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Navy's Future Command Center Looks Just Like the Star Trek Enterprise

BY Kit Eaton
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A research lab inside the U.S. Navy tasked with dreaming up the future of the armed force has been busy working on a new command center design. It's suitably high tech--and is undeniably influenced by Star Trek.READ MORE›

Coming Soon: Portable Poop-Powered Nuclear Reactors?

BY Ariel Schwartz
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DARPA is our favorite source for off-the-wall yet compelling technology. We've seen proposals for flying cars, handheld nuclear fusion devices, and now poop-powered nuclear reactors. It's not as crazy at seems.Wired explains that ...READ MORE›

Dark-Sided DARPA Dangles $40k for Crowdsourced Balloon Hunt

BY Kit Eaton
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has long been shrouded in mists made of equal measures of awe, mystery, controversy, and spying. Now it's strolling out of those clouds, jauntily singing a 1980s pop ditty by Nena. 99 ...READ MORE›

Upcoming S&T Event: Does DARPA Still Effectively Spur U.S. Technological Innovation?

BY Robert Atkinson
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There has been substantial debate recently whether DARPA - the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency - still effectively spurs U.S. technological innovation. On Tuesday, September 14, The Information Technology and Innovation ...READ MORE›

Armed (and Networked) to the Teeth

BY Cliff Kuang
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A brigade sporting a array of battlefield gadgets readies to deploy in Afghanistan.READ MORE›

U.S. Military Will Change the Face of Computing, One Exaflop at a Time

BY Suzy Evans
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Forget petaflops. Forget Moore's Law. The Defense Department is set to build supercomputers that are a thousand times faster than the current record holders. Scary or cool?READ MORE›

UAV War Machine Research May Finally Save Lives, in Airline Design

BY Kit Eaton
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We're used to hearing freaky, eerie, chill-inducing news about UAVs--basically because they're sci-fi-esque machines of war and spying. So check this out: Some research into damaged UAV flight may end up saving lives. READ MORE›

Jerry Airola

BY Jerry Airola
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Jerry Airola The rotor system, or more simply rotor, is the rotating part of a helicopter which generates lift. A rotor system may be mounted horizontally as main rotors are, providing lift vertically, or it may be mounted vertically, such as a tail rotor, to provide lift horizontally as thrust to counteract torque effect. The rotor consists of a mast, hub and rotor blades. READ MORE›

Most Innovative Companies - Defense

BY Cliff Kuang
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Built in Sub Time

BY Jill Rosenfeld
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The scene is a familiar one: a sweat-drenched captain draped over a periscope scans the sea above. The scene is also obsolete: new design principles, new construction practices, and new technology make submarines faster, smarter, and better.READ MORE›

Inside the Lawsuit That Could Ground Deadly CIA Predator Drones

BY Neal Ungerleider
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A new lawsuit alleges that Predator drone targeting software was pirated, and emails obtained by Fast Company suggest the CIA knew it was sub-par.READ MORE›

Where Am I?

BY Lynne Montesanto, Advertising Manager
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Create a door-to-door route map with Earthmate.READ MORE›

Future Air Force Drones to Be Powered by Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

BY Ariel Schwartz
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The army has slowly taken advantage of advances in renewable energy with algae-derived jet fuel, trash-powered electricity generators, and now solar-powered aerial drones. The Air Force has spent $450,000 on a project researching the ...READ MORE›

DARPA's "Prophecy" Wants to Predict Virus Evolution to Make Drug Biz Proactive

BY Kit Eaton
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DARPA's issued a new "funding opportunity" dubbed Prophecy--it's a program to investigate how virus evolution may be predicted, notionally to improve the way the drug business tackles health threats. But it's DARPA, so there're military issues in the mix too.READ MORE›

Is DARPA Working on a Handheld Nuclear Fusion Device?

BY Ariel Schwartz
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The Pentagon's DARPA arm is known for its attempts to reduce devices to microchip size. Projects have included multi-purpose sensors, cryogenic coolers, video cameras, and apparently, "Chip-Scale High Energy Atomic ...READ MORE›

Undercover Bedbugs?

BY Lucas Conley
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The latest in soldiery: a menagerie of robo-animals.READ MORE›

NY Jets' Command Center Offers Real-Time Analytics for Sales, Stats Freaks

BY Austin Carr
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The New York Jets' new state-of-the-art touchscreen Command Center tracks concession stands, ticket sales, and fan behavior.READ MORE›

The Caterpillar Self-Driving Dump Truck

BY Tim McKeough
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A Robotic Behemoth for Mining.READ MORE›

DARPA's Smart Blimp: Mysterious, Hovering Future of Battlefield Surveillance

BY Kit Eaton
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In the future DARPA's ISIS blimp may be hovering above the horizon near to conflict zones, feeding real time radar data to troops and smart weapons from on high. True to its name, it's also a little more magical than the Goodyear ...READ MORE›

One Day a Tiny Flapping-Wing UAV May Spy on You

BY Kit Eaton
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Robot aircraft--UAVs--are going to be big news in the future of warfighting, as the reveal of the U.K.'s new one proves. But have you thought about tiny UAVs for spying? Check out this robot insect to see the future of surveillance. ...READ MORE›

Palm Power-User The Fedex Guy

BY John R. Quain
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Tips from Pilot user Ric Honey.READ MORE›

Banking on Eco Projects With Big Stimulus Dollars

BY Camille Ricketts
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Can stimulus dollars turn into next-generation green tech?READ MORE›

F-22 Fighter Gets the Axe

BY Chris Dannen
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President Barack Obama won an important victory late yesterday afternoon when the Senate voted to halt production of the Air Force's F-22 Raptor fighter jet (seen below). Nearly two billion dollars had been earmarked for the ...READ MORE›

Today in Robots: Fabulous Farm Droids, Scary Stick-on Spy Planes

BY Kit Eaton
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Robots, robots everywhere, with barely time to think (about the coming robocalypse.) Mechanoids are a fact of life folks, and if you need proof then learn about Chinese farmer Wu Yulu and his list of robo pals, and Stanford's freaky ...READ MORE›

Teridian Measures Energy Efficiency on a Chip

BY Ariel Schwartz
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Teridian Semiconductor's new system-on-a-chip is an energy information powerhouse, integrating a processor, firmware and data about the electricity use of power strips, data centers, and appliances. Teridian claims it's the first ...READ MORE›

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