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- The National Aerospace Laboratory Saves Cost of Five Full-Time Employees With Integrated Financial Solution
- The National Aerospace Laboratory NLR wanted to resolve technical and functional limitations of the legacy system, exacerbated by increased demand for functionality and provide an integrated and standardized system for business processes, while minimizing customizations to save management costs and time. The challenge was to improve the availability and accessibility...
- Tags: Financial, ERP, Aerospace, Aerospace Laboratory, Aerospace & Defense, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Financial Accounting, Manufacturing, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance
- Case studies 2009-07-01
- The Dutch National Aerospace Laboratory Enhances Systems for More Accurate, Accessible Information
- The Dutch National Aerospace Laboratory NLR, an independent technological institute, carries out applied research on behalf of the aviation and space sectors. NLR wanted to update systems to meet new technical and functional requirements. The challenge was to implement business processes that are ready to use and easily integrated -...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Financial, Aerospace, Aerospace Laboratory, Aerospace & Defense, Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Manufacturing, Finance, Software
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- Self-healing computers for NASA spacecraft
- As you can guess, hardwired computer systems are much faster than general-purpose ones because they are designed to do a single task. But when they fail, they need to be totally reconfigured. This can be just a costly problem in a lab on Earth, but it can be vital in...
- Tags: NASA, Patent, Unit, Hardware, FPGA, Computer, UA, UA Engineer, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- A flying fish or a seaplane?
- University of Michigan engineers have developed a new unmanned aerial vehicle UAV after looking at real flying fish. Like the fish, this seaplane takes off and lands on water. The 7-foot wingspan electric UAV has been funded by the DOD's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA and designed as 'an...
- Tags: University Of Michigan, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Aerospace & Defense, GPS, Manufacturing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-12-06
- Toward greener jet fuels
- Researchers at Princeton University are currently working on two projects to reduce jet travel's role in global warming. The first one, a major project funded by the U.S. Air Force with $7.5 million, is focused on developing computational models that accurately simulate the burning of jet fuel, a complex process...
- Tags: Princeton University, Petroleum, Aerospace, Alternative Fuel, Aerospace & Defense, Telecom & Utilities, Manufacturing, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-10-21
- Detecting turbulence in the clouds
- You all know that it is far safer to travel by plane than by car. Still, major plane crashes occur from time to time. But minor accidents caused by turbulence also happen and have been the cause of about 250 deaths in the U.S. from 1992 to 2001. This is...
- Tags: System, Radar, Thunderstorm, Williams, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-09-07
- Photos: NASA prepares for moon mission--under water
- A crew of aquanauts is spending 10 days in an undersea laboratory to simulate what life might be like on the lunar surface.Three astronauts and a Constellation Program aerospace engineer are spending 10 days at the bottom of the ocean--simulating what life could be like at a moon base or...
- Tags: photograph, Aquarius Underwater Laboratory, aquanaut, shovel, NASA, University of North Carolina, NOAA, alien, coast, stay, ocean, aerospace
- Image galleries 2007-08-14
- Endurance set to explore Europa
- Three months ago, I mentioned DEPTHX, a robot built to explore deep water in Mexico. Now, scientists from the University of Illinois at Chicago UIC and NASA are working on a reengineered version of the robotic probe. This new autonomous underwater vehicle AUV will be called ENDURANCE. This robotic device...
- Tags: Energy &, Environment, Engineering &, Innovation, Science &, Nature, Space &, Aerospace, Wireless &, Telecom
- Blog posts 2007-05-01
- The world's longest carbon nanotube
- As you probably know, carbon nanotubes have very interesting mechanical, electrical and optical properties. But they are small. Now, researchers at the University of Cincinnati UC have developed a process to build extremely long aligned carbon nanotube arrays. Theyve been able to produce 18-mm-long carbon nanotubes which might be spun...
- Tags: Engineering &, Innovation, Health &, Medicine, Nanotechnology
- Blog posts 2007-04-27
- Boron buckyballs are coming
- Boron buckyballs are comingBoron BuckyballsTHis could be the beginning of the technology needed to advance the research into effective methods of containing nuclear waste. Boron is quite effective as a neutron sponge, it's structure absorbs those extra neutrons generated in a reactor core and could be effective in surrounding...
- Tags: Semiconductors, reactor, NanoApex, nanotechnology, Boron, carbon, nuclear waste
- Discussion threads 2007-04-24
- A five-gear space rocket engine
- Georgia Tech researchers have had a brilliant idea. Rocket engines used today to launch satellites run at maximum exhaust velocity until they reach orbit. For a car, this would be analog to stay all the time in first gear. So they have designed a new space rocket which works as...
- Tags: Defense &, Security, Space &, Aerospace, Engineering &, Innovation
- Blog posts 2007-02-23
- MIT's smart flying drones
- As recent events have shown, military forces around the world are more and more relying on small unmanned aerial vehicles UAVs for surveillance missions. But these UAVs usually need many skilled operators to control them. Now, the Boston Globe reports that a new MIT air force is ready for help....
- Tags: Defense &, Security, Space &, Aerospace, Robotics, Computers &, Internet, Engineering &, Innovation
- Blog posts 2006-11-21
- Nanotech and immortality
- Nanotech and immortalityFoolish flies fought with flypaper and lost.Kurzwiel's point is: If life were intelligently designed; living things would work efficiently and with sustainable perfection. Since none do; there is not, nor has there ever been, a designer of life: intelligent or otherwise. Read the book and listen to his...
- Tags: Kurzweil, theory, nanotechnology
- Discussion threads 2006-08-29
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