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Protecting Army aircraft from missiles involves constant battle to counter adversaries Ed Lopez for Picatinny Arsenal Public Affairs | January 11, 2021 Estimated reading time 10 minutes, 6 seconds. In warfare, just as there is one side that develops codes and another side that seeks to break them, there is also one side that develops missiles to shoot down aircraft and another side that seeks to thwart such attacks. A CH-47 cargo helicopter dispenses countermeasure flares during a training...

0 Shares Open Additive, LLC, has been awarded a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase I contract through the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, Army Research Laboratory. The project, Large-Format, Low-Cost Metal AM for Army Applications, was one of 23 selections from 189 proposals submitted to the Army’s X19.4 topic call: Expeditionary Technology Search (xTechSearch) Dual-Use Technologies to Solve Challenging Army Problems. The accelerated Phase I effort will lever...

US Army looks to millimeter waveforms to strengthen communications December 30, 2020 The U.S. Army wants to use millimeter waveforms to better protect communications. (Staff Sgt. Armando R. Limon/Army) WASHINGTON — Future deliveries of U.S. Army tactical network tools could include new waveform technologies that would reduce adversaries’ chances of interfering with communications. The research and development organization tackling future capabilities for the Army’s tactical network ...

Not quite the Terminator, but ‘muscle-bound’ robots are coming for the Army, Marines December 30, 2020 The Legged Squad Support System, or LS3, is demoed by engineers at Fort Devens, Massachusetts. Legged robots such as this are likely to be early candidates for programs looking to add muscle to the machines for better stability and mobility on uneven terrain. (Sgt. Michael Walters/Marine Corps) Army researchers are looking to add muscle tissue to robot platforms, giving them “never ...

 E-Mail IMAGE: New Army research reduces the unpredictability of current training reinforcement learning policies so that they are more practically applicable to physical systems, especially ground robots. These learning components will permit... view more  Credit: (Photo illustration / U.S. Army) ADELPHI, Md. -- Multi-domain operations, the Armys future operating concept, requires autonomous agents with learning components to operate alongside the warfighter. New Army research reduce...

U.S. Army’s ERCA Prototype Hits Targets 70 km Away Our Bureau 2232 M109A7 Paladin self-propelled howitzer The U.S. Army recently fired M982A1 Excalibur weapons from its Extended Range Cannon Artillery (ERCA) prototype that hit its target 70 km away. “What we demonstrated a few minutes ago … is the success of a systems approach to upgrading our cannon system and the ERCA system is just that – a platform, the propellant, the projectiles and the fuses,” Brigadier General John Rafferty...

By Garrett Reim2020-12-18T23:33:00+00:00 US Army researchers believe they have found a novel way to articulate the position of turbine blades in the hot section of jet engines. They say the innovation could significantly improve the efficiency and power of jet engines – and also enable a new, wider range of performance needed for futuristic aircraft, perhaps even new types of supersonic vertical-take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft. Source: US Marine Corps F-35B landing vertically Jet turbine...

This is no ordinary space shammy. Dec 18th, 2020 Lisa B Bistreich-Wolfe Researchers at the Armys Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology develop an acoustic fabric being tested on the International Space Station could be used to develop space dust telescopes and allow astronauts to feel through their pressurized suits. pace BD/JAXA, Composite by Juliana Cherston, MIT RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. --- An Army-funded smart fiber being tested on the Inter...

Terry Wohlers talks additive manufacturing Jan. 13, 2021 Discover the opportunities available for AM technology in the time of COVID-19. Unlock the answers to your additive manufacturing questions when you register for our webinar, Before making big decisions associated with additive manufacturing (AM), it’s important to gain a realistic view of the technology and recognize what stands in the way of its acceptance. While adoption of AM in the aerospace, automotive, and medical industries con...

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