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Researchers Revolutionize Skin Detection

Posted on February 10, 2016 by glenn.selby

The Sensors Exploitation Research Group at the Air Force Institute of Technology, has honed in on the process of differentiating human skin from other materials.
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Posted in Articles, Featured, Life Sciences, Rotator | Tagged 11th century, AFIT, air force, Air Force Institute of Technology, camera, Cedric Haller II, computer engineering, Defense Media Activity, department of electrical and computer engineering, human eye, Jeffrey Bintz, melanin, Michael J. Mendenhall, missing persons, multispectral camera system, recovery, research, revolutionary, search and rescue, security, Sensors Exploitation Research Group, skin detection, surveillance, Technology, USAF, wounded warrior | Comments Off

(U.S. Defense Department graphic illustration by Jessica L. Tozer/Released)

SSC Pacific Engineers Honored as Modern Day Technology Leaders

Posted on February 16, 2015 by jtozer

Three SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific engineers were honored as 2014 Black Engineer of the Year (BEYA) Modern-Day Technology Leaders! Congrats!
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Posted in Articles, Engineering, Photos | Tagged ad-hoc communication networks, African American History Month, and Athanison “AT” Monroe, antenna design, Anthony Haile, anti-terrorism, BEYA, Black Engineer of the Year, Black History Month, C4ISR, Communications, Computers, Control, enhanced command, force protection systems, intelligence, JENM, Joint Enterprise Network Manager, Joint Tactical Network Center Network Management Reference Implementation Laboratory, Jr., Michael Jackson, multi-band protected satellite communications, navigation, Navy Multi-band Terminal, NMT, Reconnaissance, SATCOM, SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific, SSC Pacific, surveillance, Unmanned Ground Systems | Comments Off

DARPA Wants to Transform Planes into the “Aircraft Carriers of the Sky”

Posted on November 18, 2014 by jtozer

DARPA invites input on how to enable existing large aircraft to carry, launch and recover multiple unmanned air systems for a variety of missions.
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Posted in Articles, Technology | Tagged cost-effectively enable groundbreaking capabilities, cost-effectively enable groundbreaking capabilities for intelligence, Dan Patt, DARPA, DARPA program manager, engaging nontraditional contributors, ISR, issile-based approaches, Military air operations, Potentially high-payoff operational concepts and mission applications, Proposed plans for achieving full-system flight demonstrations within four years, Reconnaissance, small unmanned aircraft, surveillance, UAS, unmanned aircraft systems | Comments Off

DARPA Officials Show Hagel New, Exciting Technologies

Posted on May 4, 2014 by jtozer

“This is transformational.” Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel got to check out five new incredible technologies from DARPA.
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Posted in Articles, Robots, Technology | Tagged American Forces Press Service, Brad Tousley, cyberwarfare, DARPA, DARPA Robotic Challenge, DARPA's Tactical Technology Office, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, foundational cyberwarfare program, Fred Downs Jr., GPS, intelligence, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, long-range anti-ship missile, LRASM, persistent close air support, Plan X, prosthetics technology, reconnaissance platforms, surveillance, Virginia Tech University | Comments Off

One Step Closer to Warrior Wireless UAVs

Posted on April 27, 2014 by jtozer

DARPA’s Mobile Hotspots program makes progress toward the goal of providing 1 Gb/s communications backbone to deployed units!
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Posted in Articles, Technology | Tagged 1 Gb/s capacity, backhaul network, DARPA, DARPA program manager, Dick Ridgway, high-capacity reachback, intelligence, ISR, long-range, Low-noise amplifiers, Mobile Hotspots, mobile millimeter-wave communications backhaul network, More efficient and capable power amplifiers, New approaches for robust airborne networking, on-demand capability, Reconnaissance, small unmanned aerial vehicles, Smaller, SRQ-7 Shadow UAV, steerable millimeter-wave antennas, surveillance, UAV | Comments Off

The Coolest UAV You May Ever See

Posted on February 19, 2014 by jtozer

DARPA has released plans for what could possibly be the coolest unmanned aerial vehicle ever made.
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Posted in Articles | Tagged ARES, Ashish Bagai, coolest UAV, DARPA, DARPA program manager, flexible, IED, improvised explosive devices, intelligence, ISR, Lockheed Martin Skunk Works™, logistics, optionally manned/controlled flight, personnel transport, Reconnaissance, remote command-and-control interfaces, small ground units, surveillance, tactical support, terrain-independent transportation, UAV, unmanned aerial vehicle, vertical takeoff and landing | Comments Off

XFC unmanned aircraft is vertically launched from a 'Sea Robin' launch vehicle (bottom right). The folding wing UAS autonomously deploys its X-wing airfoil and after achieving a marginal altitude, assumes horizontal flight configuration.
(Photo: NAVSEA-AUTEC)

Launch the UAV, Submarine!

Posted on December 17, 2013 by jtozer

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) demonstrated the launch of an all-electric, fuel cell-powered, unmanned aerial system (UAS) from a submerged submarine.
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Posted in Articles, Engineering, Featured, Rotator, Technology | Tagged Acting Director of Innovation at ONR, all-electric, Craig A. Hughes, Department of Defense Rapid Reaction Technology Office, DoD/RRTO, fuel cell-powered, ISR, ISR missions, low altitude, mission critical intelligence, Naval Sea Systems Command Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center, Naval Undersea Warfare Center-Newport Division, NRL, NRL Chemistry and Tactical Electronic Warfare Divisions, Office of Naval Research, Reconnaissance, relatively low cost, Sea Robin, submerged submarine, surveillance, Swampworks, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, U.S. Navy, U.S. Navy's submarine force, Unmanned Aerial System, USS Providence | Comments Off

Unified Military Intelligence Picture Helping to Dispel the Fog of War

Posted on September 29, 2013 by jtozer

Military operations depend upon the unimpeded flow of accurate and relevant information to support timely decisions related to battle planning and execution. To address these needs, numerous intelligence systems and technologies have been developed over the past 20 years, but …
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Posted in Featured, Life Sciences | Tagged DARPA, DARPA's Insight, DARPA’s Insight program, Defense Department, defense intelligence, Defense Intelligence Agency, forensic data, information, information intelligence, Insight, integrate disparate, intelligence, ISR, ISR processing program, low-level analytical tasks, military intelligence, modular architecture, Reconnaissance, surveillance, U.S. Army, U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, USArmy | Comments Off