How is the Electric Grid Vulnerable to Cyber Attacks?
The electric utility industry is a valuable target for adversaries seeking to exploit industrial control systems and operations technology for a variety of purposes.
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How to protect U.S. grid from cyber attacks
The US electrical grid remains alarmingly vulnerable to a variety of cyber threats. Judging by the number and type of cyber incidents reported to...
Bees Don’t Need GPS, So Is It Possible That Robots Might...
One of the biggest obstacles to deploying very small autonomous robots is navigation. As machines shrink, the hardware required to determine position and direction...
New Lithium-Ceramic Batteries Promise Faster Charging and Greater Safety for EVs
At CES 2025 in Las Vegas, Taiwanese battery manufacturer ProLogium is showcasing its next-generation lithium-ceramic batteries (LCB), offering a solution to critical challenges in...
Disruptive Autonomous Truck Tech to Save Fuel
The heavy truck field industry in both the commercial and military sectors is a large consumer of fuel. A new paradigm aims at changing...
Unique Design Allows Extended Flight for Tactical Drone
The new US-1 drone by Impossible Aerospace claims to be the highest performance aircraft with electric propulsion. By designing the drone’s power source to...
Self-Propelled Robot Challenges Nature Laws
A new robot project blurs the boundary between materials and robots. Engineers at Caltech and ETH Zurich have developed robots capable of self-propulsion without...
Familiar UAS Gets Next-Generation Clean Energy System
The ScanEagle UAS manufactured by Boeing subsidiary Insitu has logged more than one million flight hours in military and civilian applications. It can be...
Synchronized Blast of thousands of Hizballah-Owned Pagers Shocks the Terror Organization
In the afternoon of Tuesday, September 17, a series of coordinated explosions from pagers belonging to Hizballah members rocked Lebanon and Syria, resulting in...
Batteries, Not Flux Capacitors: The Real Future of Urban Flight
Electric air taxis may be the future of city transport, but before they take off, critical gaps in infrastructure, regulation, and airspace management need...
Thousands Of Industrial Energy Systems Vulnerable To Hacking
The US Department of Homeland security has issued a warning the thousands of industrial energy systems can be remotely hacked. These internet-connected systems rely...
A New Kind of Stealth: Using Radar Energy Instead of Batteries
Modern military and civilian systems face a growing power and connectivity problem. Sensors, communications, and autonomous platforms all demand more energy, yet batteries add...
US Navy Juiced For Railguns
This May, the US Navy received the portable power system that will be used to fire its futuristic railguns.
General Atomics’ Electromagnetic Systems Groups (GA-EMS)...
Extreme Endurance Solar-Electric UAV Development in The Works
A solar-electric UAV will support commercial and security requirements. Bye Aerospace announced an important engineering, development and production collaboration with SolAero Technologies Corp. to...
The Navy’s Plan to Integrate Nuclear Reactors into Warships
The United Kingdom’s Royal Navy is considering the integration of nuclear power into its fleet of surface ships. The Ministry of Defense has issued...
Learning from Feedback – Next Generation Tethered Drones
Tethered drones have various advantages, including the fact that there is no need for a trained pilot to operate them, they have a continuous...
Revolutionarily Maneuverable Satellite Has Solar Wings
The Supernova satellite bus is the newest development by Seattle-based company Portal Space Systems.
The company’s aim is to solve orbital maneuverability challenges with its...
Solar UAS – Silent and Undetectable
A solar electric, fixed wing, long endurance, long range Unmanned Aircraft System is the only solar electric unmanned aerial system to provide long endurance...
Advanced Fuel Injection System Achieved World Record
A new world record was achieved by drone thanks to an advanced fuel injection system. Most UAV engines go between a range of 20...
Unexpected Power Source to Help Infantry Troops
Military batteries must operate in a high temperature range, have high power and long energy density, and be safe in a ballistic environment. While...
Multiple Drones will Operate Infrastructure Inspections Simultaneously
Unmanned aerial systems can be used effectively for various sorts of critical infrastructure inspection missions, as the networks are spread over vast geographical areas....
Competition Over Fastest Helicopter Gaining Momentum
Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft will have to rapidly cover long distances at low altitude to evade Russian and Chinese-style anti-aircraft defenses. At those low...
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