DARPA

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  • U.S. Military Successfully Flight-Tests New Hypersonic Missile
    HORRIFIC
    The weapon system can fly five times the speed of sound.
  • New DARPA Program Uses AI and ‘Schemas’ To Predict World Events
    Look into the future
    A new artificial intelligence (AI) program up for development by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) aims to better comprehend world events.
  • U.S. Marines are Training Robot Soldiers for War in Asia
    Human-robot warriors
    The United States Marine Corps is training for a war in Asia where it will combine well-trained and well-armed combat infantry with various kinds of aerial drones and ground robots -- many of which will be armed with 7.62 mm mini-guns or 40 mm automatic grenade launchers.
  • U.S. Will Invest Heavily to Develop Workable EmDrive Before China
    Ensuring U.S. power
    Robert Shawyer, the British aerospace engineer credited with building the first EmDrive in 2001, revealed the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) quietly became involved with his revolutionary engine in 2008.
  • U.S. Scientific Program Could Transform Insects Into Deadly Armies
    Friend or foe?
    An ongoing program led by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) using insects to protect U.S. grain supplies is now being criticized for its potential to use these same insects to devastate the agriculture and food supplies of countries unfriendly to the United States.
  • U.S. Serious About Building EmDrive ‘Propellant-less’ Engine for Spacecraft
    To the stars!
    The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded a $1.3 million grant to divisive (to say the least) British physicist Mike McCulloch to prove his contentious "quantized inertia (QI) theory."
  • U.S. is Developing Tech that Will Allow the Human Body to Heal Itself
    Heal thyself
    The United States is adamantly pushing forward with a new and revolutionary technology that might one day cure diabetes without the need for taking or injecting medicines.