September, 2020

• 27 September

  DARPA’s SI3-CMD to enhance Military Decision Making through artificial intelligence and computational game theory

  

  Military decision-making applications could include strategy development, course of action planning, tactical analyses, intelligence gathering, wargaming and simulation, deception detection, coalition formation and evolution, and others. Such domains typically involve extremely large search spaces (making even a single traversal of a complete decision tree impossible), private information that is never …

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• 25 September

  DARPA’s RADICS develops Rapid Attack Detection, Isolation and Characterization Systems for cyber attacks on power grids

  

  Across the United States, 3200 separate organizations own and operate electrical infrastructure. The widely dispersed nature of the nation’s electrical grid and associated control systems has a number of advantages, including a reduced risk that any single accident or attack could create a widespread failure from which it might take …

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• 24 September

  Quantum repeater technology breakthroughs pave the way for Quantum internet—the quantum version of the current Internet

  

  Quantum encryption using single photons is a promising technique for boosting the security of communication systems and data networks, but there are challenges in applying the method over large distances due to transmission losses. Currently Most Quantum Communication links are direct point-to-point links through telecom optical fibers and, ultimately limited to …

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• 23 September

  DARPA’s Brandeis program developing tools and techniques to protect the private the private and proprietary information of individuals and enterprises

  

  Significant technological advances are being made across a range of fields, including information communications technology (ICT); artificial intelligence (AI), particularly in terms of machine learning and robotics; nanotechnology; space technology; biotechnology; and quantum computing. The technologies are mostly dual use, in that they can be used as much to serve …

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• 21 September

  Detonators innovating for a wireless safer & more productive blasting and EMI/EMP immune laser detonators

  

  Energetic materials and munitions are used across DoD in mission critical applications such as rockets, missiles, ammunition, and pyrotechnic devices. In these applications, energetic materials and munitions must perform as designed to ensure success in both training and combat operations. Explosive substances are solid or liquid substances or mixtures, which …

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• 20 September

  UNMANNED VEHICLE SYSTEMS & OPERATIONS ON AIR, SEA, LAND by Professor Randall K Nichols Director, Unmanned Aircraft Systems- Cybersecurity Graduate Certificate Program

  

  UNMANNED VEHICLE SYSTEMS & OPERATIONS ON AIR, SEA, LAND   By Nichols, R. K., Ryan, J., J.C.H., Mumm, H.C., Lonstein, W.D., Carter, C., Hood, J.P, Mai, R., Shay, J.,  & Jackson, M.                                                        ABSTRACT Unmanned Vehicle Systems & Operations On Air, Sea, Land  is our fourth textbook in a …

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• 20 September

  Synthetic Aperture Sonar on Unmanned underwater vehicle (UUVs) and AUVs is transforming Mine Countermeasures and Undersea Warfare

  

  SOund Navigation And Ranging or SONAR is a technique of distance measuring between detector and an object base on sound reflection. The distance can be calculated from propagation time and speed of sound in specific mediums. For military, Sonars are the eyes and ears of ships or submarines in water …

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• 19 September

  New Autonomous Sense and Avoid sensor technologies enable Safe and efficient integration of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)

  

  Safe and efficient integration of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) into Civil Airspace is a key challenge for unleashing their potential for non-military applications  “without reducing existing capacity, decreasing safety, impacting current operators, or placing other airspace users or persons and property on the ground at increased risk” Sense and avoid technology  …

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• 17 September

  Materials play critical role in Wind Turbine Blades running for long time without maintenance

  

  Wind is a emerging as a reliable and inexpensive source of renewable energy. Globally, the average cost of wind is $83 per megawatt-hour compared to averages for coal and gas being $84 and $98 respectively. “In the USA, gas is slightly cheaper than wind but this is the only large …

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• 16 September

  DARPA’s BG+ is mitigating spinal cord injury of wounded warfighter, promoting healing in the battlefield

  

  In November of 2016 Nature reported that the results of experiments in Beijing, in which a wireless brain implant — that stimulates electrodes in the leg by recreating signals recorded from the brain — has enabled monkeys with spinal-cord injuries to walk. “They have demonstrated that the animals can regain …

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