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Pages in category "DARPA projects" The following 66 pages are in this category, out of 66 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. 100 Year Starship; A.
Between 1976 and 1981, DARPA's major projects were dominated by air, land, sea, and space technology, tactical armor and anti-armor programs, infrared sensing for space-based surveillance, high-energy laser technology for space-based missile defense, antisubmarine warfare, advanced cruise missiles, advanced aircraft, and defense applications of ...
Ask a typical American who invented the Internet, and there's a decent chance you'll get a quick sarcastic joke about former Vice President Al Gore, who became infamous for making that claim ...
[1] [2] It was developed by Nomadics, a subsidiary of ICX Technologies (now owned by FLIR Systems), in the early 2000s as part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Dog's Nose program. [3] [4] The Fido explosives detector is considered the first artificial nose capable of detecting landmines in the real world. [5]
The Department of Defense awarded 13 separate defense contracts Thursday, worth $453.2 million in total. Defense contractor L-3 Communications won two of them: The larger of the two awards, a $38 ...
The ARGUS-IS, or the Autonomous Real-Time Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance Imaging System, is a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) project contracted to BAE Systems. ARGUS is an advanced camera system that uses hundreds of cellphone cameras in a mosaic to video- and auto-track every moving object within a 15 square mile area.
About 22 countries around the world use nets to collect water from the air, so such a boost in efficiency could have a big impact. Image credits: Shea Gunther #28 Anti-Counterfeiting Money Technology
DARPA contributed $4 million to AeroVironment since 2006 [4] to create a prototype "hummingbird-like" aircraft for the Nano Air Vehicle (NAV) program. [5] The result was called the Nano Hummingbird which can fly at 11 miles per hour (18 km/h) and move in three axes of motion. The aircraft can climb and descend vertically; fly sideways left and ...