Our new Gamifying the Search for Strategic Surprise program aims to apply a unique combination of online game and social media technologies and techniques to engage a large number of experts and deep thinkers in a shared analytic process to rapidly identify, understand, and expand upon the potential implications and applications of emerging science and technology. The program will also develop a mechanism to identify and quickly fund research opportunities that emerge from this collaborative process.
(I just wish we could build a kinder, more compassion
Tune in today to Episode 4 of the Voices from DARPA #podcast, featuring "The Terahertzian"! Program Manager Dev Palmer recounts how he turned an early interest in the vacuum tubes of his #guitar amplifiers into a career as an electrical engineer.
In the latest episode of DARPA’s podcast series, Voices from DARPA, join program manager Dev Palmer of the Agency’s Microsystems Technology Office as he talks about turning an early interest in the vacuum tubes of his guitar amplifiers into a career as an electrical engineer. His mission? To push electronic and electromagnetic technology along new frontiers that could lead to more capable radar, electronic warfare, and communications systems, and even to entirely new technolo...gies. In his few years as a program manager, Palmer has scored a world record with the fastest linear amplifier ever made; opened the way to vastly increasing the power output of high-frequency circuits by developing next-generation, miniaturized vacuum electronic devices; and pioneered novel approaches to integrating minuscule magnetic components into the already super-dense microcircuitry on chips. One more thing: with the time he spends commuting, Palmer has given some thought to what it would take to usher teleportation from the science fiction side to the reality side. Tune in to the podcast at: https://www.blubrry.com/…/19063…/episode-4-the-terahertzian/
See MoreDARPA's new Gamifying the Search for Strategic Surprise (GS3) program aims to apply a unique combination of online game and social media technologies and techniques to engage a large number of experts and deep thinkers in a shared analytic process to rapidly identify, understand, and expand upon the potential implications and applications of emerging science and technology. The program will also develop a mechanism to identify and quickly fund research opportunities that emerge from this collaborative process. Learn more: http://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2016-11-30
Add glass to DARPA's growing portfolio of surfaces that can be scaled by a human in a way similar to how a gecko climbs! A new material developed by Draper forms a key component of a climbing tool that allows an adult human to scale glass and other nonporous surfaces. Draper has previously developed climbing aids for magnetic surfaces and rough, flat surfaces like concrete. The work is funded under DARPA's Z-Man program.
Recent technological advances have made the longstanding dream of on-orbit robotic servicing of satellites a near-term possibility. However, widely accepted technical and safety standards are needed to make that functionality sustainable. To help overcome these challenges and provide the foundation for a new commercial repertoire of robust space-based capabilities, DARPA is creating the Consortium for Execution of Rendezvous and Servicing Operations (CONFERS). Through CONFERS..., DARPA aims to establish an industry/government forum composed of experts from throughout the space community. Participants would leverage best practices from government and industry to research, develop, and publish non-binding, consensus-derived technical and safety standards for on-orbit servicing operations. In doing so, the program would provide a clear technical basis for definitions and expectations of responsible behavior in outer space. Learn more: http://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2016-11-29.
See MoreModern military operations are dynamic and complex—requiring, for example, that infantry squads carry out their missions simultaneously in the 3-dimensional physical world, the cyber domain, and across the electromagnetic spectrum. As artificial intelligence becomes more advanced, the future of kinetic, cyber, and electronic warfare envisions humans and intelligent machines working together as a team. A challenge in designing human-machine systems, however, is determining how... best to meld human cognitive strengths and the unique capabilities of smart machines to create intelligent teams adaptive to rapidly changing circumstances. DARPA's new Agile Teams (A-Teams) program sets out to discover, test, and demonstrate predictive and generalizable mathematical methods to enable optimized design of such agile hybrid teams. Learn more: http://www.darpa.mil/program/2016-11-28.
See MoreWith the military critically dependent on space-based capabilities, DARPA is working to make space more accessible and to make space technologies more robust.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone, and especially to our troops serving all around the world! Thank you for all you do to keep us safe.
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For those seeking to influence how microchips are designed and made in the future, you now have until January 13, 2017, to submit your proposal for the Common Heterogeneous Integration and IP Reuse Strategies (CHIPS) program. The goal for CHIPS is to establish and demonstrate a modular design and fabrication flow for electronic systems while keeping the cost, lead time, and complexity of IC design in check. The central idea is that a system can be subdivided into chiplets, wh...ich are functional circuit blocks (along with their associated reusable IP) that can be integrated on an interposer into an overall microsystem, rather than having to rely on the design and fabrication of circuits in a monolithic flow. This modular design flow is anticipated to encompass rapid assembly and reconfiguration of various IP blocks through standard layouts and interfaces seamlessly linked to other chiplets. The application of a CHIPS modular design flow is expected to lead to a 70% reduction in design cost and turn-around time. Access the opportunity at: https://www.fbo.gov/…/DARPA/CMO/DARPA-BAA-16-62/listing.html.
