In 2015, the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC, China) Ministry of National Defense published its military strategy which highlighted the increasing importance of maritime dominance stating that “the traditional mentality that land outweighs sea must be abandoned, and great importance has to be attached to managing the seas and oceans …
Read More »Unmanned Aerial Systems emerging promising alternative for IEDs and Landmine detection and Disruptionr
Several countries suffer from the existence of millions of buried landmines in their territories. These landmines have indefinite life, and may still cause horrific personal injuries and economic dislocation for decades after a war has finished. Landmines, improvised explosive devices (IEDs), and other homemade bombs struck 6,461 people worldwide …
Read More »Biomarkers playing vital role from gauging Warfighter Readiness to predicting infection
The term “biomarker”, a portmanteau of “biological marker”, refers to a broad subcategory of medical signs – that is, objective indications of medical state observed from outside the patient – which can be measured accurately and reproducibly. Medical signs stand in contrast to medical symptoms, which are limited to those …
Read More »DARPA MBA develops set of Biomarkers predicting Warfighter Readiness and performance in military missions
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency launched a program helping the Department of Defense sustain and reinforce U.S. military readiness through the study of warfighter biology. The Measuring Biological Aptitude program seeks to understand biological processes and factors that could affect the performance of specialized military roles, according to DARPA. Service …
Read More »Increasing cyber threats to commercial and military ground vehicles is driving new approaches and research on vehicle cybersecurity
Increasingly, today’s vehicles feature driver assistance technologies, such as forward collision warning, automatic emergency braking, and vehicle safety communications. In the future, the deployment of driver assistance technologies may result in avoiding crashes altogether, particularly crashes attributed to human drivers’ choices. These vehicles depend on connectivity and technology that runs …
Read More »DARPA’s SI3-CMD to enhance Military Decision Making through artificial intelligence and computational game theory
Military decision-making applications could include strategy development, course of action planning, tactical analyses, intelligence gathering, wargaming and simulation, deception detection, coalition formation and evolution, and others. Such domains typically involve extremely large search spaces (making even a single traversal of a complete decision tree impossible), private information that is never …
Read More »Detonators innovating for a wireless safer & more productive blasting and EMI/EMP immune laser detonators
Energetic materials and munitions are used across DoD in mission critical applications such as rockets, missiles, ammunition, and pyrotechnic devices. In these applications, energetic materials and munitions must perform as designed to ensure success in both training and combat operations. Explosive substances are solid or liquid substances or mixtures, which …
Read More »UNMANNED VEHICLE SYSTEMS & OPERATIONS ON AIR, SEA, LAND by Professor Randall K Nichols Director, Unmanned Aircraft Systems- Cybersecurity Graduate Certificate Program
UNMANNED VEHICLE SYSTEMS & OPERATIONS ON AIR, SEA, LAND By Nichols, R. K., Ryan, J., J.C.H., Mumm, H.C., Lonstein, W.D., Carter, C., Hood, J.P, Mai, R., Shay, J., & Jackson, M. ABSTRACT Unmanned Vehicle Systems & Operations On Air, Sea, Land is our fourth textbook in a …
Read More »Synthetic Aperture Sonar on Unmanned underwater vehicle (UUVs) and AUVs is transforming Mine Countermeasures and Undersea Warfare
SOund Navigation And Ranging or SONAR is a technique of distance measuring between detector and an object base on sound reflection. The distance can be calculated from propagation time and speed of sound in specific mediums. For military, Sonars are the eyes and ears of ships or submarines in water …
Read More »DARPA’s BG+ is mitigating spinal cord injury of wounded warfighter, promoting healing in the battlefield
In November of 2016 Nature reported that the results of experiments in Beijing, in which a wireless brain implant — that stimulates electrodes in the leg by recreating signals recorded from the brain — has enabled monkeys with spinal-cord injuries to walk. “They have demonstrated that the animals can regain …
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