The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded contracts for the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) program’s first phase. DRACO’s goal is to demonstrate a nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) system to power […]
Professor Javaan Chahl and his team from the University of South Australia (UniSA) are working remotely during the pandemic to design a dragonfly-inspired drone that they hope will match the insect’s skills in hovering, cruising, […]
The Marine Corps recently held a simulation training event called ‘COPE JAVELIN.’ The simulation followed a fictional operational scenario involving marine aviators from various units using flight simulators for different aircraft. They connected across different […]
The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command’s Army Research Laboratory is working with researchers at Duke University and the University of North Carolina on a new form of robotics called “biohybrids.” Biohybrid robots would use […]
Researchers from the Universities of Birmingham, Oxford, and Ghent are working on a new process that could lead to more efficient and reusable protection from shock, impact, explosion, and vibration. Dan Zhao, an expert in […]
The U.S. Army’s new Enhanced Night Vision Goggle-Binocular (ENVG-B) goggles will provide the Army’s close combat forces with “an extra capability to observe and maneuver in all weather conditions, through obscurants, during limited visibility, and […]
Kaman Air Vehicles, a division of Kaman Aerospace Corporation, has successfully tested its K-MAX TITAN – a heavy-lift unmanned helicopter designed for the commercial market. During its debut flight, the helicopter was controlled from the […]
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