MAE Wrap-Up - Apr 28th, 2023
 
 
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April 28, 2023
TOP OF THE ORDER
April has seen major new cyber security projects and contracts to safeguard important military information from computer hackers.
WEEK IN REVIEW
MAX seeks to achieve at least a 100 times improvement in power efficiency and processing density compared to state-of-the-art digital signal processing.
The cadre of U.S. industry-led teams will test a new lunar rover tire design, develop a robotically assembled power system, build an electrically actuated device to join in-space propellant transfer lines, and more.
Each Trident II missile has a range of 4,000 to 7,000 miles, and its navigation subsystem uses a combination of inertial and celestial guidance.
The results help to develop technologies that can reduce the aircraft noise level of future aircraft.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT...
MSM's aircraft are equipped with two wing-mounted Multi-Point Refueling System (MPRS) pods which facilitate refueling with probe equipped Navy, Marine Corps and partner nation aircraft.
Black Hornet 3 personal reconnaissance unmanned aircraft provides covert situational awareness with quick-setup visible-light and infrared cameras.
Microbe-based sensors work will include tailoring of input stimuli and output signals, biologically encoded signal processing, and response times.
The PATRIOT PAC-3 is a hit-to-kill ground-to-air missile designed to defeat tactical ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and aircraft.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Guardian Agriculture, a developer of electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) systems for commercial farming based in Woburn, Mass., has received approval from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to operate its aircraft worldwide.
Liberty Lifter aims to demonstrate a leap-ahead in operational capability by designing, building, floating, and flying a long-range, low-cost X-Plane.
MGI Engineering has been developing cargo eVTOL technologies for the past year, with the aim of providing these services to the wider industry.
The DARPA QuANET program seeks to build a hardened configurable network interface card that connects quantum links with classical computing nodes.