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AFRL picks 3 contractors for JETSON effort to develop fission powered spacecraft

JETSON, like DARPA, is looking at fission reactors under the “high power” track, but not for propulsion systems. Instead, the idea is to mimic …

DARPA Hopes to Beam Power Across 200 Kilometers – IEEE Spectrum

DARPA’s aim with power beaming is not to bring electricity to homes, but to deliver energy to places that it would prove difficult, expensive, or …

Mobilize awarded SBIR Phase II contract to develop dynamic innovation pipeline for Army

Mobilize awarded SBIR Phase II contract to develop dynamic innovation pipeline for Army. October 03, 2023 01:14 AM AEDT | By EIN Presswire. Follow …

FarmSense Wins $750K In Competition – socaltech.com

The company says it has received over $2M in Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) funds, plus grants and awards from Microsoft, Google, US …

Israeli, US Defense Chiefs to meet in Washington | International – Devdiscourse

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant will meet with his U.S. counterpart Lloyd Austin in Washington later this month.

Booz Allen Hamilton invests in AI security startup HiddenLayer – Defense News

WASHINGTON — Booz Allen Hamilton, one of the largest U.S. defense contractors, said it invested in HiddenLayer, a smaller company specializing in …

US official to speak at defense forum – Taipei Times

A US Department of State official is scheduled to address an annual conference on defense industry cooperation between Taiwan and the US, …

Which Companies Will Benefit Most From Modernization Of The U.S. Nuclear Arsenal? – Forbes

The Department of Defense is simultaneously developing a new generation of ballistic-missile submarines, land-based intercontinental ballistic …

A new school will train U.S. troops to fight a growing threat: small weaponized drones

“You’re seeing drones used on a scale that’s never been seen before,” said Stacie Pettyjohn, the director of the defense program at the Center for New …

Are Exogenous Ketones Worth the Hype? – Yahoo

It wasn’t until 2016, when Richard Veech and Kieran Clarke (leaders of the DARPA research) released a ketone ester combined with alcohol …