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Composite materials have become an integral part of our lives: they are used in aviation and space technologies, as well as the automobile and mining industries. However, there has been a problem of internal stress assessment with composite material designs since their inception. “Scientists from the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) MISIS Center
University of West Florida (UWF) creates new Center for Supply Chain Management Excellence. Check out The $10,000 Pen and Other Effects of Logistics on the Gulf . Today’s businesses operate in increasingly complex domestic and global marketplaces. The supply chain management professional recognizes, understands and manages logistics and transportation operations and markets such services. UWF
Lockheed”s HELIOS Ship-Fired Laser to Give Navy Advanced Multi-Function Laser Weapon for DDG 51 Destroyers. The Navy and Lockheed Martin are taking a substantial leap forward with ship-based high-powered laser weapons designed to incinerate enemy drones and also perform ISR missions tracking targets such as incoming enemy cruise missiles, aircraft or ships. Lockheed’s High Energy
On display were some of Russia”s most advanced defense systems including Su-30SM, Su-57, MiG-29SMT, and MiG-31K aircraft; Mil Mi-28N attack helicopters; the Korsar strike drone; Kinzhal hypersonic missiles; the BMPT Terminator armored fighting vehicle, an S-400 Triumf long-range anti-aircraft system; and an Arctic variant of the Tor-M2DT anti-aircraft missile system. With Moscow–Washington tensions approaching a
The US Special Operations Command’s (USSOCOM’s) Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate has launched a virtual symposium to support industry efforts to identify and enable disruptive technologies providing an ‘asymmetric advantage’ for special operations forces. Published on 23 April 2018 ahead of the annual Special Operations Forces Industry Conference (SOFIC) in Tampa, Florida, the virtual symposium
Moving the U.S. closer to energy independence – a milestone in bringing America’s first Small Modular Reactor (SMR) to market. NuScale Power, LLC is developing a new modular light water reactor nuclear power plant. This groundbreaking technology features a fully factory fabricated NuScale Power Module™ capable of generating 50MW of power using a safer, smaller,
Bonded composite airframe structures offer a potential to achieve more affordable manufacturing and more efficient structures, ultimately meeting the goals of the Air Force for increased range and reduced fuel consumption. Laser bond inspection (LBI) in conjunction with bond process control is an enabling technology to transition primary bonded composite structures and realize these goals.
WASHINGTON ― As China and Russia threaten to overtake the U.S. with new technologies, development of hypersonic capabilities is the “highest technical priority” for Michael Griffin, the Pentagon’s new undersecretary of defense for research and engineering. “I’m sorry for everybody out there who champion some other high priority, some technical thing; it’s not that I
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A national Air Force initiative to partner with the best and brightest business innovators on new technologies has touched down in New Mexico. The Air Force Research Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base signed a three-year, $750,000 contract in April with the Albuquerque-based ABQid business accelerator to help build collaborative relations with
“Even though we have not broken ground on a new nuclear plant in nearly 30 years, nuclear energy remains our largest source of fuel that produces no carbon emissions.” … “We’ll have to build a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants in America,” … “To meet our growing energy needs and prevent the
People can look at the same technology and disagree about how it will shape the future, explains Paul Scharre as he shares a final perspective on the Slaughterbots debate. Paul Scharre (@paul_scharre) is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Technology and National Security Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). From
Engineers at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and the University of Maryland have developed a technique that causes a composite material to become stiffer and stronger on-demand when exposed to ultraviolet light. This on-demand control of composite behavior could enable a variety of new capabilities for future Army rotorcraft design, performance and maintenance. ARL”s Dr.