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National Defense January 2015 Sarah Sicard |
Military Joint Ground Robot Programs Face Increased Scrutiny With tightening budgets and one high-profile program delayed by several years, ground robot acquisitions are coming under increasing congressional scrutiny, officials who oversee procurement of the technology said recently.  |
National Defense October 2014 Stew Magnuson |
Slow Pace of Robot Acquisition Programs Frustrates End Users End users of explosive ordnance disposal robots said at a recent conference that the Pentagon's procurement process is clearly not working for them.  |
National Defense March 2010 Stew Magnuson |
Navy to Do Without Prime Contractors On New Bomb Disposal Robots The Navy this year will begin constructing its next-generation of explosive ordnance disposal robots.  |
National Defense July 2011 Grace V. Jean |
New Robots Planned for Bomb Disposal Teams Explosive ordnance disposal teams in the next few years will acquire a new family of specially developed robots to fight IEDs, or improvised explosive devices.  |
National Defense May 2013 Valerie Insinna |
Companies Vie for Chance to Update Bomb Disposal Robots With a chance to build the Navy's next bomb-disposal robots at their fingertips, unmanned systems manufacturers have an opportunity to tap into one of the only fully funded programs in the autonomous vehicle pipeline. Eager industry officials believe a contract award is imminent.  |
National Defense May 2008 Stew Magnuson |
Navy to Field a Family of Next-Generation Bomb Disposal Robots The Navy will field a family of bomb disposal robots to replace the ad hoc commercial systems being used in Iraq and Afghanistan today.  |
National Defense March 2007 Stew Magnuson |
Navy Begins Work on Next-Generation Bomb Disposal Robot Robots have been credited with saving countless lives in Iraq and Afghanistan. In light of this success, the Navy has embarked on an ambitious program to build its next generation of counter-explosives machines.  |
National Defense February 2012 Stew Magnuson |
Robot-Makers Ponder Next Moves as Wars Wind Down The end of the nearly nine-year war closed one chapter for a technology that came into its own during the conflict.  |
National Defense October 2013 Stew Magnuson |
Reconnaissance Robots' Place on Battlefields Still Unsettled The fact that soldiers and Marines want small robots to perform reconnaissance and surveillance in battle zones -- particularly urban environments where they can be used to peer into buildings and around corners -- has been established.  |
National Defense October 2005 Harold Kennedy |
Far From Sea, Navy Specialists Defuse Roadside Bombs U.S. Navy explosive ordnance disposal technicians traditionally clear hazards at sea, in ports and along coastal areas. Recently, however, many of them have deployed deep inside Iraq, where U.S. military forces contend with roadside bombs.  |
National Defense December 2010 Stew Magnuson |
Proponents Hope 'Rodeo' Can Move Army Ground Robots Forward Representatives of some 50 companies, service research labs and universities gathered at Fort Benning, Georgia to show off the state of their art at the second annual Robotics Rodeo.  |
National Defense May 2008 Stew Magnuson |
Ground Robots' Place in Military At Risk, Experts Warn With the success of explosive ordnance disposal robots in Iraq and Afghanistan, one might assume that "mechanical soldiers" are here to stay. But that might not be the case.  |
National Defense January 2012 Sandra I. Erwin |
Buried Bombs Can Be Destroyed, But Not Defeated The weapons of choice of U.S. enemies, improvised explosive devices, are like deadly viruses that mutate in reaction to vaccines. They cannot be wiped out, only temporarily thwarted.  |
National Defense September 2011 Eric Beidel |
Bomb Disposal Teams Shed Battery Weight Members of Navy explosive ordnance disposal teams are used to lugging around 50 pounds of batteries and chargers, but scientists are working on a system that weighs just 9 pounds and would give them all the power they need.  |
National Defense January 2016 Stew Magnuson |
Army to Integrate Ground Robots Into Forces After years of using rapidly fielded, but temporary ground robots in its forces, the Army will soon roll out plans to make them a permanent part of its arsenal.  |
National Defense December 2013 |
