China and the Afghan Endgame - Zhu Feng
Exit from comment view mode. Click to hide this space BEIJING – Ever since US President Barack Obama decided to begin withdrawing American troops from Afghanistan, global interest in what role (if any) China will play in determining that war-ravaged country’s future has grown dramatically. After all, China is not merely a neighbor of Afghanistan, but the world’s most important rising power – indeed, a “world power,” as Mike Mullen, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff proclaimed in Beijing this past June.
Inside DARPA's "Plan X" For Cyberwar
On September 27, DARPA will hold a workshop to flesh out the government cyberwar strategy called “Plan X.” The one-day workshop consists of a general access session for government employees and contractors, along with a Secret-clearance and above closed session to draw a roadmap for the future of America's cyberwar forces. While the next great virus won't be proposed at the Plan X workshop, the Defense Department's cyberarmy infrastructure development plans (and the sweet government contracts that go with it) will. According to the Washington Post's Ellen Nakashima, Plan X has received $110 million in funding for the next five years.
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SwRI Receives $5.1 Million Contract from DARPA to Develop Library for Predicting Survivability of Military Ground Vehicles - MFRTech
SAN ANTONIO-Southwest Research Institute has been awarded a $5.1 million contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop the Context Model Library as part of the Component, Context and Manufacturing Model Library-2 (C2M2L-2) for the DARPA Adaptive Vehicle Make program. "During this one-year effort, SwRI and its subcontractors will develop domain-specific models to enable the design, verification and fabrication of the chassis and survivability subsystems of next-generation infantry fighting vehicle (IFV) designs developed through DARPA's Fast Adaptable Next-Generation Ground Vehicle (FANG) program" Understanding the threats to military vehicles from land mine blasts and other weaponry and which structures and materials offer the best protection against these threats is key to the survivability of the warfighter. SUBSCRIBE TO MFRTech.COM TODAY, CUSTOMIZE YOUR NEWS, RECEIVE BY EMAIL (CLICK HERE) About SwRI:
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DARPA Renews Aethlon Medical’s Sepsis Therapy Contract Published Wednesday, August 22, 2012 by Paul Archie Aethlon Medical, Inc. (OTC:AEMD), a medical device company that has developed a patented blood filtration system for the treatment of infectious disease and cancer, recently announced the renewal of a multi-million dollar contract with the federal government. This contract is intended to fund the development of a portable device that will reduce the incidence of sepsis through the rapid elimination of sepsis promoting factors from the entire circulatory system.
Mind's Eye surveillance to watch, identify and predict human behavior from video
If a person holding a gun were to walk up to you, what might you think would happen next? Researchers from Carnegie Mellon have created intelligent software that will identify human activities in videos and then predict what might happen next. It should come as little surprise that the spookily named 'Mind's Eye' program is sponsored by DARPA's Information Innovation Office. "A truly 'smart' camera would be able to describe with words everything it sees and reason about what it cannot see," said DARPA. Visually intelligent technology previously 'thought' in terms of nouns to describe a scene, but Carnegie Mellon researchers have made smart software that can also think in terms of action verbs. "A video shows a woman carrying a box into a building.
Raytheon BBN Technologies' WNaN next generation network software selected for NIE 13.1 experiment
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 5, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Army has selected the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Wireless Network after Next (WNaN) radios to support the Network Integration Evaluation (NIE) 13.1 experiment at Fort Bliss. The WNaN team consists of DARPA; Raytheon BBN Technologies, which provides the applications, networking and integration capabilities for this next generation platform; and Cobham Sensor Systems LLC, which provides innovative, low cost hardware. BBN Technologies is a wholly owned subsidiary of Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN). The WNaN radio provides a robust mobile ad hoc network with dynamic spectrum access, disruption tolerant networking, and multiple cooperative transceivers on a compact, hand-held platform. "Dynamic spectrum access" senses which spectrum is in use and automatically shifts to the best available frequency.
DARPA awards $20M to Nvidia to stretch "Achilles Heel" of advanced computing: Power
Nvidia said this week it got a contract worth up to $20 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop chips for sensor systems that could bolster power output from today's 1 GFLOPS/watt to 75 GFLOPS/watt. The five-year award was made under DARPA's Power Efficiency Revolution For Embedded Computing Technologies or PERFECT program which aims to produce a revolutionary approach to processing power efficiency which has become the Achilles Heel of increased computational capability. NEWS: The weirdest, wackiest and coolest sci/tech stories of 2012 From DARPA: This approach includes near threshold voltage operation, massive heterogeneous processing concurrency, and novel architectural developments combined with techniques to effectively utilize the resulting concurrency and tolerate the resulting increased rate of soft errors.
ontd_science: DARPA LS3 Alphadog robot follows the leader on a walk
If you've never seen DARPA's version of Boston Dynamics' semi-autonomous LS3 (Legged Squad Support System) robot in action, now's a good time. The government agency released a video yesterday that highlights one of LS3's most powerful skills: the ability to follow a leader by using computer-aided vision and GPS. In the four-minute clip, you can watch the dog-like robot following an instructor over some rough terrain -- with great ease -- in a wooded area near Fort Pickett, Va. Activating LS3's ability to follow doesn't take much work: it merely requires a verbal command -- an option recently added to the robot.
