DARPA’s Top 10 Most Popular Tech Features of 2012 | SMART Group. The DARPA website receives millions of visits each year. In 2012, DARPA shared information about its new efforts and announced milestones reached in its existing programs. Here is a look back at the most popular – based on webpage views – starting with Number 10: 10. Hypersonics—The New Stealth July 06, 2012 – DARPA’s research and development in stealth technology during the 1970s and 1980s led to the world’s most advanced radar-evading aircraft, providing strategic national security advantage to the United States.
Today, that strategic advantage is threatened as other nations’ abilities in stealth and counter-stealth improve. Restoring that battle space advantage requires advanced speed, reach and range. 9. July 10, 2012 – There’s a lot to be said for the road that is taken – it’s safe, it’s well lit, and you probably know where it leads. 8. 7. July 31, 2012 – DARPA researchers have created the world’s first solid state receiver to demonstrate gain at 0.85 terahertz (THz). 6. 5.
DARPA's sub-hunting drone appears in concept video. The ACTUV uses a very high-frequency sonar to take an acoustic image of its target, which can be used to precisely classify the enemy submarine Image Gallery (10 images) The murky details of DARPA's sub-hunting drone project are a bit clearer, thanks to a new concept video published by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC).
DARPA is spending US$58 million to have SAIC build the first Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vehicle (ACTUV), which will detect and track a growing number of stealthy, inexpensive diesel-electric subs. View all It's interesting to note that, unlike some of the UAVs which have garnered so much negative press lately, the ACTUV is completely unarmed. The ACTUV communicates via satellite to its command post and neighboring ships Navigation will be performed using a combination of artificial intelligence and on board sensors, which include electro-optics, long-range and short-range radar, and LIDAR (Light Detection And Ranging).
War rape assets. Missouri senators question military leaders on sexual assault problem - St. Joseph News-Press and FOX 26 KNPN: Local News. Posted: Tuesday, June 4, 2013 7:00 pm | Updated: 10:39 pm, Tue Jun 4, 2013. Missouri senators question military leaders on sexual assault problem By Ken Newton St. Joseph News-Press St.
Joseph News-Press & FOX 26 KNPN | Both of Missouri’s U.S. senators took the nation’s military leaders to task on Tuesday as they tried to sort out the problem of sexual assaults in the armed forces. Sens. An online service is needed to view this article in its entirety. Need an account? Ms. “They are not committing crimes of lust,” the Missouri Democrat said of sexual offenders in the military. Those appearing before the committee included Army Gen. The leaders voiced resolve that the military could transform itself but also uniformly insisted that commanders should not be excluded from the military justice process.
In an exchange with Ms. “Their ability to perform as a soldier or an airman or a member of the Coast Guard is irrelevant to whether or not they committed a crime,” Ms. Mr. “I did think, Gen. Passive-aggressive behavior. Passive-aggressive behavior is the indirect expression of hostility, such as through procrastination, sarcasm, hostile jokes, stubbornness, resentment, sullenness, or deliberate or repeated failure to accomplish requested tasks for which one is (often explicitly) responsible. For research purposes, the DSM-IV describes passive-aggressive personality disorder as a "pervasive pattern of negativistic attitudes and passive resistance to demands for adequate performance in social and occupational situations". Concept in different areas[edit] In psychology[edit] In psychology, passive-aggressive behavior is characterized by a habitual pattern of passive resistance to expected work requirements, opposition, stubbornness, and negativistic attitudes in response to requirements for normal performance levels expected of others.
Passive-aggressive may also refer to a person who refuses to acknowledge their own aggression (in the sense of "agency"), and who manages that denial by projecting it. United States Army War College. The Army War College is one of the three senior service colleges of the U.S. Department of Defense, joined by the Naval War College for the U.S. Navy and Air War College for the U.S. Air Force. The Army War College is a split-functional institution. While a great deal of emphasis is placed on research, students are also instructed in leadership, strategy, and joint-service/international operations. Mission[edit] According to U.S. History[edit] The first president of the Army War College was Major General Samuel B.
