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National Defense March 2013 Stew Magnuson	Researchers Make Progress Spotting Suicide Vests at Standoff Distances One of the Department of Homeland Security's 12 academic centers of excellence is seeking to adapt millimeter wave technology currently used at airport screening stations to detect suicide bombers at standoff distances.
Technology Research News June 15, 2005	Single Camera Measures Speed Researchers have improved a method of determining depth information using a single camera. The advance allows a single camera to detect the speed of objects and could be used anywhere robotic vision is needed.
Technology Research News September 10, 2003	Neural net tracks skin color Researchers working to give computers and robots the ability to recognize gestures are up against several challenges. Researchers from China have come up with a way to use skin color to detect faces and hands.
National Defense June 2008 Grace V. Jean	Cutting Through the Radar Clutter The same technology that allows fighter pilots to detect enemy planes in the skies may one day help ground troops peer around buildings in cities to track down insurgents.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2008 John McHale	Cell Phone Sensors Detect Radiation to Thwart Nuclear Terrorism Researchers are engineering cell phones that help detect potential terrorist threats such as radiological "dirty bombs" and nuclear weapons.
Technology Research News February 25, 2004	Scans pick up object orientation Researchers in Spain have improved the process of pattern recognition with a method of mapping three-dimensional objects in a way that records every possible point of view of the object. The method could be used to inspect the orientation and shapes of manufactured goods, and also for face recognition.
National Defense February 2010 Jean & Wright	Laser "Fizzles" IEDs, Rendering Them Harmless Boeing researchers have demonstrated that the company's laser weapon system can destroy improvised explosive devices while mounted to a combat vehicle.
Technology Research News December 3, 2003	Nanotubes detect nerve gas Naval Research Laboratory researchers have found that carbon nanotubes are sensitive to extremely small concentrations -- less than one part per billion -- of chemical nerve agents.
National Defense August 2012 Eric Beidel	Search Continues For Driverless Convoy Vehicles The Pentagon has hit some stumbling blocks in its efforts to develop unmanned vehicles, but officials still have hopes of deploying a range of systems that can trick enemy fighters and keep troops safe from improvised explosive devices.
National Defense July 2011 Eric Beidel	Swarming Robot Teams to Map, Survey Buildings In the future, robots may be the true first responders.
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.
National Defense July 2006 Stew Magnuson	Improvised Explosive Threat Reaches Global Scale The end state of successful accomplishment of a special U.S. military group's mission is eliminating the improvised explosive device as a weapon of strategic influence for the enemy. It's no singular, simple task.
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.
National Defense June 2011 Eric Beidel	By Changing Color, Plants Can Signal Presence of Explosives Researchers at Colorado State University are using actual plants -- green, leafy organisms -- to detect explosives and environmental pollutants.
Technology Research News December 1, 2004	Multicamera Surveillance Automated Researchers have developed a multi-camera surveillance system that allows the user to indicate an object in one view and automatically zoom to that object in all other views.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006	Army Picks Goodrich for Chemical Agent Detector Soldiers could soon be using advanced optics to find bombs or detect chemical and biological agents.
IEEE Spectrum November 2005 Willie D. Jones	No Place to Hide New through-the-wall radar devices that rely on ultrawideband, a fairly new technology known mainly as a promising high-speed, low-power radio communications transmission technique, are now available to municipalities and law enforcement agencies.
Home Toys June 2005 Steve Faber	Home Theater Design Part One If your budget allows, you can used advanced construction techniques to keep your theater soundtrack from annoying the rest of your house. In addition, you can keep outside noises from intruding into your theater.
National Defense May 2011 Eric Beidel	Will African Rodents Join Hunt for IEDs? The Army Research Office recently awarded a $740,000 grant to Oklahoma State University zoology professor Alex Ophir to find out which rat personalities are the best for detecting bombs.
National Defense January 2006 Stew Magnuson	Adaptive Foe Thwarts Counter-IED Efforts Coalition forces are engaged in an ongoing invisible combat in the radio and infrared spectra. Iraqi insurgents have progressed from simple trip wires to infrared devices to set off improvised explosive devices.
IEEE Spectrum February 2012 Miles et al.	Using Lasers to Find Land Mines and IEDs A laser could ionize a distant puff of air and thus safely detect the fumes from buried explosives
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2006 John McHale	Handheld instruments to transform explosives detection, environmental monitoring These battery-powered miniature instruments could one day be deployed in wireless sensor networks in airports, subway systems, and office buildings.
