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Tag: DARPA
DARPA turns drone ship development over to the Navy
DARPA has completed its part in the development of Sea Hunter, a submarine-hunting drone ship that can cross the open seas without a human crew for months at a time. It has officially handed over the ship’s development to its project partner, the Office of Naval Research, which has already begun fine-tuning the drone’s autonomous […]
Darpa Wants to Build an Image Search Engine out of DNA
And your photos could end up in its database. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a67dc3279d9ae1f10d5aba8/master/pass/Digital-fluidic-system-closeup-3_UW-MISL.jpg
An Oral History of the 2004 Darpa Grand Challenge
The legendary competition created the self-driving community as we know it, the men and women in too-big polo shirts who would dominate an automotive revolution. https://media.wired.com/photos/597912ebe121080d5feca27d/master/pass/0817-WI-MFDARP-17.jpg Feed: All Latest
Darpa Wants to Build a BS Detector for Science
The Pentagon’s blue-sky division asks for help in figuring out what research to believe. https://media.wired.com/photos/597baba189235e425968428b/master/pass/BS-Detector-FeatureArt.jpg Feed: All Latest
DARPA & Boeing begin construction of futuristic ‘Spaceplane’ (VIDEO)
The Pentagon’s research and development agency has announced they are one step closer to building an entirely new class of hypersonic aircraft that will allow for cheaper, more reliable, fully automated space travel as early as 2020. On Wednesday, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced that Boeing will continue to work with them […]
DARPA just announced it’s one step closer to building a hypersonic space plane
DARPA The Pentagon’s research and development shop is moving one step closer toward building a hypersonic space plane that could shuttle satellites or people into space in record time. In an announcement on Wednesday, DARPA said that Boeing, which was selected for phase one of the project, would keep working on its advanced design for the […]
DARPA Wants to Hack Your Brain to Make You Learn Faster
Image: Warner Brothers If the brain is just a bunch of wires and circuits, it stands to reason that those components can simply be re-wired in order to create a better, smarter us. At least, that’s the theory behind a new project from the military’s secretive DARPA research branch announced on Wednesday, which aims to […]
DARPA ‘Gremlins’ drones step closer to completion (VIDEO)
Published time: 20 Mar, 2017 19:32 The “Gremlins” drone program created by the US government will enter into its second stage of development, almost a year after the project to boost military capabilities and bring chaos to adversaries began. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) concept envisions volleys of unmanned, reusable drones being launched […]
DARPA is calling for proposals to detect minuscule magnetic forces in the body
Uncle Sam’s intrepid scientists are looking for help creating technologies for low-cost devices that can detect the tiniest biological magnetic forces. Researchers at DARPA, the U.S. military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, have put out a call for proposals to detect the superweak magnetic fields in humans and other biologic objects. The goal is to open […]
