DARPA reveals Avatar program, robot soldiers incoming DARPA, the bleeding-edge research wing of the United States Department of Defense, has revealed that it will spend millions of dollars on a project called “Avatar.” If you’ve seen the movie of the same name — the highest-grossing movie of all time — let me put your mind at rest: DARPA isn’t looking to genetically engineer blue-skinned aliens that humans can control; no, they’re developing robots. In the words of DARPA itself, the Avatar program will work on “interfaces and algorithms to enable a soldier to effectively partner with a semi-autonomous bipedal machine and allow it to act as the soldier’s surrogate.” If you’ve been following ExtremeTech for the last few months, you’re probably experiencing sweaty a mix of terror and excitement right now. Then there’s the interface: A joystick and multi-monitor display would probably do the job, or, if you really wanted to become one with your robotic avatar, you could use a virtual reality visor and a suit with sensors and actuators.
Integrated Coastal Surveillance System A coastal surveillance radar station in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh; November 2012. The Integrated Coastal Surveillance System (ICSS) is a coastal surveillance system operated by India with the goal to protect its coastline, ensure regional security, and assist friendly navies by quickly detecting, locating and monitoring maritime activity in the Indian Ocean.[1][2] The system was developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Bharat Electronics, and forms part of the National Command Control Communication and Intelligence System (NC3I). Although the ICSS was built primarily for coastal and maritime security, the system can also be used for vessel traffic management, harbour surveillance and navigation. The core of the ICSS is a network of remote ground-based radar stations called the Coastal Surveillance Network (CSN). History[edit] By 2015, India had also set up coastal surveillance radar stations overseas. System components[edit] Indian AIS[edit]
DARPA Program Aims to Help Counselors Spot Signs of Stress, PTSD Every day, 22 veterans commit suicide—a startling number prompting experts to probe for methods to curb the national epidemic. Officials are fielding a new program, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which can help experts assess the psychological state of troops and veterans early on and possibly get them the help needed before it’s too late. The Detection and Computational Analysis of Psychological Signals (DCAPS) program joins the growing inventory of measures to combat depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and suicides. It has tools to analyze facial expressions, body gestures and speech, both content and delivery, and inform experts on a user’s psychological state of mind or alert them to behavioral changes that could indicate problems. “We are now beginning to bring objective assessment to hard quantifiable data to make data-driven analysis, to come up with the indicators of distress,” explains Col. “There is no human in the loop here.
Indiscriminate monitoring Indiscriminate monitoring is the mass monitoring of individuals or groups without the careful judgement of wrong-doing.[1] This form of monitoring could be done by government agencies, employers, and retailers. Indiscriminate monitoring uses tools such as email monitoring, telephone tapping, geo-locations, health monitoring to monitor private lives. Organizations that conduct indiscriminate monitoring may also use surveillance technologies to collect large amounts of data that could violate privacy laws or regulations. These practices could impact individuals emotionally, mentally, and globally.[2] The government has also issued various protections to protect against indiscriminate monitoring.[3] Surveillance methods[edit] Indiscriminate monitoring could occur through electronic employee monitoring, social networking, targeted advertising, and geological health monitoring. Electronic Employee monitoring uses many tools to monitor employees. Privacy in the U.S. Research[edit]
Topics researched by Jack Arneson The content of the pages provided here at Pegasus was collected and written by Jack with additions by other members of Pegasus to provide corroborating evidence as well as new pertinent data. All Jack's original work, including some pages not on Pegasus yet, can be found at his website... Visit Jack's Website Welcome To The Moon Page Resume brief: 1967-70 Army... Petroleum Storage industrial mechanics...Training in industrial handling and mechanics of fuel storage and it's equipment.Including on and off-loading of tankers. I didn't do it to get out of it, I wanted to put my skills to better use to help the effort. I met other photographers in the AF and went to their labs on official invites and saw some astounding things. 1970-77... acquired employment with government contractors involved with mining operations overseas... Most of my work consisted of maintaining industrial machines and equipment. I was injured on the job in 2001 and don't do that kind of work any more. - Jack
In-Q-Tel American defense industry venture capital firm The firm is seen as a trend-setter in the information technology industry,[5] with the average dollar invested by In-Q-Tel in 2016 attracting fifteen dollars from other investors.[6] History[edit] Originally named Peleus and known as In-Q-It, In-Q-Tel was founded by Norm Augustine, a former CEO of Lockheed Martin and by Gilman Louie, who was In-Q-Tel's first CEO.[4][5][7] In-Q-Tel's mission is to identify and invest in companies developing cutting-edge technologies that serve United States national security interests. Origins of the corporation can be traced to Ruth A. Former CIA director George Tenet says, We [the CIA] decided to use our limited dollars to leverage technology developed elsewhere. In-Q-Tel sold 5,636 shares of Google, worth over $2.2 million, on November 15, 2005.[10] The shares were a result of Google's acquisition of Keyhole, Inc, the CIA-funded satellite mapping software now known as Google Earth.[11] Governance[edit] Biotech
DARPA's Top 3 Predictions For The Future By Kevin Samson When it comes to predictions, perhaps no organization on the planet is better able to make dreams a reality than the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Their “mad science” reputation already has given the world humanoid robots, drones, and the world’s most advanced surveillance systems. But they are telling us that there is much more to come. Interestingly, the timeline given by DARPA’s “Forward to the Future” video messages, seen below, is 2045 – the theorized date of The Singularity popularized by futurist Ray Kurzweil in his 2006 book The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology. With yearly (known) funding in the tens of billions of dollars, DARPA also receives untold funding for “black budget” secret projects not even subjected to presidential and congressional oversight. 1 – Human-Machine Interface This broad category includes new ways to communicate with the machines around us, even through emotions. 2 – Mind Control 3 – Nanotech Materials
Intelligence Act (France) Through article L. 811-3, the Act extended the number of objectives that can justify extrajudicial surveillance. These include: national independence, territorial integrity and national defense;major interests in foreign policy, implementation of European and international obligations of France and prevention of all forms of foreign interference;major economic, industrial and scientific interests of France;prevention of terrorism;prevention of: a) attacks on the republican nature of institutions; b) actions towards continuation or reconstitution of groups disbanded (article L. 212-1 of criminal code); c) collective violence likely to cause serious harm to public peace;prevention of organized crime and delinquency;prevention of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. These surveillance powers can also be used by law enforcement agencies that are not part of the official "intelligence community" and whose combined staff is well over 45,000.
Data Storage In Crystal Quartz Will Change Everything! Source: www.thespiritscience.net | Original Post Date: February 13, 2014 – You know how much I LOVE talking about new technology, right? Well, this is one that is going to blow your mind, make an excellent case for the Crystal Movement, and also mop the floor with “limited data storage” forever! There’s a new kind of storage device which many tech companies have been diving into in secret for the past few years, which Hitachi recently came out with a technology they are developing which is essentially a sheet of Quartz Glass, which could potentially save data up to 300 Million Years! If you didn’t know anything about storage devices that we currently have, but anything from records, CD’s, USB sticks, magnetic tape, none of these can even lay a finger on this new, very impressive technology. “The prototype is made of a square of quartz two centimeters wide and two millimeters thick. Now, while this is exciting, there’s more to it than just that. The Crystal Skulls References: