The US Army recently received the first of its light Robotic Combat Vehicle (RCV) prototypes and has begun testing for a company-level soldier assessment to be held in 2022. The RCV-Light vehicle prototypes were manufactured […]
Schneider Electric and Black & Veatch have completed the installation of a microgrid system at the Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Miramar in San Diego, California. The microgrid is online, fully operational, and has been […]
NORAD partnered with the Defense Innovation Unit – a Pentagon organization that specializes in using emerging commercial technologies for military purposes – to create an artificial intelligence system to detect threats that may have previously […]
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 […]
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