April, 2019

• 18 April

  Development of Next generation Infrared Focal Plane Arrays improving Military’s Night Fighting Capability

  

  Night vision devices are becoming essential equipment for night driving, night flying and night surveillance, wildlife observation and search and rescue missions. Night Vision has become essential capability for ground forces in modern warfare as well as for counter terrorist operations.According to Industry ARC’s report on Night vision devices, the …

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• 18 April

  Countries plan Arms Export Strategy for geo-political influence, bolstering defense industry and creating jobs

  

  The United States remains the world’s top weapons seller, accounting for 34 percent of global arms sales over the past five years. Russia was the second-largest exporter with about 20 percent of all global arms deliveries, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) reported on March 11 in its latest …

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• 14 April

  China’s artificial moon satellites could replace streetlamps, saving energy and night fighting advantage to PLA

  

  China is planning to launch its own ‘artificial moon’ by 2020 to replace streetlamps and lower electricity costs in urban areas, state media reported. The Tian Fu New Area Science Society plans to launch the so-called “illumination satellite” would orbit above the Chinese city of Chengdu and glow in conjunction …

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• 11 April

  DARPA RFMLS exploiting Machine Learning to RF domain for Spectrum sharing and Military IOT systems security

  

  The field of AI has experienced a renaissance fueled by modern data-driven Machine Learning (ML) techniques. In contrast to the expert-engineered processing and decision making of the previous generation of AI, ML-based techniques are able to learn to perform a task from raw sensory input.  ML techniques have advanced the fields …

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• 10 April

  Internet of Living Things (IoLT), or “Internet of Bodies,” shall save lives and improve health while create new cybersecurity, and privacy concerns

  

  The Internet-of-Things is an emerging revolution in the ICT sector under which there is shift from an “Internet used for interconnecting end-user devices” to an “Internet used for interconnecting physical objects that communicate with each other and/or with humans in order to offer a given service”. This includes everything from …

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• 10 April

  MIlitaries demand 3D-Printing of Nano-structures and Nano-materials or combat 3-D printers that can manufacture sensors to obstacles, and fortifications on Battlefield

  

  Nanomaterials are chemical substances or materials that are manufactured and used at a very small scale. Nanomaterial  is defined as a, ‘material with any external dimension in the nanoscale (size range from approximately 1 – 100 nm) or having internal structure or surface structure in the nanoscale’.  Nanomaterials are developed …

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• 8 April

  Nanotechnology enhancing compactness, efficiency, and performance, of Terahertz devices

  

  In the past, the frequency spectrum ranging from 0.3 to 3THz (or 300 to 3000GHz) was spoken as infamous “Terahertz Gap” as it lies between traditional microwave and infrared domains but remained “untouchable” via either electronic or photonic means. The conventional “transit-time-limited” electronic devices can hardly operate even at its …

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• 7 April

  IARPA using Big Data Analytics to automatically discover Signals from Web Sources to Predict Cyber Attacks

  

  Cyber crimes and attacks continue to expand exponentially and involving more and more advanced and sophisticated techniques to infiltrate corporate networks and enterprise systems. Types of attacks include advanced malware, zero day attacks and advanced persistent threats. Flawed software, the root of most program errors and security vulnerabilities, is a critical …

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• 6 April

  DARPA’s PLINY & MUSE use Big Data on open-source software to remove software vulnerabilities and enhance reliability

  

  During the past decade information technologies have driven the productivity gains essential to U.S. economic competitiveness, and computing systems now control significant elements of critical national infrastructure. As a result, tremendous resources are devoted to ensuring that programs are correct, especially at scale. Unfortunately, in spite of developers’ best efforts, …

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• 3 April

  DARPA SeeMe to provide US warfighters on-demand access to timely imagery of their specific overseas location directly from a small satellite

  

  Today, the lowest echelon members of the U.S. military deployed in remote overseas locations are unable to obtain on-demand satellite imagery in a timely and persistent manner for pre-mission planning. This is due to lack of satellite overflight opportunities, inability to receive direct satellite downlinks at the tactical level and …

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