FORT BELVOIR, Va. (May 13, 2013) — Landmines and unexploded ordnance are found throughout the world, often in peaceful countries leftover from conflict decades ago. Researchers from the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command’s communications-electronics center, or CERDEC, continued global humanitarian demining efforts, including a new yearlong project aimed to improve demining technology and [...]
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Army announces research, development achievement awards
WASHINGTON (May 9, 2013) — The U.S. Army announced its 2012 Research and Development Awards April 30. The annual recognition highlights the best in Army science and technology. The Army employs nearly 13,000 civilian scientists, researchers and engineers. “Just over one percent receives the RDA award,” Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research and [...]
Army innovators make the difference for Soldiers
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (April 29, 2013) — The latest list of the Thomson Reuters’ Top 100 Global Innovators includes the U.S. Army for the first time. The U.S. government’s heavy investments in innovation, especially as related to matters of national security, made the difference, according to the Reuters website. The U.S. Navy also made [...]
Engineers work to better monitor missile health
REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. (May 13, 2013) — The U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command’s aviation and missile center is leveraging micro-electro-mechanical systems research in a new application to detect potentially damaging vibrations encountered by missiles during handling, transport and operation. Stephen Marotta, Engineering Directorate project principal investigator, said MEMS research has been ongoing at [...]
Army, universities partner for aviation research
REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. (April 19, 2013) — College students conducting research into remotely piloted unmanned aerial systems are testing their ideas on actual Army hardware. In 2012, four Raven-A small unmanned aircraft systems, or UAS, were transferred to Middle Tennessee State, Mississippi State, Alabama A&M and Auburn University. This unique opportunity is the result of [...]
Assistant secretary: Work smarter to fill capability gaps
DETROIT ARSENAL, Mich. — (April 9, 2013) A senior Army leader visited the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command’s tank and automotive center to meet with workers and outline her vision for the future. Assistant Secretary for the Army (Acquisition, Logistics & Technology) and Army Acquisition Executive Heidi Shyu spoke with the U.S. Army [...]
Army engineering team, Soldiers partner in Afghan security mission
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. — American Soldiers with a mission to advise the Afghan uniformed police finished securing a key coalition compound with the assistance of deployed U.S. Army civilian engineers and technicians. Before Soldiers from Security Forces Advise and Assist Team-8 could occupy their patrol base in Kapisa Province, they needed engineering expertise to [...]
Improved biosurveillance capabilities for U.S. Forces Korea
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. — A portal, a duel and a kraken that springs to life. No, it’s not the latest science fiction movie. It’s an advanced technology demonstration that’s just getting started. The Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense is working with the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command’s Edgewood [...]
Research center co-workers reunite while deployed
REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. — On any given workday, Domonique Davis and David Hartfield can be found in their respective offices in the Security and Intelligence Division of the Aviation and Missile Research Development and Engineering Center. But in February 2012, the Redstone co-workers — Davis, a security specialist, and Hartfield, an intelligence specialist — found [...]
America’s Army Comics app depicts Soldier lifestyle
REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. (April 10, 2013) — Deep in a maze of corridors at the Army Game Studio here, the worlds of graphic art, gaming and military collide. This is where artists, Soldiers and gaming experts collaborate to use games and comic books to communicate to the public the reality of being a Soldier in [...]
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