MAE Weekly - Mar 15th, 2023
 
 
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March 15, 2023
LEADING OFF
Budget includes $145 billion for research, and $170 billion for procurement -- including modernizing U.S. nuclear forces on land, sea, and in the air.
IN TECHNOLOGY
The tissue samples will be launched into space aboard SpaceX CRS-27, a resupply mission to the International Space Station, slated for liftoff no earlier than 14 March.
This research in UUV swarming will include methods for localization, navigation, and communications for coordinated multi-UUV swarming operations.
The integration of this technology, Sacramento International Airport says, ill save time and reduce stress for travelers, as well as provide a secure, touchless departures process for identity verification.
The WVN will be an extremely rugged telephone and announcing system for vital and mission-critical end-to-end communications within the ship.
IN CONTRACTS
Helicopter avionics include multi-function displays; flight management systems; flight control computers; and vehicle health management system.
MAX program seeks to capitalize on the advantages of signal processing that uses analog processing, hyperdimensional computing, or hybrid approaches.
SiAW is to be an Air Force air-to-ground weapon designed to hold at risk surface elements of the anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) environment.
This PNT project seeks technical approaches to enable the soldier to operate in hostile RF- and GPS-denied environments during urban fighting.
IN BUSINESS
GE Aerospace is to offer one megawatt turbogenerator to power Sikorsky aircraft, AviationPros reports.
Requirements enhance cybersecurity resilience by focusing on performance-based measures.
The MK 48 torpedo is standard armament for the Navy's fleet of fast attack submarines and Ohio-class ballistic- and cruise-missile submarines.
Coating produces thin, lightweight optical filters while resisting extreme temperatures, humidity, scratching, and other environmental hazards.
IN PRODUCTS
The waveguide horn antennas offer gain from 10 to 20 dBi for transmitting high power to receivers, as well as beam-width options from 11 to 55.2.
Other applications include semiconductor fabrication, communications systems, test and measurement, and custom power supplies.
The agency notes that these pair of areas are considered mutually exclusive and companies can respond to one or both areas.
Servers have PCI Express 5.0 fabrics, NVIDIA H100 GPGPUs, 400-gigabit-per-second network cards, high-speed DDR5 memory, and Compute Express Link (CXL).