This article emphasizes the critical importance of routinely revalidating relief and flare system designs, much like the ...

We consider the problem of assessing the reliability of a 1-out-of-2 software-based system, in which failures of the two channels cannot be assumed to be independent with certainty. An informal ...

The direct current (dc) motor servo systems are widely used in vehicles. The parameters and disturbances of the servo systems are usually uncertain or unknown, which makes it difficult to achieve ...

As the U.S. sees record air traffic volume, America’s air traffic control system continues to run on decades-old technology. Congress should fund modernization now to reduce long-term upkeep ...

The fragile state of the U.S. air traffic control system was easy to see during the recent outages in Newark. But it will be a lot harder to make up for decades of underinvestment and other mistakes.

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration issued a Request for Information for a company to lead the build-out of a new air traffic control system. The integrator will ...

More than half the $5.25 billion budgeted for the expansion of the Panama Canal -- $3.35 billion -- will be spent on new single-lane, three-step locks at the Atlantic and Pacific entrances, as ...