Afghanistan Design Engine Power 
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 15, 2013
The Solid-Oxide Fuel Cell Tactical Electrical Power Unit is aimed at reducing the need to transport fuel around the battlefield, especially in theaters such as Afghanistan, where enemies routinely target supply routes with homemade bombs. Many useful power and energy technologies have been developed in the last decade.
Cars That Think
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
In the early 2010s, this wave gathered powerful new momentum with the rise of neural networks learning from massive data sets. That same year we started deploying the first of thousands of robots in Afghanistan and then Iraq to be used to help troops disable improvised explosive devices.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 10, 2012
The report will assess the effectiveness of rapid fielding of fuel demand management improvements by the Military Departments, including energy efficiency and alternative generation technologies, to Afghanistan and other locations in support of contingency operations. The chairman has designated the Director for Logistics, Lt.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 30, 2009
For every kJ of chemical energy in the fuel for a spark ignition internal combustion engine, 73 % is sacrificed to chemical and thermal losses. Only 22% remains to power the vehicle. the 4 cylinder engine may go from a 20% take rate to a 25% take rate). Braking losses add another 6%.
Cars That Think
AUGUST 21, 2022
The story of the Baltimore Gun Club propelling themselves to the moon is about the extraordinary masculine power of the veteran, who doesn’t simply “overcome” his disability; he derives power and ambition from it. And yet who better to design the next great leap in technology than men remade by technology themselves?
Cars That Think
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
As director of technology integration at Lockheed Martin , in Grand Prairie, Texas, he leads a team that is actively pursuing breakthroughs designed to, among other things, allow life-saving missions to be performed in hazardous environments without putting humans at risk. It’s amazing that people paid attention and listened to me.”
Cars That Think
APRIL 27, 2024
A Navy unit used a remote-controlled vehicle with a mounted video camera in 2009 to investigate suspicious areas in southern Afghanistan. But to achieve that vision, it has called in reinforcements: “trust engineers” who are diligently helping the Department of Defense (DOD) find ways of rewiring human attitudes toward machines.
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