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The Role of Autonomous Unmanned Ground Vehicle Technologies in Defense Applications
Artificial intelligence can be used for a plethora of defense applications, including command and control of military operations.
Articles Aerospace
Designing Connectivity Solutions for an Electric Aircraft Future
Learn how to take on a “follow-the-wire” design approach.
Products Test & Measurement
New Products
Network analyzers, FPGAs, mobile surface measurement, and more.
Application Briefs Sensors/Data Acquisition
Unmanned Ground Vehicles
The Marine Corps will use the FLIR Centaur to assist in disarming improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
Application Briefs Imaging
Remotely Piloted Air Systems
The plan is to deploy the Protector aircraft in a variety of wide-ranging Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance (ISTAR) operations.
Podcasts Aerospace
An ‘Aerodrome’ Testing Ground for Unmanned Aircraft
Before delivery drones start carrying packages (and passenger drones start delivering ourselves), engineers will need to keep refining an unmanned aircraft's ability to navigate and...
Articles Aerospace
Army Advances Materials for New Low-Profile Antenna
Army scientists have developed a first-of-its-kind antenna that could change how ground vehicles and airborne systems communicate, transmit, and receive radio frequency communications.
Application Briefs Unmanned Systems
Remotely Piloted Aircraft
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems recently flew its SkyGuardian in the skies above Southern California as part of a joint flight demonstration with NASA.
Application Briefs Propulsion
Rocket Engine Technology
This effort will mark the first representative flight of an aerospike engine after many decades of research and abandoned flight efforts.
Application Briefs Defense
Mars Rover Electric Motors
A number of maxon's precision DC and BLDC motors were designed into the Perseverance rover.
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Directed-Energy System to Defeat Small Unmanned Aircraft System Swarms
New weapons technology is needed to combat the proliferation of small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS).
Briefs Photonics/Optics
Experimental Design of a UCAV-Based High-Energy Laser Weapon
The day of the first deployable UCAV armed with a high-energy laser weapon is not far away.
Articles Unmanned Systems
Ford, Bosch Demo Automated-Parking Project in Detroit
Ford, Bosch and real estate firm Bedrock are preparing North America’s first demonstration of automated parking in a public garage outfitted with the technology to enable a fleet of...
News Software
Simulation’s Next Generation
When in recent years it became apparent to developers of autonomous vehicles (AVs) that they could never cumulatively acquire the equivalent of billions of miles of on-road validation necessary to create...
INSIDER Aerospace
Commercial UAS Observes Earth for Days or Weeks at a Time
NASA and Swift Engineering of San Clemente, CA, completed a flight test of the Swift High-Altitude Long-Endurance (HALE) unmanned aerial system. The 72-foot solar-powered HALE weighs...
INSIDER Data Acquisition
Short-Range Air Defense System Will Counter Small Unmanned Aerial System Threats
Northrop Grumman Corporation’s Forward Area Air Defense Command and Control (FAAD C2) system has been selected by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) as the...
Application Briefs Unmanned Systems
Loitering Precision Strike Missile
The Switchblade missile system is back-packable and rapidly deployable from ground platforms.
Briefs Weapons Systems
sUAS-Based Payload Development and Testing for Quantifying Optical Turbulence
Understanding how atmospheric effects can impact operational conditions is important to the development of High Energy Laser (HEL) weapon systems.
News Unmanned Systems
Lunewave Promises Low-Cost Radar with High-Performance 360-Degree View
Radar sensing has been used for various functions in passenger vehicles for more than two decades. Like all sensors intended an automated vehicle (AV), radar has...
News Unmanned Systems
The Electric, Autonomous Revolution Lifts Off
Nearly a quarter-century ago, the Vertical Flight Society, a helicopter-industry group founded in 1943 as the American Helicopter Society, published a graphic dubbed “V/STOL Aircraft and...
INSIDER Unmanned Systems
Boeing Unmanned Plane Launches for U.S. Space Force
The Boeing-built X-37B autonomous spaceplane launched on top of a uniquely configured United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. The X-37B’s sixth mission is the first to use a service...
INSIDER Robotics, Automation & Control
Drones Detect Butterfly Landmines
Using advanced machine learning, drones can be used to detect dangerous “butterfly” landmines in remote regions of post-conflict countries.
Articles Unmanned Systems
High-Energy Laser Weapon Systems
The next few years will help determine whether high-energy lasers become a staple of the battlefield.
Articles Manufacturing & Prototyping
Advanced Assembly Solutions for the Airbus RACER Joined-Wing Configuration
The Rapid And Cost Effective Rotorcraft (RACER) demonstrator is being developed by Airbus Helicopters (AH) to further validate the compound rotorcraft configuration.
Application Briefs Unmanned Systems
Tiltrotor Aircraft: The CMV-22B Osprey
The CMV-22B is the latest variant of the tiltrotor fleet, joining the MV-22 and CV-22 used by the U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Air Force.
Briefs Communications
Quantifying Autonomous Soaring on a Surveillance and Communications Relay Mission
Research demonstrates that a surveillance mission is still achievable by unmanned vehicles while performing autonomous soaring.
Briefs Unmanned Systems
DDDAMS-based Urban Surveillance and Crowd Control via UAVs and UGVs
Investigating algorithmic approaches to create scalable, robust, multi-scale, and effective urban surveillance and crowd control strategies using UAVs and UGVs.
News Materials
Tata Steel Europe Innovates to Retain the Automotive Materials Lead
In the constantly evolving world of automaking, Dr. Karl Haider, Chief Commercial Officer of Tata Steel Europe (TSE) is certain of one thing: that steel will continue to...
Briefs Robotics, Automation & Control
Assessing the Effectiveness of a Combat UGV Swarm in Urban Operations
Recent technological advancements could enable the military to employ robotic platforms in swarms to help overcome operational challenges in an urban environment.
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INSIDERDefense
New Raytheon and Lockheed Martin Agreements Expand Missile Defense Production
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Ford Announces 48-Volt Architecture for Future Electric Truck
INSIDERManufacturing & Prototyping
Active Strake System Cuts Cruise Drag, Boosts Flight Efficiency
ArticlesTransportation
Accelerating Down the Road to Autonomy
INSIDERMaterials
How Airbus is Using w-DED to 3D Print Larger Titanium Airplane Parts
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Electronics & Computers
Cooling a New Generation of Aerospace and Defense Embedded...
Power
Battery Abuse Testing: Pushing to Failure
Connectivity
A FREE Two-Day Event Dedicated to Connected Mobility
Automotive
Quiet, Please: NVH Improvement Opportunities in the Early Design Cycle
Transportation
Advantages of Smart Power Distribution Unit Design for Automotive &...
Aerospace
Sesame Solar's Nanogrid Tech Promises Major Gains in Drone Endurance