Tag Archives: UAV

BIG SURPRISES for U.S. Adversaries — the DoD Strategic Capabilities Office

Posted on April 15, 2016 by glenn.selby

A DoD office is planning something unexpected for U.S. adversaries: it’s taking deployed technology and making it do something completely different. Surprise!
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Posted in Articles, Engineering, Featured, Rotator, Technology | Tagged 2017 budget, Ash Carter, Boris Karloff, DARPA, F-16, SCO, Strategic Capabilities Office, UAV, Will Roper | Comments Off

Researchers Mitigate Soldier Stressors with Science

Posted on March 1, 2016 by glenn.selby

Army researchers are trying to better understand the types of stress soldiers could encounter in combat that might cause degraded performance.
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Posted in Articles, Education & Culture, Featured, Physical Sciences, Robots, Rotator, Technology | Tagged ARL, army research laboratory, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Dr. Greg Zacharias, Dr. Mike LaFiandra, Special Operations Command, UAV | Comments Off

Even lush forest canopies could became effectively transparent with a future generation of light detection and ranging (LIDAR) technologies. Click on image below for high-resolution. (Source: Shutterstock)

Pancaking the Telescope: Seeking a New Generation of Light-Based Sensing Systems

Posted on December 9, 2015 by glenn.selby

A push for flat optics could transform light detection and ranging (LIDAR) technology.
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Posted in Articles, Energy, Photos, Rotator, Technology | Tagged DARPA, geolocation, Joshua Conway, LIDAR, Modular Optical Aperture Building Blocks, RADAR, UAV | Comments Off

Researchers are working to create a new design for the Harry Potter-esque invisibility cloak, which will conceal objects, making them more difficult for adversaries to detect.

Invisible Cloak for Military UAV’s, I’ll Have Some

Posted on August 30, 2015 by glenn.selby

Imagine if our military aircraft had the same “magic cloak” a certain wizard had. Well that technology isn’t too far off.
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Posted in Articles, Featured, Rotator, Technology, Top Technology | Tagged Harry Potter, HDIAC, Homeland Defense & Security Information Analisys Center, military, UAV | Comments Off

Above is a twin-propeller aerial vehicle with a laser converter mounted in the middle. The photovoltaic cells convert laser power to electrical power at high efficiency to power the two propellers. The laser converter is cooled by the downdraft created by the propellers.

Using High-Power Lasers to Recharge Remotely

Posted on August 27, 2015 by glenn.selby

New technology allows for recharging using lasers. Remote platforms may include flying, land-based, or submerged vehicles, satellites, and sensors.
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Posted in Articles, DoDLive Science, Featured, Lasers, Robots, Rotator, Technology | Tagged Dr. A. Ting, Dr. P. Sprangle, Dr. R.P. Fischer, naval research laboratory, Nikola Tesla, photovoltaic converter technologies, UAV, USS Ponce | Comments Off

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

Ground-based Lasers = Bad News for Bad Guys

Posted on June 24, 2014 by jtozer

Prepare for the era of laser weapons – In the wake of the laser being put on the USS Ponce this summer, ONR is developing a similar weapon to be used on ground vehicles.
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Posted in Articles, Lasers | Tagged (LaWS, armed with science, AWS, Chief Technology Office Group, Corporate Strategic Communications, Department of Defense, Department of Defense High Energy Laser Joint Technology Office, directed energy weapons, DOD Science, DoD science blog, first laser weapon on a ship, Future Naval Capabilities, GBAD, Ground-Based Air Defense Directed Energy On-the-Move, high-powered microwave, high-powered radio frequency, Jessica L. Tozer, Laser Weapon System, laser-based naval warfare, lasergence, lasers, naval sea systems command, Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division, NAVSEA, navy, Navy Capt. Mike Ziv, Navy’s DEP, Navy’s Directed Energy Program, Office of Naval Research, official DoD science blog, phaser-like laser weapon, phasers, science, science blog of the DoD, science-fiction, Star Trek, Star Wars, storm troopers, U.S. Navy, UAV, UAV technology, unmanned aerial vehicles, USS Ponce | 1 Comment

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

Lasers, Rail Guns, and the Future of the Navy

Lasers, Rail Guns and the Future of the U.S. Navy

Posted on March 6, 2014 by jtozer

It’s a new era: the Navy is about to take a big step for military-kind. This summer they will add the first ship-mounted laser to their fleet, and that’s just the beginning.
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Posted in Articles, Featured, Lasers, Technology, Videos | Tagged (LaWS, armed with science, AWS, Chief Technology Office Group, Department of Defense, directed energy weapons, DOD Science, DoD science blog, high-powered microwave, high-powered radio frequency, Jessica L. Tozer, Laser Weapon System, laser-based naval warfare, lasergence, lasers, naval sea systems command, NAVSEA, Navy Capt. Mike Ziv, Navy’s DEP, Navy’s Directed Energy Program, official DoD science blog, phaser-like laser weapon, phasers, science, science blog of the DoD, science-fiction, Star Trek, Star Wars, storm troopers, U.S. Navy, UAV, USS Ponce | Comments Off