Category Defence & Military Systems

DARPA GXV-T advancing mobility, survivability, safety, and effectiveness of future combat vehicles without piling on armor

Since the creation of the main battle tank during World War I, there has been a constant arms race between the development of anti-armor weapons and vehicle protection systems, however “Weapons’ ability to penetrate armor, however, has advanced faster than…...

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Military decision support require efficient optimization algorithms

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Research in military mission planning is  an important field. Today military operations rely on increasingly complex joint and multinational environments. This calls for innovative concepts, doctrine, and technologies to support the emergence of new planning and execution systems that are…...

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Biological Technologies Office of DARPA seeking R&D Concepts to harness the power of Biological systems for national security

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Biological Technologies Office is seeking research-and-development concepts to help address Department of Defense requirements and other national security requirements. A FedBizOpps notice posted in April 2019  stated that BTO’s R&D scope covers a range of…...

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Silicon photonics and photonic integrated circuits (PICs) for Security, Defence and Aerospace

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There is virtually no part of a modern defense system that is not impacted in some way by optics and photonics, even when the system is not optically based. Modern defense systems are migrating toward optically based imaging, remote sensing,…...

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Next-generation maritime inertial navigation systems addressing the navigation and localization challenge of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV), critical for commercial and military missions

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Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV), also known as unmanned underwater vehicle, conducts its survey mission without operator intervention. Their autonomy allows AUVs to be used for missions where a surface vehicle or manned submersible would be at risk, such as mine…...

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China deploying Ocean of things, through distributed network Maritime Surveillance Platforms in South China Sea

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China has carried out militarization of Spratly Islands and other islands in South china sea by building military bases on them along with giant runways, ports, bunkers, and sensor arrays. Several islands were constructed with airstrips and harbors capable of…...

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US Army developing long range missile DeepStrike to penetrate modern enemy air defenses and rapidly and precisely engage critical time sensitive targets

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As the focus of the US Army shifts from low intensity conflicts against guerrillas, non-state actors, and terrorists to near peers like Russia, China and North Korea which have mechanized ground forces, the Army is trying to boost its conventional…...

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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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NATO planning advanced submarine sensing and hunting technologies for Russian ultra quiet submarines

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Russia is seeking to further bolster its sub-surface capabilities, with new generations of conventional and nuclear propulsion submarines, which promise to be significantly more difficult to detect and track for western naval forces. This includes the Yasen, Lada, Borei and…...

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DARPA launched submarine hunting platforms and technologies to track ultra-quiet as well as highly lethal submarines

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Russia is seeking to further bolster its sub-surface capabilities, with new generations of conventional and nuclear propulsion submarines, which promise to be significantly more difficult to detect and track for western naval forces. This includes the Yasen, Lada, Borei and…...

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