Pentagon to hold event prior to battery tech prize
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Million-buck battery-bomb bonanza beano The Pentagon has announced that it will hold an "Information Forum" event at a Washington hotel to kickstart its portable power-source innovation competition. With the Wearable Power Prize, the American brass aim to encourage development of technology which could reduce the crippling load of batteries carried in the field by modern soldiers.â¦
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The Pentagon is drawing up a plan that would give the military a more prominent role in intelligence-collection operations.
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RoboCops and robot soldiers got a little closer to reality Thursday as a maker of floor-cleaning automatons teamed up with a stun-gun manufacturer to arm track-wheeled 'bots for police and the Pentagon.
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WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon is planning to shoot down a broken spy satellite expected to hit the Earth in early March, The Associated Press has learned.
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A Pentagon spending spree aims to replace the vulnerable Humvee with more than 6,000 mine-resistant ambush-protection vehicles, or MRAPs, just as a stopgap. Then comes a different bruiser in 2012. In Danger Room.
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A news conference was scheduled for Thursday afternoon to announce a corporate fraud case involving five companies in the medical device implant industry, the office of the U.S. Attorney in New Jersey said.
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The United States has proposed delaying the activation of parts of its European missile defense shield if Russia cooperates on the project, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Tuesday.
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Inventors across the country are being asked to find a way to lighten the load U.S. soldiers carry on their backs -- largely due to the high-tech gear that uses batteries -- and the solution will be decided in a $1 million contest.
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The Pentagon says its millimeter-wave pain ray won't be ready until 2010. But Marines in Iraq want to use the "holy grail of crowd control" at checkpoints now. In Danger Room.
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The Pentagon plans to shoot down a disabled U.S. spy satellite before it enters the atmosphere to prevent a potentially deadly leak of toxic gas from the vehicle's fuel tank, officials said on Thursday.
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Some of the Pentagon's largest contractors, including Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp., will begin a joint effort today to encourage development of technology standards that will ensure weapons systems of the future can communicate with each other. -The Washington Post
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BRECKENRIDGE, Colorado &#150; The deployment of space platforms that capture sunlight for beaming down electrical power to Earth is under review by the Pentagon, as a way to offer global energy and security benefits &#150;  including the prospect of short-circuiting future resource wars between increasingly energy-starved nations.
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The Pentagon is planning to fire a missile at a rogue spy satellite that was due to fall to earth early next month
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As part of its activities at SEMICON West, SEMATECH will sponsor a  comprehensive seminar on 3D interconnects using through-silicon vias  (TSVs) from 1:30-5:30 p.m. July 18 at the San Francisco Marriott.
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The Pentagon will hold a competition to replace its aging fleet of refueling tankers, potentially pitting aerospace giant Boeing Co.
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The chip is expected to be unveiled Tuesday, in time to bump up the performance of game desktops before the holidays.
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Pentagon planners were beginning meetings Friday to determine which units will be leaving Iraq in the next 10 months.