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Interesting little writeup.

Some highlights:
-Accelerated Development and Production of Therapeutics: rapidly and inexpensively manufacture millions of doses of life saving drugs or vaccines in weeks, instead of the years required to ramp up today's manufacturing practices.

-Blue Laser for Submarine Laser Communications: provide for timely, large area submarine communications at speed and depth, which no other future or existing system, or combinations of systems, can do.

-High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System: novel, compact, high power lasers making practical small-size and low-weight speed-of-light weapons for tactical mobile air- and ground-vehicles.

-High Productivity Computing Systems: supercomputers are fundamental to a variety of military operations, from weather forecasting to cryptography to the design of new weapons; DARPA is working to maintain our global lead in this technology.

-Networks: self-forming, robust, self-defending networks at the strategic and tactical level are the key to network-centric warfare; these networks will use spectrum far more efficiently and resist disruption if the GPS time signal is unavailable.

-Quantum Information Science: exploiting quantum phenomena in the fields of computing, cryptography, and communications, with the promise of opening new frontiers in each area.

-Real-Time Accurate Language Translation: real-time machine language translation of structured and unstructured text and speech with near-expert human translation accuracy.
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Man am I in the wrong jerb! Any one of those projects sounds absolutely fascinating!
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Sabre wrote:Interesting little writeup.

Some highlights:
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anyone following arpa-e?
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I haven't really since it's not in my general area of expertise, but I may start watching it closer. Have they had any great discoveries yet?
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schvin wrote:anyone following arpa-e?
nope. i'd love to see what the caliber of proposals are so far though... i bet/hope there's some interesting stuff being pitched right now.
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Sabre wrote:I haven't really since it's not in my general area of expertise, but I may start watching it closer. Have they had any great discoveries yet?
dunno, but just following the news/etc. interesting trends...
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