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DARPA plans for preventing surprises from commercial technologies and creating surprises for adversaries

“DARPA’s mission is to create strategic surprise, and the agency primarily does so by pursuing radically innovative and even seemingly impossible technologies,” said program manager John Main, who will oversee the new effort. “Improv is being launched in recognition that…...

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New Terahertz systems and technologies demonstrated at 40th International Conference IRMMW-THz 2015

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The 40th International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz), was held over 23–28 August 2015 at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The scope of the conference included all scientific and technological activities from millimeter-waves to the Terahertz (THz)…...

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DARPA robotic landing gear enables Unmanned Robotic Helicopter, to land on the Rough

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Despite their airborne maneuverability, helicopters, with their skid-or-wheel landing gear, still need a level surface to set down which are scarce in combat and rescue missions. Landing on an uneven surface could them to tip over or the rotor blades…...

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