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May 16 | News
Navy pilots and other flight specialists soon will have a new "smart machine" installed in training simulators that learns from expert instructors to more efficiently train their students. Sandia National Laboratories' AEMASE is being provided to the Navy as a component of flight simulators.
Feb 13 | News
Providing high-bandwidth communications for troops in remote forward operating locations is not only critical but also challenging because a reliable infrastructure optimized for remote geographic areas does not exist. DARPA recently announced the Fixed Wireless at a Distance program seeks to tackle the problem of stationary infrastructure designed specifically to overcome the challenge inherent with cell communication in remote areas.
Jan 17 | News
The Georgia Tech Research Institute has received a $1.5 million contract to produce an online environment that would let multiple design teams work together to develop new military vehicles. The VehicleForge project's goal is to create a secure central Website and other Web-based tools and methods that would facilitate such collaborative development.
Jan 11 | News
Marines running low on ammo may one day use an app on their digital handhelds to summon a robotic helicopter to deliver supplies within minutes, enabled by technologies from a new Office of Naval Research program. The Autonomous Aerial Cargo Utility System is a five-year, $98 million effort to develop sensors and control technologies for robotic vertical take-off and landing aircraft.
8/29/2011 | News
Loss of bone mass is the well-established reason that bones become more brittle as we grow older. At microscopic dimensions, however, researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have found that age-related loss bone quality can be just as important as loss in quantity.
6/17/2011 | News
At
a global security conference in Paris Friday, Deputy Defense Secretary
William J. Lynn III outlined a pilot program in which the government
helps the defense industry in safeguarding the information their
computer systems hold. The program will share classified threat
information and the know-how to employ it with participating defense
companies or their Internet service providers.
6/1/2011 | News
America's
new cyber czar said Wednesday, ahead of an international cybersecurity
summit in London, that international law and cooperation--not
another treaty--was enough to tackle cybersecurity issues for
now. Christopher Painter’s comments were in response to the urging of
Michael Rake, chairman of one of the world's largest telecommunications
companies, to begin forming a cyber nonproliferation treaty.
5/19/2010 | News
Around the world, armies already use about 10,000 different
remote-controlled robot systems for surveillance, reconnaissance or bomb
disposal — as seen in the Oscar-winning film "The Hurt Locker." Experts
are still waiting for a breakthrough on ground robots to fulfill simple
tasks
without human guidance.
5/12/2010 | News
A new low-profile antenna engineered by Southwest Research
Institute solves the challenge of identifying and locating the source of
communications
signals from a vehicle on the move—without the vehicle sticking out like
a sore
thumb for miles.
3/30/2010 | New To Market
Designed primarily for missile warning systems, the Altair can operate in two mid-IR bandwidths depending on local weather conditions to improve detection levels. More significantly, the dual bands can be fused for even more information because the resulting images are naturally registered.
