Voices from DARPA Podcast Episode 68: Space Manufacturing
This Voices from DARPA episode features discussions with Dr. Andy Detor, program manager in DARPA's Defense Sciences Office, as well...
DARPA Collaborates with Commercial Partners to Accelerate Quantum Computing
DARPA has selected three industry corporations for the Underexplored Systems for Utility-Scale Quantum Computing (US2QC) program. US2QC seeks to determine...
A New Generation of AI Assistants
The Perceptually-enabled Task Guidance (PTG) program aims to develop virtual "task guidance" assistants that can work with different sensor platforms...
ALIAS equipped Black Hawk helicopter completes first uninhabited flight
The DARPA Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System (ALIAS) program completed a first ever flight of a UH-60A Black Hawk helicopter...
Providing GPS-quality timing accuracy without GPS
Synchronizing time in modern warfare - down to billionths and trillionths of a second - is critical for mission success....
DARPA Selects Teams to Develop Lightweight, Enhanced Night Vision Goggles
DARPA has selected 10 industry and university research teams for the Enhanced Night Vision in Eyeglass Form (ENVision) program. Source...
Gremlins Program Demonstrates Airborne Recovery
An unmanned air vehicle demonstrated successful airborne recovery during the DARPA Gremlins program's latest flight test deployment last month. During...
Seeing through the Fog of War
Dispersing clouds of obscurants in battle is a common military tactic that U.S. forces use to protect themselves from detection...
DARPA’S Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) Achieves Successful Flight
DARPA, in partnership with the U.S. Air Force, completed a free flight test of its Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC)...
This Voices from DARPA episode features discussions with Dr. Andy Detor, program manager in DARPA's Defense Sciences Office, as well as Dr. Anne Cheever, program manager in the Biological Technologies Office. Detor runs the Novel Orbital Moon Manufacturing, Materials, and Mass Efficient Design, or NOM4D program. Cheever heads up the Biomanufacturing: Survival, Utility, and Reliability beyond Earth, or B-SURE, program. While neither program is conducting manufacturing in space, both are supporting proof of concept studies to determine whether it might be feasible in the future.
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