by Spencer Ackerman | Apr 4, 2013 | Monitor
Imagine if the growth in the sticker price of Pentagon hardware were a sovereign nation. That nation would spend more on defense than any other besides the U.S. and China.
by Robert Beckhusen | Apr 2, 2013 | Monitor
Tomorrow’s Navy could use 3-D printers on a vast scale, printing everything from food to spare parts, and building vast “biomining” ships that harvest resources — if the service listens to two of its lieutenants.
by Spencer Ackerman | Mar 11, 2013 | Monitor
The Navy’s next big research program wants to make the sea service’s software algorithms much, much smarter — so much so that they can automatically detect concealed threats based on incomplete data.
by Robert Beckhusen | Feb 26, 2013 | Monitor
To survive at the deepest depths, diverse need enormous, pressure-resistant suits that limit divers’ mobility. But the Navy is sick of trading survivability for flexibility, no matter how far into the deep its divers wade.
by Noah Shachtman and Robert Beckhusen | Jan 25, 2013 | Monitor
If the latest crop of biometric systems work as advertised, they may be able to identify you without you ever knowing you’ve been spotted, with more accuracy, and from farther away. Here are 11 projects.