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Massive Detrick Solar Array Only Fraction of Army’s Renewable Energy Capacity

Posted on June 26, 2016 by challer

A 59,994-panel solar array, spread over 67 acres of Army land that’s been leased to a private developer, provides 15 megawatts of electricity, or 12 percent of the power used by this central-Maryland Army base.
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Posted in Articles, Energy, Featured, Research, Rotator, Technology | Tagged army, Army base, Baltimore, C. Todd Lopez, central-Maryland, Communications, Department of Defense (DoD), Detrick, DoD, DOD and science, DoD Armed with Science, electricity, Fort Detrick, megawatts, national defense, power, renewable energy, Robert A. O'Brien IV, solar array, strategic medical research | Comments Off

Disruptive Tech & How it is Changing the Future

Posted on September 9, 2014 by jtozer

Scientists at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory are unlocking the mysteries of power, energy and lethality in the search for new materials and technologies.
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Posted in Articles, Technology | Tagged army, decisive edge, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Development, Discovery, disruptive energetic and propulsion science, empower, energy, engineering, future, image-based navigation, innovation, innovative, invention, lethal and scalable effects, lethality, low-cost hyper-accurate weapons, overmatch, power, protect, RDECOM, research, science, scientists, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, unburden | Comments Off

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

DARPA’s “System on a Chip”

Posted on July 17, 2014 by jtozer

DARPA’s new groundbreaking prototype could enable next-generation military RF communications systems that are smaller, lighter, less expensive and more capable.
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Posted in Articles, Technology | Tagged armed with science, DARPA, DARPA program manager, Dev Palmer, Efficient Linearized All-Silicon Transmitter IC, ELASTx, GaAs, gallium arsenide, gallium nitride, GaN, high-data-rate millimeter-wave wireless communications systems, integrated circuits, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, power, Silicon IC, size, SWaP, system on a chip, weight | Comments Off

Terabit-per-second Audio, Anyone?

Posted on May 1, 2014 by jtozer

Precise control of optical frequency on a chip could offer revolutionary technology advances similar to those from the move from AM radio to FM radio in the 1940s!
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Posted in Articles | Tagged AM, atomic sensors, Broad Agency Announcement, DARPA, DARPA program manager, Direct On-chip Digital Optical Synthesizer, electronic warfare, FM, high-fidelity frequency modulation, low size, low-fidelity amplitude modulation, optical components, ORCHID, POEM, power, pre-1940 AM radio, precise timing, PULSE, quasar, RADAR, Robert Lutwak, SWaP, weight, wireless communications | Comments Off

Excalibur! Extending the Reach of High Energy Lasers

Posted on March 27, 2014 by jtozer

Excalibur! This DARPA demonstration expands the capability of high power optical phased arrays driven by fiber laser amplifiers.
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Posted in Articles, DoDLive Science, Lasers, Technology | Tagged armed with science, army, atmospheric turbulence, conventional optics, DARPA, Excalibur fiber optic laser arrays, Excalibur program, fiber laser amplifiers, HEL, High-energy lasers, laser beams, laser irradiance, lasers, leading to diffuse, legacy laser systems, Marine Corps, navy, near-perfect correction, OPA, optical phased array, power, power efficiencies, requirements (, shifted and splotchy laser endpoints, size, static optically aberrated atmosphere, SWaP, SWaP limitations, weight | Comments Off

SWIPES, the Integrated Power Source

Posted on February 18, 2014 by jtozer

CERDEC CP&I engineers created an integrated power source through the Soldier Wearable Integrated Power Equipment System, known as SWIPES.
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Posted in Articles, Energy | Tagged army, Army’s Greatest Inventions of 2010, cerdec, CERDEC CP&I Power Sources, Command, conformal battery, CP&I, EO Soldier’s Nett Warrior, handheld situational awareness, integration, Mike Brundage, PEO Soldier’s Nett Warrior, power, Soldier Wearable Integrated Power Equipment System, soldier-wearable electronics, SWIPES | Comments Off

Army Successfully Demonstrates Tactical Operations Smart Grid

Posted on October 28, 2012 by jtozer

The U.S. Army demonstrated a proof of concept for a smart grid that could support tactical operations this summer at its integrated capabilities testbed at Fort Dix, N.J. The U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command’s communications-electronics RD& E Center, …
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Posted in STEM, Technology | Tagged Aberdeen Proving Ground, agile acquisition, C4ISR, cerdec, consumption, CP&I, Department of Defense, dismounted Soldier, energy, Fort Dix, forward operating base, fuel, generators, HI Power, Hybrid Intelligent Power, logistics, microgrids, mission command, operational energy, PD C4ISR & Network Modernization, power, power sources, RDECOM, renewable energy, research and development, science, situational awareness, smart grid, SWaP, Tactical Operations Center, Technology | Comments Off

The Silent, Deadly Stealth of the U.S. Navy

Posted on August 2, 2012 by jtozer

The USS Maine is one of the most complex, technologically demanding machines built by man. SSBNs – or ballistic missile submarines – are powered by nuclear energy. This ensures almost unlimited endurance for extended conflict scenarios. They are equipped with …
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Posted in Featured, STEM, Videos | Tagged ballistic missile, ballistic missile submarines, defense, engineering, force, might, military, military might, missiles, navy, nuclear, nuclear power, power, science, silent and deadly, SSBN, stealth, submarine, technologically demanding machine, U.S. Navy, USS Maine, video | Comments Off