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Jun 22, 2016
Real star wars? Military sets up space command centre
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: military, space
Jun 20, 2016
US military bosses reveal plans for holographic ‘space command’
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: military, satellites
The US military has revealed plans for a hi-tech holographic ‘space command’.
It would allow military bosses to see in an instant where everything from enemy satellites to orbiting space stations were.
DARPA says they system will help the monitor enemy threats in space.
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Jun 19, 2016
‘Within Ten Years 50% of Americans Will Be Chipped’ – Tech Pioneer
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: business, geopolitics, military, neuroscience, transhumanism
An article & short interview on implants with Sputnik:
The US Navy has held talks with “Transhumanist” and presidential candidate Zoltan Istvan, who told Radio Sputnik about the US military’s concerns.
Last week it emerged that US naval officers have held discussions with Zoltan Istvan of the Transhumanist political party, who is also running as a candidate for the US presidency.
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Jun 19, 2016
DARPA Takes Giant Stride in Creating Weapons that Vaporize and Self-destruct
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: military, robotics/AI
The more that DARPA works on NextGen Military equipment and machines; it feels like 1970s Star Wars is coming to life. Autonomous Jets with Death Lasers, dissovable weapons after usage, etc. Actually, this is good and bad.
DARPA’s transient technology was initially developed under an aptly named DARPA program called VAPR for “Vanishing Programmable Resources.” This program seeks electronic systems capable of physically disappearing in a controlled, triggerable manner.
“These transient electronics should have performance comparable to commercial-off-the-shelf electronics, but with limited device persistence that can be programmed, adjusted in real-time, triggered, and/or be sensitive to the deployment environment,” said DARPA.
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Jun 17, 2016
Quantum Hub meet learns how military is developing applications
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: military, quantum physics
Jun 16, 2016
DARPA Eyes ‘Very Low Frequency’ Signals For PNT Systems as GPS Backup
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: government, military
Government GPS now has a new backup approach.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency plans to demonstrate a positioning, navigation and timing system that will use very low frequency band signals as backup in case military forces lose access to GPS networks.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency plans to demonstrate a positioning, navigation and timing system that will use very low frequency band signals as backup in case military forces lose access to GPS networks.
Lin Haas, DARPA strategic technology officer, discussed the Spatial, Temporal and Orientation Information in Contested Environments project at DARPA Demo Day, the U.S. Army said May 19.
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Jun 14, 2016
SECURITY — Promise and peril: opportunities and challenges of disruptive technologies and innovation
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: 3D printing, 4D printing, military, security
Forget 3D printing, are you ready for 4D printing?
The rapid development of a range of emerging technologies is driving four revolutions in military and security capabilities to which the global defence and security industry is increasingly required to respond.
Perception, processing and cognition
New approaches for both humans and machines to collect, synthesise, digest and discern information are necessary to make sense of complex and fast-moving strategic and operational contexts. Getting (and staying) ahead of threats and maintaining and leveraging situational awareness – especially in environments frequently marked simultaneously by a surfeit of available information of variable quality and timeliness and opacity – is beyond the capacity of legacy technologies and human capabilities.
Jun 14, 2016
DARPA chooses PARC and DZYNE to develop unmanned aircraft that vanish for precision air drops
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: military, robotics/AI
ARLINGTON, Va., 14 June 2016. U.S. military researchers have chosen two companies to develop small unpowered and unmanned aircraft to air-drop small packages for forward-deployed forces. After delivery, the unmanned aircraft will vanish without any detectable trace. Officials of the U.S. Defense …
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Jun 14, 2016
Russian Hypersonic Glider Weapons Would Easily Penetrate U.S. Defenses, Says Expert
Posted by Bruce Dorminey in categories: military, policy
The world is in the midst of a new arms race, one designed to deliver hypersonic glider weapons — both conventional and nuclear — to one’s adversaries at lightning speed. The U.S. is leading the race at this point, but Russia and China are going to great lengths to make sure that they develop their own boost-glide technology.
Today, the U.S., Russia and China are developing a new class of hypersonic ballistic glider weapons, which within a decade, may render most of the world’s nuclear arsenals vulnerable to lightning-fast penetration and attack.
Although boost-glide [or hyperglide vehicles (HGVs)] weapons would be launched by ballistic missiles and reach hypersonic speeds of at least Mach 5 or more, they would remain maneuverable and largely untrackable after the initial boost phase of their flight. And unlike an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), an HGV’s aerodynamics enables it to generate enough “lift” to potentially glide over distances approaching ten thousand kilometers. All before hitting their targets with accuracies down to a few meters.
