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Militaries Choose Marvin Test Solutions MTS-3060A with Enhanced Flight-Line Test Capabilities, Cybersecurity
Marvin Test Solutions Inc. – a provider of test solutions for aerospace, defense, and manufacturing organizations – is shipping...
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Army Developing Next Generation Combat Vehicles
While the Army's current combat fleet is composed of very capable vehicles, they have been in the inventory for decades and their ability to overmatch peer capabilities in close combat is...
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Generation Orbit’s GOLauncher1 Is Officially the Air Force’s X-60A Hypersonic Flight Research Vehicle
The United States Air Force (USAF) has designated the GOLauncher1 (GO1) hypersonic flight research vehicle as X-60A. The vehicle is...
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Detecting Drones with Doppler-Based Radar
As drones become more commonplace, the need to secure facilities from the high-definition cameras and potential dangerous payloads has caused a rapid growth of counter-drone technologies.
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Three Stages of Separation: Bidding Farewell to the Delta II Launch Vehicle
The upcoming launch of the NASA Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) will be the last liftoff for the Delta II rocket, whose reliability made it a...
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Pratt & Whitney Receives $437M for Continued Adaptive Engine Development
Pratt & Whitney, a division of United Technologies Corp. based in East Hartford, Conn., was awarded a $437-million contract modification by the U.S. Air Force...
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NASA Selects Frontier Aerospace to Continue Development of New Deep Space Thruster
NASA’s Space Technology and Mission Directorate (STMD) awarded Simi Valley, Calif.’s Frontier Aerospace Corporation with “Tipping Point” funding to...
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Ministry of Defense of Qatar Orders 28 NHIndustries NH90 Multirole Military Helicopters
Leonardo, a high-tech aerospace, defense, and security company in Rome, will deliver 28 NH90 medium, twin-engine, multirole military helicopters valued at...
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Northrop Grumman Acquires Orbital ATK, Adds Solid Rocket Motors to Space Portfolio
Northrop Grumman Corp., an aerospace and defense technology company in Falls Church, Va., has acquired Orbital ATK Inc., one of only two leading U.S....
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Army Developing Lasers That Pierce Fog, Dust to Destroy Targets
A lot of people think that high-energy lasers, or HELs, can't penetrate fog, rain and dust, said Thomas Webber, director of the Directed Energy Division's Technical Center,...
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Making Laser Weapons a Reality
Directed energy weapons first took a step towards reality in the 1980s under President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), dubbed “Star Wars” by the media. But, the technology didn't really...
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Designing Electronic Warfare to Regain Airborne Military Dominance
For decades, military aircraft have relied on electronic warfare (EW) solutions to protect assets and dominate airspace. The ability of the United States to detect and track...
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Recoated and Ready
Air superiority comes at a cost. The U.S. Air Force (USAF) F-22 Raptor may arguably be the most capable air superiority fighter ever built, but the aircraft has lingered in depots due to a variety of substantial...
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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...
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Radar-Based Threat Detection
Rapiscan Systems Torrance, CA 310-978-1457 www.rapiscansystems.com Rapiscan Systems recently announced the addition of CounterBomber, a radar-based threat-detection technology, to its portfolio of security products....
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Submersion and Directed Flow Cooling Technology for Military Applications
As the US military shifts from boots on the ground to drones in the sky, there will be an increasing need for computing power on foreign soil, under the sea and in the...
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Army Develops First-of-Its Kind Phase-Coherent Fiber Laser Array System
The U.S. Army Research Laboratory's Computational and Information Science Directorate's Intelligent Optics Team, and partners, recently developed, engineered, demonstrated...
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Beam Irradiance on Target System (BITS)
The Beam Irradiance on Target System (BITS) is a high energy laser (HEL) sensor array that directly measures the beam irradiance profile of HEL weapons. The BITS is a sensor array composed of 105 sensors...
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One-Shot Sniper System
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded Cubic Defense Applications, the defense systems business of Cubic Corporation, a $6 million contract to develop the next generation (XG) of the One Shot...
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A Fundamental Key to Next-Generation Directed-Energy Systems
Imagine an explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) unit on a routine scouting patrol deep in the notorious “Triangle of Death” south of Baghdad, where marines, sailors, and soldiers...
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3D Video Tracking System
Specialised Imaging Ltd. (Tring, Hertfordshire, UK) has announced a new version of its Trajectory Tracker video tracking system that correlates high-speed video data with 3D visualization and measurement information....
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Target Location System Performs in Rain, Smoke, Haze, and Combat Scenarios
A combat identification system developed by Cubic Defense Applications, the defense systems business of Cubic Corporation, was successfully tested during a recent U.S....
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Holographic Radar Pinpoints Rapid Shell Fire
Cambridge Consultants has successfully carried out trials tracking 5 inch shells travelling at over 1,000 miles per hour for the US Department of Defense (DoD). The groundbreaking radar developed...
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High Critical Current in Metal Organic Derived YBCO Films
High-temperature superconducting (HTS) YBCO wire is a versatile technology for a number of military and commercial applications. However, anticipated military applications such as...
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Solid-State, High-Energy Lasers Based on Rare-Earth Doped Gallium Nitride
Laser-based directed-energy weapons (DEW) are important components for future Army missile defense systems. The diode-pumped, rare-earth (RE)-doped, solid-state laser is a very promising path towards achieving a DEW-sufficient level of average power from a reasonably compact...
Articles Aerospace
Weapon and Armor System Power in Future Combat Vehicles
Future combat vehicles will require unconventional weapons and armor systems such as electromagnetic (EM) or electrothermal chemical (ETC) guns, electromagnetic (EM) armor, and directed-...
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Developments in Adaptive Filtering and System Identification
Progress has been made on several fronts in a continuing program of research oriented toward the development of real-time algorithms, and computer and control systems that utilize the...
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The Ballistic Missile Defense System: An Integrated Approach to Global Defense
Although the end of the Cold War signaled a reduction in the likelihood of global nuclear conflict, the threat from ballistic missiles has grown steadily as...
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North Carolina Organization Fosters New Defense and Security Technologies
The Defense and Security Technology Accelerator (DSTA), located in Fayetteville, NC, is a new and innovative program designed to create collaborations with the military, entrepreneurs, and innovators to drive technology business development, technology commercialization, and...
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