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DARPA Wants Its Military Gear To Get Tougher, Sooner

Engadget:

DARPA, the government agency known for its robots and other crazy futuristic inventions, just announced a new project that could lead to the quicker development of advanced military vehicles. This new project is called Materials Development for Platforms, and it aims to shorten the timespan between designing tough materials that can withstand harsh environments and having them used on actual military equipment. Apparently, such a process typically takes more than a decade (that's why the Luke arm's relatively fast FDA approval was darn impressive). But MDP seeks to come up with the methodology and tools to cut that down to two-and-a-half years.

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1nsomniac3565d ago (Edited 3565d ago )

It's simply because they don't care about the repercussions. Remove the health & safety precautions along with the general common sense intelligence of could this be used in a bad way & hey presto production time has decreased ten-fold!

These people don't care about good or bad all they care about is money!

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DARPA Gamebreaker aims to train military AI systems on open world video games

AI Business: The US defense research agency is looking to use video games to train an AI capable of “developing winning warfighting strategies.”

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DARPA is Working on an Anonymous Mobile Communication System

According to an information document on Dr. Joshua Baron's supporters' day, DARPA is working on an anonymous mobile communication system

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Military pilots can control three jets at once via a neural implant

Earlier this month, DARPA, the U.S. military’s research division, unveiled a project that it had been working on since 2015: technology that grants one person the ability to pilot multiple planes and drones with their mind.

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ajax172034d ago

And this is just what they're letting the public have knowledge of; I can't even imagine what they are working on that we don't know about.

SpringHeeledJack2031d ago

Strange how those so called "nut job" witnesses and ex military all said downed UFO craft were controlled via the occupants minds and technology is drip fed to US research departments and low and behold decades later we get the technology they talked about.

annoyedgamer2031d ago

Now all we need is massive nuclear powered mechs and giant crab-monsters.