Aerospace & Defense Technology

Feb 21 2025 31 ep. 18 mins 1
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The Aerospace & Defense Technology podcast provides independent coverage of information that impacts the business, innovation, and trends occurring across all segments of aerospace and defense, with an emphasis on technology. Across a continuing series of seasons, the A&DT Podcast provides insights into the most pertinent topics occurring in today's aerospace system engineering field. The podcast also features interviews with experts on topics featured at SAE Media Group Defense's U.S. and Europe-based live conferences and exhibitions.

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What Changes are Needed for Counter UAS Regulations in Civilian Airspace?

Feb 21 2025 22 mins  
A House committee hearing held earlier this month outlined the current federal regulations that limit the use of counter unmanned aircraft system technologies by state and local authorities to detect and mitigate the use of illegally operated drones in civilian airspace. "Make no mistake, the recent events in New Jersey have highlighted the ease with which bad actors could utilize

How a Cloud-Based Remote ID System Helps Monitor Random Drone Sightings

Feb 14 2025 19 mins  
AeroDefense has been developing drone detection technology to address drones flying in civilian airspace for several years has just released a new system, Air Warden Essentials, that could help increase awareness of random drone sightings incivilian airspace. The system uses a small receiver and cloud computing services to monitor drone traffic using networked Remote ID broadcasts.

Dronetag's New Pocket-Sized Drone Detection System

Feb 07 2025 19 mins  
Czech Republic-based startup Dronetag has launched a new pocket-sized drone-agnostic Remote ID receiver, RIDER, amid the rise in unidentified drone sightings in U.S. airspace.While counter UAS systems focus on neutralizing unididentified drones, Dronetag's new technology is a wireless portable system that provides real-time situational awareness. The device is capable of tracki

UxV/35: A New Approach to Lowering the Cost of Designing Drones

Jan 31 2025 16 mins  
UxV/35 is a new standard recently adopted by the PC104 Computing Consortium to enable rapid development and manufacturing of drones, automatic vehicles, and vessels. The standard provides an embedded computing "stackable bus" architecture where modules are assembled by "mating system boards into stacks like LEGOs™ instead of using wires, solder, and tiny screws.&qu

How Pratt & Whitney is Using a Robot to Help Build Jet Engines

Nov 29 2024 14 mins  
Pratt & Whitney is using a new robot named Alfred to assemble high-pressure compressor rotors for its GTF PW1100G-JM engine that powers the Airbus A320neo family of aircraft. In September, the aircraft engine manufacturing company published a blog post describing how Alfred is helping to reduce the assembly process time for GTF engines. On this episode of the Aerospace &

Scaling Manufacturing and Production of 'Data as a Service' Electric Drone

Nov 22 2024 18 mins  
The Department of Defense (DoD) recently announced a new $20 million award to Kraus Hamdani Aerospace for its Accelerate the Procurement and Fielding of Innovative Technologies (APFIT) program. Under the contract, Kraus Hamdani, the California-based drone as a service manufacturer, will use the funding to support the scaling of production of its K1000ULE unmanned aircraft system (U

The Unusual Machines Approach to Low Cost Drones and Drone Components

Nov 15 2024 14 mins  
Unusual Machines CEO Allan Evans is the guest on this episode of the Aerospace & Defense Technology podcast. Headquartered in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Unusual Machines describes itself as a "classic American technology company born from garage tinkerers and hobbyists, focused on serving the emerging drone industry with unique and innovative products." The company recently launch

Processing, Exploitation and Dissemination: The Army's Future Vision for Fused AI

Nov 08 2024 18 mins  
The U.S. Army has been establishing a new cross-functional team focused on exploiting the fusion of deep sensing data for decision-making in long-range targeting throughout 2024. During this episode, we present some of the comments made by U.S. Army leadership during the 2024 AUSA conference and exhibition. One feature of AUSA is the "Warriors Corner" where panel discussions are ho

Why the Air Force is Using the Virtualitics AI Approach to Weapon Sustainment

Nov 01 2024 16 mins  
On the first episode of Season 6 of the podcast, Michael Amori, CEO and co-founder of Virtualitics, is the guest to explain how the U.S. Air Force is using the company's "Integrated Readiness Optimization" AI applications to deploy a data-driven weapon sustainment strategy. Season 6 of the Aerospace & Defense Technology podcast is focused on the rise of AI, autonomy and roboti

The Army's Vision for Space and Satellite Communications

Oct 18 2024 9 mins  
During the Association of the U.S. Army's annual AUSA conference and exhibition, the conference featured a panel titled "Army Space Vision: Delivering Effects for Combat Ready Formations." On the fourth and final episode of Season 5, we feature Colonel Pete Akinson's presentation and question and answer session from his participation in this panel. Atkinson is the Principal Space A