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 […]
The United States Army is developing a new laser weapon – the Tactical Ultrashort Pulsed Laser for Army Platforms (UPSL) – that promises to be more powerful than existing weapons by nearly three orders of […]
The U.S. Army is working on a new spectrum analyzer to improve situational awareness. The analyzer, also called a Spec A, will integrate with the Electronic Warfare Planning and Management Tool (EW PMT) – a command-and-control […]
The Army Natick Soldier Systems Center in Natick, Massachusetts recently released a request for information (RIF) for the development of exoskeleton technologies to improve soldier performance in the areas of strength, endurance, and ergonomics – while […]
The US Army published its new Installations Strategy in December of 2020 which examines the need for cybersecurity on bases – particularly when proceeding with the installation of IoT technologies. “Our installations are not a […]
SparkCognition and SkyGrid have formed a new partnership to protect drones from zero-day attacks – cyber attacks that occur when a newly discovered software vulnerability is discovered by hackers. They are using an airspace management […]
Under the Submarine-Launched Unmanned Aerial System (SLUAS), the U.S. Navy is equipping submarines with camera-equipped drones that can be launched to detect targets too far away to be seen through a submarine periscope. Called “flying […]
The U.S. Department of Defense and the Australian Department of Defense have entered into an agreement to continue the development of air-breathing hypersonic missiles. The program – Southern Cross Integrated Flight Research Experiment (SCIFiRE) – […]
Soldiers from the Army’s 10th Mountain Division are participating in a 12-month human performance study to monitor their stress levels. They will wear special watches and rings that collect physical performance and physiological data – […]
The Department of Defense recently announced the release of the DOD Electromagnetic Spectrum Superiority Strategy. The strategy stresses the need for freedom of action in the electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) – at the time, place, and […]
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