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Jan 19, 2017

DARPA project could help with mobile security in the enterprise

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, military

If you are a top notch cyber security expert; DARPA wants you.


A DARPA project set to launch this month will work on military-grade security for mobile networks. Efforts could eventually help enterprise security.

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Jan 19, 2017

Elite Scientists Have Told the Pentagon That AI Won’t Threaten Humanity

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, military, robotics/AI, singularity

JASON advisory group says Elon Musk’s singularity warnings are unfounded, but a focus on AI for the Dept. of Defense is integral.

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Jan 19, 2017

How China Is Weaponizing Outer Space

Posted by in categories: military, space

Many of China’s space capabilities are designed to counter U.S. military advantages.

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Jan 18, 2017

DARPA wants to build “Vampire Drones” that turn into gas at sunrise

Posted by in categories: drones, military

Never ceases to amaze me what DARPA is up to these days.


Drones are everywhere these days – from using them to take elaborate selfies to launching missiles at military targets, delivering aid to war torn areas to imaging the deadly environment around lava lakes, they appear to be the multipurpose tool of the moment. Perhaps slightly strangely, then, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) wants drones to vanish into thin air. Specifically, they want drones that are biodegradable, able to fade away after completing their mission.

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Jan 18, 2017

The US Army wants to create biodegradable bullets that plant flowers where they fall

Posted by in category: military

Flower Power!


As you well know, bullets are designed to kill people. So far, so bad, but the metallic compounds in them also tend to leach into the environment and kill off plants and wildlife too.

At training facilities the world over, the US Army uses live ammunition to gear up their soldiers for combat. These bullets just remain in the wild, and do their damage. Deciding that enough is enough, officials are now asking for proposals to design biodegradable bullets that shall harm the environment no more.

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Jan 18, 2017

Royal Australian Air Force Using HoloLens to Experiment with Augmented Reality

Posted by in categories: augmented reality, biotech/medical, habitats, military

The limitless applications of 3D data visualization will enable a more efficient approach to many of life’s problems. Each day, developers exploring this technology are finding new ways to solve these problems in mixed reality; 3D modeling, easier house management, spinal surgery, and forest fire management are just a few recent examples of ways 3D data visualization can benefit us all.

The military, on the other hand, has quite a different set of problems to manage.

From a logistics standpoint, there are a lot of moving parts in the military to consider such as personnel, deployment, training, resources, and supply lines, to name just a few things that have to be managed constantly. Here we are talking big-picture ideas that could utilize 3D data visualization from a top-down view. If we scale down to real-time operations for individual missions, there’s recon, intel, tracking, and response, and this list could keep going.

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Jan 17, 2017

Possibilities for smart bullets in machine guns

Posted by in category: military

More smart bullet news; and this is not a fake news flash.


THE MIL & AERO COMMENTARY, 17 Jan. 2017. Military machine guns, with minor modifications, have remained essentially the same since World War I. They’re designed to spray out a hail of metal bullets in one general direction to shred people, supplies, command centers, and lightly armored vehicles. Smart bullets rarely have been envisioned. Machine guns strictly represent a curtain of firepower in one direction; it doesn’t much matter that most of the bullets miss their targets, as long as a few manage to hit home.

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Jan 17, 2017

Directed energy atmospheric lens could revolutionise future battlefields

Posted by in categories: energy, military

Within the next fifty years, scientists at BAE Systems believe that battlefield commanders could deploy a new type of directed energy laser and lens system, called a Laser Developed Atmospheric Lens which is capable of enhancing commanders’ ability to observe adversaries’ activities over much greater distances than existing sensors.

At the same time, the lens could be used as a form of ‘deflector shield’ to protect friendly aircraft, ships, land vehicles and troops from incoming attacks by high power laser weapons that could also become a reality in the same time period.

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Jan 16, 2017

DARPA’s Latest Tech May Make Human Pilots a Thing of the Past

Posted by in categories: military, robotics/AI

That’s been the plan for a while.


The Pentagon’s Defense Advance Research Project Agency (DARPA), the agency responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military, has facilitated the development of a robotic system to take over flying duties from military pilots. According to DARPA, the program, known as Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System (ALIAS) was to produce “a tailorable, drop-in, removable kit that would promote the addition of high levels of automation into existing aircraft, enabling operation with reduced onboard crew.”

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Jan 15, 2017

What Better Way for the Marines to Prepare for Future Wars Than With Sci-Fi?

Posted by in categories: futurism, military

Tomorrow’s conflicts won’t look much like today’s. That’s where science fiction comes in.

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