from military to industrial uses, the researchers said d
#Shrilk: Bug-Inspired'Plastic'Made from Shrimp Shells If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery then insects have a lot to be flattered about.
"The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the branch of the U s. Department of defense responsible for developing new technologies for the military, provided funding for the $53. 5 million project.
militaries are allowed not to use laser weapons directly against people a condition that Klunder said the U s. Navy with abide by, according to Optics. org.
making them safer for military personnel to operate. And since all they require is a steady supply of electricity,
Of course, the U s. military is also pursuing this new breed of weapons for economic reasons.
Brain-Zapping Implant Could Aid Injured Soldiers The authors of the paper say next step is to use the mesh system to deliver living stem cells that may help repair damaged sections of the brain or perhaps a multifunction electronic device
After all space technology is largely dual use of value to both military and civilian communities. The basics of rocket technology and missile technology are largely symbiotic.
if you were in the military and youe trying to screen for some disease, but you don have a lab with you.
The work was supported by the National institutes of health the Army Research Office through MIT s Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies and the Department of energy y
Nathan Betcher a special-tactics officer in the U s. Air force has followed Bhattacharyya and Asada s work closely.
either on uniforms or on vehicles, could allow the camouflage patterns to constantly change in response to the surroundings. he U s. military spends millions developing different kinds of camouflage patterns,
then with Michini and a team of Boeing engineers to make a military-grade lack boxsystem,
The work was funded by the National Science Foundation the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Research at Harvard and the Air force Office of Scientific research h
This research was supported by funding from the Air force Office of Scientific research r
#Extracting audio from visual information Algorithm recovers speech from the vibrations of a potato-chip bag filmed through soundproof glass.
In 2012 Altaeros after just two years of refining proved the BAT s efficiency at 300 feet above ground at a former Air force base in Maine where the company still assembles
The research was funded by the U s. Air force, the Office of the Assistant Secretary of defense for Research and Engineering, the Singapore-MIT Alliance, the National Science Foundation, the U s army Research Office,
The work was supported in part by the Army Research Office, through MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies,
The research was funded by the Office of Naval Research the Army Research Office the National Science Foundation the Hertz Foundation the Department of defense the National institutes of health and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers s
Roughly the size of a small shoebox, the aluminum-cased APA which began as a prototype for MIT Soldier Design Competition in 2005 has a handle with direction control switches (up or down) and a trigger.
capstan-based mechanism ensures that the battery-powered device can lift two soldiers sometimes carrying 80 to 100 pounds of equipment swiftly along an attached rope, without jamming.
First designed for soldiers who plunged into caves and wells in Iraq and Afghanistan the APA is now being used by all four military branches on the battlefield and in training to climb mountains, buildings, and ships.
It even being used in helicopter extraction and rescue missions. Finding steady success with its military customers, Atlas is now expanding its Charlestown, Mass.
and Daniel Walker 5, SM 9 for the annual MIT Soldier Design Competition, which challenges student teams to invent technologies based on military requests.
Additional help came from MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies. Ball specifically credits former technology transfer specialist Lisa Shaler-Clark as instrumental in taking the APA rom the lab bench to the field.
The research was funded by the National Science Foundation and the Army Research Office through MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies t
Armies of mobile cubes could temporarily repair bridges or buildings during emergencies, or raise and reconfigure scaffolding for building projects.
In ongoing work, the MIT researchers are building an army of 100 cubes, each of which can move in any direction,
the Center for Materials science and engineering, the Center for Sensorimotor Neural engineering, the Mcgovern Institute for Brain Research, the U s army Research Office through the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies,
since more than 4 million homes and buildings in cities across the United states for military, commercial,
The work was supported by the National Science Foundation and the Air force Office of Scientific research
#Defusing bombs by color This March, Cambodia held its first national-level science festival at the Royal University of Phnom penh,
and also served as a lieutenant in the U s army Corps of Engineers in Vietnam in 1970-1971.
#Alumnus throwable tactical camera gets commercial release Unseen areas are troublesome for police and first responders:
Bounce Imaging will deploy 100 Explorers to police departments nationwide, with aims of branching out to first responders and other clients in the near future.
