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Upcoming Webinars

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The Financing of Terrorism Through Cryptocurrency

COMING SOON – EXACT DATE AND TIME TBD. The earliest-reported foreign terrorist organization that adopted cryptocurrencies as a means of donations was the Ibn Taymiyyah Media Center (ITMC) crowdfunding campaign for Mujahideen Shura Council/Environs of…

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Tactical Grief-Processing: The Cornerstone of Unconventional Resilience

This presentation will explore the central hypothesis of an ethnographic study examining how U.S. Air Force Special Operations Surgical Teams (SOSTs) build and sustain resilience against catastrophic injury exposure. Moving beyond conventional trauma-based resilience frameworks,…

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Electromagnetic Pulse Hardening of Critical Infrastructure

An electromagnetic pulse (EMP) can have devastating consequences for electronic components, electrical systems, and the nation’s critical infrastructure.  While EMPs can be both natural and man-made, the events can damage and/or disrupt significant portions of…

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Barometric Extremes: Amplified Weather Hazards Impacting Energy and IT Sector Operations

Extreme weather trends over the past 85 years have indicated a major swing in lower lows, and longer lasting highs which is wreaking havoc on weather systems at the surface. When systems and practices were…

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Machine-Learning Weather Prediction

Machine learning (ML) is revolutionizing weather forecasting because it can identify complex patterns in vast amounts of weather data. It provides accurate predictions, fast updates, and the ability to capture subtle details that traditional methods…

Past Webinars

IARPA’s SILMARILS: Active IR Spectroscopy for Chemical Detection

This webinar discusses recent developments in the use of active infrared spectroscopy for safe standoff detection of chemical residues. Presented by Dr. Kristy DeWitt, program…

Night-time Face Recognition

This webinar presents groundbreaking technology developed by researchers at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory to perform biometric face recognition at night-time. Dr. Shuowen (Sean) Hu,…

Impact-Resistant Shear Thickening Electrolyte Batteries for Soldier Power

This webinar highlights a novel design for an impact-resistant, high-energy density battery suitable for use by the dismounted warfighter. Presented by Gabriel M. Veith, Ph.D.,…

Podcast: Engineering Resilience into the Electric Grid

Engineering Resilience into the Electric Grid Together with Dr. Fangxing Li, the James McConnell Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at…

RFID for Continuous Monitoring in Dynamic Environments

This webinar discusses the use of low-power, long-lifecycle, and low-mass radio frequency identification (RFID) tags for homeland defense-related sensoring applications. Presented by Raymond Wagner, Ph.D.,…

Biological Agent Detection for the Warfighter

This webinar discusses recent developments in computational power, communication capabilities, and microfluidics that together have advanced the state of biological agent threat detection and identification…