Although military technologists sometimes talk about the Global Information Grid in the present tense, one element of the GIG vision that is still in the works is the implementation of a global everything-over-IP network that allows phone, videoconferencing and other synchronous communications to ride over the same IP network that e-mail and other data communications use.
The transition to unified communications and collaboration is also playing out in the corporate world, where voice-over-IP (VOIP) phones are appearing more frequently. Richer communications sessions that combine voice, video, chat, Web collaboration and desktop application sharing are also becoming more common. And the same is true in the military — at least, in certain enclaves that have deployed the required network upgrades. But making such services span the full breadth and depth of the military is a much bigger challenge and will take years to achieve.
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Tuesday, July 7, 2009
McDonalds to offer ChargePoint Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
Recharge your plug-in Electric Vehicle while enjoying your meal. McDonald, the leading foodservice retailer, and NovaCharge, a leader in the deployment of EV charging infrastructure, announced the deployment of electric vehicle charging stations.
McDonald will open the first “green” restaurant, built with eco-friendly materials and technologies, including ChargePoint™ Networked Charging Stations for electric vehicles from Coulomb Technologies, when it opens in Cary, North Carolina on July 14th, making it the first of its kind in the United States.
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McDonald will open the first “green” restaurant, built with eco-friendly materials and technologies, including ChargePoint™ Networked Charging Stations for electric vehicles from Coulomb Technologies, when it opens in Cary, North Carolina on July 14th, making it the first of its kind in the United States.
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Doping Hormone Erythropoietin Also Boosts Brainpower
The red-blood-cell-boosting hormone erythropoietin, which is used clinically to treat anemia and illegally by athletes to boost endurance, may also improve brain power. According to research published in the journalBMC Biology, mice treated with the drug performed better in certain learning and memory tests than control animals.
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Thunderstorm Alert System Could Thwart Plane Crashes
A new guidance system in the works could help transoceanic flights avoid dangerous thunderstorms, such as the ones thought to have played a part in the recent fatal crashes of two jetliners.
Air France Flight 447 apparently encountered severe thunderstorms over the Atlantic Ocean just before it crashed en route to Paris on June 1. And Yemenia Flight 626 also encountered strong winds and turbulence before it crashed June 30, just short of the island of Comoros.
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Air France Flight 447 apparently encountered severe thunderstorms over the Atlantic Ocean just before it crashed en route to Paris on June 1. And Yemenia Flight 626 also encountered strong winds and turbulence before it crashed June 30, just short of the island of Comoros.
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NASA test new 'space Internet' system on International Space Station
The University of Colorado at Boulder is working with NASA to develop a new communications technology now being tested on the International Space Station, which will extend Earth's Internet into outer space and across the solar system.
Called Disruption Tolerant Networking, or DTN, the new technology will enable NASA and other space agencies around the world to better communicate with international fleets of spacecraft that will be used to explore the moon and Mars in the future. The technology is expected to lead to a working "Interplanetary Internet," said Kevin Gifford, a senior research associate at CU-Boulder's BioServe Space Technologies and a faculty member in the aerospace engineering sciences department.
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Called Disruption Tolerant Networking, or DTN, the new technology will enable NASA and other space agencies around the world to better communicate with international fleets of spacecraft that will be used to explore the moon and Mars in the future. The technology is expected to lead to a working "Interplanetary Internet," said Kevin Gifford, a senior research associate at CU-Boulder's BioServe Space Technologies and a faculty member in the aerospace engineering sciences department.
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Program Aims to Deliver Unprecedented Surveillance Capability
A giant, unmanned airship capable of hovering at about 70,000 feet promises to give future warfighters an unprecedented eye on the battlefield.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Integrated Sensor is Structure program, ISIS for short, will provide a detailed, real-time picture of all movement on or above the battlefield, explained program manager Timothy Clark.
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Integrated Sensor is Structure program, ISIS for short, will provide a detailed, real-time picture of all movement on or above the battlefield, explained program manager Timothy Clark.
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New Unmanned Baby Submarine To Protect Coastal Waters
In a move to help combat the growing threat of explosive mines hidden in shallow coastal waters such as ports and harbours and to increase the protection available to world shipping, BAE Systems has launched its first unmanned autonomous submarine to detect and deal with this newfound threat.
The 50kg vessel, called Talisman L, uses high-definition forward and sideways looking sonars, as well as a host of multi-view cameras.
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The 50kg vessel, called Talisman L, uses high-definition forward and sideways looking sonars, as well as a host of multi-view cameras.
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New Unmanned Baby Submarine To Protect Coastal Waters
In a move to help combat the growing threat of explosive mines hidden in shallow coastal waters such as ports and harbours and to increase the protection available to world shipping, BAE Systems has launched its first unmanned autonomous submarine to detect and deal with this newfound threat.
The 50kg vessel, called Talisman L, uses high-definition forward and sideways looking sonars, as well as a host of multi-view cameras.
MIT develops camera-like fabric
And you thought it was a problem when folks went into the locker room toting cell phones with cameras.
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a fabric made of a mesh of light-sensitive fibers that collectively act like a rudimentary camera. The fibers, which each can detect two frequencies of light, produced signals that when amplified and processed by a computer reproduced an image of a smiley face near the mesh.
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Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a fabric made of a mesh of light-sensitive fibers that collectively act like a rudimentary camera. The fibers, which each can detect two frequencies of light, produced signals that when amplified and processed by a computer reproduced an image of a smiley face near the mesh.
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Raytheon's Excalibur Ib Demos Accuracy During 1st Guided-Flight Tests
Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) fired two precision-guided projectiles from a Paladin gun system during the first guided flight test of the Raytheon Excalibur Ib program.
The Excalibur Ib is a precision-guided artillery projectile based on Raytheon's combat-proven Excalibur 1a. The tests demonstrated how the new base design, changes to the Excalibur Ia warhead, fuzing and control actuation system work together to simplify the design, reducing round production costs and increasing system reliability.
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The Excalibur Ib is a precision-guided artillery projectile based on Raytheon's combat-proven Excalibur 1a. The tests demonstrated how the new base design, changes to the Excalibur Ia warhead, fuzing and control actuation system work together to simplify the design, reducing round production costs and increasing system reliability.
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Biologic Field Identification
Biologic warfare and terror identification are difficult tasks.
The world is filled with biologic material––yeast, bacteria, pollen, etc.––most of which is completely innocuous and/or quite advantageous to us and the environment. The high levels of organism in the background coupled with the reality that the infectious dose of some pathogens is very small makes the task of detecting and identifying biowarfare biologics very daunting.
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The world is filled with biologic material––yeast, bacteria, pollen, etc.––most of which is completely innocuous and/or quite advantageous to us and the environment. The high levels of organism in the background coupled with the reality that the infectious dose of some pathogens is very small makes the task of detecting and identifying biowarfare biologics very daunting.
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