October 19, 2016
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (Oct. 19, 2016) -- Army scientists and engineers are seeking future partnerships with small businesses in an effort to find innovative technology solutions for the future. A group of 12 mechanical and aerospace engineers from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory toured two aviation companies run by two brothers in the Philadelphia...
October 18, 2016
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (Oct. 17, 2016) -- Army scientists and engineers continue to reach out to academia hunting for increased opportunities for technology advancement to enable the Soldier of the future. Dr. Michelle L. Pantoya, a Texas Tech University mechanical engineering professor, visited the U.S. Army Research Laboratory to share research and...
October 11, 2016
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (Oct. 11, 2016) -- Researchers and scientists join the civilian workforce for a multitude of reasons. Some join because of their military backgrounds, others are from a military families, most all are drawn to public service because they share a passion to support America's service men and women. Dr. John K. Hawley, an engineering...
October 06, 2016
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (Oct. 6, 2016) -- Scarlett Ayres, a physicist in the Survivability/Lethality Analysis Directorate at White Sands Missile Range, won first place in the 2016 Army Arts and Crafts Contest for a 3 foot by 10 foot original sculpture. She calls it "Radiating Flower" and to her thinking, it could be the biggest single flower in New Mexico....
October 06, 2016
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (Oct. 6, 2016) -- Robotics, autonomy and the future potential of machine intelligence are areas of common interest between the United States and Japan. A delegation from the Japanese Association of Defense Industries visited the U.S. Army Research Laboratory Oct. 5, 2016, for briefings and demonstrations on the future of autonomy. "The...
October 05, 2016
ADELPHI, Md. (Oct. 5, 2016) -- The U.S. Army Research Laboratory has named a senior campaign scientist for its Materials Research campaign to help streamline research efforts in support of the Army of the future. Dr. William Benard, an electrical engineer and former associate division chief of ARL's Electro-Optics and Photonics Division, takes on this new...
October 04, 2016
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (Oct. 3, 2016) -- APG officials held their 2016 Science, Technology Engineering and Mathematics Expo Sept. 28. More than 300 ninth-grade students from Cecil, Harford and Baltimore County public schools, the Thurgood Marshal College Fund, Vivian Burey Marshall Academy and the Family League of Baltimore participated in rotating...
October 03, 2016
ADELPHI, Md. (Oct. 3, 2016) -- The U.S. Army Research Laboratory is launching an online store to increase public access to ARL intellectual property such as its patents in an effort to convert research into jobs and innovations for the warfighter. The ARL IP Store is a website that allows users to browse technologies, select a specific opportunity, download...
September 29, 2016
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (Sept. 29, 2016) -- A small four-wheeled robot makes its way down the corridor of an office building. Laser sensors create maps of the surroundings and relay that information back to Army scientists to provide a three-dimensional view. This skill may one day lead to enhanced manned-unmanned teaming where robots perform tasks autonomously...
September 23, 2016
ADELPHI, Md. (Sept. 22, 2016) -- The U.S. Army Research Laboratory has once again aligned with the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence in a new and innovative opportunity for cooperation in the area of Distributed Analytics and Information Science, or DAIS. The DAIS International Technology Alliance seeks to develop the fundamental underpinning research...
September 19, 2016
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (Sept. 19, 2016) -- At the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, scientists are on the hunt for nanomaterials that will improve engine technology in a big way. "What we're seeing is a revolutionary property arising in a class of materials that we never thought was possible," said Dr. Kristopher A. Darling, a materials scientist with...
September 15, 2016
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (Sept. 15, 2016) - Postdoctoral fellows from across the U.S. Army Research Laboratory gathered to answer questions about their current research and seek collaborative partnerships during the laboratory's inaugural Postdoctoral Research Day event Sept. 13 at the ARL Conference Center at APG. Interested people from the science and...
