DARPA

...the treatment of the limbs of soldiers who sustain battlefield injuries. Last year, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the central research and development agency for the U.S. Department of Defense, accepted proposals...

In this article: Smith & Nephew, Osteoporosis, United States Department of Defense, Orthopaedics, Medical advice, Physical therapy, Surgery, Amputation, and Hip fracture

...all long way towards neutralizing one of the deadliest threats American troops face overseas. The contract calls for the Iron Curtain with Darpa's sniper-detection system, CROSSHAIRS. It detects and locates enemy shooters using radar and...

In this article: Rocket Propelled Grenades, Kevlar, and U.S.

...a billion neurons connected by 10 trillion individual synapses. It was, apparently, the first baby step toward Pentagon mad science division Darpa's goal of re-creating a brain that's as compact, as efficient and as power-smart as the one...

In this article: IBM and Pentagon

...don't live up to their full potential in actual service use. In fact, according to the renowned Pentagon brainiac-breeding bureau DARPA, it's common for war-ware to achieve endurance of "as little as 20% of theoretical capability. This...

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...weapon "compact enough to be carried on board a tactical aircraft - say a B-1B bomber or an AC-130 gunship," Aviation Week reports. Darpa is getting ready to hand out 24-month research contracts to defense contractors Textron or General...

In this article: Textron, General Atomics, Photon, Waste heat, Crystal, B-1B bomber, Ac-130 Gunship, Wired.com, and The U.S. Air Force

The Pentagon's mad-science division has a new way to deal with the 70,000+ troops diagnosed with traumatic brain injury: Freeze 'em. Darpa, the military's far-out research arm, is looking for research projects that would create a...

In this article: Wired.com, Cardiac arrest, Traumatic brain injury, and The Pentagon

...mutants to fight it out in the Thunderdome, but nothing saves time in a nuke-scarred future like easy-to-understand forms. Division: DARPA Device: Enabling Effective Intelligent Tutoring Systems by Sensing Affect The geniuses at DARPA...

In this article: DoD, Sarin, Nerve agent, DTRA, Get Real, United States, Small business, and Oxygen

...about efforts to build scramjets able to race around the world in just a few hours. Remarkably, DARPA doesn't own any of these labs. Its minimally bureaucratic three-level chain of command has gone essentially unchanged over the years.

In this article: Tony Tether, New Scientist, US, Sputnik, Dog, Hafnium, and Soviet Union

Flimsy strato-robot cover story widely discounted Posted in Science, 11th November 2009 10:23 GMT DARPA, the Pentagon tech bureau which has conferred upon a suffering human race such boons as the internet, the stealth bomber and the...

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Distributed natter-mob spy legions at the ready Posted in Physics, 30th October 2009 11:29 GMT Famed US military bonkers-boffinry bureau DARPA, in order to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the internet, has issued a zeitgeisty "Network...

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