Posts Tagged ‘Darpa’
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
By Lewis Page The Register | US military researchers are looking to build networks of small, low-power transmitter boxes which together can perform "surgical jamming" of digital signals - shutting down cellphones and sat nav receivers within an area "on the order of a city block corner". Watch out for the green bubbles The new initiative is called Precision Electronic Warfare (PREW). It comes, of course, from our old friends at DARPA, where it's their goal to give every double-edge
Tags: Boxes, Bubbles, Cellphones, Darpa, Double Edge, Electronic Warfare, Initiative, Military Researchers, Nav Receivers, Old Friends, Power Transmitter
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Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
Photo: CORBIS Wired - Noah Shachtman Source: Darpa Budget Estimates Todd Pedersen had to hustle— the sky was scheduled to start glowing soon, and he didn't want to miss it. It was just before sunset, a cold February evening in deep-woods Alaska, and the broad-shouldered US Air Force physicist was scrambling across the snow in his orange down parka and fur-lined bomber hat. Grabbing cables and electronics, he rushed to assemble a jury-rigged telescope
Tags: Air Force Facility, Alaska, Budget, Cables, Cold February, Conspiracy, Darpa, Flames, Fur, Ionosphere, Noah Shachtman, Orange, Parka, Pedersen, Photo, Physicist, Sky, Sunset, Telescope, Us Air Force
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Sunday, July 5th, 2009
Written on July 5, 2009 Machinery Lubrication reports that the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is exploring ways to convert french fry grease or plant-based “cellulosic and algae sources” into JP8 jet fuel. The goal, explained Barbara McQuiston, director of the Strategic Technology Office and program manager for biofuels, is to come up with non-petroleum sources to power military vehicles. Two side benefits, she said, will be lower fuel costs and fewer environmentall
Tags: Advanced Research Projects Agency, Algae, Cellulosic, Darpa, Defense Advanced Research, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, French Fry Grease, Fuel Costs, Jet Fuel, Mcquiston, Military Vehicles, Petroleum Sources, Research Projects Agency, Strategic Technology, Technology Office
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