2024 DARPA & DoD Budgeted Project Highlights

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Oversight

Autonomous algorithmic technology to facilitate advanced collaboration among constellations of LEO satellites to provide constant custody (perpetual surveillance) of up to 100 targets simultaneously.




[Rogue &] Gambit

Rotating detonation engine for supersonic air-launched standoff missiles.




Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER)

Distributed network of persistent high-altitude UAVs using airborne optical energy relay to "harvest" and distribute laser energy to "dynamic future battle spaces."




Influence Campaign Awareness and Sensemaking (INCAS)

Integration of language processing, social network analysis, psychographics, and behavioral science-based technologies into a unified automated digital tool designed to rapidly detect and understand messaging campaigns and distill/disseminate counter-influence operations.



More on the "INCAS" at end.


Semantic Forensics (SemaFor)

Deep-learning AI algorithmic techology capable of "defending against multimedia falsification" through semantic and statistical analysis of imagery, voice, video, and text media to identify its source and purpose, and implement measures of deterrence.




Resilient Supply-and-Demand Networks (RSDN)

Data-driven supply-chain risk management analysis based on stress-testing and propagation of "shock scenarios" to motivate the development of mitigation strategies.




Competition in the Information Environment (CIE)

Fusion of information tech & social science that spans data analysis, language, multimedia analysis, social modeling, and simulation to maintain a quantitative military edge over information ops competitors, including state/non-state actors and "peer adversary" nation-states.




Chemical Processing for Force Protection

Molecular synthesis focused on the development of new molecules "such as pharmaceuticals and explosives," and detection "adverse genetic effects" indicative of "attacks" in food systems.




Reconfigurable Systems

Development of high-speed, autonomous, GPS-nondependent systems for deployment in cluttered environments capable of sensing, perception, planning & control of operations, and manipulation/control of "adversary sensory perception and/or situational awareness."




Environmental Microbes as a Bioengineering Resource (EMBER)

Leveraging of microbiology to enable new biomining methods for the separation, purification, and conversion of rare earth elements (REEs), recover a target REE from complex mixtures, and convert at least two REEs from one chemical form into another. [sounds like alchemy]



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