For this first manufacturing run, the startup aims to gather feedback from police, who operate in what Aguilar calls a eputation-heavy market. ou want to make sure you deliver well for your first customer,
Bounce Imaging started fielding numerous requests from police departments which became its target market. Months of rigorous testing with departments across New england led Bounce Imaging from a clunky prototype of the Explorer Medusa of cables
But they also learned key lessons about what police needed. Among the most important lessons, Aguilar says,
is that police are under so much pressure in potentially dangerous situations that they need something very easy to use. e had loaded the system up with all sorts of options and buttons and nifty things but really,
#Research team developing injectable treatment for soldiers wounded in battle Internal bleeding is a leading cause of death on the battlefield,
and the Massachusetts institute of technology could buy wounded soldiers the time they need to survive by preventing blood loss from serious internal injuries.
Gaharwar envisions the biomaterial being preloaded into syringes that soldiers can carry with them into combat situations.
If a soldier experiences a penetrating, incompressible injury one where it is difficult if not impossible to apply the pressure needed to stop the bleeding he
Zang says scanners with the new technology"could be used by the military police, first responders and private industry focused on public safety."
and polyurethane paint to melt ice on sensitive military radar domes which need to be kept clear of ice to keep them at peak performance.
and less power consumption means reducing the battery weight of electronic equipment that soldiers are carrying, which will enhance their combat capability.
an infectious disease specialist with the Walter reed Army Institute of Research, has shown to be effective at getting the immune system to attack the most lethal species of malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum,
"The pair's research has been supported by a $2 million grant from the National institutes of health and $2 million from the U s. Military Infectious disease Research Program.
and Air force Office of Scientific research and made possible by facilities at the USC Centers of Excellence in Nanobiophysics and Electron Microsopy and Microanalysis.
They envision the fiber supercapacitor could be woven into clothing to power medical devices for people at home or communications devices for soldiers in the field.
Police force will be replaced with drone copters that taze you and fly off to prisons without hallways
Together this data could help police find explosives while they're still being manufactured. The team behind EMPHASIS announced earlier this month that the sensors had proved#successful#in#lab tests
If the trend on the sea is moving away from crew (as seen in both military
Along with providing the researchers with a better understanding of the waters uncharted depths Sandwell says these maps will be useful tools for the military
Now the Army wants to fill its light and fast shoes and to do so they looked at three different vehicles last week during exercises in Fort Benning Georgia. Together the vehicles would enable the Army to do forcible entry missions
which is Pentagonese for land and operate in a hostile place. The first vehicle is in essence a light tank.
The Army also wants it to drive cross-country primary road secondary road and urban rubble during both day and night missions.
Lastly the Army is also looking at a light reconnaissance vehicle (LRV) also carried by Chinook helicopters both inside and underneath.
The LRV will carry six soldiers and their gear and it will go on rougher terrain than the other two Humvee replacements.
Under the solicitation category lethality the Army says it wants an LRV with the capability of defeating
and engaging hardened enemy bunkers light armored vehicles and dismounted personnel in machine gun and sniper positions.
Together these vehicles will let the Army arrive from the sky and start fighting on day one all
what the Army can do early on in a war with the light tanks protecting the landing zone the combat vehicle carrying soldiers to the fight
The surveyors were able to pinpoint practice trenches dug during the First world war to prepare troops for battle as well as traces of a military airbase--one of the U k.'s first--built at the site a few years later y
According to#the U s. Naval Institute both the Navy and the Air force want their next generation air superiority fighter to have Artificial intelligence.
The F-X is a fighter concept in development to replace the Air force s current top dog#the stealthy F-22 Raptor
Late 2014 A first-person shooter module is set to be introduced. 2015 A planet-side social module will be added allowing players to explore cities. 2015 The single-player military campaign Squadron 42
#Japan's Military Will Patrol Earth's Orbitals Japan's military plans to take defense to the heavens in 2019.
and Japan is hardly the first military to consider it. Space is big business. A 2013 report from the Satellite Industry Association says that satellites made $189. 5 billion in revenue in 2012.
The architecture of space has had always a military underpinning. American nuclear submarines, hiding out at sea,
Japan has grown slowly its military, it's unlikely that a new space force means we'll see Japanese war satellites anytime soon.
The fundingâ sets up a task force to further develop Japan robot manufacturers and help them increase their revenues to $24 billion by 2020.
