Military Applications, Division

MADAEC Military Application Division Association, Washington 5, DC... 

In recent years, zinc-air batteries have been used also in some military applications, because of their high energy, safety, and low cost (e.g., from the Electric Fuel division of Arotech) [1]. Prior to the digital electronics boom, zinc-air batteries were the batteries of choice for buoys and remote railroad signaling devices, because of their low cost and low maintenance requirements. 

Specialist training of chemical technicians was left to the discretion of the CWS and followed programs prepared by the Training Division, OC CWS. These latter courses of shorter duration were attended during the final weeks of technical training of the unit. Table 14) The aim in specialist training of chemical technicians was primarily to teach the soldier the military application of skills which he already possessed. In most cases it... 

Lawrence Dubois joined SRI International as vice president and head of the Physical Sciences Division in March 2000. Prior to that, he spent 7 years at DARPA, finishing his tenure there as director of the Defense Sciences Office, which is responsible for an annual investment of approximately 300 million toward the development of technologies for biological warfare defense, biology, defense applications of advanced mathematics, and materials and devices for new military capabilities. 

O. Hnojewyj and M. Murdoch, Ultraviolet Curable Materials for Military Electronic Applications, Paper presented at Third Annual U.S. Navy Best Practices Workshop, San Diego, CA, September 1989 (authors from Litton Industries, Applied Technology Division, Sunnyvale, CA). 

From the very beginning of modem fuel cell development, potential applications for military purposes were an important driving force and source of financing of this R D work. In the early 1960s, for example, the work of General Electric on membrane-type fuel cells that led to the power plants for Gemini spacecraft was financed, in part, by the US Navy s Bureau of Ships (Electronic Division) and by the US Army Signal Corps. 

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