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Active Interpretation of Disparate Alternatives (AIDA)
Dr. Wil Corvey The United States Government has an interest in developing and maintaining a strategic understanding of events, situations, and trends around the world, in a variety of domains. The information used in developing this understanding comes from many disparate sources, in a variety of genres, and data types, and as a mixture of…
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Accelerated Molecular Discovery (AMD)
Dr. Bartlett Russell Efficient discovery and production of new molecules is essential to realize capabilities across the DoD, from simulants and medicines essential to counter emerging threats, to coatings, dyes and specialty fuels needed for advanced performance. Current approaches to develop molecules for a given application are intuition-driven, mired in slow iterative design/test cycles and…
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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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Advanced Plant Technologies (APT)
Dr. Mark Salvador The Advanced Plant Technologies (APT) program seeks to develop plants capable of serving as next-generation, persistent, ground-based sensor technologies to protect deployed troops and the homeland by detecting and reporting on chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive (CBRNE) threats. Such biological sensors would be effectively energy-independent, increasing their potential for wide distribution,…
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