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DARPA Designing Digital Imaging Contact Lenses
Published on 1 Feb, 2012 at 13:13 in C4ISR | Viewed 28 times | No Comments
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency researchers are working on contact lenses that allow the wearer to view digital images in the lens, the agency said Tuesday.
DARPA said the contacts would project images onto full-color displays near the eye and enable the wearer to focus simultaneously on objects at either short or long distances….
DARPA Looking to Tap Dormant Satellites for Communications System
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is looking to utilize dormant satellites floating in a geostationary orbit around Earth, the agency said in a recent notice.
Through DARPA’s Phoenix Program, the agency said it wants contractors to develop a robotic system to “cooperatively harvest and re-use valuable components from” more than 1,300 retired, non-operating satellites.
DARPA estimates there is…
DARPA Looking to Develop Mobile Devices to Command UAVs
Published on 9 Dec, 2011 at 17:23 in Cyber | Viewed 53 times | No Comments
In September 2011, researchers from Boeing Co. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reported they had created a prototype iPhone application that could successfully control a miniature unmanned aircraft vehicle in flight.
On Dec. 5, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced it is looking for developers to create mobile applications that would improve the functionality and capabilities…
Raytheon Tapped for DARPA Program for Mobile Thermal Imaging
Published on 9 Dec, 2011 at 11:40 in Mobility | Viewed 34 times | No Comments
Raytheon‘s vision systems business unit is working to expand the accessibility of thermal imaging cameras by making them available via multiple mobile devices.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency created the low-cost thermal imaging manufacturing program to develop a “wafer scale” manufacturing process and make thermal image devices more affordable and accessible to warfighters.
Raytheon said in a release it…
DARPA-SAIC Program Aims to Combat Insiders by Tracking Online Activity
Published on 17 Nov, 2011 at 15:08 in Cyber | Viewed 34 times | No Comments
A research project led by SAIC Inc. is working on a program for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency that can detect suspicious online behavior before an insider creates chaos, according to a report from Defense Systems.
The Anomaly Detection at Multiple Scales program seeks to create, adapt and apply…
IBM’s New Cognitive Computer Chip Mimics Human Brain
Published on 18 Aug, 2011 at 10:18 in Industry News | Viewed 45 times | No Comments
IBM unveiled today a new experimental computer chip that mimics the human brain in its ability to perceive, act and even think.
The technology could yield many orders of magnitude less power consumption and space than used in today’s computers by recreating “the phenomena between spiking neurons and synapses in biological systems, such as the brain,…
DARPA Rolls Out ‘Cyber Fast Track’ to Fund Hackers
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency rolled out a new initiative this week that allows the Defense Department to easily fund projects for hackers and small security firms to help strengthen its cybersecurity efforts.
Peiter Zatko, DARPA project manager and former hacker, announced yesterday the launch of the “Cyber Fast Track” during his keynote speech at the
DARPA Taps Raytheon for Cybersecurity Research Program
Published on 5 Aug, 2011 at 9:33 in Industry News | Viewed 103 times | No Comments
Raytheon announced today it has been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to support its Anomaly Detection at Multiple Scales program, a cybersecurity initiative that will use algorithms to better detect anomalous behaviors and insider threats. Raytheon will create, adapt and apply technology to the problem of anomaly characterization and detection in large…
DARPA Builds Cyberwar Virtual Firing Range
Published on 20 Jun, 2011 at 17:06 in Cyber | Viewed 89 times | No Comments
Together with companies such as defense contractor Lockheed Martin and…
DARPA Wants to Build Computer Systems Modeled after Human Brain
Published on 12 Apr, 2011 at 12:27 in Cyber | Viewed 114 times | No Comments
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has introduced a new program called SyNAPSE, which aims to develop computer systems that simulate important functions of the human brain.
Currently, computer systems can only process information according to their programming. SyNAPSE’s goal is to make unmanned systems and electronic devices more efficient, flexible and enable them to understand,…
