Category Defence & Military Systems

Indian Ocean maritime security threats and Indian Navy’s Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) technology requirements and solutions

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Indian Ocean has always been vulnerable to criminals and anti-national activities. The Indian Ocean is an area of conflict. According to a recent analysis of global conflicts by the Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research, altogether 42% of world conflicts can…...

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Phased array antennas for phased array radars to satellite constellations to SATCOM On-The-Move (SOTM) on warships

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Wireless electronic systems have been relying on dish antennas to send and receive signals. These systems have been widely used where directivity is important and many of those systems work well at a relatively low cost after years of optimization.…...

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The denial of GPS services during Kargil War has driven ISRO to develop Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS), superior to GPS

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The Global Positioning System (GPS), is a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) that provides location and time information in all weather conditions, anywhere on or near the Earth where there is an unobstructed line of sight to four or more…...

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DARPA V-SPELLS to develop automated tools for understanding, Re-engineering and Assurance of legacy software of Defense and Aerospace systems

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The complexity of  aerospace and defense software has grown manyfold. For example, the U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor jet fighter, consists of about 1.7 million lines of software code, while the F-35 joint strike fighter has about 5.7 million lines…...

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US Army’s JUDI is employing Conversational AI to imrpove soldier-robot interaction for Manned-unmanned teaming (MUM-T)

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Since fully autonomous UAS are still far off, the  US Army has developed concept of Manned-unmanned teaming (MUM-T)  for operation in A2/AD environments. Through MUM-T operations they expect to combine the strengths of manned and unmanned  platform to increase situational…...

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US Army developing Manned-Unmanned Teaming ( MUM-T ) technologies in multiple domains for operation in A2/AD environments

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US military is facing increasingly Anti-access /Area denial environment, a set of overlapping military capabilities and operations designed to slow the deployment of U.S. forces to a region, reduce the tempo of those forces once there, and deny the freedom…...

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US Army xTechSearch competitions developing innovative dual use technologies for next generation military systems

The 2015-2018 U.S. Department of Defense Agency Strategic Plan underscores the criticality of innovation in its strategic goal to “achieve dominant capabilities through innovation, technical excellence, and defense institutional reform.” Echoing this priority, Department of Defense (DoD) leaders frequently point…...

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DARPA  thrust in Terahertz electronics for future military wireless and sensing

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The terahertz (THz) frequency band is a fascinating and relatively unexplored part of the larger electromagnetic spectrum (EMS). The terahertz frequency range, lying between electronics and optics (300 to 3000 gigahertz frequencies), can be disruptive force in sectors as diverse as…...

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Rugged, Sensitive Optical Fiber sensors for military sonars and monitoring military assets and earthquakes

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The fiber optic sensors also called as optical fiber sensors use optical fiber or sensing element.  These Sensors can measure a large variety of parameters, such as temperature, pressure, strain, refractive index, vibrations, displacements, bending, loading, and liquid level or…...

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Rising employment of Unmanned and Autonomous underwater vehicle (UUV & AUV) in Naval ASW & MCM missions

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UUVs—submersible unmanned vehicles—are divided into two categories: remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROVs) and autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). ROVs are controlled and powered by a person or crew on either land or neighboring craft via an umbilical or using remote control. The…...

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