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770-ton particle detector pictured above, called ProtoDUNE

Building a Better Neutrino Trap

First detected by Los Alamos researchers Frederick Reines and Clyde Cowan in a nuclear reactor in 1956, tiny particles dubbed…

opening remarks at the inaugural I2A Expo Day event in El Segundo, California, April 25, 2024.

SpaceWERX Completes Innovate to Accelerate Workshop

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. – SpaceWERX completed the capstone event for its inaugural Innovate to Accelerate (I2A) program at the SpaceWERX…

Polymer-cased rounds

Lighten Up

Given the significant weight burden of weapons, ammunition, sustainment, protection, and mission command equipment that Warfighters carry, reducing Soldier load…

research physicist from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Quantum Optics Section attaches fiber-optic cables to deliver light into the compact laser-delivery system

NRL Charters Navy’s Quantum Inertial Navigation Path to Reduce Drift

WASHINGTON – U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) researchers have developed a patent-pending continuous 3-D-cooled atom beam interferometer derived from a…

X-62A VISTA aircraft

USAF Test Pilot School and DARPA Announce Breakthrough in Aerospace Machine Learning

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — The U.S. Air Force (USAF) Test Pilot School and the Defense Advanced Research Projects…

Mark 21 Fuze

Major Milestone Reached for Key Weapons Component

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories and the Kansas City National Security Campus completed a crucial weapons component development milestone, prior…

RACER Speeds Into a Second Phase With Robotic Fleet Expansion and Another Experiment Success

DARPA’s Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER) program successfully tested autonomous movement on a new, much larger fleet…

DARPA program manager Dr. Kyle Woerner (right) talks with a member of the Northrop Grumman team while standing atop the Manta Ray vehicle.

Manta Ray UUV Prototype Completes In-Water Testing

The Manta Ray prototype uncrewed underwater vehicle (UUV) built by performer Northrop Grumman completed full-scale, in-water testing off the coast…

Slice of X-ray scattering data (background). Machine learning rapidly analyzes how the intensities of a billion 3D pixels in the data vary with temperature (left), grouping pixels with similar temperature variations (right) and ultimately revealing Bragg glass behavior. (Image by Ray Osborn/Argonne National Laboratory.)

Machine-Learning Algorithm Reveals Long-Theorized Glass Phase in Crystal

A dish made of crystal and a dish made of glass might look similar from the outside, but internally, their…

single-block rocket-engine thrust chamber

AFRL Researchers Pave the Way to Lighter, Faster Additively Manufactured Rocket Engines

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AFRL) – The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, Rocket Propulsion Division, recently designed,…

NRL Releases “25 Technologies for the Next 25 Years,” Ensuring Future Maritime Dominance

WASHINGTON  –  The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) releases 25 Technologies for the Next 25 Years publication featuring a collection of science and engineering…

U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) Analysis Center (DAC) RelTools Dashboard

Reliability is the probability that an item will perform its intended function for a specified period under stated conditions. It has a significant impact on operating and sustainment costs within the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), which typically represent 70% of the program’s total life-cycle costs [1].