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Structural Composites with Tuned EM Chirality
Work on structural composites with tunable chiral elements has produced electronically tunable overall chiral composites, mechanically tunable chiral composites, flat lenses with soft hyperbolic...
Briefs Aerospace
Advanced, Single-Polymer, Nanofiber-Reinforced Composite
A strategic goal of the U.S. Air Force is to be able to deliver munitions to targets anywhere around the globe in less than an hour. This will require very high speeds and novel lightweight and temperature-resistant materials. Nanocomposites are promising emerging materials for structural and...
Briefs Aerospace
Quantitative Diagnostics of Multilayered Composite Structures with Ultrasonic Guided Waves
Aging infrastructure has a major impact on safety, increasing the need to assess damage severity. Machinery, systems, and components such as airplanes,...
Briefs Aerospace
Reactive, Multifunctional, Micellar, Composite Nanoparticles for Destruction of Bio-Agents
Multifunctional composites have been investigated for destruction of bio-agents. These materials’ unique properties at the nano scale, including their...
INSIDER Aerospace
NASA Studies How Volcanic Ash Affects Airplane Engines
NASA researchers are poring over data from a recent test that involved sending volcanic ash through an airplane engine. The primary issue, according to NASA, is that volcanic ash forms...
INSIDER Robotics, Automation & Control
Army’s “Robo-Raven” UAV Flies with Flapping Wings
In the future, it's possible that some unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) might sport wings that flap like a bird or a butterfly. The Army Research Lab has been testing such a UAV, known as...
INSIDER Test & Measurement
Remotely Piloted Plane Bridges Gap Between Wind Tunnel and Crewed Testing
A new modular, subscale remotely piloted aircraft offers NASA researchers more affordable options for developing a wide range of cutting edge aviation and space...
INSIDER Imaging
"Fused Reality" Combines Simulation and Flying to Train Pilots
There are two ways for pilots to gain proficiency in an airplane and evaluate its handling qualities: climb into the cockpit and take off, or practice in a ground-based simulator....
INSIDER Government
Researchers Urge Changes to Design of Commercial Aircraft Engines
Virginia Tech researchers are urging changes in how commercial aircraft engines are designed in the wake of a possible new threat to passenger aircraft safety: drones, or...
Briefs Aerospace
Ontology for Insider Threat Indicators
The study of insider threat presents some of the most complex challenges in information security. Even defining the insider threat has proven difficult, with interpretations and scope varying depending on...
Briefs Aerospace
Data Mining in Cyber Operations
Defending cyberspace is a complex and largely scoped challenge that considers emerging threats to security in space, land, and sea. The global cyber infrastructure presents many challenges because of the...
Briefs Information Technology
Framework for Resilient Remote Monitoring
This method provides continuous monitoring across network-attached devices to identify and mitigate targeted cyber attacks. System administrators and cyber defenders continue to face challenges in...
Briefs Aerospace
Communication Protocol for CyAMS and the Cyber Fighter Associate Interface
This program evaluates agility maneuvers that may be employed within networks to mitigate the effect of cyber attacks. As the military adopts more networked equipment,...
Articles Aerospace
Implementing Secure Command and Control in Unmanned Systems
Unmanned vehicles are at the forefront of an evolution, especially with the proliferation of the Internet of Things. After decades of serving mission-critical applications in...
Articles Sensors/Data Acquisition
Compact Thermal Management Solutions for Mobile Laser Weapon Systems
The Navy is developing a vehicle mounted directed energy (DE) weapon system in their Ground Based Air Defense (GBAD) Directed Energy On-The-Move (OTM) program. As part of this...
Articles Aerospace
Powering On
The steady rise in demand for high-thrust, big-fan engines for new wide-body commercial airplanes continues to generate massive business, as the 2015 half-year results from Rolls-Royce demonstrated. But at the same time, underlying...
Articles Defense
Countering Cybersecurity Threats Against Unmanned Vehicle Systems
As the use of UASs and UAVs increase in the modern battlefield, the need to secure these weapon platforms is of increasing importance as any flaw could have catastrophic results....
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Enhance EMC Testing with Digital IF
Modern electromagnetic interference (EMI) receivers and spectrum analyzers used for compliance and precompliance testing employ digital intermediate-frequency (digital IF) processing technology for signal...
Articles Defense
Radio Relays Improve Wireless Products
In order to transmit communications through Earth’s atmosphere, satellites and space vehicles need radio equipment that can operate at higher frequencies than on Earth. These higher frequencies, until...
INSIDER Propulsion
NASA Tests New Green Propellants for Satellites
To stay in the proper orbit, many satellites have thrusters – small rocket engines – that fire to change altitude or orientation in space. On Earth, where gravity dominates, five pounds of...
INSIDER Data Acquisition
Tool Nondestructively Characterizes Structural Materials as they Deform
Materials scientists are busy developing advanced materials, while also working to squeeze every bit of performance out of existing materials. This is particularly true...
INSIDER RF & Microwave Electronics
Crash Test Helps Improve Emergency Response
NASA’s Langley Research Center hoisted a Cessna 172 aircraft 100 feet into the air by cables and released it. The plane plummeted onto a slab of dirt in a violent but controlled experiment that will...
INSIDER Aerospace
Database Could Make Airport Ground Movements Quicker and Greener
Growth in air traffic and passenger numbers has led to warnings that airports could become bottlenecks in the global air transportation system. Ensuring efficient movement of...
Articles Defense
Synthetic Vision Guidance Systems Giving 2D data a 3D perspective
Synthetic Vision (SV) displays replace the pilot’s traditional 2D primary flight display (PFD) with a 3D perspective view display. The 3D SV perspective display is rendered...
Articles Defense
The Conundrum of DO-254 Compliance and COTS IP
A tornado is blowing through a specific area of the semiconductor market. The market for Intellectual Property (or IP, also known as IP cores or IP blocks) is roughly $2.5B and growing at twice the...
Articles Aerospace
Let the Good Times Continue to Roll
It is hard to imagine just how radical the change in fortunes for the world’s major commercial aerospace manufacturers has been in the last few years. Just ten years ago the smart money in aerospace pointed...
Articles Defense
Big Data, Aircraft, and a Better Future
The hype phrase today is “Big Data.” It is a phrase Mark Bünger, Research Director for Lux Research, believes can have a number of definitions depending on who is doing the defining. Bünger was...
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Unmanned Ground Vehicle Communications Relays
The need for a high-bandwidth communication link to carry multiple video channels from a mobile robot (unmanned ground vehicle, or UGV) back to a control station requires using high-frequency RF...
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
System Generates and Simulates Skin-Echo Pulses for Radar Testing
One of the methods for radar testing is the simulation of an environment where there are dynamic or static objects that are scanned by the radar under test. In particular,...
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