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Material Could Make Aircraft as Quiet as a Hairdryer
An incredibly light new material that can reduce aircraft engine noise and improve passenger comfort has been developed at the University of Bath (UK). The aerogel weighs just 2.1 kg per...
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NASA Aims for Climate-Friendly Aviation
NASA is expanding research for sustainable aviation by developing and testing new green technologies for next-generation aircraft, new automation tools for greener and safer airspace operations, and...
INSIDER Aerospace
First Air-to-Air Refueling Using an Unmanned Aircraft
For the first time in history, the U.S. Navy and Boeing demonstrated the Boeing MQ-25™ T1 unmanned aircraft refueling an F/A-18 Super Hornet in flight. During a test flight, the Boeing...
INSIDER Aerospace
USSF Awards Missile Track Custody Prototype Effort
The U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) has awarded two contracts for the Missile Track Custody Prototype effort. The effort will carry two contractors –...
INSIDER Software
System Positions Supersonic Aircraft in Flight
NASA flight-tested a visual navigation system designed to enhance precise aerial positioning between two aircraft in supersonic flight. The Airborne Location Integrating Geospatial Navigation...
Articles Aerospace
Advanced CT Inspection and Data Analysis
Learn about the ways to ensure that your composite designs are structurally sound.
Articles Aerospace
Open System Software for Critical Applications
Make sure that you have a fully integrated, automated approach to test and requirements traceability.
Articles Propulsion
Engineering an Aircraft Hydrogen Powertrain
The commercial aviation industry is taking critical steps towards zero-carbon aviation.
Briefs Materials
Biobased Carbon Fibers and Thermosetting Resins for Use in DOD Composites Applications
Advanced bio-based fibers and high-performance thermosetting resins will help reduce the dependence of military composites on high-cost petroleum.
Application Briefs Aerospace
Navigation Unit
This contract paves the way for the mass production of navigation units for subsequent launches of VEGA-C and other space missions.
Briefs Imaging
Feasibility Analysis of UAV Technology to Improve Tactical Surveillance in South Korea’s Rear Area Operations
Experimentation and analysis determined the optimum characteristics of an improved unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
Briefs Robotics, Automation & Control
Stochastic Surveillance and Distributed Coordination
Designing fast and unpredictable motion strategies for robotic surveillance agents in complex environments using Markov chain modeling and optimization methods.
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Making Fully Digital Beamforming for Radar and Electronic Warfare Applications a Reality
Learn how passive components inside arrays have evolved to enable fully digital beamforming.
Articles Robotics, Automation & Control
Defeating Commercial Drone Threats with Software Defined Radio
Drones are useful technology; however, some seek to exploit the technology with bad intent.
Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
Quantifying Eye Movement Trajectory Similarity for Use in Human Performance Experiments in Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Research
ScanMatch software determines the similarity of two strings of eye-tracking data. See why that kind of capability is valuable.
Articles Data Acquisition
Designing for the Connected Battlespace
Makers of 'Solider as a System' technologies must confront significant bandwidth and size, weight, and power (SWaP) constraints.
Application Briefs Aerospace
Vertical Takeoff and Landing Drone
Martin UAV will participate in the Army Expeditionary Warrior Experiment (AEWE).
INSIDER Aerospace
Propulsion System Could Enable Mach 17 Speed
A new propulsion system could allow for flight speeds of Mach 6 to 17 (more than 4,600 to 13,000 miles per hour). Researchers discovered a way to stabilize the detonation needed for hypersonic...
INSIDER Aerospace
Machine Learning and Radar Detect Drones
If radar signals move down from the clouds and into a city’s streets, there are suddenly many objects that can be mistaken for one another. Drones can easily be hidden on radar displays among...
INSIDER Unmanned Systems
Making UAVs Self-Sufficient
Army researchers developed an approach that allows a rotary wing unmanned air vehicle (UAV) to land on a moving unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) without the aid of GPS and recharge before moving on. Teams of...
INSIDER Propulsion
NASA Creates a Better Electric Aircraft Battery
With increasing emphasis on aviation sustainability, interest in using batteries to partially or fully power electric propulsion systems on aircraft of all sizes is growing each day. A NASA...
Briefs Aerospace
Modeling a UAV-Based Mesh Network to Analyze Latency and Throughput
Improving network technology through effective systems architecture can ensure better communication between a ground station and multiple UAVs.
Briefs Regulations/Standards
Cyber Risk Assessment and Scoring Model for Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Learn about a cyber risk assessment methodology tailored for small UAVs.
Briefs Aerospace
Deceiving the Enemy: These Are the Drones You Are Looking For
See how the US military can decrease risk to air and ground combatants by causing adversaries to expend resources.
Articles Materials
Powering Better Battlefield Drones
A drop-in solution for stator production could translate into tactical, operational, and strategic battlefield advantages.
Briefs Unmanned Systems
Calibrated Long-Wave Infrared (LWIR) Thermal and Polarimetric Imagery of Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Birds
Well-calibrated imagery helps to distinguish between small UAVs and birds of similar size and dimensions.
Articles Unmanned Systems
Developing New Anti-Drone Radar Technology
IRIS was designed to be easily lifted, transported and deployed and redeployed as needed, which is pretty unusual for most radar systems.
Briefs Energy
Investigation of Flight Dynamics and Controls for a Solar-Tracker-Mounted UAV
A new study explores the dynamics behavior of the parallel mechanism mounted UAV.
Articles Unmanned Systems
Does Your UAV Program Need a Transponder?
UAV designers need to understand the current and anticipated requirements to make an informed decision on incorporating transponders into an aircraft.
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