Category Critical & Emerging Technologies

DARPA’s AMD to accelerate creation of novel, high-performance molecules for Military Applications

The Defense Sciences Office (DSO) at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative research proposals in the area of autonomous molecular design to accelerate the discovery, validation and optimization of new, high-performance molecules for Department of Defense…...

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Generative adversarial networks or dueling Neural Networks can bestow AI systems with “imagination” and also poison AI defences

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Most AI advances and applications are based on a type of algorithm known as machine learning that finds and reapplies patterns in data. Deep learning, a powerful subset of machine learning, uses neural networks to find and amplify even the smallest…...

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New Magneto resistive materials enable ultrasensitive magnetic field sensors, brain-like computing chips and 3D magnetic memory

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Magneto resistor is a type of resistor whose resistance changes when an external magnetic field is applied. In other words, the flow of electric current through the magneto resistor changes when an external magnetic field is applied to it.  …...

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Rising employment of millimetre or EHF based radars, communications and seekers by Military creating new electronic warfare challenges

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The advancement of Sensors, Communications and Radars have given rise to Electronic Warfare, which encompasses, in all battle phases, military actions involving the use of EM energy to determine, exploit, reduce or prevent hostile use of EM spectrum and the…...

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Naval Combat and Combat Management Systems (NCMS) being upgraded to handle new maritime security threats

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Recent years have seen multiple new security challenges emerge in the maritime arena. Navies, coast guards and other maritime security agencies face a proliferation of security challenges. These include: illegal fishing of territorial waters; incursion of mineral exploitation across legal…...

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Militaries developing Multidomain Command and Control (MDC2) technologies including interoperable wideband line-of-sight radio communications for land, sea and satellite links

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The emerging battlefield is a multi-domain battlefield which shall include all the traditional domains of land, air and sea as well as Cyber, Space, Low Intensity conflicts, Information warfare including Psychological warfare and cognitive warfare shall be exploited by our…...

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US Navy biologists creating GM bacteria capable of detecting enemy ships and submarines.

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US Naval Research Laboratory (Naval Research Laboratory, NRL)  has  allocated $ 45 million for the implementation of a program to study the prospects for the use of genetic engineering for the navy. Part of the program was the development of genetically…...

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Researchers looking to fishes for designing biomimetic systems for flexible Armor, faster aircraft and camouflaging skin

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It was in the oceans that life first evolved and where complex animals have thrived for over 600 million years. Marine animals survive in environments as diverse as tropical coral reefs, polar ice-capped oceans, and the lightless abyssal depths, says…...

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Video virtualization and AI for near real-time actionable intelligence needed to identify and mitigate defense and security threats

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Police agencies are  using facial and object recognition technology for counterterrorism operations. Video footage  played a key role in finding the culprits responsible for the November 2015 Paris attacks, with a CCTV video at Brussels airport used to pin down…...

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Countries developing Underwater LIDAR imaging systems for rapid wide-area anti-mine and anti-submarine operations

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Currently, the most widely used technology to detect underwater objects  is sound navigation and ranging (SONAR), because acoustic waves can  penetrate the water depths to the bottom of the sea. SONAR also suffers from unwanted multipass echoes that are due…...

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