DARPA’s Strategic Technologies Office recently awarded two contracts for Phase 1 of the Air Space Total Awareness for Rapid Tactical Execution (ASTARTE) project. Raytheon and Systems and Technology Research (STR) received a total of almost […]
US Army researchers – working with MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms – have created a new way to link materials with unique mechanical properties that have the possibility of building military robots made of robots. The […]
Descartes Labs Inc. – a spinoff company from Los Alamos National Laboratory – has received a $2.2 million US contract from The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to generate real-time analytics with a focus on […]
The Navy is holding its AVENGER Naval AI Grand Challenge between the service, naval laboratories, and the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center to look for ways to enhance its effectiveness by better incorporating artificial intelligence technologies […]
Command Sight Inc. – a start-up investigating technological solutions to improve communication between humans and animals – has created augmented reality goggles to enable special operations forces to communicate with military working dogs on the […]
A microwave radiation sensor with 100,000 times higher sensitivity than currently available commercial sensors has recently been developed. The Army partially funded the work to fabricate this bolometer – a sensitive electrical instrument for measuring […]
The Army Cyber Institute (ACI) at Georgia Southern University recently held an all-virtual cyber exercise – Jack Voltaic™ 3.0 – which simulated a cyber-attack around the cities of Savannah, GA and Charleston, SC. To test […]
The U.S. Army recently completed a series of live fire engagements demonstrating how artificial intelligence systems can rapidly work together to automatically detect threats, deliver targeting data, and recommend weapons responses. The engagements were a […]
Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a rechargeable zinc battery that integrates into the structure of a robot to provide much more energy. The new batteries are of particular importance as robot technology […]
The US Army’s Management Office-Cyber (DAMO-Cy) has become the DAMO-Strategic Operations (DAMO-SO), running under its G3/5/7 operations and planning directorate. The team will focus on the digital modernization of warfighting systems – including tactical edge […]
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