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The problem is, it’s not always obvious which direction the sound is coming from – crouching behind a certain object might shield you from the bullets, but it also might display you nicely in the shooter’s crosshairs. That’s why a team of computer engineers from Nashville’s Vanderbilt University have developed a smartphone-based system, that determines the location at which the gunshots originated.  <a href="/web/20130430051137/http://www.gizmag.com/smartphone-sniper-location/27291/" class="readmore_link">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div>   <div class="summary_item " data-article="27213"> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="clear_both"> <h2><a href="/web/20130430051137/http://www.gizmag.com/darpa-fang-winner/27213/">DARPA announces winner in FANG challenge</a></h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <div>By <a href="/web/20130430051137/http://www.gizmag.com/author/david-szondy/">David Szondy</a></div> <div class="date">April 24, 2013</div> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> <div class="has_comments"><a href="/web/20130430051137/http://www.gizmag.com/darpa-fang-winner/27213/#comments">8 Comments</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <a class="noback hero_link" href="/web/20130430051137/http://www.gizmag.com/darpa-fang-winner/27213/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130430051137im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/darpa-fang.jpg" title="Artist's concept of the Ground Systems FANG vehicle" alt="Artist's concept of the Ground Systems FANG vehicle"/></a> <div class="summary"> <p> The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced on Monday the winner of the first challenges in its competition to design the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130430051137/http://www.gizmag.com/fang-darpa-registrations-open/24393/" target="_blank">Fast Adaptable Next-Generation Ground Vehicle</a> (FANG). The US$1 million prize went to “Ground Systems” – a three-person group with members in Ohio, Texas and California. The first of three challenges, the purpose of the competition is to bring crowdsourcing to the problem of creating armored vehicles, with the hope of reducing the design costs by a factor of five.  <a href="/web/20130430051137/http://www.gizmag.com/darpa-fang-winner/27213/" class="readmore_link">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="summary_item " data-article="27185"> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="clear_both"> <h2><a href="/web/20130430051137/http://www.gizmag.com/northrop-grumman-cutlass-ugv/27185/">Northrop Grumman's CUTLASS UGV ready to tackle hazardous situations</a></h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <div>By <a href="/web/20130430051137/http://www.gizmag.com/author/david-szondy/">David Szondy</a></div> <div class="date">April 21, 2013</div> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> <div class="has_pictures"><a href="/web/20130430051137/http://www.gizmag.com/northrop-grumman-cutlass-ugv/27185/pictures">7 Pictures</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <a class="noback hero_link" href="/web/20130430051137/http://www.gizmag.com/northrop-grumman-cutlass-ugv/27185/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130430051137im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/cutlass.jpg" title="Northrop Grumman's CUTLASS UGV is designed to provide remote handling and surveillance of ..." alt="Northrop Grumman's CUTLASS UGV is designed to provide remote handling and surveillance of ..."/></a> <div class="summary"> <p> The arrest of one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects was carried out, in part, with the help of a remote controlled robot. Such an operation highlights the growing uses of unmanned ground vehicles (UGV) in anti-terrorist and other operations. Northrop Grumman Corporation’s CUTLASS robot, developed by its division in Coventry, U.K. is designed to provide remote handling and surveillance of hazardous threats and is intended to replace British Army’s Wheelbarrow robot for bomb disposal.  <a href="/web/20130430051137/http://www.gizmag.com/northrop-grumman-cutlass-ugv/27185/" class="readmore_link">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="summary_item " data-article="26978"> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="clear_both"> <h2><a href="/web/20130430051137/http://www.gizmag.com/laser-laws/26978/">U.S. Navy to deploy Laser Weapon System on warship</a></h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <div>By <a href="/web/20130430051137/http://www.gizmag.com/author/david-szondy/">David Szondy</a></div> <div class="date">April 9, 2013</div> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> <div class="has_comments"><a href="/web/20130430051137/http://www.gizmag.com/laser-laws/26978/#comments">15 Comments</a></div> <div class="has_pictures"><a href="/web/20130430051137/http://www.gizmag.com/laser-laws/26978/pictures">10 Pictures</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <a class="noback hero_link" href="/web/20130430051137/http://www.gizmag.com/laser-laws/26978/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130430051137im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/laws.jpg" title="Laser Weapon System (LaWS) temporarily installed aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS D..." alt="Laser Weapon System (LaWS) temporarily installed aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS D..."