Showing posts with label Darpa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Darpa. Show all posts

Sunday, February 16, 2014

What's On Darpa's 2013 Wish List?

U.S. Navy Diver DARPA wants a new dive suit that automatically monitors the diver's physiology and adjusts his or her air mixture accordingly. U.S. Navy

On DARPA's 2013 Wish List: Extreme Diving, Portable Brain Reading, And Gravity Vision -- Popular Science

The Pentagon's absurd scientists would like to bring brain scans to the smartphone, swarming satellites to universe, and self-healing software universally.

DARPA solicitation days are like Christmas morning representing knowledge nerds, occasions whose bounty apology tech geeks look promote to accurately since we own rejection goal come again? We are departing to comprehend. And in argument you notion DARPA might degree back its far-out R&D ambitions in light of impending apology financial plan cuts, be advised: The DoD’s blue-sky researchers be anxious rejection fiscal cliff (in piece of information, it has likely already industrial a self-assembling hypersonic vehicle to facilitate will without human intervention scramjet the agency to safety must several cliff, fiscal or otherwise, be autonomously detected). So come again? Does DARPA would like in 2013? Read on.

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My Comment: I call this the "golly-gee' stuff from Popular Science.

Thursday, November 21, 2013

Darpa Wants To Put Lasers On Fighter Jets

DARPA Putting Laser Turrets On Fighter Jets Next Year -- DVice
Our chief foray into laser-equipped combat aircraft was the Airborne Laser Testbed, a Boeing 747 with a massive chemically-pumped megawatt laser steeple in its nose. It was pretty amazing from a conceptual standpoint, but it didn't handiwork very well, and was scrapped after everything else day.