Serving the Military and World cup Football Packbots will be deployed in Brazil during the 2014â World cup Soccerâ season to bring a high-tech approach to security.
The sleek Packbot robot system designed by irobot a Bedford Massachusetts-based company made its debut in 2002 in Afghanistan where it helped soldiers clear bunkers caves collapsed building and to cross minefields.
military and security (64%)manufacturing (57%)space exploration (45%)search and rescue (36%)and healthcare (18%.
Most puzzling is that the support for the use of RAS by the military is stronger in the UK than anywhere in Europe despite strong homegrown opposition by UK pressure groups and academics.
 Further research on the views of the public on the applications of RAS in a military
which can provide the military with air superiority. While this cloak has numerous applications for the military,
this technology will create a ripple effect beyond the battlefield that will improve the performance of other diverse applications.
While US Scales Back Support to Rebels The upper chamber of the Russian parliament has given unanimously a formal consent to President Putin to use the nation military in Syria to fight terrorism at a request from the Syrian President Bashar
New software designed for Army medical training allows personnel to see in real-time the effect of their treatments on the bodies of virtual patients and high-tech mannequins.
a new ARA software program funded in part by the Army intends to significantly advance that training via a downloadable hysiology enginethat allows medical personnel see how their actions affect every other aspect of their patient physiology.
Carter said. hat the Army is hoping is that this physiology engine becomes the standard for physiology simulations,
so that anybody in the future who creates a medical training game for the military can take and use Biogears in that.?
Matthew Hackett, science and technology manager with the Army Research Laboratory. This software allows anyone in the military, Dod-wide,
to take this as a building block for simulation and not have to do that from scratch every single time. his means a cost savings to the military,
since programs will not have to be rebuilt each time for different kinds of simulations, he said. It also good from the industry standpoint because,
Recently, researchers at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the research arm of the U s. military,
"Nepalese police urged people to stay outside and avoid jamming the fragile cellphone network.""Please stay in open field,
"said a message from the national police service's Twitter account. Nepal's National Emergency Operation center tweeted:"
#Military's Prosthetic Hand Can Feel Researchers fitted a man who has been paralyzed for more than a decade with an experimental prosthetic hand that lets him"feel"sensations,
the US military's futuristic development department said. Scientists wired electrodes into the 28-year-old patient's sensory cortex,
The agency said these improved capabilities can"greatly expand"the effectiveness of helicopters used for both military and nonmilitary purposes u
Spivak acknowledges support by the Air force Office of Scientific research and the Office of Naval Research.
Buehler and Giesa acknowledge support by the Office of Naval Research, the Army Research Office,
She plans to attend the payload launch at the Cape canaveral Air force station Kennedy space center with her 12-year-old son Carl,
The International PV Quality assurance Task force (PVQAT) was formed in 2011 to develop standards to help customers quickly assess a PV product's ability to withstand regional stresses
also leads NREL's participation in the International PV Quality assurance Task force. The task force was formed to develop standards ore The first leg of the stool in assuring reliability is a durable design, one that holds up to its intended application,
whether that is in the deserts of the American Southwest or in a snowy mountain range. To that end, qualification tests should
"Assuring solar modules will last for decades The International PV Quality assurance Task force is developing a comprehensive set of standards that includes:
"As private companies and the military continue to look to advanced composites for new aerospace and other applications,
"I do have a genuine desire to see my group grow in a way that creates value for the military and society in general,
and has developed'Warrior'strains capable of infecting individuals previously believed to have tolerance.""Mario Caccamo, senior author of the paper, said:"
It clear that the nonprofit IIIM has launched its policy not only to publicise its anti-military stance,
This research was funded by the National Science Foundation, the Air force Office for Scientific research, and the Army Research Office f
#Researchers Reveal How Chronic Inflammation Can Lead to Cancer Chronic inflammation caused by disease or exposure to dangerous chemicals has long been linked to cancer,
This research was supported by the National Science Foundation, the U s. Air force Office of Scientific research and the Ministry of Science and Technology in Taiwan n
#See through Walls by the Glow of Your Wi-fi It used to be that a bad guy besieged by police could just shoot out the lights and hide in the dark.
work sponsored by Universal Display Corporation and the U s. Air force. The researchers added their new lights nearly meet the most stringent requirements of the National Television systems Committee (NTSC),
whether in the hands of civilian authorities or militaries i
#The New Wrinkle in Graphene Is Wrinkles One of the holy grails of graphene research has been a method for achieving wafer-scale growth of wrinkle-free single-crystal monolayer graphene on a silicon wafer.
