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The launch of the NASA Crew-6 mission in 2023. Some rocket engines use super alloys such as Inconel for certain parts. Credit: Courtesy of SpaceX
External Government
February 18, 2025

Superalloys Resist Wear at Nearly Forge-Level Heat Using New Process

Finding lubricants that work at exceptionally high temperatures challenges researchers and industries alike. Recently, a Virginia Tech team may have…

The U.S. Navy has declared initial operational capability for the F/A-18 E/F Infrared Search and Track Block II system. (U.S. Navy photo by Katie Archibald)
External Government
February 18, 2025

U.S. Navy F/A-18 Fleet Gets Enhanced Target Tracking as Infrared Search and Track System Achieves Initial Operational Capability

NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND, PATUXENT RIVER, MD. – The U.S. Navy declared initial operational capability (IOC) for the F/A-18 E/F…

The three EZIE spacecraft are shown at Blue Canyon Technologies in Boulder, Colorado, before their arrival at the launch site. Credit: Blue Canyon Technologies
External Non-Government
February 18, 2025

Set to Study Earth’s Electrojets, EZIE Satellites Arrive at Launch Site

On January 27, the three spacecraft that make up NASA’s Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer (EZIE) mission reached the launch site…

The Patriot missile system is a ground-based, mobile missile defense interceptor deployed by the United States to detect, track and engage unmanned aerial vehicles, cruise missiles, and short-range and tactical ballistic missiles. (Credit: iStockphoto)
External Non-Government
February 18, 2025

GTRI Supports Development of Army’s Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS)

The U.S. Army is moving its air and missile defense assets to a new fire control network that will allow…

U.S. Navy divers test the Divers Augmented Vision Display (DAVD) during a training exercise in Little Creek, Virginia. Outfitted with components such as a heads-up display resembling virtual-reality glasses (which can be adapted to any Navy dive helmet), DAVD enables divers to better operate in inhospitable underwater environments. (Photo courtesy of Coda Octopus)
External Government
February 18, 2025

“Turn on the Lights”: DAVD Display Helps Navy Divers Navigate Undersea Conditions

ARLINGTON, Va.—A favorite childhood memory for Dr. Sandra Chapman was visiting the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor with her…

U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Jason “J.U.” Utulo, Director of Operations Experimentation, writes on a white board during the National Space Defense Center Advanced Concept Experimentation (NACE) events at Schriever Space Force Base, Colo., Oct. 10, 2024. The NACE program’s mission is to rapidly iterate and improve space superiority, Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance, and defensive cyber command-and-control processes and procedures. NACE is the NSDC’s operationally and tactically focused venue to rapidly improve its ability to execute assigned missions through experimentation, utilizing space warfighters in live-ops and tabletop exercises using current and near-operational capabilities. (U.S. Space Force photo by Bridget Bonnette)
External Government
January 28, 2025

National Space Defense Center Spearheads NACE Experiments

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The National Space Defense Center has created the NSDC Advanced Concept Experimentation (NACE) to innovate and…

Illustration of the material’s transition, with time represented from left to right. A laser pulse (left) sends the material into disorder (middle). Out of this so-called soup phase emerges a highly ordered phase called a supercrystal (right). (Image by Argonne National Laboratory.)
External Government
January 28, 2025

Metastable Marvel: X-Rays Illuminate an Exotic Material Transformation

A dry material makes a great fire starter, and a soft material lends itself to a sweater. Batteries require materials…

A B-52H Stratofortress bomber from Barksdale Air Force Base, La., sits on the runway at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, in support of a U.S. Strategic Command bomber task force, April 17, 2021.
External Government
January 28, 2025

Securing Critical Minerals Vital to National Security, Official Says

“Secure sourcing of critical minerals is critical to the defense industrial base, which uses them to produce virtually every Defense…

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External Government
January 28, 2025

DARPA Exploring Ways to Assess Ethics for Autonomous Weapons

The Autonomy Standards and Ideals with Military Operational Values (ASIMOV) program aims to develop benchmarks to objectively and quantitatively measure…

The NIF lasers overlap onto the millimeter-scale cylindrical silver foam target. The resultant heating creates X-rays, which are then imaged as shown on the right.
External Government
January 28, 2025

LLNL Creates World’s Brightest X-Ray Source With NIF and Novel Metal Foams

By combining the National Ignition Facility (NIF) laser and ultra-light metal foams, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have…

An EA-18G Growler, attached to Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 133, launches from the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). (Official U.S. Navy photo)
External Government
January 28, 2025

U.S. Navy Declares Initial Operational Capability for the Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band System

NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND, PATUXENT RIVER, MD – The U.S. Navy declared initial operational capability for the Next Generation Jammer…

In a test as part of DARPA’s NOMARS program, the USV Mariner (right) deploys a refueling probe towards the USV Ranger (left) in the first test of fueling at sea (FAS) without any human interaction required on the part of the receiving vessel. The personnel aboard the Ranger are observers only. Credit: DARPA
External Government
January 28, 2025

Automated Fueling-At-Sea Test Completed for Unmanned Surface Vehicle Program

The DARPA No Manning Required Ship (NOMARS) program recently completed a successful first test of at-sea refueling designed for use…

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