/></a> <div class="summary"> <p> The U.S. Navy took a step farther away from John Paul Jones and closer to James T. Kirk as it announced that a solid-state laser weapon will be deployed on a U.S. Navy ship in fiscal year 2014. The announcement that the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130430051137/http://www.gizmag.com/ray-gun-shoots-down-robotic-targets/15322/" target="_blank">Laser Weapon System</a> (LaWS) will deployed on board USS Ponce (AFSB[I] 15) two years ahead of schedule was made on Monday at the Sea-Air-Space exposition, National Harbor, Maryland. The deployment is the latest in a line of recent recent high-energy laser demonstrations carried out by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and Naval Sea Systems Command.  <a href="/web/20130430051137/http://www.gizmag.com/laser-laws/26978/" class="readmore_link">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="summary_item " data-article="26839"> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="clear_both"> <h2><a href="/web/20130430051137/http://www.gizmag.com/raytheon-3d-audio/26839/">Raytheon developing 3D hearing for pilots</a></h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <div>By <a href="/web/20130430051137/http://www.gizmag.com/author/david-szondy/">David Szondy</a></div> <div class="date">March 28, 2013</div> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> <div class="has_comments"><a href="/web/20130430051137/http://www.gizmag.com/raytheon-3d-audio/26839/#comments">4 Comments</a></div> <div class="has_pictures"><a href="/web/20130430051137/http://www.gizmag.com/raytheon-3d-audio/26839/pictures">3 Pictures</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <a class="noback hero_link" href="/web/20130430051137/http://www.gizmag.com/raytheon-3d-audio/26839/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130430051137im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/raytheon-3d-audio.png" title="Raytheon's 3D Audio system presenting a threat warning" alt="Raytheon's 3D Audio system presenting a threat warning"/></a> <div class="summary"> <p> Pilots need sharp eyes, but Raytheon is looking to their ears as well. The company has developed a new 3D Audio system for aircraft, that turns information into an audible three-dimensional picture. It helps pilots identify where threats are coming from, and keeps radio channels untangled.  <a href="/web/20130430051137/http://www.gizmag.com/raytheon-3d-audio/26839/" class="readmore_link">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="summary_item " data-article="26805"> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="clear_both"> <h2><a href="/web/20130430051137/http://www.gizmag.com/iotv-body-armor-parachute-jump/26805/">U.S. Army conducts parachute test jumps using latest IOTV body armor</a></h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <div>By <a href="/web/20130430051137/http://www.gizmag.com/author/david-szondy/">David Szondy</a></div> <div class="date">March 27, 2013</div> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> <div class="has_comments"><a href="/web/20130430051137/http://www.gizmag.com/iotv-body-armor-parachute-jump/26805/#comments">2 Comments</a></div> <div class="has_pictures"><a href="/web/20130430051137/http://www.gizmag.com/iotv-body-armor-parachute-jump/26805/pictures">5 Pictures</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <a class="noback hero_link" href="/web/20130430051137/http://www.gizmag.com/iotv-body-armor-parachute-jump/26805/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130430051137im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/paratrooper-armor.jpg" title="Paratroopers in T-11 parachutes and teh IOTV armored vest" alt="Paratroopers in T-11 parachutes and teh IOTV armored vest"/></a> <div class="summary"> <p> If any soldier needs body armor, its a paratrooper making a parachute drop. Unfortunately, standard body armor is too inflexible for paratroopers to use without the risk of being injured upon landing, but the US Army’s Airborne and Special Operations Test Directorate hopes to rectify this, conducting test jumps with both the latest parachutes and body armor.  <a href="/web/20130430051137/http://www.gizmag.com/iotv-body-armor-parachute-jump/26805/" class="readmore_link">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="summary_item " data-article="26824"> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="clear_both"> <h2><a href="/web/20130430051137/http://www.gizmag.com/eaps-miniature-hit-to-kill-interceptor-flight-tested/26824/">Miniature hit-to-kill rocket interceptor completes flight test</a></h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <div>By <a href="/web/20130430051137/http://www.gizmag.com/author/brian-dodson/">Brian Dodson</a></div> <div class="date">March 27, 2013</div> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> <div class="has_comments"><a href="/web/20130430051137/http://www.gizmag.com/eaps-miniature-hit-to-kill-interceptor-flight-tested/26824/#comments">21 Comments</a></div> <div class="has_pictures"><a href="/web/20130430051137/http://www.gizmag.com/eaps-miniature-hit-to-kill-interceptor-flight-tested/26824/pictures">5 Pictures</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <a class="noback hero_link" href="/web/20130430051137/http://www.gizmag.com/eaps-miniature-hit-to-kill-interceptor-flight-tested/26824/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130430051137im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/miniature-hit-to-kill-interceptor-eaps-flight-tested.jpg" title="The Lockheed Martin Miniature Hit-to-Kill interceptor roaring off the launcher (Photo: Loc..." alt="The Lockheed Martin Miniature Hit-to-Kill interceptor roaring off the launcher (Photo: Loc..."/></a> <div class="summary"> <p> The U.S. Army is funding Lockheed Martin to develop hardware and software for the Extended Area Protection and Survivability (EAPS) program. Under this program, Lockheed Martin has conducted the first guided test flight of the Miniature Hit-to-Kill (MHTK) interceptor rocket. 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