Introduction to Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC)
Can you provide introductory summary on guidance, navigation, and control (GNC)?
Military Sensing
All sensing applications that apply to the defense of the United States of America.
Recent Inquiries
Optimal Paths for Evading Directed-Energy Weapons
Are there pathfinder tools to compute evasion paths for friendly assets threatened by hostile laser or radio frequency DEW systems? What software algorithms can calculate environmental effects and exploit their limitations?
Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
Can you provide the latest research and development on LiDAR detection of UAVs?
Articles
Radar Is Advancing at Historic Speed. How Engineers Are Setting the Pace.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In a whirling geopolitical landscape of new nuclear weapons, hypersonic weapons, drones, and satellites, the US is hustling to test new kinds of radars aimed at detecting evolving threats. Many of these…
New Technology Improves Space Weather Monitoring
Peaceful though it may seem from Earth, space is beset by “weather” that can prove perilous for the sensitive — and expensive — technology aboard the spacecraft and satellites increasingly populating the realms outside our…
World Magnetic Model Makes Modern Precision Navigation Possible
The World Magnetic Model is a critical piece of digital infrastructure that is key to global navigation and corrects a standard compass reading. The WMM provides declination values for all points on Earth, which NGA…
Webinars
Antenna Systems for Space Applications at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Antenna developments for space applications have a long history at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Starting from the 1970s, Voyager; Galileo; Cassini; the Shutter Radar Topography mission; and, more recently,…
ARL Hypervelocity Ballistic Range Experiments
The U.S. Army Research Laboratory’s (ARL’s) Transonic Experimental Facility (TEF) is an all-purpose research firing range that has been used to investigate propulsion, materials, flight, guidance, and terminal effects across a spectrum of launch (mechanical)…
Development and Utilization of TIPS Within the FRACTALS at the DEVCOM Analysis Center
The Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) Analysis Center (DAC) has developed the Tactical ISR [intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance] Performance Suite (TIPS), a reusable code library that encapsulates the DAC sensor performance models and behavior methodologies….
Events
AOC 2024 International Symposium & Convention
From the Wars in Ukraine and Gaza to warfare in the Red Sea and tensions in the Indo-Pacific, the geopolitical situation is increasingly hostile, and tensions are increasing worldwide. Whether a nation state is monitoring…
Space Resiliency Summit
The 11th Space Resiliency Summit will bring together senior leaders, experts, and innovators to discuss the policies and operations necessary to ensure the safety and resiliency of U.S.-space based assets and missions in an increasingly…
2025 Future Indirect Fires Summit
The 2025 Future Indirect Fires Summit will bring together leaders from the indirect-fire community to discuss the latest innovations in indirect fire systems, support systems, munitions, and challenges presented by the current conflict in Ukraine….