Top 10 Army Tech Advances of 2018 ๐
Explore the top 10 innovative Army science and technology breakthroughs of 2018 from RDECOM researchers.

U.S. Army DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory
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ADELPHI, Md. (Dec. 17, 2018) -- This year has had its share of science and technology advances from Army researchers. The RDECOM Research Laboratory, the Armyโs corporate research laboratory (ARL), has the mission to discover, innovate and transition science and technology to ensure dominant strategic land power.
The labโs chief scientist, Dr. Alexander Kott, handpicked the โcoolestโ advances to showcase what Army scientists and engineers are doing to support the Soldier of the future with a โTop 10โ list from 2018:
No. 10: Transporting quantum information with minimum distortions
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41534-018-0107-x
No. 9: Ultra-broadband super-sensitive atomic antenna
https://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/1.5028357
No. 8: Brain-like computer solves super-complex problems
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8124199
No. 7: Peeking inside a gas turbineโs combustor with a strong X-ray
https://www.army.mil/article/203716
No. 6: Cool coating stops attacks of sand
http://gasturbinespower.asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/article.aspx?articleID=2649343
No. 5: A super-hero nanocrystalline alloy
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05027-5
No. 4: Extreme power for jumping robots
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6387/eaao1082
No. 3: New explosive is more powerful than TNT and safer
https://cen.acs.org/materials/Double-oxadiazole-replace-TNT/96/web/2018/06
No. 2: Humans teach artificially intelligent agents
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.11545
No. 1: Taming the atom
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25483
The labโs chief scientist, Dr. Alexander Kott, handpicked the โcoolestโ advances to showcase what Army scientists and engineers are doing to support the Soldier of the future with a โTop 10โ list from 2018:
No. 10: Transporting quantum information with minimum distortions
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41534-018-0107-x
No. 9: Ultra-broadband super-sensitive atomic antenna
https://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/1.5028357
No. 8: Brain-like computer solves super-complex problems
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8124199
No. 7: Peeking inside a gas turbineโs combustor with a strong X-ray
https://www.army.mil/article/203716
No. 6: Cool coating stops attacks of sand
http://gasturbinespower.asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/article.aspx?articleID=2649343
No. 5: A super-hero nanocrystalline alloy
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05027-5
No. 4: Extreme power for jumping robots
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6387/eaao1082
No. 3: New explosive is more powerful than TNT and safer
https://cen.acs.org/materials/Double-oxadiazole-replace-TNT/96/web/2018/06
No. 2: Humans teach artificially intelligent agents
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.11545
No. 1: Taming the atom
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25483
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