Army energy-efficient tents
Wherever Soldiers go, shelters must go, too. These shelter systems must not only protect and provide comfort; they must also be as energy efficient as possible. Every time a base camp needs fuel delivered,...
Category: new technologies
Remote control and Robotization in Armed Forces
The results obtained by research and technology concerning the technical solutions for Defense needs have gradually allowed to replace direct human intervention with mechanical systems, computerized, cybernetic . In this context, the remote control...
Revolutionising radar for unmanned systems and homeland surveillance
Counterterrorism efforts in the past decade have been responsible for surveillance in the skies to extreme security measures on the ground. Now, one research institute is bringing a whole new surveillance technique to the...
New steps for DARPA Transformative Apps
Placing the righ tmobile software applications into the hands of warfighters Use on rugged smartphones and tablet computers Cyber security and mobile applications security. Some DARPA Transformative Apps technology has been tested in the...
A bridge technology enables commercial smartphones to communicate with existing land mobile radio systems
Raytheon INTEROP-7000 enables police, fire and rescue professionals to use commercial smartphones and tablets integrated with existing communications equipment, such as land mobile radios. “Many in public safety already use cellphones on commercial cellular...
Multi-mode, Fused Sensor Imagery Increases Situational Awareness on the Battlefield
Sensor fusion provides intuitive situational awareness. By blending low light and infrared spectrum, warfighters are presented a picture which provides a high level of detail, depth perception and striking cues to important elements of...
Advanced cyber security for C4ISR computer systems
U.S. Air Force researchers are asking industry for ideas on a broad range of computer and information technologies to enable U.S. and allied warfighters to avoid, fight through, survive, and recover from advanced cyber...
Passive Radar: A $10 Billion opportunity
Passive radar is different from traditional forms of radar in that it dies not emit any electromagnetic radiation. Instead, it relies on reflections from other electromagnetic signals in the atmosphere in order to provide...
DARPA: $31.5m to SAIC for Adaptive Radar Countermeasures
“This technology represents the trending future for current and new electronic warfare systems operated by our military.” John Fratamico, SAIC senior VP and group GM. “the ARC solution that will potentially mitigate future advanced...
Samsung: 5G mobile data transmission at more than 1Gbps as soon as 2020
Samsung says it has developed technology that could sit “at the core of 5G” – the successor to the 4G mobile-communications standard. The company says its equipment is capable of transmitting data at more...
JCR Logistics created new efficiencies in product support
Known as JCR Logistics, the system created new efficiencies in product support, fielding operations, sustainment and more. In US-Army fiscal year 2012, the transition showed an immediate cost avoidance of almost $20 million and is...
solar cell efficiency could reach 70 percent
Solar cells are based on the photoelectric effect: a photon hits a silicon crystal and generates a negatively charged electron and a positively charged hole. Collecting those electron-hole pairs generates electric current. Conventional...
Medium/heavy military rotorcraft competition intensifies
Connecticut-based market research firm Forecast International recently issued study projects that request for military rotorcrafts growth will continue in 2013, forecasting production to reach 615 rotorcraft. Roughly 4,796 medium/heavy military rotorcraft, having an estimated...
Marine Corps Systems Command: $7.8 M for Portable Solar Power
Iris Technology Corporation, a Southern California-based defense contractor specializing in tactical power systems and spacecraft hardware, has been awarded a $7.8 million order for the procurement of 1,563 Solar Power Adapters – Generation II...
US: $86.5 Million in Public-Private Partnerships
For more information about the State Department’s key public-private partnership achievements, see Key Partnership Achievements on the State Department website. On her last day as secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton announced four new or expanded...
Looking for Innovation for fuel-saving engines
Some decades-old KC-135 tanker aircraft are getting to drink from the fountain of youth. Or at least the engines are. The first of 1,440 new upgraded engines for the venerable Stratotanker aircraft was installed...
Corps of Engineers completes Army’s largest solar array installation
The largest solar power system in the U.S. Army is coming online at White Sands Missile Range, N.M.. The Energy Savings Performance Contract, or ESPC, project, awarded and managed by the U.S. Army Engineering...
Solar Power helps in Disaster Recovery
Turning to Mother Nature is providing an ingenious solution for a North Dakota rural electric cooperative (REC) and some customers who lost power to livestock well pumps after an ice storm last spring. The...
Deployable Airfield: 3,5 M$ to LM for Power Systems
Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $3.5 million contract to develop the Integrated Smart-BEAR Power System (ISBPS) for the U.S. Air Force. The Basic Expeditionary Airfield Resources (BEAR) program equips U.S. forces with lightweight,...