Pentagon Science & Technology leaders said government, academic and industrial innovators must embrace an investment strategy aimed at advancing key “thrust” areas such as electronic warfare (EW), cyber, counter-space and counter– weapons of mass destruction. Alan R. Shaffer, acting assistant secretary of defense for Research and Engineering, outlined these priorities as something specifically designed to […]
Robots
The Army has awarded BAE Systems a $43 million cooperative agreement extension to lead the Army Research Laboratory’s Micro Autonomous Systems and Technology Collaborative Technology Alliance for another five years. As a result, the company will have a significant role working with the MAST Alliance’s team of scientists from the U.S. Army, academia, and industry […]
The U.S. Army has released a Sources Sought notice, inviting defense companies to try to improve the service’s existing network in the upcoming Network Integration Evaluation 14.1 this fall at Fort Bliss, Texas and White Sands Missile Range, N.M. The purpose of the Sources Sought notice is to identify emerging capabilities to be evaluated against […]
DARPA recently completed field testing of its LS3 four-legged robot system at Fort Pickett in central Virginia. An agency press release reported the following: Working with the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory (MCWL), researchers from DARPA’s LS3 program demonstrated new advances in the robot’s control, stability and maneuverability, including “Leader Follow” decision making, enhanced roll recovery, […]
For mobile phone users please click on this link to view the video. (http://www.military.com/video/military-intelligence/surveillance/irobot-firstlook/1920296737001/) An iRobot official at the Association of the U.S. Army’s annual conference explaine how soldiers can operate the company’s First Look robot. Soldiers can throw the robot up stairs or through a second story window and the robot automatically rights itself […]
