Latest Stories
Briefs Materials
Mechanical Response of an Al-PTFE Composite to Uniaxial Compression Over a Range of Strain Rates and Temperatures
Reactive materials can be loosely categorized as composites of inert solid materials which, when subjected to a violent mechanical...
Briefs Materials
Novel Conductive Coatings of Carbon Nanotubes
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are the material of ever-increasing concern due to their excellent electronic and physicochemical properties. Currently, research has been focused towards their applications for use in chemical and biological sensors as well as their use in optoelectronic devices. One of the...
Briefs Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Water Mist System for Shipboard Machinery Space Fires
Water mist has been determined to be a preferred alternative to Halon 1301 total flooding to extinguish fires occurring in ship machinery spaces and pump rooms, because it is toxicologically...
Briefs Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Axial Field Electric Motor
An axial field electric motor comprises one or more elements such as a rotor mounted for rotation and multiple axial flux permanent magnets carried by the rotor. The axial flux permanent magnets are oriented such that...
Briefs Sensors/Data Acquisition
Miniature Rotorcraft Flight Control Stabilization System
Autonomous rotorcraft provide improved capability in performing military missions such as reconnaissance, targeting, border patrol, and environmental sensing. A common difficulty in...
Briefs Physical Sciences
Studies of Dynamic Fracture in Brittle Materials
A program of research spanning several years ending in November 2005 was dedicated primarily to formulation and analysis of canonical boundary- value problems in mathematical modeling of dynamic fracture in brittle materials. The sub-topics within the broad topic of dynamic fracture in brittle...
Briefs Physical Sciences
Acceleration Strain Transducer Containing Cantilever Flaps
A recently invented acceleration strain transducer is based on the principle of a conventional spring-and-mass acceleration transducer combined with a linear strain sensor that measures...
Briefs Physical Sciences
Simulation of Airflow Through a Test Chamber
A computational-simulation study of the flow of air through a thermo-anemometer chamber was performed to resolve what originally seemed to be an anomaly in the measurement data obtained by use of the...
Briefs Information Technology
Study of Submodeling of a Small Component in a Structure
A study was performed to evaluate the accuracy achievable in the use of submodeling in finite-element modeling of the mechanical response of a structural system that includes components...
Briefs Information Technology
Next-Generation Information Systems Architectures
A document describes a paradigm in which low-altitude unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with wireless communication capability are used to assist networking among a set of ground stations. This new paradigm is attractive because UAVs can be dynamically deployed in a wide variety of geographical...
Articles Weapons Systems
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-...
Articles Aerospace
Detecting Improvised Explosive Devices in Urban Areas
Improvised explosive devices (IEDs) are rudimentary bombs that generally consist of commonly found non-military materials. Although common IED threats include roadside bombs, suicide bombers...
Tech Transfer Reports Materials
Ceramic Manufacturing Technique Opens New Markets
Traditionally, ceramics have been thought of as hard and brittle, yet able to tolerate high temperatures. Now, Advanced Ceramics Research (ACR) of Tucson, AZ has developed a method of...
Tech Transfer Reports
New Micromachining Method Upgrades Microfluidic Chip Technology
Someday, you may be able to go to your neighborhood drugstore and choose from a diagnostic kit that can test for high cholesterol, a faulty gene that predisposes you to diabetes,...
Products
Satellite Phone
The 9555 satellite phone from Iridium Satellite LLC (Bethesda, MD) is compact and features an intuitive user interface, speakerphone, Short Messaging Service and e-mail capabilities, an upgraded mini-USB data port, and an...
Products
Signal Translator
Luxul Wireless (Lindon, UT) has released the Shock- WAV™ frequency-translating amplifier (FTA) for use in secure military, defense, and homeland security applications. The FTA converts signals generated by commercial...
