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Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2008 J.R. Wilson	DARPA Black Swift Seeks to Capitalize on Lessons Learned From NASP DARPA and the U.S. Air Force have joined efforts to develop a hypersonic aerospace vehicle to function as a low-Earth-orbit spacecraft and capable of speeds as fast as Mach 6.
National Defense August 2015 Jon Harper	Market for Ground Robots Poised for a Turnaround The market for ground robots is set to expand as technology advancements give the machines greater utility on the battlefield and elsewhere, according to defense officials and industry experts.
National Defense March 2008 Grace V. Jean	Robots Get Smarter, But Who Will Buy Them? While the technologies to enable fully autonomous vehicles have advanced, robotics experts say there is still more to be done to make them viable in military and commercial applications in the next decade.
IEEE Spectrum December 2010 Versace & Chandler	MoNETA: A Mind Made from Memristors DARPA's new memristor-based approach to Artificial Intelligence consists of a chip that mimics how neurons process information
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2005 J.R. Wilson	The evolution of UAV avionics Success of military unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and development of new platforms for information, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) has led to some significant advances in small-scale avionics systems.
BusinessWeek July 23, 2009	DARPA's Big Hits The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency fosters military technology. But much of its research has fueled big advances in commercial areas as well.
National Defense December 2013 Stew Magnuson	Simulator to Help Developers Push Robotics Technology Forward A simulator intended to give robot makers a hand during a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency contest is expected to remain an integral part of how developers design the machines in the future.
IEEE Spectrum February 2006 Jean Kumagai	U.S. Defense Dollars For Computer Science Plunge As long-term, federally funded projects become increasingly rare, some important problems aren't being addressed. However, it is critical for the future of IT in the United States and around the world that we figure it out.
National Defense December 2007 Grace Jean	What's Next for Ground Robots? As the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's automated car challenge gets more successful, the agency must think ahead about what will be the goal for next years competition.
National Defense January 2014 Dan Parsons	Budgets Permitting, Marines Could Be Fighting Alongside Robots by 2020s Within five years, Marines could head into battle alongside autonomous robotic trucks carrying water, ammunition and other gear.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2006 John Keller	DARPA NAV Program Seeks to Make Insect-like Surveillance UAVs a Reality U.S. military researchers are kicking off a project to develop an unmanned aerial vehicle called the nano air vehicle, which is roughly the size of a dragonfly, to perform covert surveillance and reconnaissance missions in important and dangerous areas.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2006 John McHale	Robots Are Fearless The U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems program will integrate unmanned ground vehicles into a future force. Autonomous ground vehicles promise to be a major paradigm shift in ground warfare.
National Defense April 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Can DARPA Rescue the Pentagon From Its Acquistion Doldrums? The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency launched a program last year to figure out how to build complex weapons five times faster than before. Now comes word that they also intend to revolutionize the way the military buys communications satellites.
National Defense February 2015 Stew Magnuson	DARPA Contest Seeking Humanoid Rescue Robot The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's latest robotic challenge calls for a human-shaped robot to carry out a series of search-and-rescue tasks.
Popular Mechanics September 19, 2008 Wayne Ma	TechX Contest Preps Non-Superpower Military Bots for Urban War On the heels of the United Kingdom's Grand Challenge in August, TechX teams have been taking their cue from the United States' DARPA challenges model to begin levelling the urban warfare playing field.
National Defense May 2005 Joe Pappalardo	Soldiers Teaching Robots Battlefield Duties An Army Research Lab is working to instill robots with complex behaviors, thus making them suitable for the battlefield.
IEEE Spectrum August 2011 Lora G. Weiss	Autonomous Robots in the Fog of War Networks of autonomous robots will someday transform warfare, but significant hurdles remain.
National Defense December 2006 Lawrence P. Farrell	DARPA Sets Tone for Technological Superiority Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England recently noted that the greatest long-term threat to America is not weapons of mass destruction, but rather the prospect of losing our strength in science and technology.
National Defense March 2010 Stew Magnuson	DARPA to Take on Major New Robotics Initiative The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced a major new initiative to create robotic autonomous manipulators that mimic the human hands, an agency program manager said.
National Defense September 2009 John Paul Parker	At the Age of 50, it's Time for DARPA to Rethink its Future DARPA can be rightly proud of its rich legacy of innovation. With some bureaucratic tinkering, inspiration and experimentation, it can be even more effective in the future.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2010 John Keller	DARPA Launches RATS Program for Advanced Speech-Recognition Algorithms in Noisy Conditions Scientists at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency are launching a program to develop speech transcription, translation, and, speech signal processing technologies that function effectively in noisy places to support intelligence gathering.
National Defense November 2007 Stew Magnuson	Research Agency Wants Help Solving The Seemingly Impossible The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has a reputation for taking on challenges that sometimes seem to defy the laws of physics -- or at least common sense. Transparent Walls and Dirt... Building Simulators Without Computer Programmers... etc.
IEEE Spectrum April 2012 G. Pascal Zachary	The World According to DARPA The most famous name in American innovation today isn't Apple or Google. It's DARPA. Here's why
InternetNews March 28, 2005 Michael Singer	DARPA Calls on HP For Battlefield Duty A new multi-million dollar grant will focus on improving the reliability of the Internet in military situations.
