Defense Applications of Auxetic Materials
INTRODUCTION During military operations, personnel and vehicles are often exposed to ballistic and blast threats. Lightweight armor systems are used…
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Using Weibull Analysis to Guide Preventative Maintenance Strategy
INTRODUCTION As defined in NAVAIR 00-25-403, Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) is “an analytical process to determine appropriate failure management strategies, including…
Finding Needles in the ISR Haystack: MINT Program Helps Pinpoint Threats Contained in Intelligence Data
Introduction Everyday, U.S. military and security units receive vast amounts of data collected by intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) sensors. …
Synthetic Aperture Sonar: Improved Technology for Improved Mine Hunting
Over the last 60 years, sea mines (such as those pictured in Figure 1) have reportedly been responsible for damaging…
Aircraft Engine Exhaust Plume Phenomenology Modeling Improvements for Better HITL Scene Generation & Missile Endgame Performance
BACKGROUND Various Department of Defense (DoD) modeling and simulation (M&S) groups perform digital and hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) threat missile flyout and…
The 96th Test Wing: Excelling in Seeker and Sensor Data Collection
The 96th Test Wing’s Seekers and Sensors Test Flight provides an end-to-end test and evaluation capability for electro-optic/infrared (IR) and…
Navigating the Future Battlefield with Autonomous Ground Vehicles
Recently, Lockheed Martin and several Government and industry partners (including the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center…
Insensitive Munitions: Where Are We Now?
Anyone involved in weapons systems development during the past 30 years should be familiar with the seemingly contradictory term “Insensitive…
StingRay: High-Performance RF Energy Propagation Modeling in Complex Environments
Introduction Understanding the propagation of radio frequency (RF) energy in the presence of complex outdoor terrain features, such as in…
Directed Energy Weapons: From War of the Worlds to the Modern Battlefield
“An almost noiseless and blinding flash of light … this invisible, inevitable sword of heat”: When H. G. Wells first…
Spectrum Supportability Risk Assessments: An Overview
INTRODUCTION As we ride on the cusp of a new age of electronic warfare, management and use of the electromagnetic…
Lightening the Load for the Modern Marine
INTRODUCTION Dismounted U.S. Marines perform some of the most physically demanding missions, often requiring extensive situational awareness, overwhelming firepower, and…