Feature Articles

Every branch of the armed forces has a need for capabilities delivered from unmanned aerial vehicle/ unmanned aerial system (UAV/UAS) platforms. These unmanned vehicles have proved critical to improving situational awareness with surveillance and data collection, real-time communications, and even armament deployment. Key to the military’s technological approach ...
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Current practice in certification of avionics systems (e.g. DO-178B¹) is centered on testing. The testing process has been prescribed to incorporate a semi-formal notion of completeness to demonstrate that the software correctly implements all its requirements, and nothing further. But in the last analysis, our confidence ...
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Unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, are used in many applications to gather intelligence without risking human lives. These aircraft, however, have limited flight time because of their reconnaissance payload requirements coupled with their limited scale. A microwave-powered flight vehicle would be able to perform a reconnaissance mission continuously.
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