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It would appear that negligence on the part of experts in the US Army Corps of Engineers led to the flooding of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. The ruling belongs to a US judge, who came to the conclusion after analyzing pieces of evidence for and against, presented by six residents and a business on the one... |
19 November 2009
10:36 GMT |
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With America sticking its nose in pretty much every conflict that's present on the face of the Earth, you can bet the one thing it needs is soldiers. America has a vast experience with public relations and catchy phrases, but one of its best must be the "Uncle Sam wants you" recruitment slogan. So, America knows... |
18 November 2009
06:50 GMT |
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As evidenced countless times in jails around the world, including the US-operated Guantanamo Bay prison, in Cuba, torture has not yet been completely removed from common practice, when it comes to interrogating prisoners. During the Bush administration, torture was used extensively to collect data from so-called terr... |
22 September 2009
19:31 GMT |
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For a long time, the United States military has been in doubt over how to most efficiently distribute water to its soldiers when they set out on two- or three-day missions. The solution they came up with in 1982 is called the Shapiro equation and has been used to this day to calculate just how much water a military m... |
8 July 2009
19:41 GMT |
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Ever since lighter-than-air crafts have been discovered, they have been used for a variety of purposes, ranging from transporting passengers in luxury conditions to bombing enemy targets. Now, thanks to a new US Army project, aerostats could again be employed in combat, but this time as detectors, trackers and destro... |
2 July 2009
06:21 GMT |
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The United States Army (I bet no one thought they'd begin publishing videogames) are announcing that they have released to the public, free of charge as always, America's Army 3, claiming that it is the only videogame that manages to capture the real experience of Army life. The game is rated T for Teen and... |
22 June 2009
02:33 GMT |
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Many science teams around the globe have worked on creating a viable and portable electromagnetic bomb (e-bomb) over the past few years, one that could easily take out all the electronic systems in a given area, leaving the target dead in the water. However, despite their best efforts, the smallest such devices const... |
23 April 2009
09:18 GMT |
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Researchers at the Purdue University Center for Systems Integrity (CSI) have just recently finished developing a new diagnostic tool, meant to help the US Army reduce its high operating and maintenance costs. The way they did that was by creating a speed bump-like cleat, a device filled with sensors that can assess t... |
14 April 2009
08:16 GMT |
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The US Army is currently engaged in a research process aimed at providing it with accurate predictions on the future behavior of various cultural and political groups in the world that are now in the data base. For the successful completion of this initiative, Jerzy Rozenblit, a professor at the University of Arizona... |
5 March 2009
06:36 GMT |
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The famed aeronautics company Boeing has announced recently that it has developed a variety of laser cannon that can successfully bring down unmanned aerial reconnaissance drones. The laser, mounted on the back of a Humvee, is capable of destroying the very probes that president Obama claims are the future of the US ... |
27 January 2009
09:00 GMT |
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The shooter game genre is a very popular one, with a lot of developers creating titles based on a first-person view and arming the main character with a wide variety of fictional weapons. Seeing the growing popularity of these games, the United States Army has decided to create its own title, based on the conditions ... |
21 January 2009
02:30 GMT |
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So, what does it take to get someone to enlist in the Army, be it the United States military forces or those of any other country? The first answers that come to someone’s mind are: loyalty to the country, the passion to defend, a good physical condition, a strong mind and a good level of understanding of the w... |
20 January 2009
08:21 GMT |
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The US Department of Defense (DOD) is advocating the creation of a new computer software that would replace the familiar faces of parents in the eyes of children left at home while they are serving their country. Although the department admits that such a substitution is not exactly the best option for everyone invol... |
19 January 2009
03:19 GMT |
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A new book, authored by Jeffrey Lockwood, emphasizes the vulnerability that the United States currently has to foreign bioattacks, and highlights the importance of federal authorities devising an efficient way of counteracting the possible effects of such an attack, if it were to happen. Lockwood, who is a professor ... |
6 January 2009
04:26 GMT |
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A new invention could soon create an artificial bridge between trauma surgeons or other health care experts and wounded soldiers on the world's battlefields, if Remote Presence (RP7), a new medical robot prototype, lives up to the expectations everyone had for it. The purpose of the robot is to help on-scene per... |
10 December 2008
16:31 GMT |
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Motorola has recently unveiled that its Good Mobile Messaging Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (Good S/MIME) is certified by the US Army with the ATO designation (Army’s Authority to Operate). This means that the Good S/MIME product is now suited for use by the US Department of Defense, as well as b... |
1 October 2008
10:41 GMT |
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America's Army is a videogame developed by the United States Army in order to promote their programs and training to the young people of America. Although many critics have said that it is nothing less than a propaganda meant to get young people recruited into the Army, the game really caught on, due to the fact... |
22 September 2008
19:01 GMT |
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The America's Army series of games exists ever since 2002, when Ubisoft released the first title, but it is only now that an antiwar group has decided to protest against the decision to create video games that serve as real recruiting tools for the US Army. Actually, the reason stated by the antiwar group is tha... |
7 August 2008
13:06 GMT |
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What does the US Army do when it misses its early recruitment targets? It expands the target demographic so as to meet its recruitment efforts. And one of the segments that caught its attention are gamers.The Army is planning to create a pilot recruitment center billed as being inspired by the interactivity features ... |
18 June 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Colonel Charles Williamson III wrote an interesting piece published in the Armed Forces Journal, admitting to the fact that a potential botnet designed especially to protect the United States of America computers would be extremely useful for the nation, because it would help reject attacks launched from any region o... |
13 May 2008
03:58 GMT |
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A few months ago, police officers used Xbox 360 consoles to lure criminals and their innovative technique was really successful. This time, things have changed a bit: the US Army recruits and lures possible candidates using the Nintendo Wii as a hook.Seven billboards have been placed in Rio Grande Valley, Texas and e... |
10 April 2008
04:37 GMT |
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A Google team entered the Fort Sam Houston army base in Texas and mapped everything, but the Mountain View-based company spokesman, Larry Yu, said that it was only a mistake. Naturally, the army had to take measures towards this possible security threat in the future, so it banned Google map-makers from filming and c... |
7 March 2008
20:06 GMT |
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Street fights, sea hunt or secret development seem to be not enough for some evil minded robo addicts. It's not a secret anymore that the latest technology allows the cars to drive by themselves these days. And the next fetish in the robotic vehicle industry is to equip those with real ammunition, just like givi... |
9 November 2007
08:26 GMT |
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WiMAX is a global technology that permits wireless data to be transmitted through wide-area networks. It can be used in any broad range frequency bands in order to deliver data at a speed of 1Mbps and even more, depending on the providing network.Samsung has been using WiMAX since the beginning of this year, offering... |
27 April 2007
06:24 GMT |
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