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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Collecting fingerprints and other biometric data has long allowed law enforcement and the military alike to track down wanted individuals, solve cases, or just keep tabs on people. Now what was a U.S. government task force under the U.S. Army has officially become a full-scale national
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Northrop Grumman has released a new photo of their carrier-based attack drone, the X-47B. It's due to make its first flight later this year as part
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Warships are limited in their ability to patrol vast areas of ocean against pirates, but a modular, self-assembling floating platform delivered by cargo ships could provide a cheaper naval base for military forces. The futuristic twist on a heritage technology comes from none other
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Because terrorists rarely announce the technical details of their nefarious intentions beforehand, the threat posed by weapons of mass destruction is not only great, it's multifaceted. So a team from the McGowan Institute of Regenerative Medicine has synthesised a polyurethane
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New from the designers of the "Tickle Me Elmo" doll: a variable velocity less-lethal rifle. The Lund Variable Velocity Weapons System is a gas combustion rifle that
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Just as DARPA pushes the wackier Pentagon ideas and ARPA-E backs next-gen energy projects,
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The tiny battery-operated vehicle can squeeze into service elevators and withstand grenade blasts
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Washington insiders recently sweated out a real-time war game where a cyberattack crippled
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Bacteria have deployed to Afghanistan to help the U.S. Army clean polluted wastewater. The microbes
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How the 21st-century military may make one of our wildest and longest-held dreams come true
"This new millennium sucks! It's exactly the same as the old millennium! You know why? No flying cars!" - Lewis Black
Of all the far-out visions for the future
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GPS may now reside in everything from our cars to our smart phones, but it once all began as a military application. So it's perhaps ironic, if not entirely shocking,
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General wants to reshape U.S. Army's basic training to reflect the demands of modern warfare
A general in command of U.S. Army training says that a new generation
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A U.S. Air Force official provides details on the mysterious aircraft spotted in Afghanistan
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From a tactical military standpoint, land mines have a certain set-it-and-forget-it
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Intelligent advanced aircraft is one thing, but if the Air Force wants to be in prime warfighting condition, its pilots had better come with advanced weaponry, too. That's why the
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There's no question that the U.S. military is operating at
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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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Since April,
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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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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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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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Snake-like robots are nothing new -- for instance, Virginia Tech has developed some pretty amazing pole-climbing snakebots, and the Israeli military has a weaponised recon 'bot in the works -- but the U.S. Army
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Mind-reading can improve national security, a new study says. Brain-wave scanners could help authorities uncover secret details of a terrorist plot and help pinpoint people with guilty plans before they commit a crime, according to research
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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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We were quite impressed with the Sikorsky X2 prototype when we featured it last year as a Best of What's New pick, but it's looking even better these days. The super-fast, dual-rotor helicopter is still in the prototype stage, but has already broken the
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Biological threats -- everything from malicious biological weapons to naturally occurring pandemics -- are tricky threats to approach. Pathogens' ability to emerge rapidly and spread even faster over large populations is particularly worrisome, as our usual method of developing medicines and
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The Pentagon wants a U.S. fighting force with global reach, ready to deploy anywhere at any time and operate at full capacity. But while keeping our troops in shape and our powder dry are relatively easy tasks, environmental variables are out of our fighting force's hands. As such, DARPA has
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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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The world's first volunteer-built, not-for-profit passenger rocket funded purely by donations and sponsorships is preparing for launch next week, ticking off a milestone in human spaceflight history. The Danish
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