Army experts are “extremely excited” by the idea of hybrid electric aircraft, one of the service’s top Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) experts revealed Tuesday. “My team has believed that was the case for some time,” Lars Ericsson, chief of the…
Army experts are “extremely excited” by the idea of hybrid electric aircraft, one of the service’s top Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) experts revealed Tuesday. “My team has believed that was the case for some time,” Lars Ericsson, chief of the…
Three years ago, Lockheed Martin made the bold boast that F-35s would cost less than $85 million a copy by 2019, less than any existing fourth-generation fighter…Now, Program Executive Officer Lt. Gen. Chris Bogdan says the most common model of the plane, the…
The military wants to stop buying “proprietary solutions” and will opt for open systems architectures that give the government more flexibility, officials said. “We have ceded too much of the design trade space to industry over the years, and we are…
To make upgrades easier, cheaper, and, most importantly, faster — so we can stay ahead of rapidly advancing adversaries like Russia and China — the Defense Department has embraced an approach called “open architecture.” Open architectures aren’t exactly new, but the military’s…
With up to three pilots and their aircraft saved already by a newly introduced automatic ground collision avoidance system, the U.S. Air Force and Lockheed Martin are starting tests of a follow-on system which will extend coverage of the safety…
Think of it as Google Glass goes to war — only less nerd and more Marine. Budget cuts andreadiness shortfalls have the US military looking at virtual reality as a partial replacement for expensive field exercises. But VR has real limits.…
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…
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…
Engineers of low-end embedded products may now have an easier way to make aesthetically pleasing displays with scalable typefaces. Using a new software platform called Monotype Spark, small displays can now have high-quality scalable type and world language support without…