On 19 May 2018, the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation will showcase examples of today’s leading-edge military inventions alongside historical technologies from the Museum’s world-class collections. This daylong festival celebrates the crucial role of invention for the United States, explores the changing relationship between military research and commerce, and gives visitors an opportunity to envision how advances in military technology will impact their daily lives in the future.
Armed Forces Tech at Military Invention Day
Air Force
- Automatic Integrated Collision Avoidance Technology
- Battlefield Trauma Observation Kit (BATDOK)
- Flexible Hybrid Electronics
- Hypersonic Flight Boundary Layer Transition (BOLT)
- Insect-controlled Robots
- ISAAC Ground Robot
- Open Architecture Navigation
- BendiGlass
- TEC Torch
Army
- Augmented Reality
- Department of Defense Combat Feeding Research and Engineering
- Evolution of Night Vision Technology
- History of the Conquest of Darkness
- Imaging with PUMA Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
- Immersive Conquest of Darkness Experience
- Intelligent Aquatic BioMonitoring System
- SHRAIL Flexible Field Litter
- Silent Utility Rover Universal Superstructure (SURUS)
- Thermal Weapon Sights & Image Intensifier Technology
Coast Guard
- Hammer Hook
- Helicopter Rescue Baskets
- Unmanned Maritime System
Marine Corps
- VR Enhanced Maintenance Operations
Navy—Naval Research Laboratory
- Energy from Seawater
- GelMan Surrogates for Armor Design and Injury Assessment
- Lasers and Plasma Physics
DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)
- Aqueti, Inc.: Mantis Camera
- Toyon Research Corporation: Spider AI Biohazard Identification
Draper
- Skymark
- Zero-Force Accelerometer
Dynamis
- COBRA Drones and Virtual Reality
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
- Detecting Infection Before Illness
10 am – 5:30 pm Free and open to the public