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Recent years have seen multiple new security challenges emerge in the maritime arena. Navies, coast guards and other maritime security agencies face a proliferation of security challenges. These include: illegal fishing of territorial waters; incursion of mineral exploitation across legal boundaries; maritime terrorism; narcotics smuggling; pollution as a result of …
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June, 2019
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11 June
High-Temperature Electronics technologies for extreme environment like Geothermal vents, aircraft engines, gas turbines and hypersonic structures.
“Electronics have dramatically changed the way we live, conduct business, communicate, and educate. Visions of the future foretell of ubiquitous computing and sensing. However, the environments in which electronics can reliably operate are limited. In consumer applications, typical operating temperatures range from -40° to 85°C. The “wider” military temperature range …
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10 June
Militaries developing Multidomain Command and Control (MDC2) technologies including interoperable wideband line-of-sight radio communications for land, sea and satellite links
The emerging battlefield is a multi-domain battlefield which shall include all the traditional domains of land, air and sea as well as Cyber, Space, Low Intensity conflicts, Information warfare including Psychological warfare and cognitive warfare shall be exploited by our adversaries simultaneously or in any desired combinations. Implementing multi …
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8 June
Nigerian Military’s offensive using latest technology to push Boko Haram back out of most territory, UN asks to address ‘Roots of conflict’
The claims by Nigeria’s government that terrorist group Boko Haram has been “defeated” continue to ring hollow. An attack by the terrorist group on an army base in Nov 2018 led to as many as 100 soldiers being killed, Reuters reports. The attack has been attributed to Islamic State West …
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8 June
US Navy biologists creating GM bacteria capable of detecting enemy ships and submarines.
US Naval Research Laboratory (Naval Research Laboratory, NRL) has allocated $ 45 million for the implementation of a program to study the prospects for the use of genetic engineering for the navy. Part of the program was the development of genetically modified microorganisms capable of detecting the presence of enemy ships, …
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7 June
USAF launches ORS-5 Satellite that will provide data on space objects as far as the geosynchronous belt.
Space situational awareness (SSA) is the foundational element of space security, and it entails keeping track of all natural and artificial space objects, energy and particle fluxes and understanding how the space picture is changing over time. SSA is a system of systems dealing with space surveillance, space weather and …
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6 June
Researchers looking to fishes for designing biomimetic systems for flexible Armor, faster aircraft and camouflaging skin
It was in the oceans that life first evolved and where complex animals have thrived for over 600 million years. Marine animals survive in environments as diverse as tropical coral reefs, polar ice-capped oceans, and the lightless abyssal depths, says Frank E. Fish from West Chester University and Donna M. …
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5 June
Video virtualization and AI for near real-time actionable intelligence needed to identify and mitigate defense and security threats
Police agencies are using facial and object recognition technology for counterterrorism operations. Video footage played a key role in finding the culprits responsible for the November 2015 Paris attacks, with a CCTV video at Brussels airport used to pin down one suspect. But, the sheer volume of video content produced …
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4 June
Countries developing Underwater LIDAR imaging systems for rapid wide-area anti-mine and anti-submarine operations
Currently, the most widely used technology to detect underwater objects is sound navigation and ranging (SONAR), because acoustic waves can penetrate the water depths to the bottom of the sea. SONAR also suffers from unwanted multipass echoes that are due to reflections from the surrounding terrain. Thus, high-resolution underwater imaging …
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3 June
The emerging field of phonon management allow novel phononic materials and devices to control sound and heat.
The phonon is the physical particle representing mechanical vibration and is responsible for the transmission of everyday sound and heat. Understanding and controlling the phononic properties of materials provides opportunities to thermally insulate buildings, reduce environmental noise, transform waste heat into electricity and develop earthquake protection. The concept of …
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