Aerospace & Defense
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.
The AAF system is squadrons of low-cost, mass-produced, autonomous electrically-powered "eTanker" aircraft with high lift-to-drag ratios that can perform Extremely Short Take-off and Landings (ESTOL) with ultra-quiet propulsion that enables high-proximity aviation, with autonomous interoperable dock loading with quick turnaround times enabled by use of payload-agnostic carts.
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,
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,
The LCR Reader MPB from Siborg Systems Inc. is a 36 g tweezers style LCR/multimeter that brings benchtop grade measurement performance into aerospace and defense maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO). It closes the gap between large, expensive benchtop LCR meters and traditional handheld instruments that lack the precision, frequency range, connectivity, and calibration traceability required for mission critical electronics.
This project presents a bio-mimetic wing system designed for human-scale flight, modeled with 1mm precision in Onshape. Unlike rigid traditional wings, this design utilizes a series of "human feathers" that mimic the skeletal structure and plumage of large birds of prey.
Key Technical Features:
Parametric Design: Utilizing Onshape’s variable studios,
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,
Space habitats today rely on separate subsystems for structure, thermal control, radiation protection, sensing, and communication. CIMx Building Blocks introduces a coherence‑regulated material envelope that unifies these functions into a single intelligent shell. The envelope becomes both the structural boundary and a distributed computational and modulation substrate, enabling new modes of habitat control, energy use,
DBbun Executable VTOL Design and Mission Simulator is a software platform for rapidly exploring aircraft concepts before committing to expensive prototypes or flight tests. Early-stage vertical-takeoff-and-landing design is difficult because payload, mass, propulsion, energy use, environmental conditions, and mission requirements interact in ways that are hard to evaluate with static spreadsheets or isolated engineering calculations.
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