DARPA looks to make microbial food from electricity, air & water to ease cargo logistics
Instead of having to transport large amounts of perishable food for military consumption and humanitarian relief, DARPA is looking to...
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DARPA wants AI to moderate social media groups, mitigate ‘destructive ideas’ during humanitarian efforts
DARPA is launching a new research project called Civil Sanctuary to develop multilingual AI moderators to mitigate "destructive ideas" while...
Pentagon taps private sector for portable ultrasound devices to diagnose trauma, musculoskeletal injuries
The Pentagon's Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) is looking to the private sector for portable ultrasound solutions to diagnose injuries on...
Self-aware AI on the battlefield: should we fear a Terminator scenario? (Podcast)
In this episode of the Brains Byte Back Podcast, we want to explore if "The Terminator" could ever become a...
Pentagon seeks wearable & handheld tech for soldiers to control multiple unmanned vehicles
The Pentagon's Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) is looking for commercial solutions to develop wearable and handheld controllers that will allow...
DARPA wants AI to improve portable ultrasound devices for direct use on the battlefield
DARPA is taking a stab at improving portable ultra-sound devices with AI to respond to injuries in real-time directly on...
Tackling coastal erosion & flooding with reef-mimicking structures for national ‘Reefense’
To cut down on coastal erosion, flooding, and storm damage, the Pentagon's research funding arm is looking to develop reef-mimicking...
DARPA to ‘exploit social media, messaging & blog data’ to track geopolitical influence campaigns
The power to monitor, track, and potentially quash online campaigns before they become popular is getting a whole lot easier....
Pentagon wants autonomous surveillance vehicles that can distinguish friend from foe in urban areas
Soldiers operating in urban environments have to make quick decisions when assessing whether someone means to do them harm or...
DARPA researching autonomy algorithm tech for off-road vehicles to perform better than humans
The Pentagon's Defense Advanced Projects Agency (DARPA) is looking to develop autonomy algorithm technologies for off-road vehicles that will be...
DARPA sets sights on making AI self-aware of complex time dimensions
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is setting its sights on developing an AI system with a detailed self-understanding...
‘Beijing & Moscow have weaponized space through killer satellites, directed energy weapons’: Defense Sec
US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper says that China and Russia have weaponized space through "killer satellites" and directed energy...
Pentagon is close to enterprise-wide infrastructure to deploy AI at scale: DoD AI Symposium
The Pentagon is close to having a enterprise-wide AI infrastructure that can be deployed at scale, and could one day...
DARPA chooses AI teams to hack video games like StarCraft II to advance Pentagon war game scenarios
DARPA is looking to the gaming industry for inspiration on different ways to leverage AI, with a specific focus on...
Air Force Hack-A-Sat challenge to go virtual as Pentagon preps for satellite network rollout
The United States Air Force announces it is moving its Hack-A-Sat challenge completely online as the Pentagon prepares to rollout...
Defense biotech research looks to eliminate bacteria causing traveler’s diarrhea, reduce jet lag duration
World traveler's will rejoice at the idea of a seemingly magical device that would guarantee they never suffer from the...
‘COVID-19 could become the last pandemic’: 4 DARPA research programs seeking to end threat of pandemic disease
DARPA is looking to leverage several research programs with the aim of ending pandemic disease threats in response to the...
Envisioning the bioengineered soldier of the future through DARPA research programs
The bioengineered soldier of the future could have amazing super-human capabilities. If DARPA research programs turn out to be successful,...
Drones that can see without being seen ‘at night, underground, in the Arctic, and in fog’: DARPA
DARPA is putting together a research program that could lay the foundation for autonomous vehicles with 3D vision that would...
Local mentality: DARPA program has non-military potential for learning about different cultures
DARPA is known for funding research into technologies that later become commercial, and its new Habitus program has great potential...
