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Defense Innovation Unit would get major funding boost in spending bill – C4ISRNet

Northrop, DARPA envision moon ‘railroad’ for lunar logistics · Project Overmatch budget details too sensitive to share, Navy says · US Air Force …

Choo Choo on the Moon: US DoD, Northrop Grumman team up to build railways on the … – Firstpost

DARPA, the research and development wing of the US Department of … DARPA’s Lunar Architecture (LunA-10) mission.

‘Lunar railroad’ concept to put trains on Moon gets backing from US government

DARPA program manager Dr Michael Nayak said that there is a “large paradigm shift” coming over the next decade for the lunar economy. A lunar rail …

Northrop Grumman to Develop Concept for Lunar Railroad – WebWire

DARPA’s LunA-10 Capability Study is designed to quickly create new technology ideas shifting from individual scientific projects to shared …

DARPA Is Considering Putting Trains on the Moon, Needs Someone to Build It a Railway First

Research agency DARPA tasked aerospace company Northrop Grumman with looking into the merits, risks, and costs of a lunar railway network.

Startups Leverage Grants for Non-Dilutive Financing – Baselinemag

The two initial phases of SBIR/STTR grants, with average fundings of about $307,000 in Phase I and up to $2.05 million in Phase II, emphasize …

Why are the US and Japan pushing to ban nuclear weapons in space? – Al Jazeera

Washington and Tokyo sponsor a UNSC resolution calling on countries not to deploy or develop nuclear weapons in space. The U.S. Department of Defense …

Tech Official Pushing TikTok Ban Could Reap Windfall From US–China Cold War

From his perch on a government commission, Jacob Helberg fearmongered about TikTok in Congress. He also works for a giant defense contractor. Sam …

U.S. Army Engineers Complete Wet Gap Crossing with the ROK Army – PACOM

ROK and U.S. Army units utilized aviation, armor, air defense, chemical, biological and defense capabilities to train the security and protection of …

First round of Replicator to heavily feature Army systems, Bush says – Defense News

Doug Bush, assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology, told an audience at the Ronald Reagan Institute’s National …