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Russia to Restore Naval Presence in All Oceans

By PravdaNovember 26, 2010Politics, WeaponsCuba, dmitry medvedev, konstantin sivkov, naval bases, poland, russia, russian vessels, soviet era, soviet union, usa, ussr, Vietnam

Russian guided missile cruiser SLAVA. Source: Wikipedia

Russia may open new naval bases in other countries, President Dmitry Medvedev stated November 25 at a meeting with Russia’s top brass.

“Unfortunately, the reality is that a number of our previous opportunities have disappeared,” Medvedev said. Medvedev said that he now had “certain ideas” about how these could be replaced. “But for obvious reasons, I will not say them out loud,” he added.

First and foremost, it goes about support points for Russian vessels on the territory of foreign countries. It is necessary to build such objects to support Russia’s military presence in strategically important parts of the globe. (more…)

Revolutionary Computing: $100 Million DARPA Program to Develop Next Generation of High Performance Computers

By Guest PostNovember 10, 2010Technology, Weapons57 kilowatts, aircraft, battlefield, computers, computing power, dan campbell, darpa, david bader, energy efficient package, georgia tech, hydrodynamics, mark richards, massachusetts institute of technology, powerful, ubiquitous high performance computing, uhpc

Imagine that one of the world’s most powerful high performance computers could be packed into a single rack just 24 inches wide and powered by a fraction of the electricity consumed by comparable current machines. That would allow an unprecedented amount of computing power to be installed on aircraft, carried onto the battlefield for commanders – and made available to researchers everywhere.

Putting this computing power into a small and energy-efficient package, and making it reliable and easier to program, are among the goals of the new DARPA Ubiquitous High Performance Computing (UHPC) initiative. Georgia Tech researchers from three different units are supporting key components of this $100 million challenge, which will require development of revolutionary approaches not bound by existing computing paradigms. (more…)

UAV-UGV Collaboration: GTRI Demonstrates at Army Robotics Rodeo How Autonomous Vehicles Work Together

By Guest PostOctober 11, 2010Technology, Weaponsalgorithm, autonomous collaboration, charles pippin, collaborative unmanned systems technology demonstrator, custd, falconview, georgia tech research institute, gtri, lora weiss, porsche cayenne, robotic technology, robotic vehicles, robotics rodeo 2010, signal- and data-processing, uavs, ugv, unmanned aerial vehicles, unmanned ground vehicle, us army

Researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) are poised to show the U.S. Army an advanced approach to enabling autonomous collaboration among dissimilar robotic vehicles. (more…)

Cyber Warriors: GTRI Creates Cyber Technology and Information Security Laboratory

By Guest PostOctober 10, 2010Technology, Weaponsbo rotoloni, combat operations, cross-domain, cyber technology, cyber warriors, cyberspace, extensible markup language, georgia tech research institute, gtri, homeland security, information security, issues, multi-level security, mustaque ahamad, netts, network vulnerability, network-centric test and training system, signature technology laboratory, state-of-the-art database, systems engineering, tom mcdermott, us departments of defense, virtualization, xml

The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) has created a new Cyber Technology and Information Security Laboratory (CTISL) to apply GTRI’s broad expertise and systems engineering experience in cyber-related research to a broad range of information security issues. (more…)

Danish Ministry Hires IBM to Deliver Smart Defense in Denmark

By Guest PostOctober 5, 2010Technology, Weaponsdanish defense, danish ministry, danish navy, defense operations, demars, ibm, nordic, preben thalund madsen, ship

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, – 05 Oct 2010: In an effort to enhance the Danish Ministry’s international defense operations, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and the Danish Defense have signed a seven-year services agreement in which IBM will provide high availability, technology infrastructure and management services for the Ministry’s Resource Management System, DeMars. (more…)

Cunning Machines: Researchers Give Robots the Capability for Deceptive Behavior

By Guest PostSeptember 9, 2010Weaponsalan wagner, algorithms, battlefield, cognitive deception, georgia institute of technology, movies, office of naval research, robot, robot deception, ronald arkin, terminator

A robot deceives an enemy soldier by creating a false trail and hiding so that it will not be caught. While this sounds like a scene from one of the Terminator movies, it’s actually the scenario of an experiment conducted by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology as part of what is believed to be the first detailed examination of robot deception.

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Laser-based Missile Defense for Helicopters being Developed

By Guest PostSeptember 2, 2010Weaponsafghanistan, combat, fiber optics, helicopters, Iraq, laser technology, mid-infrared supercontinuum lasers, missiles, mohammed islam, shoulder-launched missiles, university of michigan

ANN ARBOR, Mich.— Protecting helicopters in combat from heat-seeking missiles is the goal of new laser technology created at the University of Michigan and Omni Sciences, Inc., which is a U-M spin-off company.

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Directed Energy Weapons: New System Developed to Test and Evaluate High-Energy Laser Weapons

By Guest PostAugust 24, 2010Weapons50-kilowatt fiber laser, aircraft, cruise missiles, david roberts, directed energy weapons, georgia tech research institute, gtri, high-energy lasers, kirtland air force base, laser energy, leon glebov, matthew vickers, nathan meraz, optigrate, photo-thermo-refractive glass, sodium-zinc-aluminum-silicate glass, speed of light, tim norwood

Technologies for using laser energy to destroy threats at a distance have been in development for many years. Today, these technologies — known as directed energy weapons — are maturing to the point of becoming deployable.

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