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CARE: CAVE-Based Command Center for Carrier Swarm Coordination

As carriers add more uncrewed aircraft, today's control systems still put one operator alone at one console. CARE is a room-scale command center that lets a full crew supervise the swarm together instead.

The Navy has begun installing carrier-based drone control centers: the Unmanned Air Warfare Center (UAWC) aboard USS George H.W. Bush is the first,

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Kevin Kostage
Columbia, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 61
Aerospace & Defense
Jul 9, 2026

Axiom Post-Quantum Signing Engine

Current software-signing architectures depend on centralized Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) services to establish trust. In disconnected, air-gapped, tactical, or highly regulated environments, this dependency creates operational limitations, creates a single point of failure, and limits the ability to independently verify software integrity. While post-quantum cryptographic algorithms protect against future computational threats,

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Jeffrey Heisler
Crestline, United States
Votes: 3
Views: 194
Aerospace & Defense
Jul 8, 2026

Autonomous Re-Usable Hybrid-Rocket-Rotor Interceptor Drone for AI Air Defense against High-Speed Targets

Modern geopolitical conflicts, such as those in Ukraine and the Middle East, have exposed a critical vulnerability in global air defense: the crushing economic asymmetry of countering high-speed threats. Protecting sovereign airspace against jet-powered kamikaze drones, cruise missiles or rockets currently forces nations to deploy expensive surface-to-air missiles (like Patriot,

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Philipp Grimmer
Stuttgart, Germany
Votes: 0
Views: 124
Aerospace & Defense
Jul 8, 2026

Universal Visibility Restoration Platform for Scattering Environments

Visibility degradation caused by fog, haze, smoke, dust, and turbid water remains a major challenge for transportation, autonomous systems, defense, marine operations, industrial inspection, and search and rescue. Existing solutions are typically designed for a single environment or depend on expensive thermal, infrared, LiDAR, or specialized imaging hardware, limiting their large scale deployment.

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Parikshit Saha
Kanpur, India
Votes: 2
Views: 199
Aerospace & Defense
Jul 8, 2026

Dynamic Non-Linear Display (DNLD) Flight Instruments

It might come as a surprise that the modern aviation tape altimeter does not show the ground until the aircraft is below approximately 500 ft. Or that the altitude predictors and preselected altitude values "park" at the edge of the display, saturated, during normal climbs and descents, only flash by in seconds when the aircraft passes the preselected value.

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John Maris
Saint-bruno, Canada
Votes: 4
Views: 68
Aerospace & Defense
Jul 8, 2026

AuthADS: Lightweight Post-Quantum Authentication for ADS-B Broadcasts

Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast (ADS-B) is the backbone of modern air traffic surveillance, broadcasting an aircraft's identity, position, and velocity in the clear, with no authentication. This makes it trivially spoofable: anyone with a low-cost software-defined radio can inject fake aircraft or impersonate real ones, threatening both safety and security as airspace grows more congested and automated.

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Niraj Prabhu
Toulouse, France
Votes: 0
Views: 52
Aerospace & Defense
Jul 8, 2026

Anti-drone Swarm Defense

We are addressing the challenge of identifying and disabling drone swarms at a distance of more than one kilometer. Our solution is to assemble a defensive drone swarm that can act together as a large phased-array antenna to emit focused high-power microwaves.

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Irving Weinberg
North Bethesda, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 45
Aerospace & Defense
Jul 8, 2026

Smart Electronics /RF/ Microwave Engineers Exploit Chaos to Design for Reliability of Complex Products and Platforms

Modern electronic design automation (EDA) is a powerful tool for EE /RF/ microwave engineers, but these tools do not address 3D electromagnetic (EM) field radiation, crosstalk and interference which plays a critical role at high frequencies and high data rates.

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Paul Bremner
San Diego, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 68
Aerospace & Defense
Jul 7, 2026

ATLAS: Practical Vacuum Buoyancy for Sustainable Flight

Every aircraft that has ever flown has depended on one of two things: consuming energy or carrying a lifting gas. ATLAS challenges that assumption.

For over 300 years, engineers have recognised that a vacuum is the ultimate lifting medium. Unlike helium or hydrogen, a vacuum can never leak away because it contains nothing.

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Robert Edwards
London, United Kingdom
Votes: 1
Views: 844
Aerospace & Defense
Jul 6, 2026

Naval Medical Radiology Diagnosis System (NavRads)

Frontline Radiology Diagnosis System. AI system to get battle injury diagnosis during the Golden Hour. The Golden Hour is the initial time frame where a correct battle injury diagnosis can reduce the risk of death by 25%.

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Marc Perez
San Marcos, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 59
Aerospace & Defense
Jul 5, 2026

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