Better Body Armor Technology
High-performance polymer fibers have been used in ballistics applications for more than forty years. Although effective at stopping or slowing down bullets, users have...
Gunshot Sensor Contributes to More Immediate Injured Evacuation
A considerable percentage of the gunshot attacks carried out in the US are not reported to the authorities, and when they are reported -...
Next Generation Police Software Revealed
Current police dash cam systems typically only record video or ship the video back to the cloud for analysis. An intelligent in-car video system...
Artillery Breakthrough at the Amphibious Arena
US Marines conducted a firing of the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) from the deck of an amphibious transport dock, scoring a major...
Virtual and Augmented Reality to Revolutionize Combat Vehicles Driving
For the past decades, protection for ground-based armored combat vehicles and their occupants meant more armor. However, the trend of increasingly heavy, less mobile...
US Military Looks to Solve Old Problems With New Solutions
New technologies applied by the US Army could help coping with various training problems.
The US Marines have been facing a new sort of...
South Korea Upgrading ISR Capabilities
South Korea's Air Force has recently announced that it will found a key airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) unit towards the end of...
Snake-Like Robot to Aid Search and Rescue Operations
Search and rescue operations in disaster-stricken areas often lack information about the terrain and the actual situation. A team of researchers at Worcester Polytechnic...
New Electric Motorcycle for Russian Police and Military Forces
Kalashnikov, the Russian manufacturer of the AK-47 assault rifle, is getting into the electric motorcycle game. Kalashnikov Group recently presented its new electric motorcycle...
Drone Delivery Tech Applied in Life Saving Operations
Drone delivery has been expanding to first response in the cardiac emergency setting. Every minute literally counts in increasing the odds of survival for...
New Development Direction for Large Defense Industry
Lockheed Martin has received a $12 million contract from the U.S. Army to develop a Multi-Modal Sensor Fusion (MMSF) testbed for a rotary-wing aircraft....
Electronic Warfare Tech That Would Chanage Military Operations
US Air Force officials are working with microwave experts to conduct experiments with high power electromagnetic (HPEM) technology. The work offers the potential to...
Industry Giants Are Developing Largest Unmanned Underwater Vehicle
The US Navy has selected its partners for the Extra Large Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (XLUUV) program, Boeing and Lockheed Martin. The program will test...
Raytheon’s Version of Iron Dome – Effective Support South Korea
As we previously published, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) did not think that systems such as Iron Dome would be suitable for...
Turkey Trying Out Its New Naval Development
Turkey’s home-made Atmaca anti-ship missile (AShM) has recently successfully completed a test to check the flight characteristics and or the range, the Turkish Navy’s...
Technologies to Uncover Emerging Biothreats Sought
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has recently launched the Hidden Signals Challenge, a $300,000 prize competition seeking...
Compact System with High Counter-Drone Capabilities
The weaponization of small and cheap consumer drones, including dropping improvised explosive devices, has urged conventional armies to look for new countermeasures and rapidly...
Electronic Camouflage for Future Warfare
Traditional visual camouflage will no longer be adequate in future operating environments against more capable U.S. adversaries, one intelligence official believes. “The Marine Corps...
Revolutionary Sensor Consumes Zero Power
Sensors for various purposes require power to operate, whether it is from batteries, biofuel, or sunlight. Along with power consumption are problems with sensors...
Hidden Chambers Detection Technology Required
The US Department of Defense is interested in advancing its technological capabilities in the urban warfare setting. U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) wants a...
First-of-Its-Kind Wearable Chemical Sensor
Wearable electronics will be a $34 billion industry by 2020, according to analyst firm CCS Insight. Wearable sensors are capable of tracking processes in...
Counter-Drone Systems Urgently Needed
The growing use of unmanned aerial systems in the battleground has led to the development of various innovative counter-drone technologies in order to secure...
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Billions of Phones Could Be Exposed to Nearby Attacks Through AirDrop...
Wireless file-sharing tools have become a standard feature on modern smartphones, allowing users to transfer photos, documents, and other files without cables or internet...
