Military iPad and Smartphone Apps Make Angry Birds Look Somehow Childish
These apps track allies and enemies using GPS, super-secure 3G, and augmented reality
At this year's Association of the U.S. Army gathering, developers showed
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Turning Retired Military Jets into Next-Gen Nano-Satellite Launchers
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New Nanospheres are the Stiffest Biological Materials Ever Created, Surpassing Kevlar
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After $19 Billion Spent Over Six Years, Pentagon Realizes the Best Bomb Detector Is a Dog
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ALTB FAIL: Airborne Laser Weapon Fails Second Test Firing in a Row
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In New Attempt to Build a Practical Military Laser Weapon, Lockheed Inverts a Prism
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Video: Military's New Water Guns Can Rip Through Steel, Disabling IEDs
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In Demonstration, Laser-Powered UAV Charged From the Ground Stays Aloft For Hours
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Turning Retired Military Jets into Next-Gen Nano-Satellite Launchers
Building a satellite and launching it into space was once a multi-million dollar proposition. But even though miniaturization and easy-to-adapt technology formats like the CubeSat
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New Nanospheres are the Stiffest Biological Materials Ever Created, Surpassing Kevlar
Protein tougher than metal could be used to print out body armor
Printable body armor, better bulletproof glass, and tougher steel are just a few of the applications for a new materials technology developed by Israeli researchers. A team of scientists there have developed
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After $19 Billion Spent Over Six Years, Pentagon Realizes the Best Bomb Detector Is a Dog
The Pentagon's best (and best-funded) engineers have toiled for years, only to realize the supremacy of the canine schnoz
After six years and nearly $19 billion in spending, the Pentagon task force assigned to create better ways to detect bombs has revealed
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ALTB FAIL: Airborne Laser Weapon Fails Second Test Firing in a Row
The Missile Defense Agency's airborne laser weapon is supposed to save us all from imminent nuclear demise, but after yesterday's botched test firing - the second failure
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Geek Chic: Hyper-Engineered ‘DARPA Hoodie' Makes Defense Tech Fashionable
If it's not the most efficient piece of clothing ever designed, it very well might be the smartest. The ‘DARPA hoodie,' a strangely-designed patchwork garment
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In New Attempt to Build a Practical Military Laser Weapon, Lockheed Inverts a Prism
Lasers can be powerful weapons - they can take down an aircraft at long ranges and in unstable conditions,
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Iran's Boat-Plane-Thing Would Strike Fear Into Other Flying Military Boats if Any Existed
Iran's Sacred Week of Defense (celebrating its eight-year resistance to the Iraqi invation of the 1980s) is never without a healthy dose of pomp and ceremony, but this week Iran's defense ministry took the usual military parade to the waterfront. Yesterday Iran unveiled
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Video: Military's New Water Guns Can Rip Through Steel, Disabling IEDs
Need to disarm an IED? Make sure you've got your Super Soaker handy. Sorry, make that your "Fluid Blade Disablement Tool."
