a-Kind Gyroscope Space Demonstration
The Defense Science Board identified three areas of quantum technology that will be most relevant to the Department of Defense's (DoD) technological...
Briefs Manned Systems
Learning Defects From Aircraft NDT Data
Non-destructive evaluation of aircraft production is optimized and digitalized with Industry 4.0. The aircraft structures produced using fiber metal laminate are traditionally inspected using water-coupled ultrasound scans and manually evaluated.
Briefs Aerospace
An Adaptive Pipeline From Scientific Data to Models
Under DARPA’s Synergistic Discovery and Design program, a team broadly researched and developed data driven techniques for scientific discovery and robust design, proving feasibility through program challenge problems with Yeast States, Novel Chassis, Protein Stability, and Perovskite.
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Adapting US Army Acquisition to Ensure the Reliability and Safety of Autonomous Vehicles
This report presents several challenges that the U.S. Army will face in the transition to AVs, challenges that are only magnified in the current acquisition environment with limited testing.
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Multispectral Airborne Reconnaissance System
Collins Aerospace has announced the completion of flight testing for the MS-110 Multispectral Airborne Reconnaissance System to enter operational service.
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Intelligent Gateway Connects Aircraft to Space Force Unified Data Library in Northern Edge Exercise
During the latest demonstration in the U.S. Indo Pacific Command's 2023 Northern Edge exercise series, an intelligence data gathering and...
INSIDER Sensors/Data Acquisition
New Synthetic Quantum Nanostructures Program Targets Synthetic Metamaterial Development
Current approaches for quantum computing, sensing, communications, and signal-processing rely on superconducting electronic devices that can manipulate or...
INSIDER Defense
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 Data Acquisition
Northrop Grumman Developing Next Generation Inertial Sensor for US Navy
The U.S. Navy awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation a new production contract for the new AN/WSN-12 Inertial Sensor Module (ISM). Northrop Grumman’s AN/WSN-12 ISM is a...
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Airborne Inspection Sensor Evolves with LiDAR, Mid-IR and Artificial Intelligence
The Airborne LiDAR Pipeline Inspection Sensor has evolved from a simple proof of concept model to a fully capable and successful commercial airborne pipeline inspection system.
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NASA Tests Artemis II Crew Seat and Flight Suit
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and NASA worked together over the last two weeks of April 2023 along with other industry partners, such as Lockheed Martin, to test the most current...
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DARPA’s HOTS Program to Develop Sensor Microelectronics for Extreme Temperatures
Modern technologies are laden with sensors – a now-customary fact of life in much of the world. On smart watches and phones, and in cars and homes, sensors...
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Air Force Performs First Test of Microwave Counter Drone Weapon THOR
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) conducted a demonstration on April 5, 2023, of its high-power microwave counter drone weapon, the Tactical High-power Operational...
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Handheld Targeting System
The U.S. Marine Corps awarded Northrop Grumman the initial production and operations contract for the Next Generation Handheld Targeting System (NGHTS).
Briefs Photonics/Optics
Electro-Optic Materials Research
Here, a summary of the main lines of effort for the Electro-Optics Materials Research program including its goals and major accomplishments of the past five years.
Briefs Sensors/Data Acquisition
Overcoming Performance Limitations of Distributed Brillouin Fiber Laser Sensors
Distributed fiber sensors are a powerful tool for structural health monitoring and environmental sensing due to their ability to remotely monitor the strain at 1,000s of locations using low-cost optical fiber.
Briefs Test & Measurement
Drift Improvement with Reinforcement Training of Inertial Sensors
The main objective of the DIRT-I project is to extend the holdover time of inertial sensors in the absence of a Global Navigation Satellite System.
Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
Stepped-Frequency Distributed Radar for Through-the-Wall Sensing
The authors are studying the application of distributed radar to through-the-wall sensing.
Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
Multi-Scale Structuring of the Polar Ionosphere
Ionospheric variability is a critical consideration for communication systems, GNSS, and space asset management.
INSIDER Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Navy to Start Using Autonomous Cold Spray Metallization Technology for H-1 Helicopter Maintenance
Following years of rigorous testing and evaluation, a cold spray metallization technology that was initially demonstrated at Fleet Readiness...
INSIDER Sensors/Data Acquisition
Army Integrated Sensor Architecture Modernization Effort Continues
Developers and engineers at the Program Executive Office Intelligence, Electronic Warfare and Sensors (PEO IEW&S) Integration Directorate have been modernizing the US...
INSIDER Sensors/Data Acquisition
Tailoring the Optoelectronic Properties of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides for Sensing and Electronics
A team of Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, researchers partnered with Pennsylvania State University to publish an article in the...
INSIDER Weapons Systems
Boeing to Develop Two New E-7 Variants for US Air Force
Boeing will begin development of two new U.S. variants of the E-7 Airborne Early Warning & Control (AEW&C) aircraft through a $1.2 billion "Undefinitized Contract Action."
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