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NIST Cybersecurity Framework Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity by managing it’s cyber risks
July 19, 2020
Cybersecurity Ventures predicts cybercrime will cost the world in excess of $6 trillion annually by 2021, up from $3 trillion in 2015. The NIST Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity,…
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Laser directed energy weapons technology breakthroughs enable them to be deployed on Trucks, Warships and Airplanes
July 18, 2020
The Laser Directed Energy Weapons (DEWs) offer a transformational ‘game changer’ to counter asymmetric and disruptive threats, while facing increasingly sophisticated traditional challenges. Laser technology provides major advantages for military…
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DARPA’s ELM developing Living Structural Materials for self growing & self repairable smart buildings and smart military bases on demand
July 15, 2020
The cities of today are built with concrete and steel between they are responsible for as much as a tenth of worldwide carbon emissions. Before they ever reach a construction…
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Next Robot revolution are robots with smart skin that can touch and feel
July 14, 2020
Robots have already become an indispensable part of our lives. Robots have revolutionized auto manufacturing, making plants safer and products more reliable — and reducing the number of people involved…
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Augmented reality displays moving towards smart contact lenses to enable vision of invisible computing
July 10, 2020
Smart glasses refer to wearable computing devices that add information to what the user sees. These devices function in a way similar to mobile phones and tablets and have the…
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Armies employing Micro and Nano UAVs for situational awareness, engaging light skinned vehicles, and enemy UAV’s
July 7, 2020
Unmanned aerial vehicle technology is advancing rapidly, and drones are getting smaller by the day. Militaries are now employing Micro, Mini & Nano UAVs into their operations. They provide situational…
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Plant Nanobionics or ePlants aim to turn plants into sensors detecting explosives, warn of pollutants and environmental conditions such as drought
July 4, 2020
Plant Nanobionics seeks to use designed nanoparticles to interface directly with plant cells and organelles to augment plant functions, as well as to introduce non-native functionalities. The broader vision is…
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Military Helicopters demand advanced engines with improved fuel consumption, power, durability and cost for conducting a wide range of military missions and operations.
June 25, 2020
A helicopter, or chopper, is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by rotors. This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover,…
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USS Gerald Ford, the Navy’s Most Powerful Aircraft Carrier Ever with enhanced power projection capability in anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) environment is nearing completion
June 24, 2020
In 2009, the U.S. Navy began construction of the first new type of aircraft carrier in nearly thirty-five years. The Navy refers to its newest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald…
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Militaries employ machine learning and DNNs for day and night Facial recognition to ship recognition
June 21, 2020
AI is a field of computer science dedicated to the theory and development of computer systems that are able to perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence, such as visual perception,…
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Tensors are becoming important tool in Warfare from modeling combat to detect military targets using Google’s TensorFlow
June 19, 2020
In mathematics, a tensor is an algebraic object that describes a linear mapping from one set of algebraic objects to another. According to Ars Technica, “Basically, a tensor is a…
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Soldiers employing human Energy harvesting technologies including Backpack, knee kinetic and Heel-strike to power devices on the battlefield
June 17, 2020
The vision for the future soldier is to be combat effective and also highly mobile, adaptive, networked, sustainable with total battle space situation awareness and information assurance. Therefore, he is…
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