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    An image of a digital aircraft in a virtual wind tunnel
    Uncrewed

    Rune Aero uses AI-powered virtual wind tunnel to cut aircraft design costs

    March 20, 2025
    By shifting wind tunnel testing to an early-stage virtual environment, Rune Aero aims to lower technical risks and optimize aerodynamics.

    Uncrewed

    Sikorsky photos
    Sikorsky's uncrewed aircraft is shown taking off vertically like a helicopter and flying horizontally like an airplane.
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    A percepto drone sits in an open container in the field.
    The Silvus Technology StreamConnect helps connect mobile ad-hoc networks (MANET) and mesh radio and the internet
    Navy researchers are surveying industry to find counter-uncrewed enabling technologies for future test, demonstration, and investment.
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    Future enabling technologies could help make submarines and uncrewed undersea vehicles quieter than ever before.
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    The DARPA Pulling Guard project seeks to develop an autonomous ship able to protect unarmed cargo ships from surface attacks.
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    Prototype model of rocket bomb tip, colored models of tail fins, and tail cone printed on a 3D printer from molten plastic.
    Computers

    Air Force eyes additive manufacturing and 3D printing for flight-critical military aircraft components

    Feb. 28, 2025
    To find qualified sources, the Air Force is asking industry for white papers that provide processes and procedures to qualify 3D printing vendors.
    The AN/AQS-24B mine hunter being deployed from the Mine Countermeasures Unmanned Surface Vessel (MCM USV).
    Sensors

    Northrop Grumman asked for upgrades of Side-scan sonar and digital signal processing for mine hunting

    John Keller
    Feb. 27, 2025
    The AN/AQS-24 can be towed through the water by surface vessels and helicopters in areas where naval commanders suspect the presence of enemy mines.
    A Boeing Insitu RQ-21A Blackjack unmanned aircraft prepares for launch from a U.S. Navy vessel.
    Uncrewed

    Navy asks Boeing Insitu for small and medium-sized unmanned aircraft and electro-optical sensor payloads

    John Keller
    Feb. 25, 2025
    Blackjack's standard electro-optical sensor payload has a visible-light imager, mid-wave infrared imager, laser rangefinder, and infrared marker.
    The future GOLUM lightweight UAV-delivered special operations munition should be smaller than the GBU-69, shown here.
    Sensors

    Special Operations Command asking industry for UAV-delivered lightweight munition with multimode navigation

    John Keller
    Feb. 21, 2025
    GOLUM should weigh no more than 30 pounds with warhead, and be able to hit targets accurately from as far away as 62 miles from aircraft release.
    The Curtiss-Wright TTS-9610 flight test transmitter is for long-duration flights of rockets and missiles
    Test

    Flight test transmitter with IRIG-106-23 modulation for rockets and missiles introduced by Curtiss-Wright

    Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions
    Feb. 21, 2025
    The TTS-9610 supports IRIG-106 LDPC linear error correction, with fast encoding and decoding algorithms to optimize accuracy over noisy channels.