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Coast Guard Robotics Competition

Filed under Robots, STEM, Videos by jtozer on May 21, 2013 at 7:27 am {no comments}

A U.S. Coast Guard base hosts a robots competition that is part of a DoD outreach program to get kids interested in science, technology, engineering and math. And what better way to encourage and foster an interest in STEM than with robots I ask you?

How about robots under WATER:

Video provided by U.S. Coast Guard

Robots underwater: bleep-bloop at its STEM best. Want to check out more STEM stories? Click here!

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Fostering STEM Interest With Robots

Filed under Robots, STEM, Videos by jtozer on May 19, 2013 at 7:49 am {no comments}

Everything is more interesting with robots, don’t you think?

The U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command’s Edgewood Chemical Biological Center hosted a Mathematics with Robotics seminar! The seminar presented by the National Center for the Advancement of STEM Education taught Cecil Country Maryland teachers how they can use robotics to make teaching math fun.

Video provided by RDECOM YouTube Channel

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Inside The NSA

Filed under Cyber Security, Featured, Videos by jtozer on May 16, 2013 at 7:09 am {no comments}

What do you think of when you hear the words “National Security Agency”?

Do you think of an enigmatic organization dedicated to keeping America’s secrets secure?

Do you think of a giant super computer, watching and processing everything that people digitally do?

How about a team of secret agents, scouring the country for those missing files that hold the key to unlocking the mystery of our forefathers?

Well contrary to what some entertainment outlets would have you believe, the NSA doesn’t just exist within the pages of books about conspiracy theories. It is not some crazy men-in-black organization designed to serve in the biggest of big brother capacities. No, it isn’t. Because I said so. Because I do.

Well, okay. Maybe they’re not that…entirely.

…Right?

So in my quest to discover the truth (in true X-Files fashion) I decided to get the inside scoop about the National Security Agency from this man:

I don’t know why, but I just feel compelled to trust this man. I bet he gets that a lot. (Photo courtesy of the National Security Agency)

His name is John C. Inglis, and he is the Deputy Director of the National Security Agency. I figure if anyone knows the ins and outs of the enigmatic organization, it would be the man who has dedicated nearly 30 years of his life to it.

And you know what? I was right.

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Behold! The Ultimate UAV Remote

Filed under Technology, Videos by jtozer on May 15, 2013 at 7:07 am {no comments}

The holy grail of home entertainment systems always has been a master remote control for separate components of differing brands. Well guess what? The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has developed something similar for military ground, air and undersea unmanned systems that will work across the services, as outlined in a new video released May 1.

Behold the master of all remotes.

(screen shot provided by the Office of Naval Research)

This Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD)-prescribed data model is a piece of software that enabled development of the Common Control System, which is comprised of many different common control services.

The Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Control Segment (UCS) software can be added to any unmanned system to make it able to communicate and work with any other.

It will run on any type of platform or hardware, and it can overlay existing systems running on propriety software to make them work with any others.

The groundbreaking UCS-2, or Universal Character Set, computer code-based software acts as a gateway that allows the warfighter to control an entire unmanned system, from the vehicle itself to its payload. The various services within the Common Control System are now available for download by all of the military services through an OSD-sponsored online “store.”

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When Minutes Matter Most

Filed under Technology, Videos by jtozer on May 3, 2013 at 7:36 am {no comments}

The Naval Research Laboratory supported both the 2009 and 2013 Presidential Inaugurations with a technology called CT-Analyst, developed by researchers in the Laboratory for Computational Physics and Fluid Dynamics.

In the event of a chemical, biological, or radiological incident, CT-Analyst is designed to provide first-responders with a tool that can provides accurate, instantaneous, three-dimensional predictions of chemical, biological, & radiological agent transport in urban settings.

Video provided by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory YouTube Channel

CT-Analyst can provide answers to first responders in approximately 0.05 seconds versus computational fluid dynamics models, which can take one to two hours to run per scenario. CT-Analyst also provides more detailed information, quicker, and with better results than industry accepted “Puff/Plume” models that take several minutes to run.

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First Nighttime Vertical Landing

Filed under Videos by jtozer on April 28, 2013 at 7:22 am {no comments}

Check out this awesome hovering military aircraft!

An F-35B Lightning II completed the first short takeoff and vertical landing during a test mission at night to expand the flight envelope and deliver capability to the warfighter.

Marine Corps test pilot Maj. C.R. Clift conducted the flight to gather data on the helmet and lighting conditions for night operations. The test was one of a series of events being conducted to prepare for the second of three scheduled at-sea test periods during the development program.

“The F-35B will enable the Marine Corps to preserve its expeditionary nature and bring the next generation of war fighting capabilities to the Joint Force,” said Lt. Gen. Robert Schmidle, Marine Corps Deputy Commandant for Aviation.

Footage courtesy of F-35 Integrated Test Force, Patuxent River, Md.

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Navy Unveils Its First Laser Gun

Filed under Technology, Videos by jtozer on April 25, 2013 at 11:05 am {no comments}

We all know the old saying about the unfortunate soul who brought a knife to the gunfight. In the not-too-distant future, we should be able to say we bested our adversaries because we had lasers, and they showed up with only a gun.

In fiscal year 2014, the Navy will put a solid-state laser gun aboard USS Ponce in the Persian Gulf. The tests we run with this weapon will help us develop a prototype system that can be tailored to many surface combatant classes.

Watch a demonstration of the high-energy laser aboard a moving surface combatant ship

It’s impossible to overstate the significance of this milestone and our continued research into directed energy. I’ve been working with weapon systems for 30 years, and this capability is poised to change the face of modern warfare.

As Navy leaders have said, we never want to see a sailor or Marine in a fair fight. We always want them to have the advantage.

This new kind of weapon will give our warfighters options like no other system before. I like to use the “five Ds” when describing its myriad of capabilities: deter, disable, damage, defeat and destroy. The solid-state laser can vary the power and accomplish each of these, independently or sequentially. (more…)

Shooting Down Drones With Lasers

Filed under Videos by jtozer on April 18, 2013 at 7:13 am {no comments}

When you need to shoot down a drone, what better way to do it than with a laser?

The Laser Weapon System (LaWS) temporarily installed aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Dewey (DDG 105) in San Diego, Calif., is a technology demonstrator built by the Naval Sea Systems Command from commercial fiber solid state lasers, utilizing combination methods developed at the Naval Research Laboratory.

Video provided by the USNavy YouTube Channel

LaWS can be directed onto targets from the radar track obtained from a MK 15 Phalanx Close-In Weapon system or other targeting source. The Office of Naval Research’s Solid State Laser (SSL) portfolio includes LaWS development and upgrades providing a quick reaction capability for the fleet with an affordable SSL weapon prototype.

This capability provides Navy ships a method for sailors to easily defeat small boat threats and aerial targets without using bullets.

U.S. Navy video by Office of Naval Research/ Released

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