Slideshow: Plenty of energy at Solar Decathlon Oct 29, 2009
Meanwhile, the Energy Department's new Rce, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy, also announced $151 million in funding this week for The projects will explore low-cost LED lighting, "liquid metal grid-scale batteries," bacteria for producing solar biofuels and CO2 capture using artificial enzymes. If the energy of the engineering students at this year's Solar Decathlon is any indication, the alternative energy field is poised to take off. (EETimes)
Gates gets grumpy in Tokyo Oct 28, 2009
In his first speech to the Diet (parliament) on Monday, Hatoyama spoke of the importance of a ''close and equal [and multi-layered] Japan-US alliance" and he portrayed this as the basis for peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region. He perceived the alliance as one where both the US and Japan carried equal weight when it came to shaping the role both Tokyo and Washington would play in maintaining global peace and security. Hatoyama hedged on the realignment of US forces in Japan. While he... (Asia Times Online)
Web a teen at 40 Oct 27, 2009
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Light And Sound Vibrations Trapped Together In Nanocrystal For First Time Oct 27, 2009
Funding for their work was provided by a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency seed grant and by grants from the National Science Foundation. Adapted from materials provided by , via , a service of AAAS. Email or share this story. (Science Daily)
Internet 'a teenager' at 40 years old Oct 25, 2009
Funding came from the US Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) established in 1958 in response to the launch of a Sputnik space flight by what was then the USSR.. US leaders were in a technology race with Cold War rival Russia. (Channelnewsasia.com)
US Airways will shrink, add fees Oct 25, 2009
San Diego-based SAIC, also known as Science Applications International Corp., received the award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Terms call for the company's Orlando simulation unit to support the Deep Green Program -- a multicontractor effort to develop a next-generation, high-speed decision-making technology for battlefield commanders. (FOX61, CT)
NASA, Northrop Grumman Announce Initial Flight of Global Hawk Unmanned System for Environmental Science Research Oct 24, 2009
The two aircraft were among the seven Global Hawk vehicles built and flown in the original Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration program sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The aircraft that flew today last took to the skies in May 2003. (Primezone Releases)
The spy who lost his thumb drives Oct 23, 2009
He was assigned to very sensitive projects for the US Naval Research Laboratory, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and NASA. And then there was his work with the US Department of Energy. During the administration of president George H W Bush, the White House's National. (Asia Times Online)
Scientist Charged With Espionage Worked On Early Warning Systems Oct 23, 2009
Stewart Nozette spent 16 years doing sensitive defense work for the Energy Department, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Earlier this week, a former colleague said that Nozette was primarily a defense technologist who had worked on the Reagan-era Star Wars missile shield effort, formally called the StrategicDefense Initiative. (KWTX.com, TX)
Scientist charged with passing national secrets Oct 22, 2009
Nozette also conducted research in recent years for the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, authorities said. The scientist held security clearances as high as top secret and had access to classified material as recently as 2006, authorities said. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Science)
Genomes Of Two Popular Research Strains Of E. Coli Sequenced Oct 21, 2009
This work was supported by the 21C Frontier Microbial Genomics and Applications Center Program of the Korean Ministry of Education, Science and Technology; the KRIBB Research Initiative Program; the Consortium National de Recherche en G;nomique; the GTL Program of the Office of Biological and Environmental Sciences and the Division of Materials Science within the DOE Office of Science; the National Science Foundation; the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; and internal research funding... (Science Daily)
Accused Spy Stewart Nozette Oct 21, 2009
Has performed research at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in Arlington, Va. and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. (Time.com)
Click to read:Pentagon Scientist Charged with Espionage Oct 20, 2009
" -Sept. 10. Undercover FBI agents left a letter in the designated post office box, asking Nozette to answer a list of questions about U.S. satellite information. The agents provided a $2,000 cash payment. Serial numbers of the bills were recorded. -Sept. 16. Nozette was captured on videotape leaving a manila envelope in the post office box. The next day, agents retrieved the sealed envelope and found, among other things, a one-page document containing answers to the questions and an encrypted... (CBS News)
FBI says scientist Israeli spy Oct 20, 2009
Nozette performed some of this research and development at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in Arlington, Va. and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. (Florida Today)
Time in a bottle: Scientists watch evolution unfold Oct 19, 2009
The research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Michigan State University has been advancing knowledge and transforming lives through innovative teaching, research and outreach for more than 150 years. (EurekAlert!)
