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DARPA’s LogX to develop Real-time DOD logistics and supply chain system while improving its situational awareness (diagnosis), prediction (prognosis) and resilience.

October 3, 2020 AI & IT, Defense & Military, Industry & Market Dynamics Comments Off on DARPA’s LogX to develop Real-time DOD logistics and supply chain system while improving its situational awareness (diagnosis), prediction (prognosis) and resilience.

The Department of Defense (DoD)’s Joint Logistics Enterprise, which spans both supply chain and logistics operations, provides the means to muster, transport, and sustain military power anywhere in the world at a high level of readiness. The Joint Logistics Enterprise is immense: for the Air Force alone, the number of aircraft …

Amphibious aircraft for search and rescue, maritime surveillance and to detect and destroy submarines, China’s AG600, is the world’s largest

October 2, 2020 Air Force & Aviation, Geopolitics, Strategy & Technological Rivalries, Security & Threat Management Comments Off on Amphibious aircraft for search and rescue, maritime surveillance and to detect and destroy submarines, China’s AG600, is the world’s largest

An amphibious aircraft or amphibian is an aircraft that can take off and land on both land and water. Amphibious aircraft are heavier and slower, more complex and more expensive to purchase and operate than comparable landplanes but are also more versatile. The U.S. military designed AAV in order to deploy …

3D Printing to enable on-demand, 3D-printed explosives at the front line.

October 1, 2020 Defense & Military, Manufacturing, Weapons & Munitions Comments Off on 3D Printing to enable on-demand, 3D-printed explosives at the front line.

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. Energetic materials consist of fuels and oxidizers which are intimately mixed. …

China’s two aircraft carriers, the Liaoning and the Shandong, recently completed military drills in the South China Sea, plans to launch its third aircraft carrier by end of 2020 or early 2021

October 1, 2020 Geopolitics, Strategy & Technological Rivalries, Industry & Market Dynamics, Navy & Maritime Comments Off on China’s two aircraft carriers, the Liaoning and the Shandong, recently completed military drills in the South China Sea, plans to launch its third aircraft carrier by end of 2020 or early 2021

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 …

Unmanned Aerial Systems emerging promising alternative for IEDs and Landmine detection and Disruptionr

September 30, 2020 Security & Threat Management, Unmanned & Autonomous Systems Comments Off on 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 …

Biomarkers playing vital role from gauging Warfighter Readiness to predicting infection

September 29, 2020 Biotech & Synthetic Biology, Human & Soldier Systems Comments Off on 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 …

DARPA MBA develops set of Biomarkers predicting Warfighter Readiness and performance in military missions

September 29, 2020 Biotech & Synthetic Biology, Human & Soldier Systems Comments Off on 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 …

Increasing cyber threats to commercial and military ground vehicles is driving new approaches and research on vehicle cybersecurity

September 27, 2020 Army & Land, Cyber & IW Comments Off on 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 …

DARPA’s SI3-CMD to enhance Military Decision Making through artificial intelligence and computational game theory

September 27, 2020 AI & IT, Defense & Military Comments Off on 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 …

Detonators innovating for a wireless safer & more productive blasting and EMI/EMP immune laser detonators

September 21, 2020 Defense & Military, Manufacturing, Weapons & Munitions Comments Off on 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 …