{"id":528,"date":"2010-08-16T13:46:08","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T17:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=528"},"modified":"2010-08-16T13:46:08","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T17:46:08","slug":"air-force-contract-awarded-for-micro-vehicle-battery-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/?p=528","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Contract Awarded for Micro Vehicle Battery Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_530\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-530\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/MAV_ISAE_AFRL_200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-530\" title=\"MAV_ISAE_AFRL_200\" src=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/MAV_ISAE_AFRL_200.jpg\" alt=\"MAV prototype (ISAE\/AFRL)\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/MAV_ISAE_AFRL_200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/MAV_ISAE_AFRL_200-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-530\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MAV prototype (photo: ISAE\/AFRL)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adatech.com\/\">ADA Technologies Inc.<\/a> in Littleton, Colorado received a $100,000 contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory for research on powering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\/irp\/program\/collect\/mav.htm\">micro air vehicles<\/a> (MAVs) &#8212; unmanned aerial vehicles that can be as small as six inches in size and allow remote observation in areas that are inaccessible to ground vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>ADA&#8217;s research is aimed at developing a hybrid-power device for MAVs capable of operating in both high-power and high-energy modes, such as in flight and with sensors deployed for surveillance. The company says the increased energy and power density provided by the proposed technology should offer greater on-board power for MAVs, and allow for more payload capacity. The research should also improve the safety and lengthen the lifetimes of the energy storage devices.<\/p>\n<p>Design World has <a href=\"http:\/\/video.designworldonline.com\/bugbots.html\">a video<\/a> (4 mins 30 secs.) on MAVs produced for the Air Force Research Laboratory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ADA Technologies Inc. in Littleton, Colorado received a $100,000 contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory for research on powering micro air vehicles (MAVs) &#8212; unmanned aerial vehicles that can be as small as six inches in size and allow remote observation in areas that are inaccessible to ground vehicles. ADA&#8217;s research is aimed at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[80,47],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-ventures","tag-contract","tag-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":532,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions\/532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}