Scientists Watch Evolution Unfold In Lab Oct 19, 2009
The research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Journal reference. (Science Daily)
The building blocks of new industries are missing Oct 18, 2009
Slywotzky said the personal computer revolution was boosted by such technologies as the graphical user interface developed at Xerox s Palo Alto Research Center, while the Internet evolved from the Arpanet underwritten by the Pentagon s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Technologies pioneered by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration similarly have been used in everything from cellphones to medical implants. (Boston Globe)
1,001 Cameras See In Gigapixels Oct 17, 2009
Working with the U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, he is designing and building a camera that could achieve resolutions 1,000 or even 1 million times greater than the technology on the market today. See also. (Science Daily)
Scopes monkey trials Oct 16, 2009
U.S. Chamber of Commerce pushes for 'Scopes Monkey Trial' of global warming science. U.S. Chamber of Commerce pushes for 'Scopes Monkey Trial' of global warming science. (Harper's Magazine)
Scientist uses poison gas to halt death Oct 16, 2009
In rolled-up sleeves and blue Converse sneakers, Roth doesn't look the Army type, but by 2001, he had caught the attention of the U.S. military, through the lens of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. was looking for a way to protect soldiers on the battlefield from death by catastrophic blood loss. (CNN)
Magnetic Nanotags Spot Cancer In Mice Earlier Than Methods Now In Clinical Use Oct 15, 2009
Funding for this research came from the National Cancer Institute, the National Science Foundation, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Canary Foundation and the National Semiconductor Corporation. Other authors of the paper in Nature Medicine are Drew Hall, graduate student in electrical engineering; Carsten Nielsen, visiting scholar in the molecular imaging program; Sebastian Osterfeld and Heng Yu, both... (Science Daily)
Cyborg beetles Oct 14, 2009
0g) Project funded by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ... The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), which funds their research, has been pursuing a Nano Air Vehicle (NAV). (BBC News -- Technology)
Prison time, felony charges rare for relic looters Oct 13, 2009
"ARPA investigations can be as complex as murder cases," Swain said in his 2007 analysis which, like Palmer's, appeared in the Yearbook of Cultural Property Law. Often those cases require archaeological expertise, weeks or months of investigation and prosecutors with the time and inclination to take on the cases with a portion of federal law they're not always familiar with. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Crime)
Research in a Vacuum: DARPA Tries to Tap Elusive Casimir Effect for Breakthrough Technology Oct 13, 2009
For now, the U.S. Defense Department's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched a two-year, $10-million project encouraging scientists to work on ways to manipulate this quirk of quantum electrodynamics. Vacuums generally are thought to be voids, but believed these pockets of nothing do indeed contain fluctuations of electromagnetic waves. (Scientific American)
Robots take aim in Segway soccer Oct 12, 2009
The robots have been programmed with a learning-based software, Mobile Autonomous Robot Software (Mars), which has been developed by the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa). Both humans and robots have the same acceleration, speed, turning capability and will use the same type of kicking device. (Yahoo News -- Segway Human Transporter)
Crime often pays for relic looters Oct 12, 2009
"ARPA investigations can be as complex as murder cases," Swain said in his 2007 analysis which, like Palmer's, appeared in the Yearbook of Cultural Property Law. Click for related content. (MSNBC -- Crime)
Sniffing Out Swine Flu Oct 8, 2009
The Duke work is funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the central research and development office for the Department of Defense, which would also like to identify infected soldiers before they spread disease or are sent on assignments they might become too sick to perform. DARPA apparently sees parallels between students and soldiers, who live in crowded quarters, get little sleep, and endure intensive (if different) kinds of stress, lead researcher Geoff Ginsburg told me. (Slate)
News Briefs | Oct. 7, 2009 Oct 7, 2009
The new director, Regina Dugan, who heads the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), recently made visits to Stanford, University of California, Los Angeles, UC Berkeley and Caltech. The Bush administrations appointee to the post, Anthony Tether, had been more focused on classified research and was involved in multiple controversial projects. (Washington University Student Life, MO)
