ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (June 20, 2017) -- Racing across the sky, military drones are protected by a massive net spanning nearly the length of two football fields. Army researchers installed about a... Full Story ››
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (June 14, 2017) -- A distinguished engineering society recognized an Army materials engineer for having made "noteworthy invention, discovery or advancements," specifically citing significant achievements in research and development. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers elected Dr. Mark Tschopp, a researcher with the U.S....
Today, the Department of the Army officially announced that Dr. Philip Perconti will be the fifth Director of the U.S. Army Research Laboratory. Since April 2016, Perconti had been serving ARL as its acting director when Dr. Thomas Russell was reassigned to the position of Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research and Technology. ARL consists...
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (June 1, 2017) -- Army researchers are leading the way to a safer and healthier environment by offering alternatives to toxic compounds used in coating Army ground vehicles, support equipment and aviation and missile systems. Officials honored a team of researchers from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory in a ceremony May 22. The...
On the military battlefield, atmospheric turbulence significantly deteriorates the performance of tactical and long-range imaging systems used for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations. In addition, it creates difficulties for target acquisition, identification and recognition. Traditionally, turbulence mitigation methods are applied to...
When physics students are introduced to imaging, it is typically with reference to a single-lens imaging system. See Fig. 1. Optical rays, drawn as straight lines, show that a lens is capable of reproducing an object that exists in space. Why then are real optical systems, like the camera lens represented in Fig. 2, so much more complex? The simple answer...
The fractional calculus, a branch of mathematics formulated alongside classical calculus, has drawn the attention of physical, biological and engineering sciences in the last decade. Although its development started in 1695, only in recent decades has it been regarded as a tool with real-world applications rather than a concept that is purely in the mathematical...
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