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Niobium is one of the strategic minerals Deemed Critical to U.S. National Security and the Economy
August 11, 2020
The Department of the Interior published on May 18, 2018, a list of 35 mineral commodities considered critical to the economic and national security of the United States. These minerals…
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Raytheon’s Excalibur is all weather smart artillery that triples the range and can strike moving targets with high precision
August 6, 2020
The Excalibur smart artillery shell has a ruggedized Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite navigation receiver and uses satellite signals to help guide itself to its intended targets. It first was…
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Beyond CMOS or More Moore technologies to power Next Generation Computers, communications, industrial and Defense Systems
August 5, 2020
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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Helicopter technology developments and trends driven by their rising employment in civil and military missions
August 1, 2020
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.…
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Joint Multi-Role (JMR) helicopter program demonstrations to mature technology for future vertical lift (FVL) program
July 31, 2020
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…
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New radar imaging chips enable Through the wall imaging or Wall-penetrating radar on Android smartphones
July 28, 2020
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…
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LIDAR proving to be a valuable sensor for Smarter space management, Infrastructure monitoring, Security and Disaster Response
July 28, 2020
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…
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Embedded AI or Tiny AI, the next revolution in embedded systems and Military internet of things (MIOT)
July 28, 2020
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)…
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US DOD launch new innovation models and initiatives to sustain and advance America’s military dominance for the 21st century
July 27, 2020
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…
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Meta materials based Radar cloaks to hide warships, drones and fighter planes from radars
July 25, 2020
Stealth technology has proven to be one of the effective approaches to enhance the survivability of Aircrafts. Aircraft/helicopter designers are making them stealthier by reducing their signatures; viz. visual, aural,…
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Growing Threat of Non Lethal Weapons including Laser Dazzlers and Tasers employed by Military and Security to disorient, temporary blind or set to fire the adversaries
July 23, 2020
Recently the Directed Energy Weapons (DEWs), especially laser DEWs are being developed as non lethal weapons. DEW is a system that uses Directed Energy primarily as a means to incapacitate,…
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Navies are testing Unmanned Autonomous vessels for COLREGs ( International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea )
July 22, 2020
Autonomous vessels are one of the newest things in marine technology and many large organizations and companies are currently researching and testing unmanned vessels. There is a possibility that in…
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