The Problems with Obama's Innovation Strategy Oct 6, 2009
Neither the U.S. government nor any agency within the U.S. government, with the possible exception of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), has such a place. 2. (BusinessWeek)
Lockheed leads effort to strengthen military networks security Oct 3, 2009
The award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) calls for Lockheed Martin to develop new cyber assurance procedures that will improve security, and provide dynamic bandwidth allocation and policy-based priorities at the individual and unit levels, according to the Oct. 2 company announcement. The increasing dependence on information technology has pushed cybersecurity to the forefront as one of the most urgent challenges facing the military, Lockheed officials said. (FCW.com)
Lockheed wins $31M cyber contract Oct 3, 2009
Defense contractor won a contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to protect the confidentiality, integrity and security of military networks. Under the terms of Lockheed s $31 million Military Network Protocol contract, the Bethesda company will come up with new information assurance procedures to beef up security and manage network capacity, as well as to improve technical capabilities around other protocols. (Washington Business Journal, DC)
Nanoparticle-based Battlefield Pain Treatment Moves A Step Closer Sep 26, 2009
The long-range goal of the research, funded by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is to develop a practical method that medics or soldiers themselves could administer, perhaps using an auto-injector device ... Funding: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, part of the U.S. Department of Defense. (Science Daily)
Agency looks for ideas to clean up space junk Sep 26, 2009
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants to hear about them all. The agency last week issued a request for ideas to clean up orbital debris, a problem that has skyrocketed since China intentionally blew up a defunct satellite as part of a weapons test in 2007 and the of two communications spacecraft earlier this year. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Rice-led physicist group get $5M Sep 24, 2009
The three-year grant was awarded by the Army Research Office with funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. In addition to Rice, the other universities involved include: ; ; , Urbana-Champaign; ; ; and. (Houston Business Journal, TX)
> Transcript: Obama addresses Troy crowd Sep 22, 2009
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Ashcroft May Be Sued for Rights Violation Sep 19, 2009
after leaving the Navy he worked for a company that built the original communication computers for the internet the ARPA network and fixed them. He went to NSA and the CIA all the time. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
TSC honors Rep. Anna Eshoo for commitment to maintaining America's leadership in research Sep 17, 2009
In 2005, the Congresswoman introduced the Innovation Agenda - A Commitment to Competitiveness to Keep America #1, which promoted an increased investment in research and development and the creation of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy. "I know firsthand Congresswoman Eshoo's support, commitment and farsighted approach to maintaining America's leadership in basic research, and in DOE research in particular. She has been a strong ally in the effort to invest in the research and... (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
Navy Green: Military Investigates Biofuels to Power Its Ships and Planes Sep 15, 2009
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has spent $35 million to sponsor research into oil from algae and the Air Force is also looking for cleaner ways to fly and fight. Additional biofuel contracts pending with DESC should be awarded by mid-September. (Scientific American)
'Secret' launch lifts mystery payload into orbit Sep 10, 2009
No federal agency claimed ownership of the spacecraft -- not the National Reconnaissance Office, the Department of Defense, the Air Force, or DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. That prompted many to speculate on the moniker attached to the payload: P360/PAN. Some say PAN is an acronym for "Pick A Name." A mission patch in circulation suggests "Palladium At Night.". (Florida Today)
IT Career Crisis Management: Five Lucrative Areas Sep 10, 2009
His career began at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency where he was the Director of Cybernetics Technology. He can be reached at stephen. (eSecurityPlanet)
