Category Critical & Emerging Technologies

New counter-terrorism training technologies prepare security forces for every possible terror scenario

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Today’s terrorist landscape is more fluid and complex than ever and the threat landscape is less predictable. The United States and our allies face an increasingly complex terrorist landscape, populated by a diverse array of actors employing new technologies and…...

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Scientists discovering new alternatives to ease demand for scarce Rare-Earth minerals

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REEs are a series of chemical elements found in the Earth’s crust that are essential components of many technologies, including electronics, computer and communication systems, transportation, health care, and national defense. Rare Earths Elements (REE) are incorporated into many sophisticated…...

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Next generation Green Supercomputers based on superconducting and superconducting spintronics to enable modern nuclear weapons design, Big data, intelligence analysis and Cybersecurity

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Today, silicon microchips underlie every aspect of digital computing. Now Moore’s Law is stuttering, and the world’s supercomputer builders are confronting an energy crisis. But those big gains using silicon seem to have ended, with the high-end Intel Core i7…...

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Biological Synthesis of Metallic Nanoparticles by Bacteria, Fungi and Plants can be utilized for electromagnetic pulse protection, according to US Army

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Nanoparticles have unique thermal, optical, physical, chemical, magnetic and electrical properties compared to their bulk material counterparts. These features can be exploited for next generation biosensors, electronics, catalysts and antimicrobials. Metallic nanoparticles are one important and widely studied group of…...

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Skin patches to diagnose diseases, monitor soldiers’ health, and stress levels in combat

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Biomedical sensors present an exciting opportunity to measure human physiologic parameters in a continuous, real-time, and nonintrusive manner by leveraging semiconductor and flexible electronics packaging technology. These sensors incorporate a broad range of advances in microelectromechanical (MEMS), biological and chemical…...

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In the era of Electronic, and Cyber Warfare, Pigeons still provide alternative mode to transfer massive amount of data securely

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The homing pigeon is a variety of domestic pigeon (Columba livia domestica) derived from the rock pigeon, selectively bred for its ability to find its way home over extremely long distances. The wild rock pigeon has an innate homing ability,…...

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Fake news is difficult to identify and fix, require new regulations and technologies for combating it.

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Fake news or junk news or pseudo-news is a type of yellow journalism or propaganda that consists of deliberate disinformation or hoaxes spread via traditional print and broadcast news media or online social media. This type of news, found in…...

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Low‐Latency, Low‐Power technologies and communications devices are required for IoT Networks

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The Internet-of-Things is an emerging revolution in the ICT sector under which interconnecting physical objects communicate with each other and/or with humans over internet in order to offer a given service.  The Internet of Things (IoT) is a system of interrelated…...

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Quantum sensors using Rydberg atoms enable ultrasensitive and ultrawideband electric field sensors, communication receivers from VLF to Terahertz

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Quantum sensing uses some nonintuitive properties of nature to measure things like time, magnetic fields, gravity, or acceleration. Quantum sensing has become a distinct and rapidly growing branch of research within the area of quantum science and technology, with the most…...

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DARPA L2M program exploring new approaches to enable lifelong learning for AI systems and making them smarter, safer, and more reliable

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Machine learning (ML) methods have demonstrated outstanding recent progress and, as a result, artificial intelligence (AI) systems can now be found in myriad applications, including autonomous vehicles, industrial applications, search engines, computer gaming, health record automation, and big data analysis.…...

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