March 29, 2024

UAV Invisibility Cloak Advancing

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It isn’t quite invisible yet, but an invisibility cloak for the military’s UAVs is moving fantasy closer to reality with technnology, reports Armed With Science.

This year, Navy officials announced the service will be ending the rigid career track from ensign to admiral, but too late for an innovative F/A-18F Super Hornet pilot who worked at the fore of 3D printing and the GhostSwimmer fish robot, but when the Navy’s promotion assembly line interfered he decided against the lifestyle. He heads to business school this fall, and talks about it with Navy Times.

It remains debatable whether Congress will get a cybersecurity bill passed this session, but mandatory security performance standards for industry are likely off the table, says The Washington Examiner in a recap of the history of debate and recommendations that business, not Congress, be put in the lead of the initiatives.

Australia will buy four P-8A Poseidons, its first maritime surveillance aircraft, combined with a US Navy buy of nine, for a total $1.49 billion, reports Aerospace Manufacturing and Design. The Royal Australian Air Force began working with the US Navy in 2009 on the Poseidon program and has established a joint program office at NAS Pax River.

The FlexTech Alliance will lead  162 companies, universities, and non-profits to develop a flexible electronics initiative to be managed by the Air Force Research Laboratory with $171 million over five years, $75 million from the Defense Department and $90 million from industry, academia and local governments, reports Defense Systems.com. The  cutting-edge electronics and sensors  could be built into clothing or the skins of ships and aircraft, report PilotOnline.

A small Virginia-based firms has learned from wolves how to train bomb-sniffing dogs to find bombs much more quickly, reports Military.com. The firm has the interest of Iraq, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and Jordan.

“Relentless Strike: The Secret History of Joint Special Operations Command,” appears on bookshelves today, the author, who previously covered special operations forces for Army Times, says he was never given nor passed along any classified information, reports The Hill. US Special Operations Command sent warnings to its operators with instructions not to discuss the book and providing resources for handling media inquiries.

The Manufacturer.com warns aerospace firms to take heed of inspections when using 3D printing technology, components are proving more difficult to evaluate using the new technology.

A Salisbury, MD firm won the NASA contract to to build a new 14,174-square-foot Mission Launch Command Center at Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, VA, reports Delmarva Now.

During the Cold War, a top secret Russian aircraft flew just above the water, video at the We are The Mighty also has some bio about the inventors.

No good news from minehunting, reports Defense News. Despite continued efforts, reliability plateaued nearly a decade ago, and it isn’t good enough.

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