Chemistry World September 21, 2011 Kate McAlpine	Laser can detect explosive traces at a distance Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have developed a laser-based explosives detector that can spot 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene at concentrations of 1ng/cm 2, from 15cm away.
Technology Research News April 7, 2004	Chip-camera combo tracks viruses Researchers from Purdue University have devised methods of labeling virus structural elements and DNA, of imaging virus particles as they flow through labs-on-a-chip, and of concentrating virus particles.
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 May 2008 Stew Magnuson	To Succeed, Soldiers `Need to See the Environment' Troops fighting in Iraq's cities often complain that they cannot see the enemy and need sensors that can penetrate walls, identify foes in pitch dark and locate buried explosives.
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.
Technology Research News March 26, 2003 Eric Smalley	3D holo video arrives Researchers from the University of Texas have devised a three-dimensional video system that cuts down the computing power needed to project three-dimensional images by using an 800,000-mirror device designed for two-dimensional digital projectors as a sort of holographic film.
Technology Research News September 10, 2003	Gold speck highlights molecules How do you sense what is happening at the scale of molecules? Researchers have found a way to detect the very small spectral shifts that occur when the light scattering off a single gold nanoparticle interacts with molecules.
Technology Research News March 12, 2003	Lasers tweeze every which way Researchers from the University of Glasgow in Scotland have found a way to use a pair of laser beams to rotate an object in three dimensions, turning it like a ball rather than a wheel.
Chemistry World November 25, 2015 Conn Hastings	Detecting leaks in gastrointestinal plumbing US scientists have developed a low-cost capsule for patients to swallow that can detect life-threatening bleeds in the stomach and uses radio waves to transmit data to doctors in real time.
National Defense November 2010 Eric Beidel	Trainers Go 'Hollywood' to Counter IEDs Coming soon to a theater of operations: Troops who use storytelling and role-play to defeat roadside bombs. As part of a new interactive program, military forces will play the part of insurgents and try to carry out simulated attacks on their colleagues.
Chemistry World July 18, 2013 Emma Stoye	Hovering reaction driven by sound Colleagues at ETH Zurich in Switzerland used their acoustic levitator to create an explosive mid-air reaction between a tiny water droplet and a grain of sodium.
PC Magazine September 15, 2003	Bits & Bytes The Connecticut-based company HoloTouch is developing a technology that will let you operate consumer electronics by pressing keys on holographic images.... Researchers have created what they claim are the fastest large-scale simulations of computer networks ever... etc.
Defense Update Issue 4, 2004	IED Change detection IED Change Detection is being developed by the US Army Communications – Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC), to detect IEDs along travel routes using high resolution aerial/overhead imagery.
Technology Research News February 23, 2005	Rod arrays focus sound Researchers from the Polytechnic University of Valencia in Spain have produced a pair of flat lenses that control soundwaves.
Geotimes June 2007	News Notes -- Geophenomena Self-healing home may resist earthquakes... Rocks ring true at Epidaurus...
National Defense September 2010 Stew Magnuson	DHS Lab Tries to Stay One Step Ahead of Bomb Makers Patrick O'Conner gets paid to make bombs for the Transportation Security Laboratory.
Popular Mechanics October 2008	Remote-Control Missiles in a Box & More Could Quiet Iraq Critics Army foot soldiers in remote areas often rely on aircraft to deliver precision strikes to support their operations.
Popular Mechanics April 2010	How a Hurricane Wavemaker Works (With Video!) To engineer better buildings, researchers at Oregon State University's Wave Research Laboratory bust walls with waves generated by this artificial tsunami machine.
National Defense July 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Research Reveals New Methods to Track Toxic Agents Aboard Airliners Passengers who release hazardous materials or pathogens inside airline cabins could be easily identified by a combination of advanced sensors and airflow-tracking technology.
Technology Research News June 16, 2004	Chip Miniaturizes Holography Researchers have built a hologram generator on a single circuit board. The device could eventually be used for three-dimensional television, three-dimensional visualization of statistics, and three-dimensional medical imaging.
Technology Research News May 21, 2003	DNA sensor changes color University of Rochester researchers have designed a simple, inexpensive sensor that can detect specific sequences of DNA on-the-fly.