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DARPA's new program aims to turn plants into sensors - News
November 20, 2017
ARLINGTON, Va. Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) officials launched a new program to pursue technologies to engineer robust, plant-based sensors that are self-sustaining in their environment and can be remotely monitored using existing hardware. The program - Advanced Plant Technologies (APT) - aims to utilize simple plants as the next generation of intelligence gatherers.
Radar/EW
DARPA teaming up to develop graph processor chip for potential DoD use - News
November 09, 2017
LINTHICUM, Md. Northrop Grumman will team with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to collaborate on the development of a graph processor chip that aims to vastly enhance efficiencies and capabilities of today?s top processors.
Unmanned
DARPA program seeks teams to innovate in unmanned "swarm" systems - News
October 16, 2017
ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is seeking teams to propose on its OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program -- which envisions future small-unit infantry forces using small unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) and/or small unmanned ground systems (UGSs) in swarms of 250 robots or more to accomplish diverse missions in complex urban environments -- in an effort to enable rapid development and deployment of breakthrough capabilities to the field.
Comms
DARPA initiates consortium for on-orbit servicing of satellites - News
October 05, 2017
ARLINGTON, Va. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) officials initiated the first phase of the Consortium for Execution of Rendezvous and Servicing Operations (CONFERS) program. Advanced Technology International (ATI), based in Summerville, South Carolina, is leading the first phase of the contract to dive into the "rules of the road" concept widely accepted in the way people and vehicles travel.
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University, Army researchers: We've generated the fastest-ever light pulse - News
October 05, 2017
ORLANDO, Fla. Researchers at the University of Central Florida (UCF) have generated what is being deemed the fastest light pulse ever developed.The 53-attosecond pulse, produced by professor Zenhgu Chang -- UCF trustee chair and professor in the Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers, College of Optics and Photonics, and Department of Physics together with his engineering group at the university, beats the team's record of a 67-attosecond extreme ultraviolet light pulse set in 2012. (One attosecond is one-quintillionth of a second.)
Radar/EW
DARPA reports its new radar sensor captures real-time video in any weather - News
October 03, 2017
ARLINGTON, Va. Officials from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) report that the agency's Video Synthetic Aperture Radar (ViSAR) program recently completed flight tests, successfully demonstrating a new sensor that can capture real-time video through clouds.
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Rockwell Collins demos compact directional comms link - News
September 15, 2017
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa. Rockwell Collins recently demonstrated a new, compact directional communication link for an audience of prime U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) contractors and government research laboratories.
