DARPA Wants Your Ideas for ‘Large Bio-Mechanical Space Structures’
Per the agency’s RFI, it’s hoping to develop structures that would “position biology as a complementary component of the in-space assembly infrastructure,” which certainly sounds ambitious! In order ...
The Debrief17h
DARPA Wants to Build Giant Space Structures Using Living Organisms
DARPA wants space structures that are grown rather than built, and the building blocks for these new structures are living ...
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DARPA Wants to ‘Grow’ Enormous Living Structures in Space
In a new call for proposals, DARPA envisions living materials that could self-assemble into antennas, nets to capture debris, ...
Futurism on MSN13d
DARPA Requests Plans for "Large Bio-Mechanical Space Structures"
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which has been known to fund the development of some pretty ...
The National Interest25d
DARPA Is Going To Build Superstructures In Space
This experiment will involve taking Caltech’s composite fiber longeron-assembling robot and have it start building a component of an antenna aperture in orbit. DARPA thinks that if they can ...
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DARPA confirms ownership of mysterious vessel after photos emerge on Reddit
DARPA confirmed to outlet The War Zone that the boat was a new “uncrewed surface vessel” (USV) designed to operate for extended sea voyages without any humans onboard. The ship named “USX-1 ...
Inside Defense11d
Construction of first NOMARS prototype complete, sea trials to begin this spring
The first prototype in the No Manning Required Ship (NOMARS) program will begin a multimonth, at-sea testing period this spring after the vessel's construction concluded in February, according to a ...
TechSpot29d
DARPA begins testing phase for in-orbit space construction
DARPA has announced a major shift in the final ... the architecture of an antenna aperture – a critical step toward building large-scale space infrastructure. Meanwhile, the University of ...
Forbes1mon
Robotaxis At A Crossroads 20 Years After DARPA
Two decades after DARPA, the AV industry today faces an uphill ... Thriving requires collaboration and ecosystem building. I remain optimistic that one day, AVs will become trusted companions ...
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DARPA touts ‘formal methods’ for nipping cyber disasters in the bud
(DARPA) Officials at the Defense Advanced Research ... But proactive tools for building more resilient software already exist in the Pentagon’s arsenal of countermeasures, she said at a ...
The Register on MSN16d
DARPA seeks ideas for 'large bio-mechanical space structures'
How to make them, and what to use them for The US Department of Defense's research arm, DARPA, has put out a Request for ...
Futurism13d
DARPA Requests Plans for "Large Bio-Mechanical Space Structures"
For one, it's a whole lot cheaper than launching large components and other building materials from the Earth's surface. And beyond welding pieces of metal together, DARPA is peering much further ...