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2013/08/22 Warrior Web Closer to Making Its Performance-Improving Suit a Reality 22 Aug 2013 | 08:32 pm
Of the many risks dismounted Soldiers face in the field, one of the most common is injury from carrying their gear—often topping 100 pounds—for extended periods over rough terrain. Heavy loads increas...
2013/08/22 Network of Unmanned Undersea Platforms Would Assist Manned Vessels 22 Aug 2013 | 06:22 am
Today’s naval forces rely primarily on highly capable multifunctional manned platforms, such as ships and submarines. Even the most advanced vessel, however, can only be in one place at a time, making...
2013/08/21 Creating a Secure, Private Internet and Cloud at the Tactical Edge 22 Aug 2013 | 12:17 am
Squads of Soldiers or Marines on patrol in remote forward locations often don’t have the luxury of quickly sharing current intelligence information and imagery on their mobile devices, because they ca...
2013/08/05 New Diamond and Gold-based Techniques Let Scientists Measure and Control the Temperature Inside Living Cells 5 Aug 2013 | 08:11 pm
How do you take the temperature of a cell? The familiar thermometer from a doctor’s office is slightly too big considering the average human skin cell is only 30 millionths of a meter wide. But the ca...
2013/07/17 Novel Hollow-Core Optical Fiber to Enable High-Power Military Sensors 17 Jul 2013 | 08:37 pm
The intensity of light that propagates through glass optical fiber is fundamentally limited by the glass itself. A novel fiber design using a hollow, air-filled core removes this limitation and dramat...
2013/07/11 DARPA’s ATLAS Robot Unveiled 11 Jul 2013 | 08:35 pm
On Monday, July 8, 2013, the seven teams that progressed from DARPA’s Virtual Robotics Challenge (VRC) arrived at the headquarters of Boston Dynamics in Waltham, Mass. to meet and learn about their...
2013/06/27 Members of Top Nine Software Teams Move Forward from DARPA’s Virtual Robotics Challenge 27 Jun 2013 | 08:42 pm
The DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) was created with a clear vision: spur development of advanced robots that can assist humans in mitigating and recovering from future natural and man-made disaster...
2013/06/25 Improved Water Purification Technology Reduces SWaP Logistics Burden 25 Jun 2013 | 10:53 pm
Military vehicles don’t run without fuel—and warfighters don’t run without water. As little as a six to eight percent water deficit can be debilitating. As a result, military logistics plans must take...
2013/06/18 15 Competitors Selected for DARPA Spectrum Challenge 18 Jun 2013 | 04:48 pm
As wireless devices proliferate and the radio spectrum becomes ever more congested, all users have a common interest in radio technologies that can accommodate the largest number of users but still en...
2013/06/14 Faster, More Precise Airstrikes Within Reach 15 Jun 2013 | 12:33 am
DARPA's Persistent Close Air Support (PCAS) program aims to enable ground forces and combat aircrews to jointly select and employ precision-guided weapons from a diverse set of airborne platforms. The...
