With an eye toward revolutionizing how defense systems and vehicles are made, the Pentagon has tapped a team of Bay Area-based scientists, engineers and hackers to create a program that will enlist California high school students to build robots, drones and other low- and medium-tech gadgets.
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A French military vessel equipped with a variety of non-lethal defense technology could provide security in waters where pirates abound. Blind them with light, drench them with water cannons or deafen them with sound blasts: these are some of the on-board anti-pirate features that figure in a project being developed in France.The project was presented Thursday and Friday in Nantes in western France to some 400 delegates attending MARISK, a forum on shipping security.
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The American Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced a new initiative aimed at finding a solution to ensure the continuation of Moore’s Law. DARPA is the agency within the United States Department of Defense that is responsible for the development of new technology for use by the military.
Source: www.techweekeurope.co.uk
