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Mars Robotic, human settlement and colonization Race
January 14, 2023
The idea of sending humans to Mars has been the subject of aerospace engineering and scientific studies since the late 1940s as part of the broader exploration of Mars. Scientists…
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Militaries deploying all terrain air-transportable light tanks with long-range, cyber-resilient, precision, direct-fire capability
January 3, 2023
Since the creation of the main battle tank during World War I, there has been a constant arms race between the development of anti-armor weapons and vehicle protection systems, however…
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Hyper-intelligent systems and Lethal Autonomous Weapons (LAWs) are gravest risk to mankind
December 23, 2022
Robotics has made significant progress, since its first deployment as an industrial robot more than 50 years ago. Robots are now days being used extensively in manufacturing, services, healthcare/medical, defense,…
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Raytheon’s AN/SPY-6(V) is and integrated air and missile defense naval radar that can track multiple ballistic and cruise missile targets.
December 8, 2022
Navies around the world are increasingly facing formidable strategic and threat environments in terms of complexity, lethality, range, sophistication and number of threats. Many of these threats, including long-range anti-ship…
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MIL-STD 461 EMI/EMC standards ensure safety and mission success of Military, Aeropace and Space vehicles
December 5, 2022
Modern computers operate in a “noisy” electronic environment. They are surrounded by powerful electromagnetic interference (EMI) generated by radios, radar, microwave transmitters, other computers, and a wide assortment of electronic…
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Dedicated launcher technology race for LEO microsatellites clusters
December 3, 2022
Global interest in nano and microsatellites (< 100kg) is increasing. The miniaturization of electronics, together with reliability and performance increase as well as reduction of cost, have allowed the use…
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US Military, the world’s largest polluter is implementing energy security strategy reducing future resource risk and increasing mission assurance
November 26, 2022
In the domain of defense, energy has the potential to be both an enabler of hard power but also, via denial, arguably itself to be a weapon of war. Energy…
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U.S. Space Fence, Largest S-band Phased Array Radar to protect satellites from orbiting junk and space weapons, is now connected with Space Force
November 7, 2022
There has been exponential growth of space objects, including orbital debris that has increased the in-orbit collision risk. NASA estimates there are 21,000 objects orbiting Earth that are larger than…
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Combination of Topological and magnetic materials for Beyond CMOS low power electronics
November 6, 2022
In 1965 R&D Director at Fairchild (and later Intel co-founder) Gordon Moore predicted continued systemic declines in cost and increase in performance of integrated circuits in his paper “Cramming more…
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GPS III and NTS-3 Satellites will provide higher acccuracy, jam resistance, and new navigation warfare (NAVWAR) capabilities to US DOD
October 27, 2022
The Global Positioning System (GPS), is a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) that provides location and time information in all weather conditions, anywhere on or near the Earth where there…
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Augmented Reality Systems for soldiers are set to Revolutionize Battlefield Operations by drastically improving the situational awareness & decision-making
October 26, 2022
Military to succeed in their missions, require a robust, multi-faceted picture of their operational environments, including the location, nature and activity of both threats and allied forces around them. Warfare…
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DevSecOps for quick delivery of mission-critical capabilities
October 12, 2022
As the speed and frequency of releases increase, traditional application security teams cannot keep up with the pace of releases to ensure each release is secure. To address this, organizations…
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