A Foundation of Automation for Future Artificial Intelligence Strategy
In the 18th century, Europe and the United States (U.S.) saw the beginnings of the first industrial revolution. Textiles, steam…
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The New START Treaty’s Role in Arms Control and Its Future
This is a pivotal year in the life of the New START Treaty, as 2020 marks the tenth and final…
Capitalizing on the Super-Recognition Advantage: A Powerful, but Underutilized, Tool for Policing and National Security Agencies
Accurate identity judgements are critical in ensuring that suspects can be apprehended by law enforcement and national security agencies, and…
Improving Power System Resilience With Interoperable Communications
“U.S. Army Research Laboratories and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Lincoln Laboratory have developed a new draft standard called…
More Situational Awareness For Industrial Control Systems (MOSAICS) Joint Capability Technology Demonstration (JCTD): A Concept Development for the Defense of Mission Critical Infrastructure
“Cyber-Physical Systems of mission-critical infrastructure are susceptible to cyber-attacks, such as ransomware attacks Dependency on vulnerable Information Technology (IT) and…
Bioinspired Structural Energy Storage for Robotics
“Structural batteries, i.e. those that can perform two functions at the same time – to store charge and to carry…
Current Issues in Face Recognition and Photo-ID
From passport issuing authorities and border protection to law enforcement, security officials around the world make identity judgements about members…
Bringing the Hospital to You: Implantable Nano Sensors
The Need The average life expectancy in the U.S. barely increased this year, which alarmingly represents the first time it…
Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity
This article addresses recent actions taken to improve cyber defense and resilience of United States and DoD Critical Infrastructure (CI),…
Optimization of Lighting and Sleep Schedules for Circadian Rhythm Regulation
The human circadian rhythm evolved as a mechanism by which living beings can synchronize their biological processes with the light…
RS-OCT: Bimodal Diagnostic System for Classification of Burn Injuries
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, burns are one of the leading causes of nonfatal injury in…
Biometric Nanosponges as a Broad-Spectrum Countermeasure to Biological Threats
A number of organisms secrete biological toxins that can cause significant harm to the human body. For example, pathogenic bacteria,…