Basic Strategic Art Program[edit] The Basic Strategic Art Program is one of the academic programs taught at the U.S. Center for Strategic Leadership[edit] The Center for Strategic Leadership and Development (CSLD) areas of emphasis are experiential education, Senior Leader education, support to Army Senior Leader research, and support to both US Army War College (USAWC) and Army Senior Leader strategic communication efforts. Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute[edit] DARPA researches new life for dead satellites - Air Force News | News from Afghanistan & Iraq - Air Force Times. By Alicia Chang - The Associated Press Posted : Tuesday Jan 22, 2013 14:46:13 EST LOS ANGELES — Call it space grave robbery for a cause: Imagine scavenging defunct communication satellites for their valuable parts and recycling them to build brand new ones for cheap. It’s the latest pet project from the Pentagon’s research wing known for its quirky and sometimes out-there ideas.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is spending $180 million to test technologies that could make this possible. When satellites retire, certain parts — such as antennas and solar panels — often still work. There’s currently no routine effort to salvage and reuse satellite parts once they’re launched into space. DARPA thinks it can save money by repurposing in orbit. Work on DARPA’s Phoenix program — named after the mythical bird that rose from its own ashes — is already under way. Videos You May Be Interested In. Chris Kyle Killed At A Texas Gun Range. Obama Picks Skull & Bones Iraq warmonger John Kerry for Secretary of State! Rebuilding The Human Body. Today I’m going to focus on medical technologies that are available or being researched now that can be implanted into (or onto) humans. Specifically, I am going to talk about tech that promises to restore (and one day replace) faulty biological systems.
We will start at the top: Eyes: Scientific American reports that scientists have created a retinal implant that can restore sight to some of the blind. Light-detecting cones (called photoreceptors) in the eyes that malfunction cause some forms of blindness. By implanting a tiny 3mm x 3mm chip at the back of the eye, the device can act as artificial photoreceptors and transmit the light that the failing biological photoreceptors no longer do. Already, however, upgrades are in the works.
Not only could one replace the eye, however, the implant could have additional functionality. Chest: The eyes are hardly the only organs we can replace; scientists recently implanted an artificial, and pulseless, heart inside a man. Arms: DARPA Robot Trudges Over The Tough Terrain Where Soldiers Tread. Complaint Filed With U.N. Against Canada For Failing To Prosecute George W. Bush For Torture Eurasia Review. By Eurasia Review Four torture survivors filed a complaint Wednesday against Canada with the United Nations Committee against Torture for the country’s failure to investigate and prosecute former President George W.
Bush during his visit to British Columbia last year. As a signatory to the Convention against Torture, Canada has an obligation to investigate and prosecute a torture suspect on its soil, the group claimed. This is the first time a complaint concerning torture allegations against a high-level U.S. official has been filed with the U.N. Committee. The Canadian Centre for International Justice (CCIJ) and the U.S. -based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed the complaint on the men’s behalf. Canada “Canada has the jurisdiction and the obligation to prosecute a torture suspect present in Canada, including a former head of state, and even one from a powerful country,” said Matt Eisenbrandt, CCIJ’s Legal Director. Ratified by 153 countries around the world, the U.N.
Whistleblowers: gagged by those in power, admired by the public | Media network | Guardian Professional. Whistleblowing is relevant in the UK now more than ever, as the recent stream of high profile cover-ups and the relentless clamp downs on truth tellers has shown. The Hillsborough Inquiry, the string of serious problems in the NHS and related health agencies, the recently revealed Ministry of Defence internal document gagging whistleblowers from revealing wrongdoing to their own MPs. The list of examples goes on and on. They illustrate exactly why we need whistleblowers in society in the first place. Whistleblowing is when members of an organisation reveal inside information about serious wrongdoing to someone they believe can act on it.
Whistleblowers don't have to be employees; they can be members of a school or church community organisation, for example. The word whistleblower used to evoke images of shady characters whispering secrets in dark car parks. The advent of online leaks news sites like WikiLeaks have likely played a role in this. $500k To Dream About Star Adventure. In the midst of the nation’s dire financial crisis, the U.S. government has given a former astronaut half a million dollars to launch a seemingly delusional idea to send “explorers” to another star system.
By the government’s own account it’s a “dream” that may never come true considering these facts published in the mainstream newspaper that reported the grant; trips to the moon take three days each way and Mars, the next planet over, takes a robotic flier nine months to reach. Based on those speeds the journey to the nearest neighboring star would take tens of thousands of years. In five decades of space exploration scientists have not been able to make a dent on that figure. To actually reach stars, a starship would need giant engines that draw more power than mankind knows how to produce, according to a top National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) scientist quoted in the news story. The cash is being doled out by an agency that most Americans may not be familiar with. DARPA launches mini-satellite cluster program -- GCN. DARPA aims to replace regular satellites with floating clusters In the near future, satellites may come in pieces.
That’s the goal of a new effort launched by the Defense Departments research and development agency — to fly clusters of small spacecraft that communicate with each other and which work together to perform the work of a traditional single-piece satellite. The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s System F6 program seeks to develop technologies to build and deploy “disaggregated” satellites. These groups of small satellites would share information and a variety of capabilities over their own wireless networks, such as communications links, sensors and data storage. By spreading out these various capabilities among a group of replaceable spacecraft, DARPA hopes to create platforms that are much more survivable, adaptable and repairable than traditional satellites.
