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Biometric technologies offer major advantages over conventional, legacy identification and authentication methods. In particular, they are more secure, accurate, reliable,…
Introduction: 2018 was significant in the United States for cyber attacks on critical infrastructure. Three events stand out: the shutdown…
Traumatic hemorrhaging is the leading cause of death on the battlefield, and the fifth leading cause of death in the…
Adhesives play an integral role in day-to-day military operations both on the battlefield and in the triage tent. Unfortunately, most…
Lightweight batteries are highly consequential to a wide range of Department of Defense (DoD) applications, including the use of unmanned…
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a family of technologies enabling connectivity, sensing, inference, and action [1, 2] that is…
In 2011, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released a major report titled, Toward Precision Medicine: Building a…
Unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) have been used in marine exploration for several decades, prompting the development of improved control, sensing,…
Spinal cord injuries (SCI) occur frequently in combat. One study, completed in 2015, indicated that the incidence of combat spinal…
Space Situational Awareness (SSA) is the predictive knowledge and characterization of natural and/or synthetic resident space objects (RSOs) and the…
Wireless physiological sensing in tactical environments has the potential to greatly enhance health outcomes in combat casualty care. Not only…
The exposure of military personnel to blast trauma—such as that from improvised explosive devices—can lead to ear injury and hearing…