Category: DARPA
Infrastructure and Innovation
10-Year Lunar Architecture Capability Study (LunA-10)
Maj Michael Nayak It is the year 2035, and a thriving lunar economy exists on the Moon. How did we get there? DARPA supports a future model where the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), international governments, and commercial industry can rapidly scale up lunar exploration and commerce, enabled and supported by the deployment of…
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Teams Begin Work to Develop Tasty Food from Air, Water, and Electricity
DARPA’s Cornucopia program aims to create a variety of healthy new microbial-based foods using three ingredients — air, water, and electricity—with minimal or no supplementation. If successful, troops one day could deploy with a transportable system that makes nourishing and appetizing food on demand in remote locations, obviating costly and brittle food supply chains. Three…
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DARPA RPM – Reimagining Protein Manufacuring
DARPA RPM Aims to Speed-Up Production of On-Demand Protein-Based Therapeutics Department of Defense (DoD) access to critical protein-based therapeutics is limited by the slow pace and substantial costs associated with current protein production methods. The goal of the DARPA Reimaging Protein Manufacturing (RPM) program is to develop tools for distributed, on-demand manufacturing of protein-based drugs,…
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LHO – Little Horned Owl
Intelligence Value The need for increasingly sophisticated unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for intelligence purposes requires a maturation of the technology to include the need for quiet UAVs. The Little Horned Owl program is developing ultra-quiet mini UAVs (defined as having a take-off weight of 55 pounds or less) to further enable critical intelligence and military…
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