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DARPA has been accelerating its efforts to develop tactics for deploying swarms of unmanned aircraft and ground vehicles to help U.S. soldiers in urban...

Defining the Problem The modern battlefield is characterized by a proliferation of sensors and threats to friendly forces in terms of quantity, range, and integration....

Controlling an unmanned system is a technological challenge from many aspects, but there is no doubt that the major challenge is the management of...

Stemming from the idea that disruptive technologies will change the character of warfare, the multidomain battle concept recognizes that the way armies will fight...

Modern air defense systems are increasingly facing a difficult economic problem. One-way attack drones and loitering munitions can be produced cheaply and launched in...

Entering a burning structure remains one of the most dangerous tasks for emergency responders. Extreme heat, toxic smoke, and unstable interiors often prevent crews...

Modern main battle tanks were designed to defeat threats coming from the front and sides. Today, that assumption no longer holds. Inexpensive first-person-view drones...

More sensors mean more data. Today’s battlefield is networked with sensors at an unprecedented scale. It is the Internet of Battlefield Things (IoBT) that...

The US Army’s Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO) has recently sent its near-term electronic warfare (EW) capability solution to Europe, and soldiers there will get a...

The innovative combination of new micro-displays technology with augmented reality now under development will provide future forces an unprecedented overview of the battlefield. When the...

The US Marine Corps is modernizing its tactical vehicle fleet. New Joint Light Tactical Vehicle will soon deploy and support missions of the naval...

Controlling insect-based robots has long been an area of interest for researchers looking to combine the mobility and efficiency of living organisms with the...

Modern military operations depend on uninterrupted communication and rapid data sharing, yet many battlefields are anything but cooperative. Urban density, electronic warfare, and natural...

IoT technologies have been recently going through a major revolution with the incorporation of strategies from the artificial intelligence and deep learning fields, which...

The level of human trust in military autonomous systems influences their teaming performance. In fact, the  U.S. Defense Science Board identified six barriers to...

The US Air Force is gearing up for large technology research, requesting some $2.5 billion for research in its budget for fiscal year 2017....

Airspace management is under growing pressure. Traffic density continues to rise, low-altitude operations are expanding, and controllers are often forced to rely on a...

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The impressing cutting-edge unmanned vehicles, the latest models in this field, that are showcased at the AUS&R 2017 exhibition attract a lot of attention...

LTC Leon Altarez, PEO Robotics, Land Force Command, spoke at the AUS&R 2015, which took place on September 7th, on the challenges the army...

The Pentagon wants its top research arm to give troops some self-destructing devices. Military leaders want to develop semiconductors and computer chips that will...

Growing threats of hostile drones and unmanned aerial systems (UAS) accelerate the development of new solutions. A new enhanced counter-UAS solution was designed to...