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National Defense
July 2007
Breanne Wagner |
Generators, Batteries Create `Logistics Nightmare' for Troops When Gunnery Sgt. Gilberto Yanez was put in charge of generator maintenance at Camp Fallujah in Iraq, he never anticipated the problems he would have purchasing generators from local vendors.   |
National Defense
December 2011
Eric Beidel |
Gaming Technology Puts Soldiers' Boots on Ground The Army increasingly is turning to the commercial video game industry to create higher fidelity, less expensive and more portable simulations. |
National Defense
February 2008
Grace V. Jean |
Inside Simulators, Soldiers Learning to Operate Strykers Just as the aviation industry has embraced flight simulators to train pilots inside virtual airplane cockpits, the Army is turning to immersive trainers that realistically replicate the driver cabs and motions of its vehicles. |
National Defense
May 2006
Robert H. Williams |
Weight-in-Motion Tester Scrutinized A portable military vehicle weight-in-motion system has been developed. |
National Defense
October 2010
Peter M. Steffes |
Should Defense Overhead Reduction Plans Consider Maintenance Depots? As the Defense Department studies ways to squeeze more efficiency from the military's overhead accounts, experts have suggested the maintenance and repair depots could be an obvious target. |
PC Magazine
March 1, 2006
Sebastian Rupley |
SurroundSound? Try SurroundArt What happens when fine art runs into virtual reality? You get the Collaborative Advanced Navigation Virtual Art Studio (CANVAS). |
PC Magazine
August 17, 2004
Sebastian Rupley |
In the Virtual Moment Texas-based Virtra Systems installs 360-degree, photorealistic virtual reality rooms, which have been used for military, police, and Homeland Security training. |
National Defense
June 2009
Robert H. Williams |
Hollywood Set Designers Develop New Marine Simulator A nearly 10-year effort involving Hollywood set designers and military virtual-reality experts has yielded a remarkably convincing simulator for familiarizing Marine Corps troops with their combat equipment. |
National Defense
May 2009
Sandra I. Erwin |
Prolonged Wars Tax Military Capacity to Deploy Electricity The war in Afghanistan is testing the limits of "deployable energy." |
PC Magazine
June 21, 2006
Sebastian Rupley |
Virtual-Reality Renaissance Take a gander at the highest-resolution virtual immersion found anywhere. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
November 2008
Courtney E. Howard |
Combat training with COTS Developers of military simulation and training systems and solutions are tapping commercial off-the-shelf technology to keep costs in check and take advantage of commercial hardware and software innovations. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
January 2010
John McHale |
Training and Simulation Systems a Cost Saver for Military Military leaders are turning toward realistic and high-fidelity training systems as way of cutting down on training costs. |
Science News
June 2, 2007 |
Science Safari: NOAA's Virtual World Players of the virtual reality game Second Life can now soar through a virtual hurricane at NOAA's new site. |
