DARPA Shows Off Their Latest Shinies

coondoggie writes with news that the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has released their top nine strategic research programs via a 57-page report last week. The overarching theme seems to be big long term goals that could result in major advances in technology. "DARPA's projects run the gamut from building extremely fast, secure networks, and developing higher, longer flying unmanned aircraft to bio-related advances that help bring vaccines to a useful state faster and space technologies that offer modular satellite systems."

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But they were such quiet neighbors

[eyenot]

" They were regular Buck Balto's, bringing us our biomedicines faster. Then they fired up the mass-driver and things quickly turned into a 'space opera'. "

Anyways here's more of the same (DARPA programs and funding) but from last year, presented by the CDI, for comparison's sake:

http://www.secureworldfoundation.org/siteadmin/images/files/file_203.pdf

Re:Cue Anti-Military Responses

[Yvanhoe]

Well, as a peacenik myself, I am fairly happy to see two very insightful research topics to help foster world peace :
* 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
* Real-Time Accurate Language Translation: real-time machine language translation of structured and unstructured text and speech with near-expert human translation accuracy.

Note how only one theme is dedicated to the creation of more powerful weapons. This is truly American military research and damn yeah, this is sommething you should be proud of (not me, I am a surrendering froggy)