Monday, December 12th, 2011

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DARPA aims to cut time to develop weapons by 80 percent.

DARPA headquarters at 3701 N. Fairfax Drive in Arlington. Image: Wikimedia
ARPA’s researchers want to figure out a way to bring the typical weapons systems’ development time from 10 years to two years, by following the lead of the IT industry. The agency’s Advanced Vehicle Make (AVM) project is focused on — as the name implies [...]

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Thursday, August 11th, 2011

Contact lost with hypersonic glider after launch.

An unmanned hypersonic glider developed for U.S. defense research into super-fast global strike capability was launched atop a rocket early Thursday but contact was lost after the experimental craft began flying on its own, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency said.
The problem occurred during the critical point of transition to aerodynamic flight, DARPA said in [...]

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Tuesday, January 25th, 2011

ATK selected to provide thermal control subsystem for DARPA ISIS airship.

ATK (NYSE: ATK) today announced that it has been selected to provide the Thermal Control Subsystem for the Integrated Sensor is Structure (ISIS) program. The contract, awarded by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), is a critical component of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) ISIS Airship. Lockheed Martin leads an industry team in the development [...]

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Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

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Laser enhanced sniper systems coming to U.S. military; DARPA awards Lockheed Martin $7m contract.

Lockheed Martin was awarded a $6.9 million contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for multiple One Shot laser-based sniper systems that improve accuracy and reduce the possibility of detection.
Existing sniper scopes cannot measure wind at long distances. One Shot utilizes a laser and camera to gauge wind speed and direction within 1500 [...]

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Special Weapons » August 2010

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ROBOTIC COMBAT SUPPORT SYSTEM

Quick-stepping BigDog quadruped — most advanced rough-terrain robot on Earth!

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Friday, July 16th, 2010

DARPA grants Lockheed $4.8 million to use gravity to spot “subterranean threats.”

The military could soon be hunting for terror threats using detailed maps of the planet’s subterranean territory — thanks to aerial vehicles that tap into the “anomalous gravity signature[s]” of structures built beneath the earth’s surface.
Lockheed Martin has received a $4.8 million, 12-month contract to create a prototype sensor that spots, categorizes and maps man-made [...]

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Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

Combining tiny cave camera, iris recognition technology for military, homeland security.

Researchers are expanding new miniature camera technology for military and security uses so soldiers can track combatants in dark caves or urban alleys, and security officials can unobtrusively identify a subject from an iris scan.
The two new surveillance applications both build on “Panoptes,” a platform technology developed under a project led by Marc Christensen at [...]

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Thursday, March 4th, 2010

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DARPA wants military App Store for Android, 3G for battlefields.

DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is seeking applications to fill a diverse set of needs, including the tactical battlefield, humanitarian missions, disaster recovery, and other mission areas.
Example functionalities include command and control, reporting, mission planning, intelligence/surveillance/reconnaissance, real-time collaboration, geospatial visualization, analysis, language translation, training, and logistics tracking. Special attention must be paid [...]

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Monday, October 19th, 2009

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DARPA Program Brings Sci-fi Capability to Warfighters

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Monday, April 27th, 2009

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Program to Introduce New Threat Detection, Countermeasure Capabilities

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