This could boost the role of private technology companies as states expand funding
for military research in order to keep pace with their rivals.
Along the way the brothers have gained access to
military research on performance, including on how soldiers could combat stress.
Skilled missile designers whose earnings were once second only to those of miners are now earning less than cleaners in a Moscow bank, while scientists at
military research laboratories, the feted elite of a decade ago, sometimes go without their wages altogether.
He had spent his 30 - year career up to that point working in academia and at various
military research facilities, exhaustively investigating eyewear to protect soldiers against laser exposure, among other technologies.
Many great innovations, from microwave ovens and radar to the Big Bang theory, grew directly out
of military research during World War II.
A key tenet of Japan's stance on promoting peace, he believes, «is not to take part in
military research at universities.»
The longstanding practice was designed to
fund military research with commercial potential or allow institutions to build new research infrastructure with funding they had won from the European Commission but would only get on completion of the project, Andradas explains.
I bought Annie Jacobsen's The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top -
Secret Military Research Agency for $ 3.99.
Jean - Paul Chretien of the Department of Defense's Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System suggests that the international community fund a system of labs modeled after
U.S. military research laboratories.
DARPA, the U.S.
military research agency, liked the idea enough to give Doudna and Bondy - Denomy a grant to continue making Cas9 safer.
Discovering that the folks in the «hive» died during
military research gone awry (thus unleashing hordes of nearly - indestructible villains), the foursome attempts to get out before a desperate time limit expires while also containing the evil to the site of infection.
In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of
declassified military research memos, solves differential equations, and consults with nuclear reactor operators.
In promoting its programs, ISU can play the technology transfer card, pointing to civilian applications such as weather graphics, remote sensing, and global satellite positioning that have come from government and
military research including space science.
Extended to broadly
proscribe military research in 1967, the commitment held for 65 years — until Japan's defense ministry started a small program to fund university research with both civilian and military applications in 2015.
In September 2016, Ikeuchi and colleagues launched the Japanese Coalition
Against Military Research in Academia, bringing together 25 university unions and antiwar citizen groups and hundreds of individuals.
The plea will come from beleaguered weapons designers at the US government's most
renowned military research establishments, where shrinking defence spending has put many jobs at risk.
Throughout the 1980s, money, effort and brainpower were concentrated on nuclear and
military research aimed at survival in the hostile world.
Between 2005 and 2010,
military research spending in E.U. member states has dropped by 14 % to $ 9 billion annually — one - seventh of the U.S. defense R&D budget.
Wasn't Sarcos
sharing military research funds for this with the Berkley National Laboratory who is working on the Bleex exoskeleton?
Notable military research groups such as Mitre and the Pentagon's IED Defeat Organization have met with Johnson and Spagat to talk about their work.
In 1995, some observers seemed surprised that Russo, playing a biohazard -
suited military research operative in Outbreak, was «as good as» her male counterparts Dustin Hoffman and Morgan Freeman.
In this beautiful fantasy, Sally Hawkins plays Elisa, a shy woman who works as a cleaning woman at a
hidden military research facility during the Cold War.
Unfortunately, as this Ars Technica article points out, the removal of Linux with a recent update might cause them to lose one of their biggest customers and
hurt military research all in one fell swoop.
In 1969 cases of malignant lymphoma were reported in a single colony of white - handed gibbons in a US
military research facility in Bangkok, Thailand and were at the time attributed to an unknown infectious agent.
Warriors and War Machines Tanks and missiles are the most obvious fruits
of military research, but some defense analysts argue that information technology is the weapon that has most revolutionized warfare.
Living with the constant threat of war has spawned a culture of
Israeli military research and development, and battlefield inventions have been transformed into technologies used worldwide to save lives, guard against cyber-attacks, and simplify mobile communications.
In science news around the world, the European Commission proposes that the European Union consider
funding military research, more investigations at Japanese universities cast doubts on claims for a leading hypertension drug, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials plan a culling of barred owls in the Pacific Northwest in hopes of saving the endangered northern spotted owl, and more.
Funding
for military research is set to increase by a whopping 39.5 % to $ 507 million, largely offsetting a 52 % drop in 2013.
New research projects tapping the precious serum could lead to breakthroughs in some of the hottest topics
in military research — including the hunt for biomarkers for post-traumatic stress disorder and suicide risk.
There is currently no vaccine or treatment for the Zika virus, although federal and
military research and studies are underway.
The result is that consumer life in the United States, and much of the developed world for that, is irrevocably tied to
military research and spending.
In the field of AI in China, she warned in a recent report, «The boundaries between civilian and
military research and development tend to become blurred.»