Tiny Combat
[Science - 3/22/02] The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) last week won $50 million from the U.S. Army for a nanoscience center. Over the next 5 years, the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies will conduct basic research aimed at developing tiny devices for everything from bulletproof uniforms to camouflage that can change color with chameleon-like quickness. The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based center--to be led by materials scientist Edwin Thomas--is expected to involve up to 150 researchers, including 35 professors and 80 graduate students from nine MIT departments.
The new institute is the latest Army bid to harness academic talent to the task of modernizing the armed forces--and the first of more than a dozen university centers to be awarded through an open competition. In 1999 the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles received $45 million to bring Hollywood-style technologies to troop training. Waiting in the wings is a biotechnology center, although Army science chief A. Michael Andrews says it is likely to get less funding than the MIT and USC institutes.
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[posted 3/31/02]
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