MDO Framework depicting the warfighting domains and the cross-cutting sectors that affect them. (Photo:USAF)
InfoScitex is providing modelling, simulation and analysis tools to demonstrate multi-domain operations and ‘transformative aerospace capabilities’.
The US Air Force Research Laboratory has selected InfoScitex Corporation to conduct R&D into ‘transformative aerospace capabilities and multi-domain operations [MDO]’, the DoD announced on 14 May.
Work on two IDIQ contracts, worth a maximum of $243.05 million and awarded after a competitive process, includes modelling, simulation, and analysis.
The first contract involves Aerospace Systems Technology Research and Assessment (ASTRA) Aerospace Technology Development and Testing effort to research, develop and demonstrate MDO and ‘transformative aerospace capabilities’, the DoD noted.
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University of Central Florida
UCF researchers say they ve trapped a sustained explosive detonation, fixed in place, for the first time, channeling its enormous power into thrust in a new oblique wave detonation engine that could propel an aircraft up to 17 times the speed of sound, potentially beating the scramjet as a hypersonic propulsion method.
Deflagration – the high-temperature burning of fuel with oxygen – is a relatively slow, safe and controlled way to release chemical energy and turn it into motion, that s why this nice, peaceful form of combustion underpins so much of our transport technology. But if you want to release the maximum possible energy from a unit of fuel, you get far better bang for your buck from. well, a bang.
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The students designed the rover for this year s U.S. Air Force Research Lab Challenge.
May 10, 2021
DULUTH, Minn.- From the minds of UMD Students comes a robot that can climb walls, carry and drop off items their entry in this year’s Air Force Research Lab Challenge.
The challenge was to design a remote controlled, autonomous robot that could climb walls and deploy sensors or cameras in hostile territory.
UMD’S rover is outfitted with a moveable camera for visibility, and four wheels and two propellers which allow the driver to actually drive it up walls to deliver payloads in places a human can’t reach, or where they could be compromised.
Flying at Speeds up to Mach 16 Could Become Reality
In their latest research published Monday in the journal
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers discovered a way to stabilize the detonation needed for hypersonic propulsion by creating a special hypersonic reaction chamber for jet engines.
“There is an intensifying international effort to develop robust propulsion systems for hypersonic and supersonic flight that would allow flight through our atmosphere at very high speeds and also allow efficient entry and exit from planetary atmospheres,” says study co-author Kareem Ahmed, an associate professor in UCF’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. “The discovery of stabilizing a detonation the most powerful form of intense reaction and energy release has the potential to revolutionize hypersonic propulsion and energy systems.”