The Big Drop
Beside a 50-foot-deep pool, a 300-foot metal tower rises into the air at Sandia New Mexico. Cables and a vertical…
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Shape-Shifting Antenna Poised to Transform Communications
By leveraging cutting-edge additive manufacturing techniques and shape memory alloys, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in…
Revolutionizing Space-Based Thermal Systems: AFRL’s SPIRRAL Launch on SPX-31
KIRTLAND AFB, N.M. (AFRL) – The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, launched the Space Power InfraRed Regulation and Analysis…
NSRI, UNL Developing AI for USSTRATCOM to Maximize Electromagnetic Spectrum
As digital communication grows, the electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) is becoming increasingly crowded. Novel solutions for how the United States can…
Tunable Ultrasound Propagation in Microscale Metamaterials
Acoustic metamaterials—architected materials that have tailored geometries designed to control the propagation of acoustic or elastic waves through a medium—have…
New York Air Guard Wing Welcomes New, High-Tech Helicopters
WESTHAMPTON BEACH, N.Y. (AFNS) — The New York National Guard’s 106th Rescue Wing officially marked the arrival of its new…
Army Advances Human-Machine Integration Tests to Enhance, Fight With Combat Units
WASHINGTON — Robots integrated into Army formations can help protect soldiers and revolutionize warfare in multiple domains. “Human-machine integration forces…
NRL Completes Development of Robotics Capable of Servicing Satellites, Enabling Resilience for the U.S. Space Infrastructure
WASHINGTON – U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Naval Center for Space Technology (NCST), in partnership with Defense Advanced Research Projects…
Designing Primary Structures With Fiber-Reinforced PEEK Thermoplastic Composite
Introduction Polyetheretherketone (PEEK) is a semicrystalline thermoplastic that was invented in November 1978 and brought to market in 1981 by…
Uncertainty Quantification to Detect Resident Space Object Anomalies
Summary Anomaly detection, whereby signals are scanned for behavior changes, is a common problem in many applications. As data streams…
Detecting and Defending Against Malicious Attacks to Ship Sensors
Summary This article describes research to detect phenomena that may degrade or disrupt the performance of an otherwise fully functional…
A Bioinspired System to Autonomously Detect Tiny, Fast-Moving Objects in Infrared Imagery
Summary Autonomously detecting tiny, fast-moving objects emitting thermal radiation in the infrared is a challenging technical problem. In addition to…