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The Purpose of Mixed-Effects Models in Test and Evaluation
While Defense Test and Evaluation (T&E) is different from agriculture, data attributes can be surprisingly similar.
Application Briefs Aerospace
Fighter Jet Armaments
The F3-R Rafale generates images in both the visible and infrared ranges.
Briefs Unmanned Systems
Counter-Directed Energy Weapons: Defense of Air Assets
The global proliferation of directed energy weapon technology presents a new threat for the United States.
INSIDER Unmanned Systems
Training Drones to Avoid Obstacles at High Speeds
The faster drones fly, the more unstable they become and at high speeds, their aerodynamics can be too complicated to predict. Crashes, therefore, are a common and often spectacular occurrence....
News Sensors/Data Acquisition
From AUVSI 2021: Man’s Next-Best Friend
One of the most interesting — and definitely the most entertaining — technologies on display at this year’s AUVSI XPONENTIAL trade show was Boston Dynamics’s aptly named Spot robot.
News Robotics, Automation & Control
AUVSI XPONENTIAL 2021 in Atlanta
The rescheduled 2021 AUVSI XPONENTIAL unmanned vehicles and robotics technology trade show got underway this week.
INSIDER Unmanned Systems
Automated Flight Control System for Drone Swarms
An automated system was developed that enables an operator to control a small fleet of up to 10 drones from a single ground station. The operator indicates the mission to be undertaken (for...
INSIDER Software
Algorithm Flies Drones Faster than Human Pilots
For the first time an autonomously flying quadrotor has outperformed two human pilots in a drone race. The success is based on a novel algorithm that was developed by researchers of the...
Products Electronics & Computers
New Products
Coaxial connectors, tactical servers, test benches, surge protectors, and more.
Articles Electronics & Computers
Thermal Management Techniques in Avionics Cooling
Innovation is carrying airborne technologies farther and higher than ever before, and avionic cooling practices have had to evolve to keep up.
Briefs Unmanned Systems
Test and Evaluation of Autonomy for Air Platforms
Tools, approaches, and insights to confidently approach the safe, secure, effective, and efficient testing of autonomy on air platforms.
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...
Products Imaging
New Products
A folded zoom lens, miniature rotary encoders, starter generator control, and more.
Articles Weapons Systems
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 Test & Measurement
Portable Engine Test Stand
Sky Power’s SRE180 test stand provides a test solution for the Wankel engine SP-180 SRE hybrid.
Application Briefs Defense
Vertical Takeoff and Landing Drone
Martin UAV will participate in the Army Expeditionary Warrior Experiment (AEWE).
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).
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Defeating Commercial Drone Threats with Software Defined Radio
Drones are useful technology; however, some seek to exploit the technology with bad intent.
Application Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
Anti-Drone Jammer
Netline Communications Technologies has unveiled its new DroneNet RD Jammer.
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 Energy
NRL’s Hybrid Tiger UAV Soars at Demonstration
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory engineers recently demonstrated Hybrid Tiger, an electric unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with multi-day endurance flight capability. The team integrated...
INSIDER Communications
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...
Articles Aerospace
Powering Better Battlefield Drones
A drop-in solution for stator production could translate into tactical, operational, and strategic battlefield advantages.
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
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.
Articles Aerospace
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.
Application Briefs AR/AI
Low-Impact CUAS System
Citadel Defense has been awarded multiple counter drone delivery contracts from Five Eyes (FVEY) customers.
Application Briefs Unmanned Systems
Convertible Drones
The "xFold" UAVs can switch between x4 (quad), x6 (hexa), x8 (octo) and x12 (dodeca) configurations in a matter of minutes.
Application Briefs Weapons Systems
3D Radar
Numerica announced the development of a new U.S.-made, short-range surveillance radar for counter unmanned aircraft systems (C-UAS).
Briefs Unmanned Systems
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.
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