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Naval Engineering Education Consortium Connects Tech Experts with Academia

A new collaborative effort that connects Navy technical experts with academia is helping to create partnerships that generate real innovation. As a catalyst for developing the Navy’s future workforce, professors and students at universities nationwide are conducting research and development on naval-relevant topics at their campus laboratories. The research takes place through the Naval Engineering

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Army Putting Finishing Touches on Robotics and Autonomous Systems Strategy

The Army is putting the finishing touches on its robotics and autonomous systems strategy, according to the director of the Army Capabilities Integration Center. The strategy, expected to come out this year, is in “the final stages of editing now,” Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster told Defense News in an interview at the Association of the

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Scalable High-Energy Laser Effector Shows Promise

Scalable laser weapon system brings down UAVs in all weathers, showing promise for military deployment, Defense systems company MBDA Deutschland has reported successful testing of a new high-energy laser effector – a key element in a laser-based weapons system – at a military training facility on Germany’s North Sea coast. The company says the tests,

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Caseless Projectile and Launching System Delivers Jet-Powered Punch

High tech for low casualties. A gun is a powerful tool for putting a hole in a person. That power made them a staple of armies centuries ago and keeps them on the hips of soldiers, law enforcement, and Gadsden-flag-wearing anybodies to this day. Among the problems of such a lethal tool is that, in

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Multi-Mission AUSS – Anti-Submarine Warfare, ISR, Undersea Mine Warfare and More

Thales is unveiling its AUSS concept (Autonomous Underwater & Surface System) long-range hybrid multi-mission multi-sensors remote-controlled system capable of operating both above and below the surface. The new naval system was designed for a broad range of military roles including surface intelligence gathering such as ELINT (Electronic Intelligence), IMINT (Imagery Intelligence ), COMINT (Communications Intelligence)

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U.S. Army Testing Aim-Stabilized Weapons

This month the U.S. Army”s Army Expeditionary Warrior Experiments (AEWE) program tested the AimLock Stabilized Weapon Platform for the first time during a live fire exercise. This ungainly-looking gun seeks to revolutionize the average infantryman”s combat effectiveness by removing human error from the equation entirely. A civilian development company called Rocky Mountain Scientific Laboratory (RMSL),

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DoD Releases Additive Manufacturing Roadmap

This integrated U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Additive Manufacturing (AM) Roadmap, released in 2016, provides a foundation and framework for…

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Navy Looking to Improve Energetic Materials for More Powerful, Smaller Munitions

Even by the standards of a military installation, Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head can be a dangerous place. The center on the Potomac River in Southern Maryland is where the Navy”s bomb makers come up with new ways to blow things up. Once explosives and rockets are packed up and sent out to the

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Hypersonic Flight Is Coming: Will the U.S. Lead the Way?

The world is at the start of a renaissance in supersonic and hypersonic flight that will transform aviation, but the effort will need steady commitment and funding if the United States wants to lead the way, congressional leaders and industry officials said at a forum late last month. “What”s exciting about aerospace today is that

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Leonardo Unveils Net-Centric Centauro II Armored Vehicle

Power, observation, mobility, ergonomics, firing accuracy, communication, and, of course, best survivability: these are the basic requirements that have led to the development and production of the latest member of the Centauro family, the new Centauro II armoured vehicle, a product with an outstanding amount of technological content, unique in its category. Cutting-edge technology Equipped

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Army to Modernize and Merge Capabilities of Arrow UAS and Lighter-Than-Air Persistent Surveillance System

The US Army intends to award North Eastern Aeronautical Company (NEANY) Inc. a USD49.2 million sole-source contract to modernise and merge the capabilities of the company”s Arrow unmanned aircraft system (UAS) with the service”s lighter-than-air (LTA) Persistent Surveillance System (PSS). The Justification and Approval (J&A) for the contract, which was posted on the Federal Business

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Army Innovative Technologies Project an Enabler for MLRS Long-Range Tactical Missile

U.S. Army fire-support experts are reaching out to industry for help in developing enabling technologies for a long-range tactical missile able to hit stationary and moving targets about 200 or more miles away. Officials of the Army Contracting Command at Redstone Arsenal, Ala., issued a broad agency announcement this week (W31P4Q-17-R-0028) for the potential $148