See MoreOur podcast, Voices from DARPA, now resides on a new host, Blubrry. Our expanding list of topics includes synthetic chemistry, a powerful space telescope, and breakthroughs in semiconductors. Please have a listen.
On November 21, 1969, the builders of the ARPANET established the first permanent connection between two interface message processors, one at UCLA and one at Stanford Research Institute (SRI International). In 1973, the government commissioned Vinton Cerf and Robert E. Kahn to create a national computer network for military, governmental, and institutional use. The network used packet-switching, flow-control, and fault-tolerance techniques developed by ARPANET. Historians consider this worldwide network to be the origin of the Internet.
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Scientific American explores the motivations behind DARPA's Safe Genes program and describes some potential paths forward to place biosafety and biosecurity at the forefront of the genome editing field.
At the University of Wisconsin - Madison, DARPA Young Faculty Awardee Jing Li is developing microchips that merge computation and memory, functions that today are typically handled by different pieces of hardware integrated on circuit boards. By eliminating the bottleneck that occurs when computers move data from memory to processing, Li aims to enable more powerful, efficient computers for applications such as facial or voice recognition, natural language processing, and graph analytics.
DARPA and the U.S. Navy's joint TERN program is making substantial progress toward scheduled 2018 flight tests of a prototype unmanned air system for small-deck ships. The program has commenced wing fabrication and completion of successful engine testing for its test vehicle, and DARPA has now tasked Northrop Grumman with building a second test vehicle.
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- What's on your mind? REALLY... SINCE BEEN MADE BORN IN ITALY :( I... HAVE BEEN INDUCTED TO THINK AND BEEN TAUGHT AND GROWN ABOUT AN ITALY LIKELY TO BE PRO-U.S.A. ...LIKELY TO BECOME PRO FREEDOM... (*maybe after welcoming allied U.S.A. to retreat the German Occupation, Italy still celebrate the 25th of April,[...]) BUT HAS NEVER BEEN TRUE... BUT HAS NEVER BEEN REAL... ITALY HAS NEVER REALLY BEEN PRO-U.S.A. ... ITALY HAS NEVER EVEN REALLY BEEN PRO-FREEDOM... NOT EVEN THE ITALIANS... THEIR D.N.A.s REALLY ARE... ... ... THE SONS REJECTED BY THE SPARTANS AND THE GREEKS... THE SONS OF THE TROJANS ESCAPED FROM THE WAR... THE SONS OF THE LATINS... THE CRUCIFIXERS OF THE ETRUSCANS (D.N.A. more in relation with the now D.N.A. SWISS) THE FOUNDERS OF ROME... THE CRUCIFIXERS OF EACH AND EVERY HUMAN BEINGS WHERE THEY STARTED TO INSTITUTE THEIR REPUBLICS BASED ON THEIR MODELS... THE INVENTORS OF THE REPUBLICS... THE INVENTORS OF THE GOVERNMENTS... THE INVENTORS OF THE CITIZENSHIPS... THE INVENTORS OF THE LATIN CHARACTERS AND THE PROCESS OF LATIZATION OF THE UNIVERSE... THE INVENTORS OF THE DICTATORSHIPS AND THE DICTATORS... THE INVENTORS EVEN OF THE WORD " MILITARY " ... THE INVENTORS EVEN OF THE WORD " MARS" ... THEY DO NOT WANT TO SHOW HOW MUCH EVIL WITHIN... THEY HAVE ALWAYS HAD... THEY HAVE ALWAYS BEEN... THEY ARE... ... ... ... ... ... See More
- V!RUS JOURNAL #13 RELEASED! http://www.nomads.usp.br/virus/virus13 ...On behalf of the V!RUS journal Editorial Committee we kindly ask for your help to release to your students and professors the 13th issue of the V!RUS academic journal, on the theme "Good news for hard times", available at: www.nomads.usp.br/virus/virus13. V!RUS 13 gathers papers that have in common the interest for spaces of resistance existing within social life. They show the desire to contribute to the development of practices aiming to preserve critical thinking and support for the most vulnerable classes and groups of the population. They argue above all that solutions to the problems of a nation can only be correctly formulated within an environment of freedom of thought, expression, creation and experimentation. V!RUS journal is a biligual English-Portuguese twice-a-year journal published by Nomads.usp, the Center for Interactive Living Studies, of the Institute of Architecture and Urbanism - IAU-USP, at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. V!RUS is accessed from more than 400 cities in 60 countries. A call for contributions to the next V!RUS' issue, on the subject "Weaving the city", is also available at: http://www.nomads.usp.br/virus/virus13/… Papers can be submitted in ENGLISH, SPANISH OR PORTUGUESE. See More