Situational Awareness

Situational Awareness

software

  A new technology is helping law enforcement agencies fight crime and ensure public safety while saving manpower and keeping costs low. The technology in question...
smartphone

  Throughout the past few years soldiers around the world have been carrying commercial smartphones with them in the field. Although most militaries would not...
quadcopter

In an effort to increase soldier’s situational awareness on the battlefield, the U.S. Army has been looking for production sources and information for consumer...

Very few major programs ever proceed as fast as originally planned. The US Army may be buying fewer Joint Light Tactical Vehicles (JLTV), but...

A new antenna will expand the operational capabilities of the Puma AE UAV for maritime missions. The system provides naval operators with immediate tactical...

Ground vehicles have always been limited to motion in two dimensions, forward and backward, left and right, but researchers at the University of Tokyo...
Photo illust. soldier US Navy by Kim Smith

The successful execution of ground combat operations depends on gaining and maintaining situational awareness of terrain, friendly troops, control measures, weapon systems, and enemy...
gps-denied

Operating in GPS-denied environments, such as indoors, underground and in areas where GPS may be intentionally denied, has become a serious challenge. A new...

A new US military ground vehicle was meant to replace the veteran Humvee in combat situations. Despite expectations, the new vehicle faces problems and...

Vehicle to everything communication (V2X) is picking up as Audi introduces a system that knows when traffic lights are about to turn green. The...

A new portable communication system allows soldiers on the ground to increase situational awareness. The system, worn by individual soldiers on the ground, ensures...

Natural disasters and wide scale emergencies require the cooperation of various agencies and the integration of developing technologies. A recent operational experiment took place,...

A new Radar system alerts boats of upcoming dangers such as turbulence and weather conditions. Ontario Power Generation (OPG) and New...
safe city

Machine learning (ML) has reached a stage of technological development serving diverse applications – from highly efficient manufacturing, medicine and massive information analysis to...
Warfare

To meet the demand for more effective communications in early phase foot-soldier crews engagement with battlefields, and as a key part of its network...
human-machine teaming

When it comes to forming effective teams of humans and autonomous systems, humans need timely and accurate insights about their machine partners’ skills, experience,...

Vehicle to vehicle (V2V) and vehicle to everything (V2X) communications has already marked the future of autonomous and smart transportation. Using such technologies, vehicles...

A new system makes it possible to promptly receive photo and video data on emergency occurrence sites and battlefields or in areas where information...
photo illus. VR simulator from dvids.hub.net

The emergence of next-generation immersive devices like the Oculus Rift and Microsoft HoloLens has increased interest in using mixed reality to simulate training, enhance...