November 18, 2010
Students are enthralled with the shear thickening fluid properties of "green goo," which was a mixture of cornstarch and water that demonstrated the cutting-edge STF materials research WMRD is conducting. Nearly 2,000 children and adults visited the Army Research Laboratory's exhibit at the inaugural USA Science & Engineering Festival held on the...
November 17, 2010
Bertha Weaver and Sheryl Coleman volunteered at ARL's first Bone Marrow Registration Drive on Nov. 1 at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. For approximately 24 years, the Department of Defense has supported bone marrow registration through the C.W. Bill Young/DoD Marrow Donor Program, with more than 400,000 service members having registered as bone marrow...
November 03, 2010
Capt. Chesley Sullenberger stands with the attendees of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. Military experts in human research and engineering, including Petra Alfred, from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, recently participated in a military-only discussion with Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger about one of the...
October 21, 2010
GPU-Shots-10: A computer scientist works on a laptop associated with a cluster of GPUs inside a Computational and Information Sciences Directorate building on Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. Army Research Laboratory computer scientists and engineers have turned to children's gaming technology to advance military applications intended for the combat...
October 05, 2010
An Army Expeditionary Task Force Soldier from Fort Bliss, Texas uses the Common Controller during a daylight readability study. A deployed Soldier can command and control an unmanned system using the CC. The U.S. Army Research Laboratory field element in Fort Rucker, Ala. recently conducted testing to determine if the Common Controller is an effective...
September 28, 2010
Maj. Gen. Nick Justice, Gen. Ann Dunwoody and Command Sgt. Maj. Hector Marin stand at attention at the beginning of the Superior Unit Award ceremony at APG. The U.S. Army Research Laboratory was one of several Research, Development and Engineering Command subordinate organizations that received a Superior Unit Award Sept. 16 at Aberdeen Proving Ground,...
September 14, 2010
An AH-64D Apache Longbow Block III attack helicopter is mounted to the Army Research Laboratory's Rotorcraft Survivability and Assessment Facility's tilt-table for later live-fire and other tests and evaluations. The new RSAF facility tests U.S. military and foreign rotor aircraft to help keep warfighters safe from threats. The Army Research Laboratory...
September 02, 2010
Cadet Brownlee prepares various methanol concentration solutions for fuel cells. Each summer the U.S. Army Research Laboratory welcomes cadets from the United States Military Academy at West Point to work on research projects alongside the laboratory's top scientists and engineers. This year, Cadet Zachary Brownlee spent several weeks working at the...
August 17, 2010
Director John Miller stands with the symposium finalists, their mentors, and some of the ARL fellows after the awards ceremony. Front Row (L-R): Betsy Rice, Irene Val-Addo, Jamie Huang, Ann Ploskonka, Director John Miller, Janea Lowery, Daniel Smith, Katherine Bagley, Gabriella Rose, James McCauley, Melanie Cole, John Powell. Back Row (L-R): Tomasz Letowski,...
August 10, 2010
ARL conducted tests on the high-power water jets that propel the U.S. Marine Corps' Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle. (U.S. Marine Corps photo) U.S. Army Research Laboratory ballistics and lethality engineers recently completed testing of high-power water jets that propel the U.S. Marine Corps' Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV). The tests mark a...
July 29, 2010
Ms. Melanie Cole Research being done at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) is leading to significant improvements in how Soldiers send and receive data - including videos, voice transmissions, and other communications - on the battlefield. Ms. Melanie Cole, an ARL Fellow, led a team of scientists that received award recognition for work done...
July 15, 2010
ARL Associate Director Reed Skaggs, third from right, is joined by Harold J. Breaux and Charles Nietubicz during a ribbon cutting ceremony recognizing the dedication of ARL's newest supercomputer.(photo by Conrad Johnson) High performance computers, like those housed within the Defense Supercomputing Resource Center that ARL manages at Aberdeen Proving...
