Advances have been made in designing vehicles to withstand blasts from IEDs and mines, mostly through use of heavy armor and blast-deflecting underbodies.
A plant-based DNA molecule used to mark microcircuit is reportedly robust. Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) says this anti-counterfeiting process cannot be replicated, reengineered or digitally copied.
U.S. sailors train for anti-missile defense via a video game. Team play is said to improve collaboration skills, and the exposure to different threat environments gives novices a rapid introduction to threat assessment, tactics and decision-making.
The integration of short targeting cycles—thanks to the introduction of streamlined networking solutions—allows the IDF to further improve its response time, bringing the time from detection to target kill to seconds and minutes rather than hours.
Researchers develop a proof-of-concept lidar prototype that improves the speed and accuracy of ocean scans and allows the collection and transmission of data in real time for production of high-resolution 3-D images.
