December, 2021

• 27 December

  Quantum Computer Hardware component breakthroughs accelerate their scaling and commercialization

  

  Quantum computers promise the potential to tackle problems that conventional computers can’t handle by leveraging a phenomenon of quantum physics that allows qubits to exist in multiple states simultaneously. As a result, qubits can conduct a large number of calculations at the same time — dramatically speeding up complex problem-solving. …

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• 27 December

  DARPA TRADES Developed new Design Tools to Exploit Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies

  

  Manufacturing technology breakthroughs in recent years, such as 3D printing, have allowed precise material placement, new material behaviors, and complex shaping of parts and structures. Design tools, however, have not kept up with the complexity of the design space resulting from these advances.   DARPA’s TRAnsformative DESign (TRADES) program, which …

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• 25 December

  Molecular nanotechnology

  

  The amount of information trafficking internet nowadays is enormous and will increase further in the near future. It can be expected that in the next decennia the current technologies to store and process data will no longer suffice and that other strategies to handle information have to be developed. One …

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• 23 December

  Navies integrating AI into Naval vessels

  

  The general definition of AI is the capability of a computer system to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition and decision-making. Machine Learning (ML) is a subfield of Artificial Intelligence which attempts to endow computers with the capacity of learning from data, so that …

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• 21 December

  Quantum effects enhancing atomic clocks and improving military communications and electronic warfare (EW)

  

  The principle of timekeeping has been to count the repetitions or oscillations of repeating natural phenomena such as rotation of earth or movement of stars. Over the millennia a myriad of devices has been invented for timekeeping including pendulum or crystals, each with a period far shorter than the daily …

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• 20 December

  Bio-Inspired Micro Air Vehicle for better flight performance, controlability and endurance

  

  UAVs are Aircrafts that are piloted remotely by some person who is at a different place. These UAVs of various sizes and shapes can fly continuously for more than 24 hours and some of them can only fly for less than 30 minutes. Some UAVs have wings of several meters …

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• 19 December

  Nanotechnology, one of the fastest growing markets in the world

  

  Nanotechnology deals with the understanding, control, and manufacture of matter in the nanoscale regime, usually between 1 nm to 100 nm, and exploiting them for a useful application. At this length scale, unique properties and phenomena arise as a result of increased surface-to-volume ratio and dominance of quantum mechanical effects. …

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• 18 December

  Pollution control strategies and technologies to fight growing menace of pollution deaths

  

  Atmospheric pollution is a growing problem, particularly in urban areas and in less developed countries.  With half the world has no access to clean fuels or technologies (e.g. stoves, lamps), the very air we breathe is growing dangerously polluted. More than 8 million people around the world die each year …

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• 17 December

  Emerging Network Centric Electronic Warfare enabled by UAVs and UAV swarm technologies

  

  The current platform-centric EW systems are limited in their ability to generate essential EW effects required to counter emerging threat system developments and employ advanced EW concepts. The adversaries are fielding increasingly sophisticated networked and agile systems, RF sensing and communications systems, including short-range tactical communications, long-range command and control (C2) …

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• 16 December

  Spider silk one of the strongest materials on Earth for military applications of body armor and parachute material

  

  Spider silk is also known as gossamer. It is a sought-after biomaterial. Spider silk is a protein fiber made in the glands of a spider. This silk is flexible and lightweight. These fibers are waterproof and have a tensile strength similar to that of steel. These fibers can be stretched …

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