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National Defense February 2012 Stew Magnuson	Robot-Makers Ponder Next Moves as Wars Wind Down The end of the nearly nine-year war closed one chapter for a technology that came into its own during the conflict.
National Defense April 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Defense Dept. Forecasts Greater Use of Robots in Ground Combat Officials who oversee robot technology development at the Defense Department say it is just the beginning.
National Defense December 2010 Stew Magnuson	Proponents Hope 'Rodeo' Can Move Army Ground Robots Forward Representatives of some 50 companies, service research labs and universities gathered at Fort Benning, Georgia to show off the state of their art at the second annual Robotics Rodeo.
National Defense May 2008 Stew Magnuson	Navy to Field a Family of Next-Generation Bomb Disposal Robots The Navy will field a family of bomb disposal robots to replace the ad hoc commercial systems being used in Iraq and Afghanistan today.
National Defense May 2008 Stew Magnuson	Armed Robots Sidelined in Iraqi Fight The first three armed ground robots deployed onto a battlefield are stuck behind sandbags and are not patrolling Iraqi streets as its inventors envisioned.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2005 Ben Ames	Smaller Sensors Make Unmanned Vehicles Smarter Army researchers are now developing another part of FCS-an armed robotic vehicle (ARV) that uses autonomous sensors and weapons to minimize soldiers' battlefield exposure.
National Defense August 2015 Jon Harper	Market for Ground Robots Poised for a Turnaround The market for ground robots is set to expand as technology advancements give the machines greater utility on the battlefield and elsewhere, according to defense officials and industry experts.
National Defense October 2009 Stew Magnuson	Failure To Field The Right Robots Costs Lives, General Says The lives of 122 soldiers would have been saved if the right robots had been in place, said the commanding general of the Army's 3rd Armored Corps, at a recent industry conference.
National Defense July 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Next-Generation Robots: Bigger and Better? The exploits of bomb-sniffing robots in Iraq and Afghanistan have solidified their role as useful combat tools, but the technology needs to be pushed much further, say robot designers and engineers.
National Defense June 2010 Stew Magnuson	Efforts to Field New Kinds of Ground Robots Have Had Little Success Their predicted influx into the battlefield has stalled. That's not to say that research into myriad applications hasn't continued. But so far, the experiments have not made the transition to the current fights.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2005	Army unmanned ground systems go where humans cannot Retired Navy Vice Adm. Joe Dyer, executive vice president and general manager of iRobot's Government & Industrial Robots division, answers questions about the recently released -- the PackBot Explorer.
National Defense October 2014 Stew Magnuson	Slow Pace of Robot Acquisition Programs Frustrates End Users End users of explosive ordnance disposal robots said at a recent conference that the Pentagon's procurement process is clearly not working for them.
National Defense October 2013 Stew Magnuson	Reconnaissance Robots' Place on Battlefields Still Unsettled The fact that soldiers and Marines want small robots to perform reconnaissance and surveillance in battle zones -- particularly urban environments where they can be used to peer into buildings and around corners -- has been established.
National Defense May 2013 Valerie Insinna	Opportunities for Non-Military Robots Increase In the last decade, the U.S. military poured money into unmanned ground systems to help protect troops against improvised explosive devices, but the Defense Department won't need all those robots once the war in Afghanistan comes to a close.
National Defense January 2015 Sarah Sicard	Military Joint Ground Robot Programs Face Increased Scrutiny With tightening budgets and one high-profile program delayed by several years, ground robot acquisitions are coming under increasing congressional scrutiny, officials who oversee procurement of the technology said recently.
National Defense July 2011 Grace V. Jean	Ground Robots Coming of Age With Expanding Missions It's an exciting time for ground robots as they get more integrated into operations.
National Defense May 2009 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Robots Are Major Players In U.S. Military Strategy The use of robots in warfare has long ceased to be a topic for science fiction and the technology has now become an essential component of the U.S. arsenal.
National Defense September 2007 Stew Magnuson	Gun-Toting Ground Robots See Action in Iraqi Streets The U.S. Army quietly entered a new era earlier this summer when it sent the first armed ground robots into action in Iraq.
National Defense November 2009 Stew Magnuson	Debate Over Rules, Legality of Robots On The Battlefield Lagging, Experts Say As researchers push ahead with algorithms designed to give robots more autonomy, ethicists and legal minds warn that not enough thought is being given to the implications of using unmanned systems to apply lethal force.
National Defense June 2008 Stew Magnuson	First Responders Slow to Take Up Robot Technology First responders investigating potential incendiary devices are utilizing the latest robotic devices, but other parts of the emergency services community have been slow to take up the technology.
National Defense January 2012 Sandra I. Erwin	Buried Bombs Can Be Destroyed, But Not Defeated The weapons of choice of U.S. enemies, improvised explosive devices, are like deadly viruses that mutate in reaction to vaccines. They cannot be wiped out, only temporarily thwarted.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2004	Makers of ground robots ask for better sensors and communication links Troops in Iraq are in desperate need of unmanned ground systems (UGSs) to dispose of land mines and booby traps.
National Defense September 2007 Breanne Wagner	Navigation System Advances Army's Pursuit of Unmanned Vehicles The Army will begin a series of tests in October that could demonstrate whether ground combat robots can find their way autonomously in the battlefield.
National Defense August 2008 Sandra I. Erwin	Future Combat Systems Accelerated, One More Time Watchers of the Army's largest ever high-tech weapons project, the Future Combat Systems, may have experienced a classic case of deja vu last month -- when the service announced its latest plan to rush FCS technologies to the front lines.
National Defense March 2007 Stew Magnuson	Navy Begins Work on Next-Generation Bomb Disposal Robot Robots have been credited with saving countless lives in Iraq and Afghanistan. In light of this success, the Navy has embarked on an ambitious program to build its next generation of counter-explosives machines.
