May 24, 2011
Dr. Howard Brandt, an ARL Fellow, and Dr. Neelam Gupta, both research physicists within ARL's Sensors and Electron Devices Directorate, were named in May 2011 as senior members of the Optical Society of America (OSA). The two were among 138 named from government and industry that recognizes their experience and professional accomplishments or service within...
May 17, 2011
BALTIMORE, Md. - Nineteen U.S. Army Research Laboratory employees were honored by the Baltimore Federal Executive Board at the 44th annual Excellence in Federal Career Awards luncheon and ceremony on May 6. Of the total number of ARL award recipients, 10 employees were recognized in individual categories with a team of nine being recognized for the collective...
May 12, 2011
The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) Foundation recently held a robotics demonstration on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to coincide with the 2011 National Robotics Week. In support of this event, the Simulation and Training Technology Center (STTC), an element of the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) located in Orlando,...
May 05, 2011
Orlando, Fla. - The U.S. Army recently announced the winners of the second annual Federal Virtual Worlds Challenge (FVWC) at the 2011 Defense GameTech Users' Conference. The goal of the open and global challenge is to discover innovative and interactive applications implemented in a virtual environment. The annual event is led by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory's...
May 02, 2011
A project led by WMRD's Dr. Shawn Walsh, that looks at improving combat helmets, and one led by ARO's Dr. Russell Harmon, that addresses stand-off and detection for explosive residues on vehicles, are two of the Army's 11 award recipients for the 2011 Army-wide honors for small business innovation research (SBIR). Walsh's project, "Low Cost Manufacturing...
April 25, 2011
The U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) recently established an International Enterprise in an effort to better support the lab's scientists and engineers as they work to achieve the ARL mission and protect the lives of Soldiers. Dr. Jim Chang, chief scientist, believes there is a great need for the program. "The goal of the Enterprise is to facilitate...
April 18, 2011
Learning to run the right way, for scores of runners who sustain overuse injuries a year, could literally keep them on the road to good health but it could also save the U.S. military nearly $6 million spent yearly on new recruits who cannot complete basic combat training because they sustain stress fractures. Dr. Philip Crowell, biomechanics team leader...
April 11, 2011
The U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command announced its top noncommissioned officer and Soldier for the year April 1 during a ceremony at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. Spc. Bernard Quackenbush, an avionics and survivability repair technician from the Survivability/Lethality Analysis Directorate at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., took top...
April 04, 2011
CHURCHVILLE, Md. - When Churchville Elementary School student Mackenzie Klepsig was just four years old, her parents noticed that something was wrong with the way her body regulated heat. So they took her to John Hopkins hospital for weeks of tests, including an echocardiogram; all tests eventually ruled out thyroid and rheumatology problems. Her diagnosis...
March 28, 2011
A team of U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) research scientists from the Weapons and Materials Research Directorate (WMRD) won the Secretary of the Army Environmental Awards, Weapon Acquisition, Small Program category earlier this year. The ARL team was part of a Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) Environmental Acquisition and Logistics...
March 15, 2011
In a typical 72-hour mission in Afghanistan, U.S. Soldiers carry seven types of batteries, or 70 individual batteries in all adding almost 20 pounds that U.S. Army Research Laboratory scientists say can be reduced with advancements in battery technology research. ARL's Energy and Power Division, part of its Sensors and Electron Devices Directorate (SEDD),...
March 07, 2011
Students at all stages of development will now benefit from a ground-breaking three-year, $17.2 million cooperative agreement to support the management and execution of a consortium of academic and nonprofit institutions that are formed to stimulate science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and outreach, and highlight Defense...