Birthday spoiler Sep 5, 2009
Computer scientist Leonard Kleinrock at the University of California, Los Angeles, was working on a government-funded research project called Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) ... Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which was another division of the same project. (Asia Times Online)
Tech.view: The internet at forty Sep 5, 2009
ARPANET, conceived and paid for by the defence department s Advanced Research Projects Agency (nowadays called DARPA), was unquestionably the most important of the pioneering packet-switched networks that were to give birth eventually to the internet. AP. (The Economist)
5 ways to improve procurement Sep 3, 2009
The Wright brothers developed their airplane in response to a contest in which the first to develop a lighter-than-air flying machine received a prize, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has successfully used contests for developing all-terrain vehicles. In appropriate situations, contests can elicit a sum of effort from industry and individual inventors that is disproportionate to the cost to the government. (FCW.com)
TIMELINE: Internet Turns 40 Today Or Does It? Sep 3, 2009
At the time, and his colleagues were charged with developing the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (or ARPANET), a government-funded research project in global computer communications that eventually. On Sept. 2, 1969, Kleinrock and his team succeeded in getting two computers to exchange data over a network for the first time. (ABC News)
Satellites flying in formation over Asia Sep 2, 2009
In the US, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is working on a radical spin off of FSAT technology. It is rapidly pursuing its "Future, Fast, Flexible, Fractionated, Free-Flying spacecraft" project (F6). (Asia Times Online)
Silk-based optical waveguides meet biomedical needs Sep 1, 2009
Research funding was provided by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the US Department of Energy. Tufts University School of Engineering is uniquely positioned to educate the technological leaders of tomorrow. (EurekAlert!)
Scientists Hone Technique To Safeguard Water Supplies Aug 31, 2009
This research was funded by the Department of Energy's Office of Biological and Environmental Research, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and BAE Systems. Discussions for commercialization of this technology, to be marketed under the name AquaSentinel, are under way. (Science Daily)
Raytheon wins Navy research contract Aug 28, 2009
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is funding the project. This is the second phase of the Compound Semiconductor Materials on Silicon program. (FCW.com)
Sun, IBM push multicore boundaries Aug 27, 2009
Indeed, IBM revealed it will use Power7 as a building block for the high-end supercomputer it is to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Cray is competing with IBM in a final phase of that project. (EETimes)
Public records for Aug. 22, 2009 Aug 23, 2009
SUITS: JP Morgan Chase Bank v. Roseanne C. Stefanski, real property; Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. v. Jose E. Recinos, real property; Bank of America NA v. Robert D. Matthews, real property; U.S. Bank NA v. Michael McPheters, real property; Central Mortgage Co. v. John McCalliskey, real property; Chase Home Finance LLC v. Julie Ribak, real property; Wachovia Mortgage FSB v. Francis J. Walker, real property; Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. v. Grisel Ortiz, real property; BAC Home Loans... (Daytona Beach News Journal -- Local)
Could water really have a memory? Aug 21, 2009
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) tested DigiBio's claim and came to the following conclusion: "Our team found no replicable effects from digital signals.". Nevertheless, Benveniste's research continues to be very influential among many homeopaths, such as Alex Tournier, the founding director of the Homeopathy Research Institute. (BBC News)
Bosch acquires MEMS microphone pioneer Akustica Aug 20, 2009
Earlier this month, Akustica's founder, chairman and CTO, was appointed deputy director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa). "Our discussions with Bosch were ongoing when Gabriel decided to accept Darpa's offer," said Yuknis. (EETimes)
The Origin of the Computer Mouse Aug 19, 2009
NLS, which Engelbart developed with funding from the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA now DARPA), was also the first system to successfully use (making information available through a click of the mouse). Because his patent for the mouse expired before it became widely used with personal computers in the mid-1980s, Engelbart. (Scientific American)
