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Pentagon Putting $22 Million Into Aimbot-ish Bullets [Darpa]

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2008-12-02 05:00:00 by Elaine Chow in Gizmodo
...DARPA, the Defense Department's R&D office, is handing out $12.3 million to Lockheed Martin and $9.5 million to Teledyne Scientific & Imaging to design .50-caliber sniper rifles with guided ammo DARPA had previously thrown money into laser-guided bullets , but the stuff Lockheed Martin's working oncalled Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordinance...
 
Tags: million, bullets, darpa, previously thrown money, 50-caliber sniper rifles, projectile guidance technologies, stable power supplies, extreme accuracy, martin
 
 
 
 
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Boeing to Design New DARPA's Networked Swarm Spacecrafts [Space]

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2008-03-04 12:45:51 by Jesus Diaz in Gizmodo
...DARPA's Future, Fast, Flexible, Fractionated, Free-Flying Spacecraft United by Information Exchange space technology program." In other words: multiple, networked specialized spacecraft swarms that are intelligent enough to perform a single coordinated task together, like analyzing the crops or deciding to destroy humanity, Skynet-style....
 
Tags: space, darpa, responsive space, responsive space missions, single, single spacecraft, french space scientist, systems, robust satellites systems
 
 
 
 
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50 Years of DARPA: 5 Good Inventions, 5 Lousy Ones [Darpa]

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2008-05-16 13:45:00 by posted by Pantha in
...DARPA inventions: five that changed the world, and five that fell flat Five Big Wins The internet - You know, ARPANET, or a communications network that heals thyself. The whole porn-music-movie triangle trade was not in the original blueprint GPS - The idea that satellites up there could tell us where we are down here is as old as Sputnik,...
 
Tags: darpa, darpa egghead, darpa inventions, scientist story, scientist, pretty nasty stuff, projects, list, handheld machine translators
 
 
 
 
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50 Years of DARPA: 5 Good Inventions, 5 Lousy Ones [Darpa]

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2008-05-16 09:45:00 by Wilson Rothman in Gizmodo
...DARPA inventions: five that changed the world, and five that fell flat Five Big Wins The internet - You know, ARPANET, or a communications network that heals thyself. The whole porn-music-movie triangle trade was not in the original blueprint GPS - The idea that satellites up there could tell us where we are down here is as old as Sputnik,...
 
Tags: darpa, darpa egghead, darpa inventions, scientist story, scientist, pretty nasty stuff, projects, list, handheld machine translators
 
 
 
 
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Update: DARPA Backs Luke Arm

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2008-02-04 20:15:24 by Michael in Medgadget
...DARPA is about to decide whether to continue development of the world's most advanced prosthesis, now called the Luke Arm. A press release from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory announcing $31 million of funding from DARPA, and Hopkins' leading role in the next stage of development, sounds like a bright green light for the project....
 
Tags: darpa, johns hopkins, johns hopkins university, darpa tech, hopkins, control, control signals, development, complete development
 
 
 
 
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DARPA enlists IBM to build computer brain as smart as a cat

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2008-11-21 15:44:00 by Donald Melanson in Engadget
...DARPA in its attempt to create one that it hopes will one day have the intelligence level of a cat. To that that somewhat unnerving end, DARPA is pouring $4.9 million into a project that'll include five universities and scientists of all stripes, who will work together to create an artificial brain that behaves like a real one right down to...
 
Tags: darpa enlists ibm, darpa, brain, computer brain, computer, ibm, artificial brain, cat, model actual brains
 
 
 
 
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DARPA Vulture unmanned spy plane can stay aloft for 5 years, may be close to reality

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2008-03-04 18:43:00 by HASH0x8b348e4 in DVICE
...DARPA wanted to stretch to its limit when it dreamed up the Vulture project, an unmanned spy plane that could stay aloft for five years. Last year, it challenged aircraft designers to come up with a plan that could keep a half-ton payload flying for a long, long time, and now the research group is said to be close to awarding a contract to...
 
Tags: spy plane, plane, stay aloft, darpa, radioactive fuel, 000-foot altitude, flight magazine, solar energy, aircraft designers
 
 
 
 
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DARPA Developing Weapon Inspired by Arthur C. Clarke Idea From 1955 [Military]

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2008-04-23 20:30:00 by Sean Fallon in Gizmodo
...DARPA dubbed the Magneto Hydrodynamic Explosive Munition (MAHEM). In the novel, a commander unleashes "The Stiletto"a weapon consisting of a jet of molten metal hurled through space by an electro-magnet. The MAHEM concept works in much the same way, using a magnetic field to propel a chunk of molten metal that will morph into an aerodynamic...
 
Tags: darpa, magnetic field, weapon, mahem concept, mahem, aerodynamic slug, final engagement, commander unleashes, arthur
 
 
 
 
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DARPA Developing "Fracture Putty" to Heal and Support Shattered Bones [Not So Silly Putty]

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2008-05-28 18:50:00 by Sean Fallon in Gizmodo
DARPA, the military's premier R&D team has been given the task of producing "a dynamic putty-like material" that can be packed in around shattered bone to help support a patient's body during the healing process. It would also be designed to bio-degrade when all is said and done. If DARPA is successful in developing this material, it would allow...
 
Tags: putty, darpa, dynamic putty-like material, material, similar internal structure, support, bone, major fractures, quicker recovery