August, 2020

• 2 August

  Rising threat of Social media as weapon to influence Politics, and sentiments and carry psychological warfare

  

  The past several centuries have largely been defined by physical security threats, requiring a nation’s military to physically respond with whatever means they have available. But as explained by Isaiah Wilson III—president of Joint Special Operations University—today we face “compound security threats,” which include physical security threats as well as …

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• 1 August

  Next Quantum Cryptology (QKD) revolution is Quantum Communications between Drone and ground and between drones

  

  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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• 1 August

  Helicopter technology developments and trends driven by their rising employment in civil and military missions

  

  The helicopter is a type of aircraft which is lifted and propelled by one or more sets of horizontally revolving overhead rotors.  It has two rotors that spin several blades. A blade is a tilted airfoil, just like an airplane wing. As it speeds through the air, each blade generates …

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July, 2020

• 31 July

  Modern Bigdata Battlefield requires rugged commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) Computers and Servers

  

  Military is increasingly looking to commercial ICT devices like Smartphones and tablets and they are rapidly making their way into military operations. Modern ICT devices can provide  “information superiority” to military by providing information with  greater timeliness, relevance, accuracy, and comprehensiveness than to an adversary.   Intelligence and military applications rely on …

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• 31 July

  Joint Multi-Role (JMR) helicopter program demonstrations to mature technology for future vertical lift (FVL) program

  

  The US  Army is pursuing plans to develop a family of future vertical lift aircraft that will be able to perform a variety of mission sets. Key to that effort is a technology maturation program which has Bell and a Sikorsky-Boeing team designing new aircraft. The precursor for FVL is …

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• 28 July

  New radar imaging chips enable Through the wall imaging or Wall-penetrating radar on Android smartphones

  

  Security forces require effective ground ISR technologies that can overcome these challenges and provide effective situational awareness. One of the technologies useful in such situations is through-wall imaging which apply radio frequency (RF) and other sensing modes to penetrate wall materials and optimally estimate the terrorists hiding in other  rooms …

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• 28 July

  LIDAR proving to be a valuable sensor for Smarter space management, Infrastructure monitoring, Security and Disaster Response

  

  Lidars (Light Detection and Ranging) are similar to radars in that they operate by sending light pulses to the targets and calculate distances by measuring the received time.  The  key advantages of  LIDAR is  its superior accuracy and its ability to see through masking items, such as leaves, trees, and …

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• 28 July

  Embedded AI or Tiny AI, the next revolution in embedded systems and Military internet of things (MIOT)

  

  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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• 27 July

  US DOD launch new innovation models and initiatives to sustain and advance America’s military dominance for the 21st century

  

  Decades of innovation — driven almost entirely by DoD and the Defense Industrial Base — have kept the United States at the forefront of modern military capability.  Further the free-market structure of the economy, vibrant venture capital ecosystems, world-class universities, and government support of R&D were other dominant factors combined …

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• 27 July

  US Army developing next generation small arms including Squad Automatic Rifle capable of accurately defeating current and future threats

  

  The U.S. Army is currently evaluating a new small arms systems that could give their warfighters a serious edge, including squad weapon and sniper rifle. The Army is rolling along on multiple fronts in the small arms department, ranging from area weapons to those with a little more precision- to put …

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