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Black Dart Helps DoD Stay Ahead of Malicious Drone Use

Posted on August 10, 2015 by Armed with Science

The small craft sounded like a lawnmower and was hard to distinguish, from a distance, from a bird that just happened to be gliding by that day on the California coast.
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From Garbage to Gas: Today’s Military Goes Green

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Armed with Science

This blog post was shared by the Advanced Materials Manufacturing and Testing Information Analysis Center. It is the 12th post in our 22-part series produced by the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). These days, most people like going to the gas …
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Navy Medical Researchers Explore Preventative Malaria Vaccines

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Armed with Science

By: Capt. Thomas Richie, director of the Navy’s Malaria Program at the Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, MD and the research coordinator of the U.S. Military Malaria Vaccine Program Protecting our fighting forces against infectious threats such as malaria …
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Modified X-51A Waverider Ready for Next Hypersonic Test

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Armed with Science

The Air Force currently plans to fly its second X-51A Waverider hypersonic flight test demonstrator as early as March 22, program officials said March 15. “We are proud of the first flight results, and at the same time we understand …
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Inside Operation Deep Freeze – Part 3

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Armed with Science

This blog post was contributed by MSgt Lee E. Hoover Jr., a Combat Correspondent at McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base, Tennessee, as a follow up to our Dispatches from Antarctica series. MSgt Hoover recently traveled to Antarctica to produce …
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Guesstimates, Fuzzy Logic and Believe it or Not…Better Decision Making

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Armed with Science

This blog post was shared by the Weapons Systems Technology Information Analysis Center. It is the tenth post in  our 22-part series produced by the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). Computers make our modern lifestyle possible, processing mountains of data …
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Coming Soon to an App Store Near You: Mobile Technology for Information Collection and Dissemination

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Armed with Science

This blog post was shared by the Data & Analysis Center for Software. It is the ninth post in our 22-part series produced by the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). Have you ever wondered how the government is embracing the …
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Army Smartphone Evaluation Could Change How Soldiers Learn

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Armed with Science

It’s not written in stone that every Soldier will get an Android phone or an iPhone — but signs are pointing to it. During a DODLive Bloggers Roundtable Feb. 24, Lt. Gen. Michael Vane, director of the Army Capabilities Integration …
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