JHU-Created Material Could Make Next-Gen Helmets, Bumper
According to this article, a research team at Johns Hopkins University created shock-absorbing material that protects like a metal but…
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New Army and Air Force Body Armor Gets Fielded to the 82nd Airborne Division
According to this article, the brigades with the 82nd Airborne Division have received the Army’s newest body armor and plates. …
New Material Could Mean Lightweight Armor, Protective Coatings
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. — Army-funded research identified a new material that may lead to lightweight armor, protective coatings, blast shields,…
Aboard Commercial Rocket, Space Defense Agency Sends up Satellites for First Time
The Falcon 9 mission will include five Space Defense agency (SDA) satellites. These include a pair of “Mandrake II” satellites;…
Ultralight Material Withstands Supersonic Microparticle Impacts
A new study by engineers at MIT, Caltech, and ETH Zürich shows that “nanoarchitected” materials — materials designed from precisely…
Uniforms With Programmable Fiber Could Transmit Data and More
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. — Army-funded research has resulted in the development of a programmable fiber that could transmit data from…
Building More Survivable Defense Systems and More Effective Weapons: A Short Course on LFT&E – Summer 2021
DSIAC is pleased to announce the availability of the Summer 2021 session of “Building More Survivable Defense Systems and More…
The U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) Accredited Model for Survivability, Vulnerability, and Lethality Continues to Roll Out Improvements
Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. — The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Data & Analysis Center, known as DEVCOM DAC,…
AFRL’s Thor Hammers Drones in New Video Animation
KIRTLAND AFB, New Mexico (AFRL) — The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has created a new video animation that…
Experts in Camouflage Breaking Can Accurately Detect Target in Less Than a Second.
A team of neuroscientists from the Medical College of Georgia, who are experts in camouflage breaking, can accurately detect something…
2021 Summer Issue of the Aircraft Survivability Journal
DSIAC is pleased to announce the release of the 2021 summer issue of the Aircraft Survivability journal. The journal is…
Army Researchers Make Step Toward Lighter Armor
ADELPHI, Md. – Army researchers contributed to the development of lighter armored vehicles for Soldiers with new computational and theoretical…