darpa

Hello everyone! This is my first post here. For months I have been fascinated by the fictional "F-117X Remora" from the film Executive Decision. In the movie's lore, the Remora was originally created by ARPA (Now DARPA) for the space program, to conduct supersonic low-orbit link ups with the...

Stumbled on a rather interesting DARPA article while browsing : https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2023-02-13 ~3mn read TL;DR : Darpa has succesfully developped a pilot AI capable of flying full scale f16 in simulated dogfighting engagements and it has succesfully beat an experienced f16...

Seems to have quite an early proposed flight date of fiscal year 2026. https://spacenews.com/darpa-moving-forward-with-development-of-nuclear-powered-spacecraft/

Subscription needed https://aviationweek.com/aerospace/aircraft-propulsion/darpa-aims-build-bridge-across-technologys-valley-death?fbclid=IwAR27GieACixCkpErW2rRWD3I8PA5G_xAM5eZHff25UbDoGaB1_UGZUNb-mg

This doesn't really fit ARRW or PGSW, so I started a new thread.

Design Gets Underway on DARPA’s ‘LongShot’ Drone Development of a new breed of unmanned aircraft is now underway, as three major defense companies earned contracts to start designing a future system known as “LongShot.” The LongShot program wants to create an unmanned weapons porter that can...

DARPA today announced its Novel Orbital and Moon Manufacturing, Materials and Mass-efficient Design (NOM4D) program [...] pronounced “NOMAD,” https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2021-02-05

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b84Wzh-kH_s https://www.darpa.mil/attachments/TestimonyArchived(April%2020%201999).pdf

I presume this must have defence applications as well. https://phys.org/news/2020-07-miniature-telescope-focuses-sharpening-view.html

https://breakingdefense.com/2020/05/darpa-seeks-secure-microchip-supply-chain/

DARPA has launched in August its research program for Active flow control airframe demonstrator called CRANE (Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effecters) : https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/control-of-revolutionary-aircraft-with-novel-effecters-proposers-day I thought we needed a...

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/From_Plastic_to_X_Sourcing_Military_Waste_for_On_Site_Production_of_Critical_Stocks_999.html

DARPA has selected the Silent Falcon UAV to test the feasibility of remotely charging an aircraft with a laser for its Stand-off Ubiquitous Power/Energy Replenishment - Power Beaming Demo (SUPER PBD) programme. The Silent Falcon is scheduled to begin testing in January 2019 with the aim of...

Hi, a Teal Ruby sat construction portfolio is offered fr sale on the bay as item 111971984788 here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-TEAL-RUBY-P80-1-Satellite-Construction-PHOTOGRAPHS-ALBUM-McDonnell-Douglas-/111971984788 with the following description (extract): "Rare TEAL RUBY P80-1 Satellite...

Since we don't seem to have a dedicated thread for this already: http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2015/10/remember-eatr-the-military-robot-that-was-supposed-to-eat-humans/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/09/eatr_beta/

DARPA’s Short-range Wide-field-of-view Extremely agile Electronically steered Photonic EmitteR (SWEEPER) program http://nextbigfuture.com/2015/05/darpa-can-non-mechanically-sweep-laser.html

"Northrop Grumman Awarded Contract to Develop Miniaturized Inertial Navigation System for DARPA" PR Newswire Northrop Grumman Corporation June 5, 2014 8:30 AM Source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/northrop-grumman-awarded-contract-develop-123000677.html

http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/the-internets-save-the-date-a-tiny-item-in-a-ucla-stu-898064971 http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-arpanet-1969-1989-in-one-gif-1258090851

DARPA Experimental Aircraft Program to Develop the Next Generation of Vertical Flight February 25, 2013 Higher speeds, increased efficiency, elegant designs are the focus of new VTOL X-Plane One of the greatest challenges of the past half century for aerodynamics engineers has been how...