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The story of aircraft materials reads like a timeline of innovation. What started with traditional metals like aluminum has evolved into a sophisticated world of composites and advanced polymers. [...]

Satellites are the unseen and unsung heroes of modern life, allowing us to find the fastest way home in rush hour traffic while we check the weather and listen to Sirius XM. Yet, their operation [...]

All modern aircraft – regardless of whether they’re military, cargo, or passenger – are incorporating an increasing number of composite materials into the design and fabrication processes. [...]

Plating has always been an important part of the aerospace and defense industry. With the recent focus on lightweighting components, different plating techniques such as electroless plating have [...]

The push to modernize the US industrial base has come in recent years with the main impetus being the COVID pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine conflict. This movement to modernize all aspects of [...]

The aerospace and defense supply chain is as intricate and complex as any aircraft that the supply chain manages to produce. As such, every aircraft is not only a miracle of engineering, but also [...]

Electrical connectors are the unsung heroes of many of the world’s leading high technology products. Connectors facilitate the flow of data and electricity between two or more different [...]

Supply chains are one of the great modern marvels that excel at producing products at a reduced cost and with a high degree of efficiency. However, what these supply chains have produced in terms [...]

The aerospace and defense (A&D) sector is the backbone of national security, providing the advanced technologies, systems, and capabilities that protect our nation and project American power [...]

As the world is still reeling from the aftershocks of the response to COVID-19, A&D supliers are becoming increasingly gun-shy with fixed-price contracts from the DoD. While the Pentagon is [...]