Elbit Systems recently released its Assault Rifle Combat Application System (ARCAS) – a built-in computerized artificial intelligence (AI) powered system that enables assault rifles to transform into digital, networked combat machines. ARCAS provides new capabilities […]
During the US Navy’s Large-Scale Exercise (LSE) 2021 – a global event in which it tests and validates the Navy and Marine Corps’ operating concepts – Oshkosh Defense was able to successfully demonstrate the Remotely […]
The US Marine Corps has recently been testing the Expeditionary Modular Autonomous Vehicle (EMAV). The EMAV is an autonomous truck capable of transporting casualties, sensors, and weapons. The EMAV is powered by a diesel-electric hybrid […]
The US Marines are testing the Drone40 – a miniaturized, low-cost, and recoverable unmanned aerial system that can be deployed by hand or launched from a 40 mm grenade launcher to send explosives to targets […]
The Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering and the Department of the Army recently demonstrated a mobile, fast-forming, secure, and intelligent vehicle-centric microgrid (VCM) prototype that provides mobile power for next-generation […]
The US Army and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a smart clothing fiber that could transform uniforms into wearable computers. The electronic textiles could be used to power sensors; collect data on […]
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. […]
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 […]
The US Army has awarded contracts for prototypes of a new, all-terrain vehicle (CATV) that can operate in the Arctic. The contracts went to two teams: Oshkosh Defense and the land systems division of Singapore’s […]
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