Products
Messaging Communications Bus
Real-Time Innovations (Sunnyvale, CA) offers RTI Data Distribution Service, Safety-Critical Edition, a smallfootprint version of real-time messaging middleware to meet safety certification standards such as DO-178B....
Products Sensors/Data Acquisition
Submersible Pressure Sensors
The AST4520 media-isolated, submersible pressure sensor from American Sensor Technologies (Mt. Olive, NJ) features a flush diaphragm steel cage design with stainless steel construction for level monitoring of...
Products Aerospace
Avionics Bus Box
Ballard Technology (Everett, WA) offers the Avionics BusBox 2000 Series, a DO-160 box designed for rugged environments. The embedded computer has built-in interfaces for standard peripherals and various avionics databases....
Products
Aerospace Engine Components
Sandvik Coromant (Fairlawn, NJ) has released an Aerospace Engine Solutions Package that contains five standard products to support the aerospace engine industry. The GC1115 is a PVD-coated grade for high-temperature alloys that offers wear resistance; the CoroCut angled inserts are a grooving system that uses 24 standard...
Products
Thermal Wind Tunnel
OMEGA Engineering (Stamford, CT) offers the WT-2000 thermal wind tunnel in a portable, benchtop design. Made of clear polycarbonate and PVC, it is designed to provide uniform and repeatable airflow up to 1000 fpm. The...
Products
Robotic Platform
The Chaos™ robotic platform from Auton - omous Solutions (Logan, UT) is designed to remotely access hazardous areas previously accessible only by foot, reducing risk to personnel. The robot is able to navigate over rough,...
Products
Air-Cooled Enclosures
Carlo Gavazzi Computing Solutions (Brockton, MA) has introduced the 715 Series of recirculating, air-cooled, rugged ATR enclosures for protection of commercial off-the-shelf convection-cooled cards de ployed in caustic...
Products
Aerospace Seals
Trelleborg Sealing Solutions (Fort Wayne, IN) has introduced Turcon® Varilip® PDR industrial seals for the aerospace industry. They are designed for high-speed rotating applications, and are constructed from one or multiple...
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Prognostic Health Management of an RF System Using GPS
Prognostic health management (PHM) of electronic systems presents challenges that traditionally were not worth the cost of pursuit. Recent changes in weapons platform acquisition and...
Articles Photonics/Optics
Developing a Beam Former for Electronically Steered Antennas
There are several applications for phased arrays in Army communication systems. This spans frequency bands ranging from UHF to Ka bands and performance requirements that include...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
AC Coupled Interconnect for Low-Power Spaceborne Electronics
An AC coupled interconnect (ACCI) has been developed that could be used to create multiple solutions to contactless chip-to-chip communications. Assembly and testing of a 0.18 um bulk...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Fuzzy System for Fault Diagnostics in Power Electronics-Based Brake-by-Wire System
Research in fuzzy diagnostics of brake-by-wire systems focuses on the power electronics switches, since they are often considered to be the weakest link in the...
Top Stories
INSIDERManufacturing & Prototyping
How Airbus is Using w-DED to 3D Print Larger Titanium Airplane Parts
INSIDERManned Systems
FAA to Replace Aging Network of Ground-Based Radars
NewsTransportation
CES 2026: Bosch is Ready to Bring AI to Your (Likely ICE-powered) Vehicle
NewsSoftware
Accelerating Down the Road to Autonomy
EditorialDesign
DarkSky One Wants to Make the World a Darker Place
INSIDERMaterials
Can This Self-Healing Composite Make Airplane and Spacecraft Components Last...
Webcasts
Defense
How Sift's Unified Observability Platform Accelerates Drone Innovation
Automotive
E/E Architecture Redefined: Building Smarter, Safer, and Scalable...
Power
Hydrogen Engines Are Heating Up for Heavy Duty
Electronics & Computers
Advantages of Smart Power Distribution Unit Design for Automotive...
Unmanned Systems
Quiet, Please: NVH Improvement Opportunities in the Early Design...
