A team led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology spread the wealth far and wide to locate 10 red balloons in undisclosed locations across the country on Saturday and win a $40,000 cash prize from the Pentagon's think tank.
The secretive Pentagon agency that brought us the Internet and tried to bring us bomb-sniffing bees, warrior exoskeletons and terrorism futures trading took a small step out into the spotlight Wednesday to break ground on a new headquarters.
The X-51A, run by the US Air Force and DARPA, pushes air through its engine vertically (Illustration: Boeing)
The US defence research agency has used 10 red balloons in a contest to assess the accuracy with which information spreads on the internet.
The goal is to learn more about social behavior in computer networks and how large computer-connected teams use their resources and connections to compete.
DARPA is seeking proposals for a way to use an array of low-power transmitter nodes in the sky and on the ground to perform "surgical jamming" that will knock out communications signals "on the order of a city block corner" while leaving surrounding areas unaffected.
For just less than a decade, NASA's Institute for Advanced Concepts was the staid space agency's big-vision mashup of Willy Wonka's factory, DARPA and your crazy uncle's garage workshop. And now experts want to bring it back.
A nice article from space.com concerning the launch next year of the X-37B reusable space plane.
Before being vocalized, speech exists as word-specific neural signals in the mind. Darpa wants to develop technology that would detect these signals of "pre-speech," analyze them, and then transmit the statement to an intended interlocutor.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is looking into Geoengineering with claims that it's study is useful in case of a future "climate emergency".
Rebellious Pentagon boffins, whose plans for a really cool hypersonic robot stunt plane were stymied by stick-in-the-mud Washington politicos, have managed to sneak through an alternative project.
DARPA is holding a meeting to discuss studies in dramatic measures to mitigate Climate Change. The session, scheduled for Wednesday (March 18), is bound to stir up controversy because a lot of scientists can foresee dangers when the military controls technology.
A small robot prototype is being developed by U. of Hawaii researcher, Peter Berkelman, to do surgery on the battlefield. This robot is small, portable, can be sterilized in an autoclave--and should provide medics with a great extra set of hands.
Hurry and you might just get your bid in for a DARPA contract to demonstrate a flying car. The deadline for proposal submissions is Jan. 14. Before you strap some wings onto your Yugo, you might want to check what DARPA is looking for.
When the American journalist David Plotz took Provigil, he said it should be given a slogan. Just as valium was marketed as "the housewife's little helper," he said this should be sold as "the boss' little helper." It makes you work better and harder than before. More Articles
Originally designed as a military tool for the United States Department of Defense (DOD), the fiber-optic invention is revolutionizing the ways surgeons carry out brain surgeries.The "Omni directional dielectric mirror" was created by Prof. Yoel Fink,MIT scholar,IDF veteran.
"At the Army Science Conference we are showcasing seven areas we believe will give rise to disruptive technologies for our Soldiers in the future," he said. "It is not just the individual areas themselves, but it is also the synergy that exists among these areas."
The engineers at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are working on an aircraft that's capable of landing on the water and submerging beneath the waves.
This sounds like something straight out of a James Bond movie but no, it's real and it's your government: Those way out engineers at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) want to build an aircraft that's as capable of zipping through the sky as it is underwater.
BigDog is the alpha male of the Boston Dynamics family of robots. It is a quadruped robot that walks, runs, and climbs on rough terrain and carries heavy loads. BigDog is powered by a gasoline engine that drives a hydraulic actuation system.
DARPA today has a long-term, $3 billion program to help make such a "Metabolically Dominant Soldier." In other words, the military is studying how to use technology and biology to meld man and machine and transcend the limits of the human body.
the Pentagon has awarded contracts to two defense firms to develop brainwave-aided binoculars.
iRobot Corp. today announced the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the U.S. Army Research Office have awarded the company a new multi-year, multi-million dollar R&D; project to develop Chemical Robots (ChemBots).
The man generally recognized as a "Father of the Internet", Vinton Cerf is the co-designer with Robert Kahn of TCP/IP protocols and the basic architecture of the Internet. Vinton G. Cerf is currently vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google.
The best and the worst from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Sounds good...but this would take one large amount of algae!
The Air Force wants a suite of hacker tools, to give it "access" to -- and "full control" of -- any kind of computer there is. And once the info warriors are in, the Air Force wants them to keep tabs on their "adversaries' information infrastructure completely undetected."
When humans engage in highly strenuous exercise day after day, they start to metabolize the body's reserves, depleting glycogen and fat stores. When cells run out of energy, a result is fatigue, and exercise grinds to a halt until those sources are replenished.