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Tokyo--The recent bilateral agreement to realign U.S. forces in Japan has commanded considerable attention, especially the decision to station for the first time a nuclear carrier at a base near [...]

* National Aeronautics and Space Administration researchers are perfecting a fiber optic-based sensing system that could be the first step in developing technology that would allow pilots to change the [...]

SureFire of Fountain Valley, Calif., has put together a multiple light system for the TC 2000 modular integrated communications helmet. The system includes a primary light and three white light [...]

A software application, called building restoration operations optimization model, or BROOM, has been developed to help decision-makers clean-up contaminated buildings, subways, airports and other facilities. The tool, which was perfected [...]

A TEAM FROM WARNER-ROBBINS Air Logistics Center, Ga., has provided an improved armor solution for special operations MH-53 Pave Low helicopter crews in Iraq. When existing ballistic blankets proved unable [...]

A VARIETY OF AIR FORCE and National Guard fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters are benefiting from software that is making possible on-board, integrated defensive avionics systems. Providing these specialized applications are [...]

The Iowa Waste Reduction Center, at the University of Northern Iowa, has perfected a laser attachment to a spray gun that cuts costs, time and waste. The LaserPaint system determines [...]

First responder interoperability is being achieved at the grassroots. A mobile command center packed with radios, landline telephone and cellular hookups, a global positioning system and multiple flat panel monitors [...]

American Red Cross workers in the greater New York area who work with first responders often at night now are equipped with Vis-Tac load-bearing and Vis-Mat non-load-bearing vests that come [...]

The Army is eyeing a modified MD 530F Little Bird helicopter that can be flown by remote control. The unmanned aerial vehicle would be used to re-supply combat troops and [...]

The U.S. Marine Corps has ordered 522 diesel-powered motorcycles for use on rugged terrain. The propulsion technology was developed at Cranfield University, Shrivenham, United Kingdom and Haves Diversified Technologies, of [...]

Mid-air helicopter crashes may become a thing of the past. The Lahav division of Israel Aircraft Industries has developed a system that predicts collisions during tactical missions and formation flights. [...]

The Guardium perimeter security system, featuring an autonomous unmanned ground security vehicle called M-Guard, provides perimeter security for government and military facilities, as well as transportation and industrial hubs. Produced [...]

U.S. and Russian scientists developed a brain-based controller for Navy unmanned underwater vehicles. Russia's Nizhny Novgorod State University and Institute for Applied Sciences, and New York Medical School are collaborating [...]

The Navy's remote controlled, 16-foot Sea Fox boats are being equipped with a pair of wireless color television cameras and computer-driven network video equipment that will allow operators to receive [...]

A rugged flashlight relying on light-emitting diode technology is literally piercing the gloom. Produced by Pelican Products Inc, Torrance, Calif., the Recoil LED flashlights recently were put to the test [...]