The secretary of the United States Army has designated the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command (SMDC) as the Army’s representative to identify and advocate for positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) […]
The Veterans Affairs (VA) Department has appointed its first director of artificial intelligence. Dr. Gil Alterovitz – who has degrees from MIT and Carnegie Mellon in electrical, biomedical, and computer engineering – will be based […]
The Blue Ribbon Task Force on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Mitigation at Airports – established by the Airports Council International-North America and the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International – is calling for a rapid […]
The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) have partnered to study the sun’s outer corona with the goal of gaining a better understanding of how solar events affect Earth’s atmosphere […]
Toyota, in a joint project with Sharp and NEDO, is set to start public road trials using solar batteries on electric cars. They will use a set of high-efficiency solar battery cells on its “Prius […]
US Army paratroopers deployed to Afghanistan this month will be using the “Black Hornet” mini-drone for the first time. Used for low-level reconnaissance, the mini-drone is capable of carrying light payloads, taking videos, thermal imaging, […]
Researchers from the University of North Carolina (UNC) and NC State have conducted a feasibility study of automatic external defibrillator (AED) delivery via drone to test whether drones could deliver the life-saving devices faster than […]
London City Airport, which is undergoing a £500 million (~$633 million US) City Airport Development Program (CADP), will work with its energy infrastructure partner, UK Power Networks Services, to install a microgrid that combines solar […]
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