April 04, 2019
ABERDEEN, Md. (April 4, 2019) Smart phones autocorrect in texting, search engines autocomplete queries, and mapping applications redirect navigation in real-time to avoid slowed traffic. These ubiquitous AI-based technologies adapt to everyday needs and learn user habits by focusing on making the algorithm better, but Army researchers want to enhance AI by providing...
April 03, 2019
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (April 3, 2019) -- Scientists and engineers met to collaborate on their latest research and demonstrate new technologies at the 9th International IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society conference on neural engineering, in San Francisco, California, March 19-23. Leading academics in neurotechnology and bioengineering...
April 02, 2019
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (April 2, 2019) - The U.S. Army announced the winner of the inaugural Expeditionary Technology Search competition, known as xTechSearch, March 28, Adranos, Inc., a Purdue University-affiliated company out of West Lafayette, Indiana, took the top prize for their high-performance, clean solid propellant for long-range missile and space launch...
April 01, 2019
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. (April 2, 2019) - A chemistry professor from the Virginia Commonweath University will lead Army-funded research into the decomposition in energetic molecules that leads to explosions. "The main reasons to study mechanisms of energetic molecule decomposition are to develop better methods for explosive detection and inform the design...
March 26, 2019
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (March 26, 2019) -- The head of the U.S. Army's premier laboratory recently visited Tennessee State University to engage in a series of research-related discussions with university officials that could be beneficial to the nation's military. Dr. Philip Perconti, director of the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command's...
March 25, 2019
ADELHPI, Md. (March 25, 2019) -- A technician with the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Developments Command's Army Research Laboratory (ARL), recently accompanied a group of Engineers Without Borders, University of Delaware Chapter students to the Philippines on a mission to bring potable water to a small community. Kurt Kruger, a lead engineering technician...
March 19, 2019
ADELPHI, Md. (March 19, 2019) The U.S. Army hosted a series of pitches in Chicago, at its second Expeditionary Technology Search competition, known as xTechSearch 2.0, as a catalyst to engage with the non-traditional small-business sector, to drive American innovation for Army challenges and spur economic growth. xTechSearch mirrors entrepreneurial pitch...
March 18, 2019
PLAYA VISTA, Calif. (March 18, 2019) -The U.S. Army kicked off the next phase of its second Expeditionary Technology Search competition, known as xTechSearch 2.0, Feb. 27 at the University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technology in Playa Vista. The Army established the competition to serve as a catalyst to engage with the non-traditional...
March 14, 2019
AUSTIN, Texas (March 14, 2019) -- The United States Army held its second Expeditionary Technology Search competition, known as xTechSearch 2.0, to engage with the non-traditional small business sector in Austin, Texas, March 5-6. The focus of xTechSearch 2.0 is to drive American innovation, spur economic growth and seek novel, disruptive concepts and technologies...
March 14, 2019
BURLINGTON, Mass. (March 14, 2019) -- The United States Army recently brought its second Expeditionary Technology Search competition, known as xTechSearch 2.0, to the greater Boston area to seek novel, disruptive concepts and technologies to advance capabilities in the Army modernization priority area of Soldier Lethality. xTechSearch 2.0, which was established...
March 13, 2019
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (March 13, 2019) -- NASA officials say that some rare and distinct meteorites found on Earth were actually blasted off Mars by a large impact event. One such rock from the red planet made its way to an Army laboratory recently for a special X-ray look inside. Researchers from the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command's...
March 12, 2019
ADELPHI, Md. (March 12, 2019) -- Researchers from various organizations and universities recently met to discuss blockchain technology and how it is positioned to provide enhanced security measures for distributed systems used by Soldiers. The Symposium on Blockchain for Distributed System Security was hosted by the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development...
