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Hhybrid heli-truck takes to the air

The autonomous vehicle is designed to carry supplies into hostile environments – and evacuate injured soldiers from the battlefield.  In this first test, the vehicle hovered 10 feet off the ground for a couple...

Google Glass App for Geospatial Intelligence

Google Glass App for Geospatial Intelligence

BAE Systems developed a new mobile app that can be used with Google Glass ™ for hands-free geospatial intelligence data collection and photo reporting from anywhere in the field. The GXP Xplorer ® Snap...

Top 5 Trends In Simulation Training

Top 5 Trends In Simulation Training

Presagis has released a report that talks about how the top five trends – from advances in artificial intelligence (AI) to new types of training scenarios – are shaping the simulated training environments now,...

Jet Engines Alternative Fuels Effects

Jet Engines Alternative Fuels Effects

NASA has signed agreements with the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) to conduct a series of joint flight tests to study the atmospheric effects of emissions from...

US Navy Autonomous Aerial Cargo and Utility System

US Navy Autonomous Aerial Cargo and Utility System

The U.S. Navy has successfully demonstrated the Autonomous Aerial Cargo and Utility System (AACUS), which allows current, full-size helicopters to be remotely controlled by a tablet device. Rear Adm. Matthew Klunder, USN, chief of naval...

Army cleared to fly next-generation eye-in-the-sky

Army cleared to fly next-generation eye-in-the-sky

Approval has been given for the Army’s own pilots to begin live-flying the unarmed Watchkeeper from Boscombe Down in Wiltshire; up until now it has been only been trialled by industry. Gathering crucial information...

Quadrennial Defense Review 2014

It should be read as a strategy-driven document Following Secretary Hagel’s February 24 preview, the Administration made its “full” Presidential Budget request on March 4, alongside the publication of a budget-driven quadrennial defense review....

Defence expenditures of NATO countries

Defence expenditures of NATO countries

As usual NATO published the tables containing annual Financial and Economic Data Relating to NATO Defence. The document, today issued as a Press Release produced by the Public Diplomacy Division, continues the tradition of...