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COMING SOON: A JAPANESE DARPA, CALL IT DARPA-SAN... Ms.

COMING SOON: A JAPANESE DARPA, CALL IT DARPA-SAN...

P.H. sent this to me, and I find it interesting on a number of levels, but the general tenor of the article is unmistakeable: Japan has decided to create its own version of DARPA, the Diabolically Apocalyptic Research Projects Agency. Call it “DARPA-san.” And in a bit of ironic deja vu, the Minister heading this development just happens to be named Yamamoto. Now, of course, Yamamoto is a fairly common surname in Japan, but I still cannot get out of my mind certain fleet admirals wearing thee Order of the Carnation and named Isoroku Yamamoto when I read this article, nor is the image of the blitz he led during the first six months of World War Two in the Pacific entirely without some analog here. But first, the article: Japan looks to tap technology for military use, in another step away from pacifism Now the analog: I suspect what we are seeing here is a Japanese version of that very careful tightrope diplomacy we see Germany currently embarked upon.

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Thermacore Heat Sink Breakthrough Results from DARPA MACE Programme. Thermacore, Inc. is offering a new generation of compact, custom-built, high-performance air-cooled heat sinks, the result of a multimillion-dollar development contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which ended on September 30, 2012.

Thermacore Heat Sink Breakthrough Results from DARPA MACE Programme

The new heat sink products reflect advances by Thermacore in the development and commercialization of active heat sink technologies, achieved as part of the DARPA Micro-technologies for Air-Cooled Exchangers (MACE) programme. After the results of Thermacore’s initial MACE demonstration step exceeded DARPA expectations in early 2011, Thermacore proceeded to develop four varieties of passive heat sink products, all representing improved airside heat transfer performance over existing state-of-the-art heat sinks. The design integrates Thermacore’s Therma-Base Vapor Chamber technology within a 3-dimensional thermal solution, with vapor flow spreading heat both laterally in the base and into planar appendage heat pipe blades.

DARPA expanding Insight program for real-time analysis of ISR data. DARPA expanding Insight program for real-time analysis of ISR data By Defense Systems StaffDec 03, 2012 The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is moving forward with its Insight program to develop an analytical framework for global, integrated intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) by issuing a Broad Agency Announcement for phase two of the program.

DARPA expanding Insight program for real-time analysis of ISR data

Proposals for the $80 million Insight Phase 2 program are due January 24, 2013, with an industry day planned for December 18 in Chantilly, VA. “To enhance analysts’ ability to more effectively and efficiently process information, the Insight program is developing an adaptable, integrated human-machine Exploitation and Resource Management (E&RM) System,” states the BAA for Insight Phase 2, which is managed by DARPA’s Information Innovation Office. “Phase 1 of the program created the baseline system with an initial focus on counterinsurgency operations. Specifically, those objectives include: Military Sexual Assault Reform Proposals Prompt Push Back From Military. WASHINGTON -- The witness table stretched across the front of the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing room Tuesday, ready for testimony from 20 people at the first full committee hearing on sexual assault in a decade.

Military Sexual Assault Reform Proposals Prompt Push Back From Military

A dozen are the highest-ranking military officials who are pushing back with increasing force against congressional proposals to remove or reduce chain-of-command power over sexual assault cases. Only four are independent counsel and victims advocates pushing for farther-reaching reforms. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin E. Dempsey reaffirmed the military's commitment to eliminate sexual assault from the U.S. armed forces, but said commanders should remain at the center of the military judicial system. "Should further reform be needed, I urge that military commanders remain central to the legal process," Dempsey said in a brief statement.

"Every member of this committee wants to drive sexual assault out of the military. Ranking member Sen.