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Showing posts with label DARPA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DARPA. Show all posts
June 26, 2018

Super Cool Military Wheels

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has come up with a Reconfigurable Wheel Track (RWT).  The tires can switc...
September 29, 2016

USA Surrendering The Internet

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So here we go again, we cut off the hand (and arm) despite the face. We are recklessly giving up control of the Internet, specifically o...
December 19, 2014

Amazing Advances In Prosthetics

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Watch this video... Where a man who lost both arms over 40 years ago is fitted with these amazing dual prosthetics that he is able to co...
June 2, 2014

Information Where We Look

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I like this short video on advances in Augmented Reality by Applied Research Associates (ARA). ARA supports DARPA's Urban Leader Tact...
February 3, 2013

A Seeing Eye

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This video from NOVA is an amazing display of the surveillance capabilities we have at our disposal. ARGUS-IS Stands for Automated Rea...
February 2, 2013

This Tape Will Self Destruct In Five Seconds

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Ever since the 1960's airing of Mission Impossible, where each episode started with the instructions for a dangerous mission on a ta...
January 27, 2013

Ready, Aim, Phaser

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LASER stands for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation and their use in the military is advancing fast.  I am not ju...
January 23, 2013

Repair Robots In Space

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This is a cool video by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on project Phoenix--which is a robot that can repair satellit...
January 20, 2013

Under The Beautiful Sea

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The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) is looking for a place to stash some new military capabilities. In a  DARPA news ...
December 19, 2012

Federal Leadership Is A Journey

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There were three news articles in Federal Times this week (17 December 2012) that highlighted some disappointments for the tim...
October 27, 2012

Robots: More Than A Technical Challenge

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This is the DARPA Pet-Proto Robot (a predecessor to the Atlas model) showing some pretty cool initial operating capabilities for navigatin...
June 1, 2012

Cyberwar, You're On

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There was significant news this week about the U.S. and Israel making major inroads with cyberwar capabilities .  First, the New Yor...
April 27, 2012

Securing The Internet: A Historical Perspective

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This week, I had the opportunity take a great class in Cyber Security / Information Assurance. As part of the class, we had to do a t...
March 31, 2012

Which Big Brother

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About a decade ago, after the events of 9/11, there was a program called Total Information Awareness (TIA) run out the Defense Advance...
March 11, 2012

Taking Down The Internet--Not A Pipe Dream Anymore

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We have been taught that the Internet, developed by the Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), was designed ...
December 25, 2011

Swarming For Social Order and Disorder

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A swarm is a large number of organisms generally in motion. According to Swarm Theory, the collective exhibits superior intelligence ...
November 26, 2011

Espionage, Social Media Style

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You are being watched! Good guys and bad guys are tracking your movements, rants and raves, photos, and more online. For example, T...
November 5, 2011

Dilbert Shows The Way to User-Centric Government

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Scott Adams the talent behind Dilbert comics and numerous books wrote a fascinating column in the Wall Street Journal (5-6 Oct. 2011) ...