Mini-robots sniff out chemical agents
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Sandia National Laboratories researchers plan to have developed in three years a device about as small as a palmtop computer, to detect explosives and chemical warfare agents. The effort is first in line in the Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) project that the US Department of Energy funded in 1997. The researchers who dubbed an array of the gadgets as chemistry labs on a chip, also believe devices to simultaneously identify several hundred liquids and gases will be available in five to ten years. The gadgets may be mounted on minute unmanned vehicles patrolling a battlefield to provide early warning of an attack.
Publication Name: International Defense Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0020-6512
Year: 1998
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US Army refines hybrid electric truck rationale
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The US Army's National Automotive Center (NAC) has announced the revision of the performance projections for the Hybrid Electric Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles technology demonstration program. The NAC said that the 900-g weight of the vehicle should be more than halved through component maturation, system optimization and other weight-reduction measures. Stewart and Stevenson's Tactical Vehicle Systems Div is developing the vehicle while Lockheed Martin Control Systems developed the truck's HybriDrive propulsion systems.
Publication Name: International Defense Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0020-6512
Year: 1999
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