Rajesh Uppal
August 20, 2019 AI & IT, Biotech & Synthetic Biology
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Social science provides a variety of research and educational capabilities to military to address the human dimensions of military organizations and their operational contexts. For instance, psychological and human performance criteria are firmly rooted in social science constructs within the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD). In the United States, …
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Rajesh Uppal
August 19, 2019 Cyber & IW, Quantum
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Quantum cryptography is an emerging technology in which two parties may simultaneously generate shared, secret cryptographic key material using the transmission of quantum states of light. A unique aspect of quantum cryptography is that Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle ensures that if Eve attempts to intercept and measure Alice’s quantum transmissions, her …
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Rajesh Uppal
August 17, 2019 Geopolitics, Strategy & Technological Rivalries, Unmanned & Autonomous Systems
645
Since the creation of the main battle tank during World War I, there has been a constant arms race between the development of anti-tank weapons and vehicle protection systems, however “Weapons’ ability to penetrate armor, however, has advanced faster than armor’s ability to withstand penetration”. One of the technology …
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Rajesh Uppal
August 13, 2019 Navy & Maritime, Photonics
1,848
The capability of Russia and China to disrupt American military wireless and satellite communications using electronic warfare has been rising. This is athreat to US Navy operations that require connectivity among a diverse set of platforms, including submarines, surface ships, aircraft, and shore sites. The links among these platforms support …
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Rajesh Uppal
August 10, 2019 AI & IT, Air Force & Aviation
1,667
As commercial technologies become more advanced and widely available, adversaries are rapidly developing capabilities that put our forces at risk. To counter these threats, the U.S. military is developing systems-of-systems concepts in which networks of manned and unmanned platforms, weapons, sensors, and electronic warfare systems interact over robust satellite and …
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Rajesh Uppal
August 7, 2019 Navy & Maritime
1,302
Gun-launched guided projectile (GLGP), previously known as the hypervelocity projectile (HVP) is the new weapon of US Navy that could improve the ability of Navy surface ships to defend themselves against missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and surface craft. As the Navy was developing EMRG, it realized that the …
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Rajesh Uppal
August 6, 2019 Air Force & Aviation, Cyber & IW, Weapons & Munitions
4,009
The Department of Defense (DOD) defines cyberspace as a global domain within the information environment consisting of the interdependent network of information technology infrastructures and resident data, including the internet, telecommunications networks, computer systems, and embedded processors and controllers. The DOD Information Network (DODIN) is a global infrastructure carrying DOD, …
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Rajesh Uppal
August 5, 2019 Defense & Military, Geopolitics, Strategy & Technological Rivalries, Weapons & Munitions
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“The greatest military threat to U.S. vital interests in Asia may be one that has received somewhat less attention: the growing capability of China’s missile forces to threaten U.S. bases in the region,” write Thomas Shugart and Javier Gonzalez in a report released last month by the Center for a …
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Rajesh Uppal
August 1, 2019 AI & IT, Industry & Market Dynamics
1,123
According to a 23 January DARPA solicitation, the cost, complexity, and limited availability of military ranges mean that operational training and system test and evaluation will increasingly take place in completely virtual environments. Furthermore, the increasing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) will require orders of magnitude of more test and …
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Rajesh Uppal
July 31, 2019 Global Risks & Future Threats, Navy & Maritime
5,698
Traditional navies as well as maritime terrorists can and have used mines and underwater improvised explosive devices (UWIEDs) to challenge military and commercial uses of the seas. Mines have been utilized in defensive capabilities, such as denying access into a region, and offensive capacities, such as denying egress out of …
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