DARPA

The Smithsonian recently published an interesting article featuring a DARPA program, ICARUS (Inbound, Controllable, Air-Releasable, Unrecoverable Systems). They are exploring the concept of a disposable drone capable of being utilized for one-way missions. Check out the article below- Desiree In the midst of disaster, small items like batteries or medical supplies can be a matter of life or death. But what […]

Planning for the worst and hoping for the best might be a thing of the past, one day. A military course of action could be an equation and a computer can solve it. How accurate is your gut feeling? What if you could quantify that feeling and then study how it might play out? That’s […]

If you’re anything like me, between the election, Russia, police shootings, riots, and the general geopolitical landscape, sharing a meal with a large group is a conversational minefield. Raise the stakes of hurt feelings by about a thousand if those people are related. Don’t get me wrong, I love my family. They’re great people who […]

DARPA is on track to unveil a working prototype of its “Tern” drone system in 2018 that could eventually give the Navy and Marines persistent surveillance and strike targeting “virtually anywhere in the world.” If it’s implemented, the Tern program would see fully-autonomous drones on small-deck ships throughout the world that can take off and land vertically. Once in […]

The U.S. Air Force is working with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to create an air-breathing cruise missile capable of speeds of up to 3,836 miles per hour. So-called hypersonic cruise missiles would give the military the ability to overwhelm enemy defenses through sheer speed and destroy time-critical targets. Cruise missiles fly low to […]

ALIAS can fly a military helicopter and then move into another aircraft and fly that too— and ALIAS is not human. Driverless cars may have been making headlines of late, but DARPA’s ALIAS program has also been making great strides in the development of “digital pilot” technology. The brainchild of the legendary institution DARPA (the […]

DARPA is officially done developing the Space Surveillance Telescope (SST) and has handed it over to the US Air Force. Pentagon’s most adventurous arm worked with the military division for over a decade to build the SST, which was designed to monitor space junk that pose a threat to satellites in orbit. It’s been observing asteroids and near-Earth objects […]

Anyway, didn’t G.I. Joe stop Cobra Commander from using the Weather Dominator?

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency filled the courtyard at the Pentagon on May 11 with a variety of exhibitions at its annual DARPA Demo Day, giving the defense community and media a chance to see the next steps to maintain supremacy on the battlefield. Here are some highlights: The Robotic Arm: Johnny Matheney, a […]

Since 2013, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Plan X cyber warfare program engineers have done the foundational work they knew it would take to create for the first time a common operating picture for warriors in cyberspace. Next month in Suffolk, Virginia, that work will pay off when Plan X is released from the […]

Armored tanks are built to protect, but they weren’t designed to manoeuvre through rough terrain or avoid incoming threats. New concept vehicles have dropped the extra thick steel padding, allowing future machines to travel over 95 percent of available terrain and with more speed. Created by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), the Ground […]