Readers Sound Off on Recent Stories Readers comment on stories concerning explosive ordnance disposal, the use of drones domestically, and the fight to retain the A-10 Warthog in Air Force inventory.  |
National Defense April 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
Defense Dept. Forecasts Greater Use of Robots in Ground Combat Officials who oversee robot technology development at the Defense Department say it is just the beginning.  |
National Defense July 2006 Stew Magnuson |
Bomb Disposal Teams Deliver Blunt Talk on Robots EOD specialists who served in Iraq recently had a chance to address the robot manufacturers, and tell them in sometimes brutally honest terms, what they liked and didn't like about the systems, and describe the often deadly hazards they faced daily.  |
National Defense March 2010 Sandra I. Erwin |
Navy's Acquisition Methods Slow Down Deployment of Undersea Robots The Navy recently experienced sticker shock when estimates for a robotic mine-hunting vehicle came in at more than $12 million apiece, or 51 percent higher than expected.  |
National Defense October 2015 Stew Magnuson |
Bomb Squads Need the Best Tools Available Bomb squads -- both military and civilian -- deserve and need the very best technologies the nation can offer them.  |
National Defense May 2010 Stew Magnuson |
Army Seeks to Quiet Skeptics As it Tries New Acquisition Strategy One year after Defense Secretary Robert Gates canceled the Army's Future Combat Systems program, service leaders say they are moving forward with a new acquisition regime.  |
National Defense May 2013 Valerie Insinna |
Opportunities for Non-Military Robots Increase In the last decade, the U.S. military poured money into unmanned ground systems to help protect troops against improvised explosive devices, but the Defense Department won't need all those robots once the war in Afghanistan comes to a close.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2004 |
Makers of ground robots ask for better sensors and communication links Troops in Iraq are in desperate need of unmanned ground systems (UGSs) to dispose of land mines and booby traps.  |
National Defense June 2008 Stew Magnuson |
First Responders Slow to Take Up Robot Technology First responders investigating potential incendiary devices are utilizing the latest robotic devices, but other parts of the emergency services community have been slow to take up the technology.  |
National Defense July 2011 Stew Magnuson |
Pentagon Still Playing Catch-Up With Bomb Makers The U.S. military's cadre of bomb disposal technicians needs lighter equipment, the ability to detect explosives at stand-off distances and their sensors consolidated into one handheld device.  |
National Defense September 2013 Jeffrey Trumbore |
Combat Experience of Bomb-Disposal Teams Should Be Codified The last 12 years of conflict have firmly established the roles of explosive ordnance disposal teams in supporting joint operations.  |
IEEE Spectrum October 2008 Glenn Zorpette |
Bomb Squad Diary A high-tech form of bomb disposal has evolved on the streets of Iraq and Afghanistan. It may be coming to a city near you  |
Popular Mechanics March 2008 Erik Sofge |
America's Robot Army: Are Unmanned Fighters Ready for Combat? The MULE (Multifunction Utility/Logistics and Equipment) is one of many robots being developed for combat.  |
National Defense December 2004 Michael Peck |
'America's Army' Fan Base Expanding At least half a million video-game aficionados each month play what has become a successful military recruiting tool: America's Army.  |
National Defense June 2015 Lloyd McCoy |
Navy IT Priorities Stress Security, Efficiency With the Navy projecting flat spending over the next few years, it will be looking to information technology to help meet its goals.  |
National Defense April 2005 Harold Kennedy |
Navy Creates a New Command To Centralize Force Protection The Maritime Force Protection Command was established by the U.S. Navy to consolidate the management of all force-protection units deployed around the world.  |
IEEE Spectrum August 2011 Lora G. Weiss |
Autonomous Robots in the Fog of War Networks of autonomous robots will someday transform warfare, but significant hurdles remain.  |
National Defense July 2011 Grace V. Jean |
Ground Robots Coming of Age With Expanding Missions It's an exciting time for ground robots as they get more integrated into operations.  |
IEEE Spectrum October 2008 |
Beer, Not Bombs A first-hand look at bomb disposal teams in Iraq.  |
