Defense Official Says Hypersonics Are Vital to Modernization Strategy, Battlefield Dominance
Hypersonic systems are among the highest priorities in the Defense Department’s modernization strategy to ensure continued U.S. battlefield dominance, said…
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Strength in Numbers: Russia and the Future of Drone Swarms
Numerous militaries, including that of the United States, are now developing and conceptualizing drone swarms—groups of uncrewed systems working together to…
Team From Air Force Research Lab Finds a Way to Use Packaged Snow as Explosion Protection
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFRL) – In March 2021, a team from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base’s Junior Force Warfighter Operations…
NRL’s Hybrid Tiger UAV Soars at Demonstration
WASHINGTON  – U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) engineers recently demonstrated Hybrid Tiger, an electric unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with multiday…
The Eyes Have It: Army, Navy Researchers Agree to Train Tech Tools Based on Warfighter Gaze
PLAYA VISTA, Calif. — Imagine future American Warfighters in the midst of a mission-leveraging technology to maintain a new level…
Army, ASU Publish Human-Autonomy Communication Tips
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. — Army and Arizona State University researchers identified a set of approaches to help scientists assess how well autonomous…
BATMAN Team’s Support of SBIR Project Increases Combat Survival Potential
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE (AFB), Ohio (AFRL) – The Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL’s) Battlefield Air Targeting Man-Aided Knowledge team,…
Army-Funded Research Paves Way for Improved Lasers, Communications
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. — New photonics research paves the way for improved lasers, high-speed computing, and optical communications for the…
United States Facing Increasing Nuclear, Space-Based Threats, Leaders Say
Two Defense Department leaders discussed threats to the United States from China and Russia and the DoD’s steps at providing…
Brief History of the Evolutions of Counter-Personnel Non-Lethal Weapons
INTRODUCTION Over the past 50+ years, a number of terms (e.g., non-lethal, less-lethal, less-than-lethal, sublethal) [1] have been used to…
DAF Releases Acquisition Biennial Report
ARLINGTON, Va. (AFNS) — The Department of the Air Force released its Fiscal Year 2019/2020 Acquisition Biennial Report April 9, emphasizing how…
NRL Researchers Search for Critical Ocean Sciences Data With Lidar
WASHINGTON,   –  U.S. Naval Research Laboratory researchers from the Ocean and Atmospheric Science and Technology Directorate, along with the Scientific Development…