Related coverage: DARPA seeks ways to rebuild space junk. DARPA’s Threat Detection System Combines 120-megapixel Camera With B-Alert EEG Headset. The CT2WS is capable not only of identifying up to 91 percent of targets during testing with extremely low false-alarm rates, but also widening a soldier’s field of view to 120 degrees when all components of the kit are is use. The system consists of a 120-megapixel camera on a tripod, based on the battlefield, and a computer system, where a soldier sits in front of the computer monitor with an EEG strapped to his head.
A cognitive visual processing algorithm identifies potential targets (enemy combatants, sniper nests, IEDs) and these possible threats are then shown to an operator soldier wearing an electroencephalogram (EEG) headset that monitors the operator’s brain signals and records when the operator detects a threat. The components can be configured as necessary to work with existing systems and meet specific mission requirements.
In testing of the full CT2WS kit, absent radar, the sensor and cognitive algorithms returned 810 false alarms per hour.
DARPA Just Paid $2.6 Million For A Skintight Smart Suit That's Straight Out Of The Future. Exoskeletons with hydraulic arms and piston powered legs are nothing terribly new — Raytheon's got a new version it showed off this summer. But this Warrior Web program proposed by DARPA is a first. The Web is actually a suit that'll be worn under a servicemember's uniform intended to provide a host of physiological benefits.
The $2.6 million contract went to the Wyss Institute at Harvard and they hope to create something like a wetsuit that will not only protect injury prone areas, reinforce joints, assist in carrying 100 pound loads and reduce injuries. It will log all that data and refer it back to command. It will also offer internal prompts to the wearer, likely letting him know, for example, when a joint is bent poorly and to modify the angle. Hopefully the suit will reduce injuries, fatigue and allow troops to better spend their energy on staying alive. 7 DARPA Challenges We Want To See Next. DARPA to shift away from applied battlefield tech. US Arms Sales Make Up Most of Global Market.
(Image: Arms sales via Shutterstock)Washington - Weapons sales by the United States tripled in 2011 to a record high, driven by major arms sales to Persian Gulf allies concerned about Iran's regional ambitions, according to a new study for Congress. Overseas weapons sales by the United States totaled $66.3 billion last year, or more than three-quarters of the global arms market, valued at $85.3 billion in 2011. Russia was a distant second, with $4.8 billion in deals. The American weapons sales total was an "extraordinary increase" over the $21.4 billion in deals for 2010, the study found, and was the largest single-year sales total in the history of United States arms exports.
The previous high was in fiscal year 2009, when American weapons sales overseas totaled nearly $31 billion. A worldwide economic decline had suppressed arms sales over recent years. The report was prepared by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, a division of the Library of Congress. The War on Iran is Already Underway? Economic sanctions, psychological warfare, media propaganda, threats and assassinations; what other sort of evidence one may need to believe that the United States, Israel and their European allies have already started their much liked war against Iran and that this unjustifiable war is taking its toll on the innocent, ordinary Iranian citizens?
They say that they have a problem with Iran’s nuclear program; that Iran’s nuclear activities aren’t transparent; that they fear Iran may one day develop nuclear weapons; that Iran may some day drop atomic bombs on Israel and that Iran poses a threat to global peace and security. But this is not really the case. Perhaps the American journalist and radio host, Mark Glenn, has described the truth in the most comprehensible and sound way: “if Iran had no nuclear program, these countries would make the claim that Iran is financing international terrorism through the export and sale of Pistachio nuts.
How Small Abused Nations Could End War. Obama: GOP trying to ‘wriggle out’ of defense budget cuts they agreed to - The Hill's DEFCON Hill. Secret Bases, Hi-Tech Spy Planes As US Expands Africa Intel. Improvised Explosive Devices: The War of the Invisible Bombs" Nuclear Talks: Factional infighting in Tehran and miscalculations in Washington. China casts military shadow over Pacific. GeoEye proposing to buy Colorado-based rival DigitalGlobe. Advanced Infrared Camera Keeps Soldiers Farther From Dangerous Targets. Supersonic UAV with sub-$100k price tag mooted. Air Force shoots down its own Afghan super-spy. Video Friday: A Robot With Bird Legs, DARPA Manipulation Demo, and Darwin-OP's Dance Moves.
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Reliance Industries paving way to build strong homeland security solutions. Raytheon Receives $582.5 Million for Radars and Services in THAAD Deal to UAE - Dec 30, 2011. 69 years after hero American pilot died, family find his lost plane 13,000ft up a Himalayan mountain. Un-Patriotic? Secret US missile cargo bound for S. Korea busted. How military could spy anywhere on Earth - Technology & science - Innovation.
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