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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."
It would appear that the anti-intellectual knee jerk response posted first. I have worked for both DOD (via darpa grants) and NSA, and have to say that I like their response more than I like yours. Generally, they offer some form of insite that I might miss (but almost certainly do not agree with). OTH, your was just a waste of space and time.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
They seem over-generalized because the Network World author tried to summarize a 57-page strategic plan into a 2-page fluff piece. And strategic plans are rather generalized to begin with.
My employer holds some DARPA contracts, and while I am not free (as in speech) to be specific at this time, I can alert you to stay tuned for some very specific announcements and demos of some Really Cool Shit in the area of unmanned aerial vehicles...
I can see the fnords!
How is that anti-intellectual ? Perhaps you should visit a campus once. Note the large presence of, shall we say, people who exonerate people like massacrers like Che Guevara and blame all of society's ills on the military. Or whoever they are sure won't retaliate (note for example, the dead silence about Sri Lanka's misdeeds since that government sued and, shall we say, lightly persuaded, a BBC press team to leave).
Unless of course, you're claiming that campuses don't have intellectuals. That newspapers don't have intellectuals.
Can one please be allowed to articulate a displeasure between certain extremely hypocritical portions of society ? The part that's hiding behind the biggest guns of the world screaming about how evil their government is, knowing both that said government won't retaliate and knowing full well that there are real problems in the world. The government of, oh, say Sudan, is a much, much bigger problem than even the worst ever US government. But only one of those gets any action.
After Tether departed in February (good riddance), DARPA's had just an acting director with no major changes to policy. I know I'd like to see someone appointed, preferably with a real scientific research background.
If nothing else, can we get rid of the stupid GNG targets?