Technology

Over the past decade, the Tactical Assault Kit (TAK) has grown from a research experiment into one of the most widely used digital tools...

Training attack helicopter crews for modern threat environments has traditionally required large training areas, multiple aircraft, and complex coordination. Even then, it is difficult...

Modern air-defense systems face a common problem: sensors, interceptors, and command centers often operate in parallel rather than as a synchronized whole. This slows...

Robots intended for complex natural environments face a familiar problem: rigid bodies and fixed-color surfaces make them easy to detect and limit their ability...

The converging trends of robotics, self-driving cars, and e-commerce are leading to an explosion of interest in the last-mile delivery challenge. Consumers are ordering...

Large strategic bombers were designed for a very different battlespace than the one air forces face today. Modern conflicts rely on dense sensor networks,...

As humanoid and quadruped robots move from research labs into public spaces, factories, and homes, their growing autonomy is creating a new class of...

The rapid growth of artificial intelligence is reshaping energy demand in ways few power systems were designed to handle. Large-scale data centers now consume...

Modern military operations increasingly rely on unmanned systems, but coordinating them effectively remains a challenge. Drones operating in the air, on the surface, or...

Millions of the agile and affordable quadcopters and other drones have already been sold in the United States. Anonymity is already not an option...

Unmanned aerial vehicles used for long-range reconnaissance face a familiar set of tradeoffs. Internal combustion engines offer endurance but generate noise and heat that...

Maritime pilots help to guide ships into harbors with the help of GPS, but the existing technology is limiting. A new satellite system could...

Voice-controlled assistants have become a constant presence in homes, phones, and offices, quietly waiting for a wake word before responding. That convenience, however, depends...

Cloud environments were meant to simplify IT. Instead, for many large organizations, they have become a new source of risk. As enterprises adopted SaaS...

Sustaining drone operations at scale has become one of the defining challenges of modern warfare. Frontline units rely on unmanned systems for reconnaissance, strike...

  While Intel ceases development on several wearable devices and shutting down its New Devices Group (NDG) in Israel, the US Pentagon has been advancing...

Hand edema can significantly limit mobility, reduce grip strength and complicate recovery following injury, surgery or chronic illness. Standard treatments often rely on manual...

A light utility helicopter prototype, VRT500, will be manufactured by Russian Helicopters, part of Rostec State Corporation, by the end of 2019. The aircraft...

Ballistic missile defense systems rely heavily on early detection and predictable flight paths. In many cases, warning time and trajectory calculation are critical for...

This Special Purposes All-Terrain Vehicle (S-ATV) manufactured by Oshkosh is lightweight and agile, with a modular design to meet a diverse range of mission...

The rapid spread of low-cost kamikaze drones is creating a growing challenge for air defense systems. These small, expendable platforms can be deployed in...

The US Army is engineering a new Hostile Fire Detection system for its fleet of armored combat vehicles to identify, track and target enemy...