An interesting use of robots was demonstrated by the Israeli army recently when it tested a four-wheeled robot called Eyedrive at a crossing point between Israel
A miniature satellite sent in the space aboard an Atlas v rocket from the Vandenberg Air force base in California on October 8 is working fine,
Dr Ni said the technology eventually could be used for military applications like making large objects like vehicles or aircraft or even individual soldiers"invisible".
The Air force Research Laboratory Materials and Manufacturing Directorate is working to change this. In an effort to improve the turbine engine inspection process,
AFRL recently transitioned this inspection method to the Oklahoma city Air Logistics Complex at Tinker Air force base
The Air force Life cycle Management Center has expressed plans to merge the technology into their automated airfoil inspection and repair initiative.
Its rigid, crystalline structures the molecules are lined up like soldiers at roll call make it hard to dissolve in the bloodstream.
The key to making drugs by themselves more soluble is not to give the molecular soldiers time to fall in to their crystalline structures
and Noel Elman, with the Massachusetts institute of technology Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies o
#Physicists Induce Stable Ferroelectricity in Strontium Titanate Nanosheets A team of physicists has defied conventional wisdom by inducing stable ferroelectricity in a sheet of strontium titanate only a few nanometers thick.
#BAE Systems Creates Innovative Communication Device to Assist Armed forces The prototype system is designed to improve soldier safety
transferring messages directly from the soldier helmet to the inner ear. It is being developed as part of Company-funded research which aims to reduce the burden on the dismounted soldier through wearable technology.
Soldiers need to be able to receive audio communications to maximise their awareness and understanding of the challenging environments they are working in,
whilst also protecting themselves from extremely loud noises such as gunfire. To address these conflicting requirements
With this system, the soldiers can safeguard their hearing with ear protectors whilst still clearly receiving military voice communications,
#Boy, 15, held in NI over Talktalk hack Metropolitan Police said a house had been searched in County Antrim on Monday afternoon at about 16:20 GMT.
He has been taken into custody at Antrim police station and is being questioned by detectives from the Police Service of Northern ireland.
A search of the address is ongoing and inquiries continue. A police statement said this was a joint investigation involving the Police Service of Northern ireland (PSNI),
and detectives from the Metropolitan Police Cyber crime Unit (MPCCU). News that the Talktalk website had been hit by a"significant and sustained cyberattack"broke last week.
The phone and broadband provider, which has over four million UK customers, said banking details
MBC students even simulated conditions where soldiers use their own body heat to trigger protein production.
and Rao recognised that this sort of expensive military medicine touches only he 0. 01 per cent.
UMBC students even simulated conditions where soldiers use their own body heat to trigger protein production.
and Rao recognised that this sort of expensive military medicine touches only he 0. 01 per cent.
"Attacks by Iranian hackers have targeted the military, oil and gas, energy and utilities, transportation, airlines, airports, hospitals and aerospace industries, among others,
About 1, 500 Iranian cyber-warriors"have assumed their duties and will in the future carry out many operations,"according to IRGC commander Hossein Hamedani. screenshot via phoenix tson February 2011,
the Iranian Cyber Army launched an attack against the Voice of america web site. China recently increased its cyber warfare spending by 20-30%in
what experts say is a major attempt to compete with superior US military cyber capabilities. hey the Chinese have devoted previously substantial resources to cyber espionage and theft,
although his son had filed a police complaint in 2012 against a businessman for allegedly disparaging him in Twitter messages."
"and at the military. The document states that the supersonic plane could carry 20 passengers
the FAA and the Transportation department are setting up a 25-to 30-member task force including government and industry officials and hobbyists.
Transportation secretary Anthony Foxx directed the task force to deliver its report by Nov 20. The Consumer electronics Association has forecast that 700,000 drones will be sold this holiday season,
working to transport soldiers at rapid speeds. But Airbus isn't the only one vying to create hypersonic aircraft technology.
