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    The Tough and Affordable Ceramics Today (INTACT) project will explore atomic-scale toughening mechanisms that afford ceramics with the ductile characteristics of metallic systems.
    Power

    Briefings set for INTACT project to create monolithic ceramic materials with strength of metallic systems

    John Keller
    Jan. 10, 2025
    Researchers want processing techniques to engineer defects like vacancies and dislocations to accommodate fine-scale plastic deformation.

    Defense Executive

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    This detailed rendering of a futuristic scientific device or quantum computer component features a vertical column of glowing red spherical nodes arranged in a double helix pattern.
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    The GBU-53/B has millimeter wave active radar homing, semi-active laser guidance, infrared homing with an uncooled imaging infrared camera, GPS-coupled inertial guidance, and radio data-links back to the aircraft.
    A Navy pilot explains the functions of instruments in the cockpit of a P-8A Posideon aerial surveillance jet.
    The guided-missile destroyer USS Chafee (DDG 90) launches a Block V Tomahawk, the weapon’s newest variant, during a missile exercise.
    A military policeman reviews his coordinates to enter into the Defense Advanced Global Positioning System Receiver he will use for a night Land Navigation event.
    A Navy communications expert sends messages while aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD 5) during an exercise in 2019.
    The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) sits in dry dock in Yokosuka, Japan. The TR-343 transducer is part of the AN/SQS-53C hull mounted sonar shown at the bow of the ship.
    The EC-130J TACAMO aircraft will maintain links between national command authorities and deployed nuclear forces
    Communications

    Northrop Grumman to build cyber security-enhanced EC-130J airborne command post for strategic communications

    John Keller
    Dec. 20, 2024
    TACAMO provides a survivable, endurable, and reliable command and control aircraft to link U.S. national command authorities and nuclear forces.
    PrSM is the next-generation long-range precision-strike missile to attack, neutralize, suppress, and destroy enemy targets.
    Sensors

    Lockheed Martin to build PrSM land- and sea-attack missiles with multi-mode seekers in $59.2 million deal

    John Keller
    Dec. 19, 2024
    Surface-to-surface missile is fired from the M270A1 Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) and the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS).
    An Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle from the 492nd Fighter Squadron takes off during a Phase II exercise.
    RF/Analog

    Boeing to install BAE Systems EPAWSS electronic warfare (EW) avionics for F-15E pilot situational awareness

    John Keller
    Dec. 19, 2024
    EPAWSS replaces analog federated avionics with a digital EW suite that operates amid modern EW threats with dense radio-frequency backgrounds.
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    Nuclear thermal propulsion may enable maneuver warfare in space, and reduce the time it takes for astronauts to reach Mars.
    Power

    Researchers eye space nuclear thermal propulsion for space maneuver warfare and to cut transit time to Mars

    John Keller
    Dec. 18, 2024
    Dramatic improvement in propulsion efficiency offered by nuclear thermal propulsion potentially enables development of a true space logistics network.
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    DARPA seeks to use unmodified vegetation as proxy sensors to detect chemical warfare agents
    Sensors

    Military researchers ask industry for ways to use unmodified vegetation as sensors to detect chemical agents

    John Keller
    Dec. 18, 2024
    The eX Virentia (eXVi) project seeks to use the observable response of local unmodified vegetation as a proxy sensor to detect chemical exposure.