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House panel wants to spend an additional $874 million on weapons
10:50 AM ET The House panel that oversees defense expenditures proposed a net increase of $874 million for weapons over the Pentagon’s budget plans for the year beginning Oct. 1, Bloomberg news reported. The House Appropriations Defense subcommittee’s $102.4 billion procurement request included $562.4 million to buy 11 more Boeing Super Hornet fighter ...
Portable dialysis tool sought by military could reduce fatality rate from sepsis
8:00 AM ET The Pentagon’s research arm wants a portable device that uses dialysis techniques to remove toxic substances from the blood of soldiers with infected combat wounds, a solicitation reveals. The envisioned device would reduce casualties from sepsis, a fatal condition where blood gets poisoned by bacteria. The Defense Advanced Research Projects ...
A Web-based app could help combat pirates and arms traffickers
May 15, 2012 The U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) is partnering with Chilean scientists to make Web-based applications that push data to sailors to help them detect pirates, arms traffickers and illegal fishermen, the Navy announced yesterday. ONR is tapping researchers at the Technical University of Federico Santa Maria to create open-source ...
Exposed to anthrax? In the future, your shirt could provide early warning.
May 15, 2012 The Pentagon wants clothing and industrial paint to be built with covert chemical warfare detectors, so that it can better anticipate threats such as anthrax, a defense solicitation reveals. The Defense Threat Reduction Agency, the unit charged with reducing threats from biological warfare and nuclear weapons, is expressing “significant interest ...
Brain scanning computer system takes over the work of stressed multitaskers
May 15, 2012 Researchers at MIT and Tufts University are creating a computer program that detects when users are stressed out from multitasking, and then kicks in to help them with tasks, according to a report by ExtremeTech. The system could potentially be used to help pilots operate unmanned aerial vehicles. The scientists ...
Intel agency seeks technology to suspend users’ cultural perspective
May 10, 2012 The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity is seeking ideas for how to develop simulation tools that would allow a person to “experience a situation or interaction as if they were someone from a different culture,” according to a request for information. The technology is aimed at diplomats and intel agents. ...
Use of personal gadgets for work raises security headaches
May 10, 2012 The growing use of personal gadgets for work is creating new security headaches for IT administrators responsible for protecting networks and company data, according to a Juniper Networks survey of 4,000 people. Forty-one percent of respondents use their own phones, tablets and computers for business without permission from their employers, ...
Pentagon wants to use disposable satellite clusters for intel
May 10, 2012 The Pentagon wants to launch clusters of disposable satellites into low Earth orbit to capture imagery at a fraction of traditional costs. The goal is to give the lowest-ranking members of the military access to the data through handheld devices. The Defense Department is dishing out $45 million to partners ...
Missile Defense Agency seeks new ways to weed out fake electronic parts
May 9, 2012 The Missile Defense Agency seeks new techniques to weed out fake electronic parts in weapons systems, a small business solicitation reveals. The call for proposals highlights a distressing problem the Pentagon faces: The incidence of counterfeit parts appearing in military supply chains has risen in recent years. When authorized dealers ...
TSA equipment gathering dust, House Republicans charge
May 9, 2012 The Transportation Security Administration shelved $184 million in security equipment in a warehouse instead of putting the tools to use, the Washington Post has reported, citing House Republican investigators. The report on the TSA’s alleged waste was set to be presented Wednesday at a joint hearing of the House Committee ...