Last month, Air force bosses revealed they hope to have a hypersonic plane capable of crossing countries in minutes by 2023.
Air force Chief Scientist Mica Endsley told Military. com that the Air Force and Darpa, the Pentagon's research entity, plan to have a new and improved hypersonic air vehicle by 2023.
Experimental unmanned aircraft developed for the U s. Air force have gone already hypersonic during tests off the Southern California coast,
The Air force said a craft known as the X-51a Waverider flew for more than three minutes under power from its exotic scramjet engine and hit a speed of Mach 5. 1 last year.
'He spoke about the work at the 2015 military health system research symposium, run by the US department of defence, in Fort lauderdale, Florida, US.
The design includes a new-style operations room allowing commanders to focus on specific locations and threats thousands of miles away,
irregular and moving surfaces would greatly expand the effectiveness of helicopters across many military and rescue missions, where stable,
and prevent fatal injuries Fatal shootings by police and other law enforcement agencies could soon be avoided thanks to a device that acts like an'airbag'for a bullet.'
Scroll down for video It is hoped the'airbag for a bullet'could reduce the number of civilians killed by police officers in potentially lethal situations.
But British experts said the idea of police using a acterial fingerprintto ID suspects shouldn be ruled out.
Answers were sent more than a mile using brain signals It is a breakthrough that could pave the way for soldiers being able to read each other's thoughts on the battlefield
#US ARMY hopes to use Short circuit-style robots to rescue casualties from battlefields Wounded soldiers could soon be rescued from war zones
and dangerous situations by robotic medics under proposals put forward by a senior army doctor. The off-road robots,
The machines would help reduce the risk to unit medics who provide the front-line care to soldiers injured during battle.
Major general Steve Jones, commander of the Army Medical Department Centre and chief of the US ARMY Medical Corps
or other soldiers, because they have gone in under fire to retrieve a casualty? We can use a robotics device for that.'
so they can rescue downed soldiers. With caterpillar-style tracks and a head on top of a flexible neck, they look remarkably like Johnny Five-the malfunctioning mechanical star of the Short circuit films.
Major general Jones said they could also provide a vital'telemedicine'link between front-line units and experienced medical staff back at base or even at home in the US.
according to Major general Jones. He said:''So you don't have to evacuate the casualties, so the team can continue its mission.'
and will be worn by soldiers full time. The US ARMY is already developing sensors similar to a'Fitbit'could monitor their heart rate
Major general Jones said:''Army Medical Research and Materiel Command is actually developing physiological sensors that soldiers can wear.'
'They can be wearing the sensors and we can just monitor them. And we can do that remotely.'
'There is a lot of information we can provide commanders that they can use to manage their soldiers.'
Major general Jones added:''If you see a casualty whose heart rate is way up, whose respiratory rate is way up,
Now, the US Air force claims it has advanced the technology, and says it can deploy it using the stealthy Joint Air-to-surface Standoff Missile-Extended Range (JASSM).
Major general Thomas Masiello, the Air force Research Laboratory.''That's an operational system already in our tactical air force'In 2012, aircraft manufacturer Boeing successfully tested the weapon on a one-hour flight during which it knocked out the computers of an entire military compound.
During Boeing's experiment, the missile flew low over the Utah Test and Training Range, discharging electromagnetic pulses on to seven targets,
which was conducted in Thailand by Kevin Kobylinski of the United states Walter reed Army Institute of Research,
This enzyme, called Epha2, normally polices a gene responsible for tissue growth. But when Epha2 is mutated,
so the Salk team decided to look at genes that might police KRAS and p53 instead.
whose work was supported by the U s. Air force.""It shows the capabilities of high-sensitivity photodetection and stable performance under bending conditions,
but there also plenty of emergent military and industrial value to be had, in any project of this type.
Brian Mckeon, the U s. principal deputy under secretary of defence, told lawmakers 11 Russian battalion tactical teams were in Russia's Rostov region across the Ukrainian border.
"It's a case of finding it in the stocks of the United states military, and in the case of some equipment we're purchasing it off the production line."
and start the warmprocess again. warmrobots have already been tested by a number of organizations, from the U s. military, to oceanographers.
if the need changes. eorgia Tech study is supported by the Air force Office of Scientific research e
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