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Microbullets Reveal Material Strengths
In the macro world, it’s easy to see what happens when a bullet hits an object. But what happens at the nanoscale with very tiny bullets? A Rice University lab, in collaboration with researchers at the...
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Soldiers Use Sunlight to Improve Combat Capability
Soldiers are enlisting the sun's power in Afghanistan. Ten solar generators are now providing special forces soldiers in distant outposts with the energy they need to accomplish their mission....
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Researchers Aim to Create ‘MacGyver’ Robot
Robots are increasingly being used in place of humans to explore hazardous and difficult-to-access environments, but they aren’t yet able to interact with their environments as well as humans....
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Engineers to Add Arms and Hands to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), such as those used by the military for surveillance and reconnaissance, could be getting a hand – and an arm – from engineers at Drexel University...
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New Software Can Identify Coverage Problems Before Network Deployment
A Tennessee company has licensed award-winning software from Oak Ridge National Laboratory that will help industries install wireless networks more cost-effectively in...
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Researchers Use Graphene to Make Wireless Communications More Flexible
Michael Lekas and Sunwoo Lee, electrical engineering Ph.D. candidates, have been awarded a Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QInF) and the accompanying $100,000 prize. They...
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Army Developing Female-Specific Body Armor
Today, both male and female soldiers wear body armor that has been designed for men. But next summer the Army plans to field a new type of body armor designed for women that will be shorter in the...
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Army Stryker Units Get Armed With Precision Mortars
The first-ever Accelerated Precision Mortar Initiative round fired from a Stryker vehicle in Afghanistan accomplished what few conventional 120mm high-explosive mortars can achieve - a direct...
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Air Force Uses 3-D Scanner to Model Aircraft
When the 46th Test Wing's Air Force SEEK EAGLE Office purchased a 3-D laser scanner system six months ago, they had no idea how much of an impact the system would make.
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DoD Funds ‘Hostile Environment’ Control Technology Research
A Boise State University materials science researcher, along with engineers from Arizona State University, has received a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to...
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Army Laboratory Tests Human Behavior
Along the winding Snake Hill road in the Picatinny Arsenal 3500 area sits the Target Behavioral Response Laboratory (TBRL), which is responsible for providing answers to what engineers developing products...
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Upgraded Tactical Communications Network Passes Cold Weather Test
Even after being frozen overnight at negative 35-degree temperatures in the severe winter conditions of Alaska, the elements of the Army's second- generation tactical...
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Researchers Build Robot Jellyfish
Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas and Virginia Tech have created an undersea vehicle inspired by the common jellyfish that runs on renewable energy and could be used in ocean rescue and...
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Military Evaluates Vertical-Lift Aircraft Designs
The military services expect to unveil performance specifications this summer for a new joint vertical-lift aircraft, Maj. Gen. William T. Crosby told congressmen. Crosby, director of the Army's...
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Gas 'Plume' Detection System Could Protect Soldiers, First Responders
A wind monitoring and modeling system being developed by the Army Research Laboratory's (ARL) White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) division could one day protect soldiers and...
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Portable System Gives Soldiers Immediate Ballistic Protection
Your unit deployed so rapidly to the remote location that there was no time to set up sandbags and concrete barriers to protect the base camp. Those systems are heavy and...
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Antennaless RFID Tags Can Track Metal and Liquids
Tracking and identifying metal objects can prove difficult for some radio frequency identification (RFID) systems. A new patent-pending technology developed by a research team at the Center for...
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Army Rangers Test New Software-Defined Radio
The U.S. Army's 75th Ranger Regiment in Afghanistan recently completed an Operational Assessment of the software-programmable Joint Tactical Radio Systems (JTRS) Rifleman Radio, highlighting its...
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Army Drives Ahead With Joint Light Tactical Vehicle Program
The U.S. Army has issued a request for proposal for the Engineering and Manufacturing Development phase of the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle program. The Joint Light Tactical Vehicle,...
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Wool Being Reevaluated for High-Performance Combat Clothing
Natick Soldier Research, Development, and Engineering Center has contracted for several efforts with the American Sheep Industry Association and its subsidiary, Sheep Venture Company,...
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Army Tests Special Ops Weapon For Conventional Units
With the need for Soldiers in Afghanistan to engage the enemy at longer distances, Picatinny Arsenal has completed initial training and fielding of a weapon for traditional Army units...
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Atomic Weapons Defense Testers Mark Major Milestones
Two remarkable pulsed-power machines used to test the nation’s defenses against atomic weapons have surpassed milestones at Sandia National Laboratories: 4,000 firings, called ‘shots,’...
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Navy Tests Sensor-Equipped UAVs
The Naval Research Laboratory Vehicle Research Section has successfully completed flight tests for the Autonomous Deployment Demonstration (ADD) program. The final demonstration took place at the Yuma Proving...
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Army Implements Vehicle-Based Common Operating Environment
On the dynamic and complex battlefield, the Common Operating Environment will streamline communications between Soldiers in vehicles and higher headquarters, creating seamless...
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New Antenna Design Can Help Speed Communications
Recent flight tests conducted by a combined team from the Electronic Systems Center, the Space and Missile Systems Center, MIT Lincoln Laboratory and MITRE Corp. have shown that the low-profile...
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Rifleman Radio Completes Key Operational Test
An advanced lightweight radio that will connect troops on the front lines to the Army's tactical communications network has completed its operational test. The Joint Tactical Radio System, or JTRS,...
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Advanced Hypersonic Weapon Technology Undergoes Flight Test
At the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command, successes sometimes happen faster than a speeding bullet.
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Vibration Damper Prevents Jet Engine Seal Cracks
A $35 “snubber” developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Propulsion Directorate is a vibration damper that will prevent cracks in the J-seal on the F119 engine’s inlet case, a spoked, ring-like device that helps control the air going into the engine.
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Paper-Based Wireless Sensor Could Help Detect IEDs
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a prototype wireless sensor capable of detecting trace amounts of a key ingredient found in many explosives. The device, which employs carbon nanotubes and is printed on paper or paper-like material using standard inkjet technology,...
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