DefenceTalkMindfulness-based meditation and the military are generally two things that one would not associate with one another. But on Fort Sam Houston, Texas, Dr. Valerie Rice, chief of the U.S. Army Research Laboratory’s Human Research and Engineering Directorate Army Medical Department Field Element in San Antonio, has participated in the Army Study Program since 2012. […]https://www.defencetalk.com/mindfulness-based-stress-reduction-finds-a-place-in-the-military-64845/

DefenceTalkArmy researchers have teamed up with the Tufts University School of Engineering to create the Center for Applied Brain and Cognitive Sciences, or Center for ABCs. The center is co-directed by Dr. Caroline Mahoney, team leader for the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center, or NSRDEC, cognitive science team, and Dr. Holly […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-army-tufts-team-up-to-advance-cognitive-science-64761/

DefenceTalkThe Defense Threat Reduction Agency is leading an effort to design a new warfighter uniform – with added protection against chemical warfare agents encountered in the field. Army scientists are using both standard and new methods to test fabrics, which will be used in the new suit. The new uniform is designed to decrease thermal […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-army-scientists-test-fabric-for-new-warfighter-uniforms-64697/

DefenceTalkU.S. Army and Israeli scientists are conducting testing and research on active flow control devices as a means to reduce drag on future Army aircraft. The Suction and Oscillatory Blowing Actuator, or SaOB, invented by Israeli scientist, Dr. Avraham Seifert of Tel Aviv University, uses the active control of airflow to reduce drag. Testing of […]https://www.defencetalk.com/joint-us-israeli-device-seeks-to-reduce-airflow-drag-64589/

DefenceTalkWith the steady increase in computing power, engineers are able to improve lethality with sophisticated computer models by eliminating unworkable designs. Mechanical engineers can understand the effects different caliber ammunition will have on targets. “We are able to get a more detailed small-caliber lethality analysis with more advanced computer technology, by quantifying the numerous constituents […]https://www.defencetalk.com/computer-simulations-improve-lethality-64297/

DefenceTalkNASA researchers, working in concert with the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and FlexSys Inc., of Ann Arbor, Michigan, successfully completed initial flight tests of a new morphing wing technology that has the potential to save millions of dollars annually in fuel costs, reduce airframe weight and decrease aircraft noise during takeoffs and landings. The […]https://www.defencetalk.com/nasa-tests-shape-changing-wing-for-next-generation-aviation-64108/

DefenceTalkThe board of directors for the largest science and technology library in the Army met March 11 at the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center, or AMRDEC. Redstone Scientific Information Center, or RSIC, is a unique, national asset containing a collection of specialized materials including technical reports, contractor reports, technical memorandums, […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-armys-largest-technical-library-collaborates-to-define-its-future-63590/

DefenceTalkOne day, Soldiers may wear uniforms and chemical protective suits that decontaminate themselves and are cool enough to wear for extended periods. Researchers, such as chemist David McGarvey, Ph.D, at the Army’s Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, or ECBC, on Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, are part of a team led by the Natick Soldier Systems Center […]https://www.defencetalk.com/army-researching-uniforms-that-automatically-decontaminate-63484/

DefenceTalkThe U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, or USARIEM, once again partnered with the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment to study nutrition and physiological responses to cold-weather training. For the second time in three years, researchers from USARIEM traveled to Norway to study Norwegian soldiers participating in cold-weather training. About 75 Norwegian soldiers, from the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/army-researchers-norway-nutrition-cold-stress-study-arctic-extremes-63384/

DefenceTalkThe Defense Department is seeking novel ideas to shape its future, and officials are looking to industry, small business, academia, start-ups, the public –- anyone, really –- to boost its ability to prevail against adversaries whose access to technology grows daily. The program, called the Long-Range Research and Development Plan, or LRRDP, began with an […]https://www.defencetalk.com/dod-seeks-novel-ideas-to-shape-its-technological-future-63297/