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Darpa Aims to Snuff Flames With Electricity, Sound

2008-05-15 18:00:00 by Danger Room in Wired Security
 
Researchers at Darpa, the Pentagon's advanced tech-development group, are exploring the use of electromagnetic fields and sonic waves as viable alternatives for snuffing out fires
 
Tags: electromagnetic fields, sonic waves, viable alternatives, darpa, pentagon, fires, researchers
 
 
 
 
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Cyberwarfare: Darpa's New 'Space Race'

2008-05-01 22:10:00 by Danger Room in Wired Security
 
DARPA was created 50 years ago, in response to the Soviets' launch of Sputnik. Now, the Pentagon's premiere researchers have been given new marching orders: to help America prep for fighting and winning battles in cyberspace
 
Tags: america prep, premiere researchers, darpa, cyberspace, pentagon, soviets, response, launch, sputnik
 
 
 
 
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DARPA Wants Matrix-style Virtual World for Cybergeddon

2008-05-11 12:15:00 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
The US military's famed scientific wingnut farm, DARPA*, has released full details of its planned "National Cyber Range" - a mighty network which could be configured to simulate the cyberspace battlefields of the future. This would allow America's fighting nerds to train for the net conflicts of tomorrow, mounting attacks on simulated enemies
 
Tags: national cyber range, mighty network, cyberspace battlefields, net conflicts, darpa, attacks, military, america, details
 
 
 
 
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Pentagon: 'Augment' Reality With 'Video Game' Contact Lenses

2008-03-20 19:00:00 by Danger Room in Wired Security
 
DARPA experiments with a contact lens that would allow soldiers to experience a first-person-shooter style of videogame environment for training purposes
 
Tags: videogame environment, contact lens, darpa experiments, purposes, soldiers, style, experience
 
 
 
 
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Introducing Iarpa: It's Like Darpa, But for Spies

2008-04-10 04:00:00 by Sharon Weinberger in Wired Security
 
Iarpa, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity is a new agency charged with getting the highest-tech gadgets available to U.S. spies. And, oh yes, it's pronounced "yarpa
 
Tags: research projects activity, spies, iarpa, highest-tech gadgets, intelligence, yarpa, agency
 
 
 
 
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Video: 'Forever Drone' Contest Heats Up

2008-04-30 19:00:00 by Danger Room in Wired Security
 
DARPA chose three companies for the second phase of its competition to design a drone that can stay aloft for five years. Watch video of the contest entry from Aurora, one of the finalists
 
Tags: video, stay aloft, darpa chose, drone, competition, entry, companies, design, phase
 
 
 
 
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Pentagon Wants Cyberwar Range to 'Replicate Human Behavior and Frailties'

2008-05-06 00:30:00 by Danger Room in Wired Security
 
Congress orders Darpa, to put together a National Cyber Range, part of a massive, secret $30 billion government-wide effort prep for battle online. Contractors running the Range are supposed to be able to "replicate realistic human behavior on nodes
 
Tags: range, national cyber range, realistic human behavior, battle online, contractors, massive, congress, secret, nodes
 
 
 
 
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In Next-Gen Bullets and Bombs, Even the Casing Explodes

2008-05-07 01:00:00 by David Hambling in Wired Security
 
...DARPA's Reactive Munition program (.doc) aims to replace that steel with RMs, to create a bomb with a blast four times as powerful. Alternatively, a new bomb could be half the size of existing weapons but twice as powerful Conventional warheads could also benefit from an RM makeover. For centuries, shells have blasted out steel shrapnel,...
 
Tags: amounts, release explosive amounts, release, metal, hollow metal cone, explosive, energy, reliably release energy, metal liner
 
 
 
 
 
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