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Cloud formation discovery expected to impact future military operations

Posted June 25, 2012 by by John J. Joyce

A newly discovered radar capability to detect individual cloud hydrometeors in the free atmosphere can impact future performance of combat systems and military...

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Laser revolutionizes sheet metal cutting at Army Depot

Posted August 9, 2012 by by Brigitte Rox

Gone are the days of hunching over a pristine sheet of metal meticulously drilling holes and patterns by hand.....

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First mobile app, Quakeshim share agency’s 2012 software award

Posted September 21, 2012 by

NASA’s first mobile application and software that models the behavior of earthquake faults to improve earthquake forecasting and our understanding of earthquake processes are co-winners of NASA’s 2012 Software of the Year Award. The award recognizes innovative software technologies that significantly improve the agency’s exploration of space and maximize scientific discovery on Earth. Software engineers…

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Radar Survey Flights Resume Over San Andreas Fault

Posted November 28, 2012 by

A sophisticated airborne synthetic aperture radar system developed by the NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is being used in a series of earthquake imaging flights over central California the week of Nov. 26.

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Army laboratories collaborate on octopus-inspired suction cups

Posted February 6, 2013 by

Natural disasters like earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis can unveil points of weakness in man-made infrastructure, and now robots are being called in to help. Scientists at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, or ARL, and Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, or ECBC, at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., are developing suction cups that could be placed on robots…

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ONR provides blueprint for controlling all military unmanned systems

Posted May 3, 2013 by Katherine H. Crawford

The Office of Naval Research has developed something similar to a master remote control for military ground, air and undersea unmanned systems that will work across the services, as outlined in a new video released, May 2. This Office of the Secretary of Defense prescribed data model is a piece of software that enabled development…

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DARPA calls for advances in ‘big data’ to help war fighter

Posted April 4, 2012 by

War fighters’ missions rely on a virtual net of sensors and communications systems for greater battlefield awareness than at any time in history. At the same time, demands for actionable information have spiked as warfighters at every level ““ whether at the planning table or on patrol ““ are called upon…

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Second set of SBLT tests planned on NASA’s F-15B

Posted May 17, 2012 by

Aerion Corporation is continuing its partnership with NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center with a scheduled second round of Supersonic Boundary Layer Transition research flights slated for this summer on NASA Dryden’s F-15B Research Test Bed aircraft.

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Robotics rodeo showcases new technologies

Posted July 9, 2012 by by Vince Little

The Maneuver Center of Excellence put a dose of sci-fi on center stage at the 2012 Robotics Rodeo. More than 40 vendors and five universities showcased nearly 75 different technologies during the 10-day event...

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Two hurricane Global Hawks, two sets of instruments

Posted August 21, 2012 by

NASA's Hurricane Severe Storm Sentinel Mission, or HS3, will be studying hurricanes at the end of the summer, and there will be two high-altitude, long-duration unmanned aircraft with different instruments flying over the storms......

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