The Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and University of Maryland (UMD) have signed a five-year cooperative agreement to conduct artificial intelligence research. The agreement could provide up to US$68 million in funding to drive studies in […]
A division of the U.S. Army Transportation School – The Maritime & Intermodal Training Department (MITD) – is using simulation training for watercraft operators and engineers, marine deck and engineering warrant officers, cargo handlers, and […]
US Army Communications-Electronics Command at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD has asked four battery companies to compete to build the Conformal Wearable Battery (CWB) which will power a variety of wearable computers, sensors, and communications devices. […]
DARPA has released a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project to assess the feasibility of the SQUad Intelligent Robotic Radio Enhancing Links (SQUIRREL) project. SQUIRREL seeks to use small flying, climbing, or hybrid robots in […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded contracts for the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) program’s first phase. DRACO’s goal is to demonstrate a nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) system to power […]
Professor Javaan Chahl and his team from the University of South Australia (UniSA) are working remotely during the pandemic to design a dragonfly-inspired drone that they hope will match the insect’s skills in hovering, cruising, […]
The Marine Corps recently held a simulation training event called ‘COPE JAVELIN.’ The simulation followed a fictional operational scenario involving marine aviators from various units using flight simulators for different aircraft. They connected across different […]
The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command’s Army Research Laboratory is working with researchers at Duke University and the University of North Carolina on a new form of robotics called “biohybrids.” Biohybrid robots would use […]
Researchers from the Universities of Birmingham, Oxford, and Ghent are working on a new process that could lead to more efficient and reusable protection from shock, impact, explosion, and vibration. Dan Zhao, an expert in […]
The U.S. Army’s new Enhanced Night Vision Goggle-Binocular (ENVG-B) goggles will provide the Army’s close combat forces with “an extra capability to observe and maneuver in all weather conditions, through obscurants, during limited visibility, and […]
Kaman Air Vehicles, a division of Kaman Aerospace Corporation, has successfully tested its K-MAX TITAN – a heavy-lift unmanned helicopter designed for the commercial market. During its debut flight, the helicopter was controlled from the […]
The US Marine Corps has announced its plans to invest about $1 billion in electromagnetic warfare development over the next five years. According to Lt. Col. Brian Ackerson, branch head for Marine Air Ground Task […]
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