From the article: Imagine unmanned systems — drones, essentially — lying dormant on the ocean floor for years at a time, housing sensors or non-lethal weapons, which rise to the surface when triggered by the Navy. That’s one program underway by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which was detailed in a report Thursday. And by underway, it’s in Phase 2 — with […]
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How a government agency is seeding a generation of startups
From the article: The Pentagon agency that brought you the Internet, GPS and drones is setting its sights on an array of highly complex weapons ranging from satellites to undersea platforms in hopes of overwhelming America’s potential adversaries. After nearly four decades of unchallenged supremacy in offensive military capabilities, the U.S. now faces competitors such as China […]
Pentagon Testing Drones That Can Launch from Ocean Floor
From the article: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is testing a drone that can hibernate on the ocean floor for years at a time before being launched to the surface and into the air at the push of a button. Dubbed Upward Falling Payloads (UFP) program, the project was detailed in a biennial report released last […]
Falling Up From the Ocean Floor
An article from SIGNAL Magazine about GAC’s contribution to the DARPA Upward Falling Payload (UFP) program. From the article: DARPA advances its remote-triggered deep-sea device that will store payloads and rapidly lift them to the surface. Author: Sandra Jontz. SIGNAL Online MORE ABOUT UFP Read more about UFP here