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Understanding the Bow Topside Flow Field of the USS Zumwalt for Hypersonic Missile Launching: A Potential Missing Link

What happens when a hypersonic missile is launched from a Navy destroyer? Aside from the forthcoming damage effects and political fallout, there are a million complex physical interactions that take place right at the moment and place of the launch.

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A Brief History of the Advanced Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Polymers of NRL’s Chemistry Division

In common language, the term “polymer” elicits references to many ordinary, practical items, including the phrase “paper or plastic” in checkout counters.

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Atmospheric Corrosion Severity and the Role of the Environment: Determining a Direct Correlation

Corrosion costs the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) billions of dollars annually and heavily impacts the availability of DoD assets to carry out their missions [1].

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Attributing Mission Performance to Submarine Subsystems

Submarine design is a multifaceted process requiring extensive effort spanning across various disciplines and organizations. Part of this effort is deciding which missions a submarine is expected to conduct and assessing its efficacy, or mission effectiveness, in those missions via constructive simulation.

Note From the Editor-in-Chief

Celebrating Nearly 250 Years of U.S. Naval Innovation On March 9, 1862, as the first sunlight of the day sparkled…

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Emerging Applications of Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics in Naval Energy Autonomy

This article explores several emerging applications of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) for U.S. Department of the Navy (DON) energy autonomy and digital transformation use.

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Researchers Invent New Way to Stretch Diamond for Better Quantum Bits

A future quantum network may become less of a stretch thanks to researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s)…

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NASA Stennis Achieves Major Milestone for In-Flight Software Mission

The Autonomous Systems Laboratory team at NASA’s Stennis Space Center recently cleared a major milestone for a historic in-flight mission…

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Lonestar Tech Demo Successfully Completes Mission

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. — Lonestar, a U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command tactical space support vehicle on-orbit demonstrator, has…

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DISA Releases New Electromagnetic Spectrum Capability to Enhance Modern Warfighting

The Defense Information Systems Agency announced the release of the initial features for Electromagnetic Battle Management – Joint, or EMBM-J,…

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DARPA Moves Forward on X-65 Technology Demonstrator

DARPA has selected Aurora Flight Sciences to build a full-scale X-plane to demonstrate the viability of using active flow control…

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Parallax Rising 2.2 Table Top Exercise Models Space Refueling Future

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — Imagine a day in the future, during a potential conflict on Earth, when a geosynchronous (GEO)…