The US Navy used Vieques between 1941 and 2003 to practice firing rockets, missiles and bombs.
Mr McKinnon accessed 97 government computers belonging to organisations including the US Navy and Nasa.
The US Navy is funding the project and says the machines might ultimately be deployed alongside humans.
He initially never considered a career in acting, serving in the US Navy after leaving high school in 1935.
They're the stuff of geeky dreams, and thanks to the US Navy they're closer to deployment than ever.
The Suez Canal is among the most vital waterways in the world for the US Navy and the global economy.
Mr McKinnon is accused of hacking into 97 government computers belonging to organisations including the US Navy and Nasa during 2001 and 2002.
He was captured by the US Navy, whose sharpshooters killed three other pirates trying to escape on a lifeboat, saving the captain.
The weapons were found aboard a vessel intercepted off Yemen's coast on 23 January in an operation co-ordinated with the US Navy.
The stand-off only ended several days later when the US Navy intervened.
Just last week the US Navy intercepted a ship that was headed from Iran to Gaza with missiles and rockets on board.
The US Navy has begun to deploy more forces in the Pacific.
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The study was sponsored by the US Office of Naval Research, which invests in projects to benefit the US Navy and Marine Corps.
MIT's Nexi robot has been teaching us about social interaction for years, and has even done a stint with the US Navy.
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He was captured by the US Navy, whose sharpshooters killed three other pirates trying to escape on a lifeboat with the Alabama's American captain.
In May, the firm knocked out a number of UAVs at the US Navy test range on San Nicolas Island off the coast of California.
Earlier, the US navy said the Iranian patrol boat passed within about half a mile of the carrier, but they later corrected this to two miles.
He asked two senior administration officials about what would happen under the treaty if the US Navy needed to board a ship on the high seas.
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The US Navy regards the Arleigh-Burke destroyers as the most "survivable" warships in the world because they are designed to withstand all manner of attacks and then escape.
And our runners-up: Michael Bonner, a flag writer in the US Navy, went as Instagram in hipster-filter , and shared multiple photos on imgur and Instagram, obviously.
So right now we're looking to move from lead-acid to lithium-ion batteries and we're working with the US Navy on a test programme that would allow us to do that.
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The US Navy has a carrier battle group in the Gulf - centred on the USS Carl Vinson - and a second, with the USS Enterprise , in the Arabian Sea.
It absolutely is, however, the 90-year accumulation of shared knowledge that the US Navy has amassed since 1922 when the first plane was launched from the deck of the USS Langley CV-1.
The US Navy has expanded the role of its destroyers and the Arleigh Burke-class of vessels is designed to launch simultaneous attacks against targets on land, in the air, at sea and below it.
Earlier, a spokesman for the US Navy's 5th Fleet, Lt Nathan Christensen, said the USS Howard was within 8km (5 miles) of the Ukrainian vessel, but refused to say whether they were preparing to attack the pirates.
Northrop had seen supplying the US Navy with ships and aircraft carriers as core to their business, but they are reviewing that strategy as the Pentagon has said it will focus priorities on smaller, more nimble weaponry.
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There is little of Kerouac to find here, though, considering his brief stint with the US Navy, you could get your 21st-century kicks at popular Navy Pier, a distracting bevvy of fast-food restaurants and high-tech amusement rides.
All this data - and any that can be gleaned from the radar system - will be sent to Arctic specialists at the US Navy Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, US, to help assess the likely fate of the sea-ice.
The US Navy's free-electron laser has broken a few records already, but it's just plowed through another fairly big one -- one that its creators say could put it on the fast track to actually being used to shoot down missiles.
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