DARPA Debuts Unmanned Sea Vessel
During the next two years, the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will perform open-water testing of an unmanned surface vessel at Naval Base Point Loma in San...
New Composite Material Could Provide “Second Skin” for Soldiers
A team of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Livermore, Calif.) scientists has created a novel carbon nanotube (CNT) composite material that makes uniforms breathable and could protect soldiers from...
New Composite Material Could Reduce Impact of Aircraft and Vehicle Crashes
At the 2016 Farnborough International Air Show, British defense company QinetiQ unveiled a material – a Shape Memory Alloy (SMA), woven into a carbon fiber reinforced polymer – which it says can help...
Three Parts of F-35 Will be Made Entirely with Composites
Northrop Grumman Corporation, a major developer and producer of the U.S. Military’s F-35 weapons system, selected Tulsa-based company NORDAM to manufacture major structural components for the F-35 center...
Diamond Aircraft’s All-Carbon Fiber Aircraft Takes First Flight
Austria-based Diamond Aircraft’s Diamond Aircraft Reconnaissance Trainer-450 (DART-450), which the company claims is the world’s first all-carbon fiber aircraft, took off for its first flight last week....
Futuristic Army Aircraft with Composites Could Replace Black Hawk
The United States Department of Defense’s Future Vertical Lift Program has been working to develop a new generation of improved vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft for the U.S. Armed Forces. The...
