As the Army explores buying an Ultra-Light Combat Vehicle, the 82nd Airborne Division is trying some out. That includes parachuting Polaris M-RZR vehicles out of airplanes, using them in wargames at Fort Bragg, and even lending some to visiting British…
A very small company competing to build the Army’s lightest vehicles just got a big lift from a heavy hitter. “This levels the playing field,” Vyper Adamas president Shane Sterling told me of his firm’s new alliance with Spartan Chassis. “We as…
The promise of advanced machine-to-machine networking, smart factories, and Industry 4.0 has gotten the wide field of manufacturing and industrial automation abuzz with excitement, including working professionals like design, project, and process engineers. However, there appears to be some ways…
Advanced tools for design visualization, illustration, and animation are helping design engineers create realistic representations of their products. Continually enhanced tools allow users to quickly create photorealistic CAD renderings and animations that can convey ideas and explain designs to manufacturers…
As a tech demonstration, researchers at GE recently built a miniature, backpack-sized jet engine that they made entirely from 3D-printed parts. And not just for looks, either. They were able to fire it up and get it moving to 33,000…
U.S. military leadership has known the Pentagon is falling quickly behind the technological curve and opening itself to new and developing threats, but military brass still don’t know how to fix it. Fingers are often pointed at the military’s acquisition…
Aerojet Rocketdyne recently completed a series of hot-fire tests of additive manufactured components for its AR1 booster engine at its Sacramento test facility. AR1 is the first advanced hydrocarbon large liquid rocket engine in development by Aerojet Rocketdyne since the…
Although his jet engine program has struggled through high-profile development hiccups and criticism for its price tag, the head of military engines at Pratt & Whitney said Thursday his major threats are forced cuts to the Pentagon‘s budget. And the F-35…
New industries and small companies are beginning to turn to the power of 3D simulation. Processing speeds are faster and big data processing is less expensive to deploy. Many companies that wouldn’t ordinarily use simulation find it has become affordable…
…Miguel Angel Villar Alarcon, one of the managers at Spanish 3D Systems’ distributor Impresoras 3D, introduced a side project he has been working at: an online tool to unite all major 3D printable model databases under one roof. While there…