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DARPA moves ahead with radical vertical takeoff aircraft

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency took one step further in building a radically different vertical take off and landing or VTOL aircraft that can fly fast and carry a big load.

Specifically DARPA awarded Aurora Flight Sciences the $ 89 million prime contract for Phase 2 of the agency’s Vertical Takeoff and Landing Experimental Plane (VTOL X-Plane) program which looks to:

  • Achieve a top sustained flight speed of 300 kt-400 kt
  • Raise aircraft hover efficiency from 60% to at least 75%
  • Present a more favorable cruise lift-to-drag ratio of at least 10, up from 5-6
  • Carry a useful load of at least 40% of the vehicle’s projected gross weight of 10,000-12,000 pounds

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DARPA: Monitoring heat, electromagnetic and sound outputs could assess safety of IoT devices

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DARPA is looking for a platform that can tell whether Internet of Things devices have been hijacked based on fluctuations in the heat, electromagnetic waves and sound they put out as well as the power they use.

The agency wants technology that can decipher these analog waves and reveal what IoT devices are up to in their digital realms, according to a DARPA announcement seeking research proposals under the name “Leveraging the Analog Domain for Security (LADS)”.

The LADS program would separate security monitoring from the device itself so if it is compromised, the monitoring platform can’t be affected.

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DARPA laser research boosts airborne death rays, tiny laser scanners

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This week has been laser week at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, with two very different laser-based programs hitting major milestones: an inexpensive array of lasers on a single chip that can be used as sensors on drones and robots and a killer laser system that could blow up missiles, shells, and possibly vehicles and people.

Yesterday, DARPA announced the successful test of a single-chip laser detection and ranging system that makes it possible to build inexpensive, lightweight short-range “phased array” LADAR that could be mounted on small unmanned aircraft, robots, and vehicles. The technology could bring low-cost, solid-state, high-resolution 3D scanning to a host of devices in the near future.

Called SWEEPER (Short-range Wide-field-of-view Extremely agile Electronically steered Photonic EmitteR), the sensor technology embeds thousands of laser-emitting dots microns apart on a silicon chip—creating a “phased array” optical scanning system that can scan rapidly across a 51-degree arc without the need for mechanical rotation. In the latest test, the system was able to scan back and forth across that entire arc more than 100,000 times per second.

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DARPA Explores Virtual Reality as the Future of Cyberwarfare – Singularity Hub

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DARPA Explores Virtual Reality as the Future of Cyberwarfare
Singularity Hub
DARPA's Plan X program wants to make cyberwarfare more like warfare in the real world—where future cyberwarriors clash in an immersive virtual reality simulation of the internet. virtual-reality-cyberwar 1. The idea is to make cyberwar easier to wage …
DARPA Is Using Oculus Rift for CyberwarfareMashable
The Pentagon's DARPA Is Using Oculus Rift Virtual Reality Tech For CyberwarfareDaily Caller
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