DARPA is developing a navigation chip GPS technology improves

The technology GPS navigation is the most used tool in the world. It has changed the way we travel and saved us a lot of problems, but not perfect. A GPS signal can be interrupted easily.Simply enter a tunnel for the GPS or even miss some nearby outdoor signal can cause interference. Since global positioning system (GPS for short) was designed for use at military level, the "constraints" that presents can become...

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U.S. plans a super-public wireless network throughout the country, free and ultra fast 20Mb

  In U.S. is planning something which could be the next logical evolutionary step in Internet access: WiFi network that would operate nationally regardless of the place where you are, free and also reaching speeds that would normally only find on ADSL networks and fiber optics. Apparently the idea has come from the same U.S. government from the Federal Communications Commission , the agency charged with regulating telecommunications...

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LS3, the robot DARPA charge

How many times have partnered to DARPA with robotics ? Many no doubt will do so again. In September, the network appeared a kind of mule robot developed by that agency and which is intended to carry heavy things. Obviously the idea behind it is to assist the troops on the battlefield avoiding them having to carry the heavy load. This robot, known as LS3, has been much improved lately, and they have integrated functions for voice commands,...

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NASA and the Pentagon try a craft six times faster than sound

The unmanned aircraft X-51A WaveRider experimental, a hypersonic aircraft capable of flying over the Pacific Ocean some 5,793 kilometers per hour, was tested by the Pentagon today on a flight "key" development of its technology, a source confirmed to Efe Department of Defense. From a hangar at Edwards Air Force U.S. in the Mojave Desert (California), a team of aerospace engineers tuned the device, which could cover the distance between...

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