A joint effort between the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and DCS Corporation recently won the Neurally Augmented Image Labelling Strategies, or NAILS challenge, at an international machine learning research competition in Tokyo. Dr. Vernon Lawhern, ARL mathematical statistician and Amelia J. Solon, DCS scientist, led the joint research project. Other team members included Drs. Brent…

The U.S. Army Research Laboratory along with The University of Texas at El Paso commemorated the opening of a new cybersecurity center with its first community cybersecurity workshop for professionals held at the university Aug. 10. More than 20 people from 15 organizations attended. The Center for Cyber Analysis and Assessment is located inside the…

Future Soldiers may march longer, carry heavier gear and be more mentally sharp thanks to DOD-funded research into what’s known as the Warrior Web Program. The suit has pulleys and gears designed to prevent and reduce musculoskeletal injuries caused by dynamic events typically found in the warfighter’s environment. Scientists and engineers from the U.S. Army…

Racing across the sky, military drones are protected by a massive net spanning nearly the length of two football fields.  Army researchers installed about a ton of netting across four 107-foot towers and created a fully enclosed research facility that protects people, resources and the environment, while providing a safe space for testing unmanned aerial…

The U.S. Army Research and Development Command’s Field Assistance in Science and Technology program, or FAST, provides support for technology requirements and capability gaps to organizations and units all over the world through embedded science and technology advisors, both civilian and military. The program allows supporting units to have direct reach-back capability to the research…

U.S. Army Research Laboratory researchers conduct peer-to-peer collaboration to discover, innovate and transition science and technology for today’s and future Soldiers. It is through this collaboration teams solve challenging problems to increase the safety of U.S. service members.  Dr. Pablo E. Guzmán, a synthetic chemist in the Energetic Technology Branch of the Weapons and Materials…

Researchers and scientists join the civilian workforce for a multitude of reasons. Some join because of their military backgrounds, others are from a military families, most all are drawn to public service because they share a passion to support America’s service men and women. Dr. John K. Hawley, an engineering psychologist with the U.S. Army…