Rajesh Uppal
November 15, 2019 Defense & Military, Industry & Market Dynamics, Thermal, Propulsion & Energy
1,891
A fuel cell is a device that generates electricity by a chemical reaction. It converts hydrogen and oxygen into water, and in the process also creates electricity. Fuel cells provide many advantages, they are environment friendly as they don’t produce pollutants or greenhouse gasses, significantly improving our environment, high energy efficiency ( …
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Rajesh Uppal
November 15, 2019 Army & Land
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Just as the Army shifts its priorities to fighting in more domains than ever before and training for major combat operations against capable rivals, so too must its logistics harden, speed up and adapt to a challenging warfighting landscape. Lt. Gen. Aundre Piggee, the Army G-4, told an audience …
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Rajesh Uppal
November 14, 2019 Material
653
The need for more energy-efficient computers is urgent. The Department of Energy projects that, with the computer chip industry expected to expand to several trillion dollars in the next few decades, energy use by computers could skyrocket from 3 percent of all U.S. energy consumption today to 20 percent, nearly …
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Rajesh Uppal
November 12, 2019 Nanotech, Photonics
312
Sensors allow humans to feel and understand their world, and their development lays the foundation for the fulfillment of information society and has formed a huge industry. For its implementation the Internet of Things relies heavily on sensor technology.In the grand world of the “internet of things” (IoT), there are …
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Rajesh Uppal
November 11, 2019 AI & IT, Biotech & Synthetic Biology
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From an engineering perspective, computing is the systematized and mechanized manipulation of patterns. A representation is a pattern in some physical medium, for example, the configuration of ONs and OFFs on a set of switches. The algorithm then tells us how to change these patterns—how to set the switches from …
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Rajesh Uppal
November 11, 2019 AI & IT, Defense & Military
260
Open source software is free to license, the preferred choice of geeks everywhere, for rapid development for instance impromptu mapping projects to help victims of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake where open source delivered results much faster than traditional methods. “It probably would have taken a year to come up with …
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Rajesh Uppal
November 10, 2019 Geopolitics, Strategy & Technological Rivalries, Industry & Market Dynamics
1,173
China is making rapid advancements in many technologies thus narrowing its gap with western world. One of the strategy adopted by China to fuel its innovation engine is to have international research collaborations. During the period of the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” (2011-2015), China’s international research collaboration partners grew to span 188 …
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Rajesh Uppal
November 10, 2019 Electronics & EW, Weapons & Munitions
1,150
A high-powered microwave weapon (HPM) is type of Directed Energy Weapon (DEW) for employing radio frequency energy against a variety of targets. They are principally counterelectronic weapons and could be used to destroy any enemy electronic systems, including radars, computer systems and communications infrastructures. Electromagnetic weapons can destroy, intercept or jam …
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Rajesh Uppal
November 9, 2019 AI & IT, Defense & Military
450
The rapid pace of new commercial satellite constellation launches has led to a corresponding increase in the amount and availability of geospatial data. While these constellations largely focus on non-military uses, their data has numerous military applications. For example, the new constellations provide optical, synthetic aperture radar (SAR), and Radio Frequency …
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Rajesh Uppal
November 8, 2019 Geopolitics, Strategy & Technological Rivalries, Navy & Maritime
3,289
Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) is a sensor network with integrated fire control capability that is intended to significantly improve battle force air and missile defense capabilities by combining data from multiple battle force air search sensors on CEC-equipped units into a single, real-time, composite track picture (network-centric warfare). This will …
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