National Defense June 2014 Lloyd McCoy |
Defense IT Spending on Downslope With the defense budget under growing pressure, the Pentagon's chief information officer and budget leaders are looking at information technology as a way to do more with less.  |
National Defense January 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
Shipbuilding Plan Sailing Into Turbulent Seas Cutbacks in personnel, training and maintenance costs will fuel a moderate growth in Navy procurement programs starting in 2008, albeit at a slower pace than Navy leaders had forecast a year ago, analysts estimate.  |
National Defense August 2011 Grace V. Jean |
Drone Sensor Data Will Overload Networks, Navy Officials Warn The expected growth of unmanned systems at sea is raising concerns that the Navy's networks are ill prepared to handle the commensurate flood of data that the sensors will produce.  |
National Defense November 2005 Harold Kennedy |
Navy's High-Speed Vessel Aids Relief Effort The HSV-2 Swift may be a forerunner of a next-generation fleet of fast, shallow-draft American-built transports capable of operating close along the shorelines of the world's hot spots.  |
National Defense November 2006 Grace Jean |
Navy Leaders to Articulate Current and Future Missions Recent efforts by the Navy to deploy forces for ground combat and engage in other non-traditional duties are signs that the service intends to be relevant in the U.S. war on terrorism.  |
IEEE Spectrum March 2007 Susan Karlin |
Mom vs. Bomb Naomi Zirkind -- a soft-spoken mother of eight -- is the lone woman and the only person with a doctorate on a seven-member military engineering team working on better ways to use robots to detect, inspect, and neutralize bombs.  |
National Defense April 2005 Sandra I. Erwin |
Aviation Force Gets Smaller, But New Aircraft Spending on Course The intent is to replace aging Navy and Marine Corps aircraft with fewer, but more technologically advanced systems.  |
National Defense April 2004 Geoff S. Fein |
Washington Pulse Although the Navy does not have the equivalent of a "Comanche" on the horizon, all programs are under review in preparation for the fiscal year 2006 budget submission, said the chief of naval operations.  |
National Defense February 2008 Stew Magnuson |
Second-Hand Bomb Suits: A Welcome Relief Members of the 3rd explosive ordnance disposal attachment at Camp San Arturo T. Enrile are happy to have any bomb suit.  |
National Defense December 2006 Harold Kennedy |
Navy's Ground Combat Units Poised for Rapid Growth The Navy is sailing ahead with plans to get its new Expeditionary Combat Command up and running as quickly as possible, despite congressional concerns that it may be acting too quickly.  |
National Defense November 2006 Sandra I. Erwin |
Naval Officials Seek `Intellectual Renaissance' in the Sea Services As they continue to ponder the value of naval forces in the nation's wars, Navy leaders want to broaden the debate by encouraging participation from all levels of command.  |
National Defense March 2008 Breanne Wagner |
Navy Slows Pursuit of Autonomous Vessels for Coastal Surveillance The Navy has expressed interest in acquiring unmanned vessels that would patrol coastal areas, but budgetary and technological issues are slowing down the development and procurement of these vehicles.  |
National Defense October 2011 Stew Magnuson |
Navy Seeks More Control of its Expansive Computer Network Some 700,000 sailors, marines and civilians spread out across the United States, Japan and Puerto Rico rely on the Navy's intranet every day.  |
Home Toys June 2002 Galaasen & Hengl |
Robotic Technology Has Arrived With the increased use of microchips in equipment such as appliances, heating and cooling systems, entertainment systems, fire and burglar alarms and the general trend towards home automation, advanced personal robotics naturally follows.  |
National Defense November 2004 |
Washington Pulse Civilians Also Need `Joint' Training... Navy Will Push to Keep 12 Aircraft Carriers... What's on the Air Force Chief's Mind... Army Ponders Spending Priorities... etc.  |
Popular Mechanics July 9, 2009 Erin McCarthy |
Hurt Locker: Iraqi Explosive Ordnance Disposal Hits the Big Screen In The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow directs Jeremy Renner as an Explosive Ordnance Disposal team leader. Real-life training and tech is explored with Capt. Robert Busseau, an EOD operations officer for the Army's 20th Support Command.  |