Tag Archives: DARPA

DARPA Enlists Insects to Protect Agricultural Food Supply and Commodity Crops

Posted on November 3, 2016 by challer

New program aims for insect delivery of protective genes to modify mature plants within a single growing season.
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Graphic of the U.S. Space Surveillance Network, operated by the Air Force Space Command. SFSC graphic

DARPA Transfers to the Air Force a Revolutionary Space Surveillance Telescope

Posted on October 21, 2016 by challer

DARPA has transferred to the Air Force a Space Surveillance Telescope that revolutionizes space situational awareness and the kinds of space debris that can be seen from Earth.
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DARPA: Autonomous Bug-Hunting Bots Will Lead to Improved Cybersecurity

Posted on August 16, 2016 by challer

The world’s first all-machine hacking tournament wasn’t the answer to all cybersecurity problems, DARPA officials said, but it was a big step forward in a technical area where the Defense Department’s research arm aims to stir up a revolution.
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Predicting Contagiousness to Limit the Spread of Disease

Posted on June 19, 2016 by challer

New program aims to identify prognostic biomarkers that indicate contagiousness following infection but before symptoms appear.

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Posted in Articles, Featured, Life Sciences, Research, Rotator, Technology | Tagged contagiousness, DARPA, Department of Defense (DoD), disease, DoD, DOD and science, DoD Armed with Science, epidemic, flu season, healthcare professionals, infection, molecular biomarkers, outbreak, pandemic, pathogen, Prometheus, sickness | Comments Off

CODE Takes Next Steps Toward More Sophisticated, Resilient, and Collaborative Unmanned Air Systems

Posted on June 13, 2016 by challer

DARPA’s CODE program seeks to help the U.S. military’s UASs conduct dynamic, long-distance engagements of highly mobile ground and maritime targets in denied or contested electromagnetic airspace, all while reducing required communication bandwidth and cognitive burden on human supervisors.
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Dubbelday Named SSC Pacific’s First Chief Distinguished Scientist

Posted on May 9, 2016 by glenn.selby

Dr. Wadad Dubbelday, was selected as the Center’s first Chief Distinguished Scientist and senior scientific and technical manager (SSTM).
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NRL Engineers to Lead Payload Development for Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites

Posted on May 6, 2016 by glenn.selby

DARPA plans to field an on-orbit satellite servicing vehicle that would transform U.S. space operations in Geosynchronous Earth Orbit.
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DARPA has awarded contracts for the Ground X-Vehicle Technology (GXV-T) program to eight organizations. The program seeks to develop groundbreaking technologies that would make future armored fighting vehicles significantly more mobile, effective, safe and affordable. Click below for a high-resolution image.

GXV-T Revs up Research into Nimbler, Faster, Smarter Armored Ground Vehicles

Posted on May 3, 2016 by glenn.selby

Eight organizations get the greenlight to develop potentially groundbreaking technologies that would make future fighting vehicles more mobile, effective, safe and affordable.
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