Northrop pitches unmanned ground vehicle for special ops Aug 19, 2009
One of these is LANdroid, which the company is developing under a contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Related Articles. (FCW.com)
Genomic Signature In Blood Identifies Underlying Viral Infection Aug 11, 2009
The study was funded by the Predicting Health and Disease Program of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), an agency with the U.S. Department of Defense. Colleagues from Duke contributing to the study include Christopher Woods, Jay Varkey, Tim Veldman, Bradley Nicholson, Christine Oien, Brett Caram, Lawrence Carin, Minhua Chen and Joseph Lucas. (Science Daily)
Neural nets make a comeback at Darpa Aug 11, 2009
All the rage a decade ago, neural networks are making a comeback at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa). Last year, the agency resurrected efforts to create brain-like electronic circuitry to automatically learn the relevant features and associations needed to recognize objects. (EETimes)
MEMS guru heads to Darpa Aug 8, 2009
MEMS pioneer Kaigham ("Ken") Gabriel has been appointed deputy director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa). Gabriel was founder and previously served as chairman and chief technology officer of MEMS microphone pioneer (Pittsburgh), Gabriel's duties at Darpa will include overseeing research, development and demonstration of concepts, devices, and systems for the military. (EETimes)
Nanoscale Lasers May Open Door To Faster Computers, More Reliable Internet Access Aug 6, 2009
Research in this field in the United States is being funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the central research and development organization for the U.S. Department of Defense. The agency is supporting a collaborative team partnering researchers at ASU, the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. (Science Daily)
DARPA names Gabriel deputy director Aug 4, 2009
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected Kaigham "Ken" Gabriel to serve as its new deputy director, the agency announced. Gabriel most recently was founder, chairman and chief technology officer at Akustica Inc., a semiconductor company that commercializes micro electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) for consumer electronics products. (FCW.com)
Programming Tools Facilitate Use Of Video Game Processors For Defense Needs Aug 1, 2009
Mark Richards, a principal research engineer and adjunct professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is collaborating with Campbell and graduate student Andrew Kerr to rewrite common signal processing commands to run on a GPU. This work is supported by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory. The researchers are writing functions defined in the Vector, Signal and Image Processing Library (VSIPL) to run on GPUs. (Science Daily)
Reprogramming Human Cells Without Inserting Genes Jul 30, 2009
The work in the current study was supported by WPI startup funds and a grant to Dr. Dominko from the National Institutes of Health, and by funding to CellThera from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Army Research Office (ARO). Journal reference. (Science Daily)
TECHNOLOGY - Packet switching enables Internet Jul 28, 2009
So, in the late 1960s, ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) came up with the concept of a standard way in which computers could talk to each other on a network that could cover the entire country without the need for every computer to be wired by cable to every other computer. That was called packet switching, and it remains the basic form of communication of today s Internet. (Missoulian, MT)
DARPA's Big Hits Jul 26, 2009
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency fosters military technology. But much of its research has fueled big advances in commercial areas as well. (BusinessWeek)
An ARPA for Energy Is Greeted With Enthusiasm Jul 26, 2009
Researchers flood ARPA-E with proposals for cleaner energy, but some fear the agency will be pressed to avoid the most daring projects ... New Energy Secretary Chu has high hopes for ARPA-E Illustration by John Ritter, based on Photograph by Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg News ... For years, science policy players have had a bad case of DARPA envy. (BusinessWeek)
First flapping, two-winged aircraft takes flight Jul 25, 2009
AeroVironment wouldn't explain how the two wings accomplish flight, citing its contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). However, Guido de Croon and Rick Ruijsink at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands have their own theory about how AeroVironment's NAV flies. (MSNBC -- Technology)
