No Pilot? No Problem! Sikorsky and DARPA Make History
Sitting on the runway in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, one of Sikorsky’s pilots in an S-70™ BLACK HAWK® helicopter flips the …
Defense R&D
OFFSET Swarms Take Flight in Final Field Experiment
Researchers, roboticists, and technologists deployed swarms of autonomous air and ground vehicles to test mission capabilities in the final field …
ERDC Researchers Support Army and Marine Corps with Vehicle Cone Index Testing
The U.S. Army Engineering Research and Development Center (ERDC) is working to help the Army and Marine Corps determine if …
NATO Develops Counter-Drone Technology
NATO scientists are building up a signature database of small UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) to help nations develop drone detection …
Army Hypersonics
by Army Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office
What is it?Hypersonic weapons introduce a new class of ultrafast, maneuverable, …
National Hypersonic Ground Test Facility to be Built
A first-of-its-kind in the U.S. facility to test hypersonic technologies will be constructed in the Purdue Aerospace District adjacent to …
DUJUD Awarded USSOCOM Contract to Develop SATCOM Terminal to Interface Into STARLINK
DUJUD (DBA Micro 3D Systems) announced it has been awarded a contract by the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) …
Research Could Enable Biotechnology Advances: Medicine, Protective Equipment, Sensors
Story by Lisa Bistreich-Wolfe, Army Research Laboratory
New Army-funded synthetic biology research manipulated micro-compartments in cells, potentially enabling bio-manufacturing advances …
Defense Secretary Calls Climate Change an Existential Threat
<by David Vergun, DOD News
“Today, no nation can find lasting security without addressing the climate crisis. We face all …
Army-funded Research Creates Nanosized, Foldable Robots
By U.S. Army DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory Public Affairs
Army-funded researchers created nanosized robots that could enable locomotion, novel metamaterial …