The 28th Maintenance Group Additive Manufacturing Flight, Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., conducted its first restoration of an active flying aircraft in May and repaired an over wing faring slip joint.
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Cummins Inc., Columbus, Ind., a global power leader, was awarded an $87M contract by the U.S. Army to complete the development of the Advanced Combat Engine, a modular and scalable diesel engine solution capable of hybridization that uses innovative opposed-piston technology to provide leap-ahead capabilities in power density and heat rejection not available in the current marketplace.
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U.K. technology company, Advanced Material Development, has been awarded a U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) contract to develop protective films to be integrated into protective eye wear.
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The Hampton Roads Alliance, Norfolk, VA, announced that VRC Metal Systems LLC, in collaboration with Mid-Atlantic Tech Bridge and the U.S. Navy, is creating an industrial facility in the city of Chesapeake, creating up to 10 new jobs for the Hampton Roads region over a five-year period.
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National University of Science and Technology, Russia, has developed a technology for producing a unique heat-resistant aluminum alloy with improved durability in cooperation with their colleagues from the Siberian Federal University and the Research and Production Centre of Magnetic Hydrodynamics (Krasnoyarsk).
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A research team at NC State, Raleigh, has developed a tougher radar-absorbent skin that also has more desirable stealth characteristics that will allow designers to rethink the stealth jet.
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Mitchell Dorfman, Oerlikon Metco (US) Inc., kicked off the virtual ITSC and AeroMat 2021 with his joint keynote on present and future thermal spray challenges and opportunities.
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Researchers at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, developed a process to create more resilient circuitry, which they demonstrated by creating a silver Spartan helmet.
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Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, have developed an innovative approach to process tungsten, making this brittle material soft with new process parameters for electron beam melting.
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Lincotek, Italy, a fully integrated, global contract manufacturer in the industrial gas turbines (IGT) and aviation markets, is demonstrating commitment to its Surface Solutions division plant in Tarbes, southwest France, with significant new investment.
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Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Germany, is coordinating twelve partners from seven countries that have united to make the development and production of corrosion protection technologies more sustainable, economical and faster.
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Ametek Inc., Berwyn, Pa., announced it has completed three acquisitions: Magnetrol International, Aurora, Ill.; Crank Software, Ottawa, Canada; and EGS Automation, Donaueschingen, Germany.
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Engineers from the University of Surrey, United Kingdom, and Airbus, Netherlands, have revealed a breakthrough nano-barrier that can protect satellites in low-Earth orbit from ultraviolet radiation and atomic oxygen.
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The Mars 2020 Perseverance rover successfully landed on Mars on February 18 and started its search for signs of past life on the red planet. The rover will be characterizing the planet’s geology, including collecting and identifying the composition of Martian rocks and dirt. A Raman spectrometer, which is part of the rover’s on-board laboratory, will help to perform one of the mission’s key goals of analyzing the sulfate content in the Martian soil.
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Fleet Readiness Center East, a US Navy aviation repair and maintenance facility, Havelock, North Carolina on Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, marked a milestone with the induction of the first F-35B Lightning II aircraft to undergo laser peening modifications.
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3D Systems, Rock Hill, South Carolina, has been selected by Raytheon Technologies and the Army Research Laboratory to optimize a component relative to an Army modernization product to maximize cooling and improve overall system performance.
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Scientists of the University of Stuttgart, Germany, developed a 3D-printed miniature spectrometer that can be manufactured directly onto camera sensors or arranged for quick (“snapshot”) and low-profile, highly customizable hyperspectral cameras.
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Olympus, Waltham, Mass., enables fast, easy and accurate long-distance inspections with its new IPLEX GAir long videoscope, combining maneuverability with high-quality, wide-view images to make complex pipe inspections fast and efficient.
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Chemists at Martin Luther University (MLU), Halle-Wittenberg, Germany have developed a way to integrate liquids directly into materials during a 3D printing process.
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Oerlikon Balzers, Liechtenstein, a leading provider of surface solutions, introduced its new BALORA portfolio of coatings for applications in high-temperature environments such as in the aerospace and power generation markets.
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Researchers at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, were able to isolate and image the structure and composition of the metallic line defect in a perovskite crystal BaSnO3.
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Perryman, Pennsylvania, announced today it will more than double its current titanium melting capacity through the addition of two new furnaces. The new furnaces will include one Electron Beam (EB) and one Vacuum Arc Remelt (VAR). They will be located with Perryman’s existing melting facilities on its California, Pa., campus. Once complete, the company’s total melt capacity will exceed 26 million pounds, placing Perryman among the world’s largest melters of aerospace quality titanium.
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Seco/Vacuum, Pennsylvania, has supplied the US Department of Defense with a vacuum heat treating furnace with integral oil quench, high pressure gas quench, and low pressure carburizing capabilities. As a critical supplier of aerospace components to the U.S. Department of Defense, this new vacuum oil quenching furnace will be able to handle any of the functions of the department’s existing heat treatment furnaces, either in a redundant role or to provide additional capacity to any of them.
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Silicon Valley, Calif.) and Xilinx Inc. (San Jose, Calif.) announced they have entered into a definitive agreement for AMD to acquire Xilinx in an all-stock transaction valued at $35 billion.
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The U.S. Department of Energy announced $16 million in funding for 17 projects as part of Phase 1 of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA-E) Ultrahigh Temperature Impervious Materials Advancing Turbine Efficiency (ULTIMATE) program. ULTIMATE teams will develop ultrahigh temperature materials for gas turbine use in the aviation and power generation industries. Several ASM members served as the lead technical lead/principal investigator for winning projects.
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The U.S. Department of Energy, Washington D.C., announced $16 million in funding for 17 projects as part of Phase 1 of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA-E) Ultrahigh Temperature Impervious Materials Advancing Turbine Efficiency (ULTIMATE) program.
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Trace amounts of graphene could create a decades-long protective barrier against oxygen corrosion for cars, aircrafts, and ships–but evaluating its effectiveness has been a challenge, until now. Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists report a possible solution in the latest issue of The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.
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Researchers at Penn State, University Park, Pa., published a new paper in ACS Nano integrating photodetectors with durable Gorilla glass, the material used for smart phone screens manufactured by Corning Incorporated.
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The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded Intel Federal LLC, Santa Clara, Calif., the second phase of its State-of-the-Art Heterogeneous Integration Prototype (SHIP) program.
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Solar Atmospheres of Western Pennsylvania, Hermitage, participated in a Boeing Supplier Assessment. The on-site, preventative engagement resulted in zero findings and Solar, once again, achieved preferred status for heat treating, hardness, and non-destructive liquid penetrant testing.
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