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The thin-air specialist | Ep 11

Jul 13, 2017

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  • Troy Olsson, program manager, Microsystems Technology Office
  • Host: Ivan Amato, Public Affairs

Creating vanishing materials and unmanned air vehicles that can disappear

Troy Olsson, a program manager since 2014 in the Microsystems Technology Office, describes progress toward vanishing materials that can keep sensitive electronic components out of adversaries’ hands; unmanned air vehicles that can deliver provisions and then just disappear; massive miniaturization of low-frequency antennas for underwater radio communication; and stand-alone sensors that require almost no power at all yet for years remain vigilant to sounds, radio signals, and other environmental signals of interest to warfighters. 

And then there’s those really far-out technologies that Olsson hopes to enjoy one day.

 

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