October 12, 2018
ADELPHI, Md. (Oct. 12, 2018) -- An engineer from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory has received a Fulbright Senior Specialist Fellowship at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University in Lithuania. Dr. Charles Kamhoua, an electronics engineer who works in the laboratory's Network Security Branch, will begin his fellowship Oct. 15 and will return to the lab at...
October 11, 2018
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (Oct. 11, 2018) -- An affordable children's educational kit is the latest commercial spinoff of research pursued by the U.S. Army to create advanced materials for Soldier systems. A team of researchers funded by the Army created and designed a new resource for science teachers. BioBitTM is an educational platform for teaching...
October 05, 2018
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (Oct. 5, 2018) -- The U.S. Army announced the selection of a new senior executive to lead the Army Research Laboratory's Human Research and Engineering Directorate. Dr. J. Corde Lane became the lab's HRED director effective Sept. 30. He had served as the directorate's acting leader since December 2017. Lane now officially leads...
October 05, 2018
ADELPHI, Md. (Oct. 5, 2018) -- A researcher from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory recently participated in a study that is seeking to provide safer high operational tempo airdrop operations for the military. Dr. David Ligon participated in the Phase III C-17 Formation Spacing Research Project, funded by the Program Executive Office-Soldier, at the Monterey...
October 04, 2018
ADELPHI, MD. (Oct. 4, 2018) - Professor Frances Arnold won a 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research initially funded by the U.S. Army in new enzyme production that led to the commercial, cost-effective synthesis of biofuels tested on the U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopters in 2013, and are now approved by the aviation standards body for use in commercial aviation. Arnold...
October 03, 2018
ADELPHI, Md. (Sept. 26, 2018) -- Scientists at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory have developed a novel algorithm that enables localization of humans and robots in areas where GPS is unavailable. According to ARL researchers Gunjan Verma and Dr. Fikadu Dagefu, the Army needs to be able to localize agents operating in physically complex, unknown and infrastructure-poor...
October 03, 2018
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (Oct. 2, 2018) -- A new suite of laboratory equipment lets researchers shake, rattle and roll experimental designs to discover new technology solutions for the Army of the future. "Most equipment doesn't work well when it's being shaken really hard, like people don't work well when they're being shaken really hard," said Dr. Robert...
October 02, 2018
ADELPHI, Md. (Oct. 2, 2018) -- What happens when gold and silver just don't cut it anymore? You turn to metallic alloys, which are what Army researchers are using to develop new designer materials with a broad range of capabilities for our Soldiers. This is exactly what scientists Dr. David Baker and Dr. Joshua McClure from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory...
September 28, 2018
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (Sept. 28, 2018) -- Future American Soldiers will be better protected in combat by stronger and lighter body armor thanks to innovative work at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory. Materials science engineers are using nature as the inspiration for breakthroughs in additive manufacturing. "My project is to design a system that can...
September 27, 2018
ADELPHI, Md. (Sept. 27, 2018) -- National and international researchers recently came together to share the work they have been conducting in the field of information science that has the potential to be game-changing for future warfighters conducting coalition operations. The Distributed Analytics and Information Science International Technology Alliance...
September 26, 2018
ADELPHI, Md. (Sept. 26, 2018) -- An engineer from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory has been named Woman Engineer of the Year by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers' Electronics Packaging and Photonics Division. Dr. Lauren Boteler, a thermal/packaging engineer from the laboratory's Sensors and Electron Devices Directorate, was honored at the 2018...
September 20, 2018
ADELPHI, Md. (Sept. 17, 2018) -- Researchers at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory have developed a new type of thermal imaging camera that allows Soldiers to see hidden objects that were previously undetectable. Dr. Kristan Gurton, an experimental physicist in the Computational and Information Sciences Directorate, and Dr. Sean Hu, an electronics engineer...