The Stingray, the military's newest bomb-fighting tech, is a small water gun developed
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In Demonstration, Laser-Powered UAV Charged From the Ground Stays Aloft For Hours
An unmanned aerial surveillance drone is only as good as its power source, and as such many technologies are being considered that could drastically extend the duration of drone missions - for instance, DARPA's Vulture program has helped develop a giant solar plane
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The cost to build a globally dominating cyber army: two years and $100 million
A former NSA computer espionage specialist has created a blueprint for destroying the United States's cyber defences and bringing about "Internet Armageddon," and it doesn't take the kind of unmanageable resources one might think. Charlie Miller says that a devastating cyber attack would only
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Raytheon creates Patriot Missile System iPhone app to keep launch crews' skills sharp
There's an app for everything, Apple says, and apparently that rule does not exclude "the operation of advanced missile defenses." Raytheon has developed an app for the Patriot anti-missile system that helps troops stay sharp on the
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A Cheap, Thin Film Gives Portable Night Vision to Mobile Phones and Eyeglasses
What we regularly refer to as "night vision goggles" are actually less like goggles and more like heavy, bulky (and outrageously expensive) pieces of machinery. But DARPA-funded research at the University of Florida in the US has adapted technology regularly found in flat-screen
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In Demonstration, Laser-Powered UAV Charged From the Ground Stays Aloft For Hours
An unmanned aerial surveillance drone is only as good as its power source, and as such many technologies are being considered that could drastically extend the duration of drone missions - for instance, DARPA's Vulture program has helped develop a giant solar plane
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Video: Dutch Marine's Helmetcam Delivers Thrilling First-Person-Shooter View of Raid on Pirate-Seized Ship
Video gamers and warfighters alike will appreciate this stunning first-person-shooter view of a Dutch marine boarding team taking back a German merchant ship from Somali pirates. It's not hard to imagine many more soldiers of the future equipped with cameras so that commanders can have multiple
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U.S. Air Force wants drones that can sense other airplanes' intent
Future airplane flocks would require a trained corps of pilots who intimately know their aircraft and their partners' flying habits. Drone flocks would be a different task, however. Drones are not as smart as pilots, and cannot tell what other aircraft will do. But the military would like to
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US Navy Submarine Runs Eternally on Thermal Power from Ocean Currents
A Navy-funded thermal engine bobbing off the coast of Hawaii is accomplishing a rare feat -- it produces more energy than it consumes. Though it's not quite a perpetual motion machine, it could provide scientists or the Navy with a perpetual presence on the seas. The engine is attached to an
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Mobile Nuclear Reactors Could Provide Power and Jet Fuel for Military, DARPA Says
Making U.S. Navy carrier groups and Army bases more self-sufficient and energy-efficient could mean turning to mobile nuclear reactors. The Pentagon's DARPA scientists have put forth the modest proposal of deploying miniature reactors to convert hydrogen and carbon
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GeoEye, DigitalGlobe Get $7 Billion from Intelligence Agency to Implement Next-Gen Satellite Imaging
The next generation of hi-res satellite imaging technology is on the way, at least if the United States government has anything to
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DoD-Funded 'Project Squid Skin' Seeks To Build Ocean-Inspired Camouflage Out Of Metamaterials
Sea creatures like octopus, squid and cuttlefish are among nature's best camouflage artists, changing color to blend into their environments. This is partly because cephalopod skins have some primitive optical abilities - their skin has the same light-sensing proteins
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U.S. Military Terminates Several Robotic Warriors
Budget cuts focus attention on smaller, more flexible drones and bots
Judgment Day has come for
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Video: Boeing's Truck-Mounted Laser Neatly Picks Off 50 IEDs in a Row
Boeing's laser weapons have already shown the power to blast aerial drones from the sky, but may find even more immediate use in detonating roadside bombs, which are a top killer of soldiers deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. A newly unveiled video shows the company's
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To Solve Cyber Crimes, DARPA Wants a "Cyber Genome Program"
Digital times mean digital crimes. But catching and convicting
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Navy Pledges Green Strike Group by 2012
Militaries have a tough, often messy job to do, and as such
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Overwhelmed with Data Feeds, Military Turns to NFL Broadcast Tricks for Highlighting Drone Targets
War is no game, but it could learn a trick or two from football
A growing swarm of drones
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Congressional UAV Caucus Courts Robot Voters
The US Congress has well over 100 caucuses, or groups of common interests. They're
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White House Names Its Cybersecurity Coordinator At Last
Just don't call him a "czar"
Almost seven months after the White House cybersecurity review
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UK Calls For a Transforming, Laser-Toting Stealth UAV
In February, the Ministry of Defense (MOD) in Great Britain
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To Save Soldiers on The Battlefield, Darpa Invests in Suspended Animation
An active battlefield is a really inconvenient place to lose
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Air Force Reveals Identity of Mysterious Skunkworks Stealth Drone
A U.S. Air Force official provides details on the mysterious aircraft spotted in Afghanistan
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