IEEE Spectrum August 2011 Lora G. Weiss	Autonomous Robots in the Fog of War Networks of autonomous robots will someday transform warfare, but significant hurdles remain.
National Defense October 2012 Stew Magnuson	Ground Troops Demanding Smaller Robotic Systems Whether they are in the air or on the ground, small robots are increasingly becoming a vital part of a platoon's tactics, techniques and procedures.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2004	Unmanned vehicles: one of the hottest technologies going Unmanned air, ground, and underwater vehicles are finding important new niches in military and aerospace applications.
National Defense December 2011 Eric Beidel	Army Enlists More Help from Tiny Robots Soldiers in Afghanistan want their own personal robots to scan the insides of buildings and find homemade bombs.
National Defense September 2007 Stew Magnuson	Chemical Detecting Robot Program Rolls Forward Explosive ordnance disposal robots have proven their worth in Iraq and Afghanistan by reducing their operators' exposure to improvised bombs. An Army program hopes to do the same for specialists who must enter buildings and caves to root out chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear materials.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2009 John Keller	The time has come for military ground robots Military robots for ground applications are coming into their own as U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) leaders are increasing their reliance on unmanned ground vehicles.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2006 John McHale	Robots Are Fearless The U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems program will integrate unmanned ground vehicles into a future force. Autonomous ground vehicles promise to be a major paradigm shift in ground warfare.
National Defense July 2011 Grace V. Jean	New Robots Planned for Bomb Disposal Teams Explosive ordnance disposal teams in the next few years will acquire a new family of specially developed robots to fight IEDs, or improvised explosive devices.
National Defense October 2011 Grace V. Jean	Army Deploying Robotic 'Mule' To Troops in Afghanistan The Army is deploying an unmanned ground vehicle to troops in Afghanistan for a several-month long evaluation in combat operations.
Popular Mechanics June 26, 2008 Joe Pappalardo	Shift on Future Combat Systems Will Rush High-Tech Gear to Iraq Pentagon officials announced big changes for its closely watched Future Combat Systems (FCS) program, aiming to bring combat sensors and robots to the battlefield more quickly.
The Motley Fool October 31, 2006 Jack Uldrich	Onward Robotic Soldiers A major Defense Department initiative could be a boon to robot manufacturers. Investors, take note.
National Defense November 2011 Beidel et al.	10 Technologies the U.S. Military Will Need For the Next War Examples are faster and quieter helicopters, advanced crowd-control weapons, lighter infantry equipment that doesn't overburden troops, ultra-light trucks and better battlefield communications.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2009 John Keller	Unmanned Vehicles Leave Boot Camp to Join the Regular Forces Unmanned vehicles are becoming plentiful on-and over-the modern battlefield, yet these automated systems until recently have been seen largely as military curiosities, not standard equipment. That's all about to change.
National Defense March 2010 Stew Magnuson	Future Remotely Piloted Aircraft Will Do More Than Surveillance Military leaders are beginning think about concepts for the third-generation UAVs. In the future, they will want the drones to do a lot more than peer down on adversaries.
National Defense May 2007 Stew Magnuson	Soldiers Test Tools for Urban Surveillance Field tests begin for the first technologies scheduled to reach soldiers' hands from the Future Combat Systems program.
IEEE Spectrum March 2007 Susan Karlin	Mom vs. Bomb Naomi Zirkind -- a soft-spoken mother of eight -- is the lone woman and the only person with a doctorate on a seven-member military engineering team working on better ways to use robots to detect, inspect, and neutralize bombs.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2008 Courtney E. Howard	iRobot Advances State of the Art in Military Robotics iRobot engineers are applying mobile robot design and production experience to deliver a robot that is small, inexpensive, intelligent, and robust.
National Defense October 2011 Stew Magnuson	Search-and-Rescue Robots Needed, But Market Has Yet to Develop The director of the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue at Texas A&M University, has kickstarted an organization that will find teams of engineers willing to travel to disaster zones with their ground-, air- or sea-based machines.
National Defense July 2011 Stew Magnuson	Pentagon Still Playing Catch-Up With Bomb Makers The U.S. military's cadre of bomb disposal technicians needs lighter equipment, the ability to detect explosives at stand-off distances and their sensors consolidated into one handheld device.
National Defense March 2010 Austin Wright	Army Weighs Future of Unmanned Helicopters The Army's recent cancellation of the Fire Scout remotely piloted helicopter has left some wondering whether there is a future for unmanned vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft in the service.
National Defense July 2013 Stew Magnuson	Robotic Mule Vendors Seek Opportunities Outside Military Lockheed Martin is eying border patrol, perimeter security, mining, logging and construction markets for its robotic mule, said Myron Mills, the company's squad mission support system program manager.
National Defense March 2010 Stew Magnuson	Navy to Do Without Prime Contractors On New Bomb Disposal Robots The Navy this year will begin constructing its next-generation of explosive ordnance disposal robots.
National Defense July 2008 Grace V. Jean	Bug-Sized `Bots for the Urban Battle The Army Research Laboratory in April awarded a $37 million contract to BAE Systems to develop biologically based surveillance and reconnaissance robots to help soldiers conduct urban warfare.
National Defense October 2005 Harold Kennedy	Far From Sea, Navy Specialists Defuse Roadside Bombs U.S. Navy explosive ordnance disposal technicians traditionally clear hazards at sea, in ports and along coastal areas. Recently, however, many of them have deployed deep inside Iraq, where U.S. military forces contend with roadside bombs.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2009 John Keller	Finally, a DOD budget request; now Congress can get to work Congress is facing a defense budget proposal from the Obama Administration of $663.8 billion -- $533.8 billion in discretionary spending and $130 billion to pay for fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.