BusinessWeek August 27, 2009 Adrian Slywotzky	Where Have You Gone, Bell Labs? Here's how basic research and strong leadership can repair the broken U.S. business model.
Fast Company October 19, 2011 Adam L. Penenberg	Regina Dugan's Innovative Strategy For DARPA DARPA director Regina Dugan is bringing speed and creative thinking to the Pentagon.
National Defense September 2015 Graham Kilmer	Defense Leaders Make Renewed Push For Operationally Responsive Space The Defense Department is eyeing small satellites and new launch systems as potential ways to maintain U.S. space resilience.
IEEE Spectrum November 2007 John Voelcker	Autonomous Vehicles Complete DARPA Urban Challenge Six of 11 autonomous vehicles finish 90-kilometer course with no major accidents.
D-Lib August 2005 Stephen M. Griffin	Funding for Digital Libraries Research: Past and Present Digital libraries research and related activities are key in determining the future content, value, and use of global knowledge infrastructure.
IEEE Spectrum August 2007 Steven Cherry	Robots, Incorporated Microsoft's best and brightest are quietly trying to bring robotics into the mainstream. Good robotics programming is far harder than writing a typical application for personal computers.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2008 Courtney E. Howard	And in This Corner... The Crusher! Today's unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) are outfitted with the latest technology, making them smart, tough, and well armed.
Wired May 2002 Michael Behar	The New Mobile Infantry Battle-ready robots are rolling out of the research lab and into harm's way...
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2009 J.R. Wilson	The Future of Precision-Guided Munitions Smart bullets for infantry weapons, GPS receivers built into the soldier's boot, eliminating enemy snipers before they have a chance to shoot, and counter-RPG systems are the future of weaponry.
Popular Mechanics August 20, 2008 Erik Sofge	Top 4 Military Robot Teams From Britain's Grand Challenge The United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence has held its own robotics competition, the Grand Challenge, that cut to the chase with unmanned vehicles stalking human targets through a training village in southwestern England.
IEEE Spectrum December 2005 Willie D. Jones	Hard Drive In the past year, the robotics community has learned a great deal about how to make cars drive themselves. Recently, computer algorithms showed that cars might just be ready to take the wheel without human chaperones.
Popular Mechanics January 2007 Daniel H. Wilson	DARPA's Tough New Robot Road Test A robot expert explains why DARPA's previous robotic races were GPS-guided cakewalks compared to the upcoming Urban Challenge.
PC Magazine September 27, 2006	Aquanaut Can you build a stealth submarine? If so, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is interested.
National Defense June 2012 Stew Magnuson	Visionaries Foresee Radically Different Military Vehicles The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Adaptive Vehicle Make program seeks to reinvent the way vehicles are designed and built. It is looking to revamp and speed up the entire acquisition process, from the drawing board to the assembly line.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2008 John Keller	DARPA seeks proposals on photonic delays as a building block for optical computing Scientists at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency are trying to find compact, robust ways to control the flow of photons in future applications of optical computing.
InternetNews November 22, 2006 Clint Boulton	National Security Brings The Big Bucks The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded IBM and Cray roughly $500 million Tuesday to develop supercomputers that run advanced computations at unprecedented speed and performance for national security.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2005 John Keller	DARPA Scientists Seek Next Generation of Wireless Data Networking DARPA wants to take research to the next level by developing a revolutionary mobile ad-hoc network prototype that improves effective performance by an order of magnitude or more relative to the current state of the art.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2007 Courtney E. Howard	Engineered by Nature: UAV Designs Modeled After Biological Sources Engineers at myriad organizations -- universities, aeronautical labs, research facilities, and defense contractors -- are studying and emulating biological phenomena in the design and development of micro- and nanoscale unmanned aerial vehicles.
BusinessWeek July 23, 2009 Steve LeVine	Can the Military Find the Answer to Alternative Energy? DARPA, the Defense Dept. agency that helped invent the Internet, is setting its sights on clean-tech.
Wired March 24, 2008 Sharon Weinberger	Introducing Iarpa! It's Like Darpa, But for Spies. The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (Iarpa) is a fledgling office charged with outfitting US spies with the highest-tech information-gathering gadgetry.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2004	U.S. space experts focus on reusable launch systems for small satellites The business of orbital satellites continues to grow, and the biggest growth in demand is coming from the smallest payloads.
National Defense October 2007 Stew Magnuson	Scientists Pursue Flexible, Adaptable Space Systems In the future, "virtual satellites" circling the globe will peer down on enemy forces.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2005 John Keller	DARPA takes another look at improving machine learning Scientists at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are approaching the software industry about a research project to advance the state of the art in computer learning.
BusinessWeek August 27, 2009 Adrian Slywotzky	How Science Can Create Millions of New Jobs Reigniting basic research can repair the broken U.S. business model and put Americans back to work.
BusinessWeek December 12, 2005	How George Heilmeier Met the Future George Heilmeier, the inventor who helped develop the LCD, DSP, and other breakthroughs, reflects on a lifetime of innovation.