Situational Awareness

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

Frontline soldiers often carry outdated rifles, with no data-sharing capability between field and command. As result, valuable, real-time data is left unused and there...

Recently, Google and Microsoft have acknowledged the risks involving facial recognition services and their potential for misuse and surveillance by bad actors. In December,...

American war-fighters have long enjoyed a technological preponderance over their opponents. They are equipped with the best high-tech gear in the world, such as...

In order to improve its situational awareness capabilities, the U.S. Army is developing new tactical software that will allow commanders to communicate more effectively...

Increasingly compact night vision optics and cameras have fundamentally changed the nature of warfare, as well as law enforcement and other activities. But they...

The wars of the future are already here.The Army has recently revealed a technology that can be used to wage war in the future:...

New research shows that ordinary Wi-Fi signals from smartphones can be used to “see" behind closed doors and track individuals in their own homes. A...

The information the responder needs to fulfill the mission is immeasurable. When you also consider the volume of data they receive from other responders,...

A new unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) built especially for infantry, EOD, and CBRN personnel has been revealed. The lightweight, rugged Scorpion is easy to...

One of the challenges confronted by dismounted soldiers is that the action of maintaining laser target identification is slow and can expose the soldier...