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A Record for Billion-Dollar Disasters Shows the Limits of America’s Defenses – The New York Times

The United States has been hit by 23 large-scale disasters so far this year, and hurricane season is far from over.

U.S. defense, commerce officials due in Seoul amid potential N. Korea-Russia arms deal

Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Sasha Baker will visit South Korea later this week for the 4th meeting of the Extended Deterrence …

How US Marines can protect commercial shipping in the Gulf – Defense News

Successfully deploying Marines on commercial ships could require overcoming thorny logistical hurdles.

India, NASA to cooperate on human spaceflight, planetary defense | Space

U.S. President Joe Biden congratulated Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and the scientists at the engineers at the Indian Space Research …

The Rise Of Robots | CNBC Marathon

Initially, Boston Dynamics received a lot of its funding from the U.S. military and DARPA. Later, it was financed by big-name owners including …

DARPA sets up project to overcome the effects of drag on vessels – Naval Technology

DARPA has started a project that explores how vessels can overcome the drag coefficient at sea, which will improve speed and endurance as well as …

US hypersonic anti-missile system project advances with new contract with Boeing

Developed by the Darpa agency, the “Glide Breaker” program aims to deploy an interceptor capable of destroying hypersonic weapons during gliding …

Boeing lands $70.5M contract to test interceptor of hypersonic missiles

DARPA. James Drew. By James Drew – Reporter, St. Louis Business Journal. Sep 12, 2023. The proposed “kill vehicle” is designed to destroy the …

DARPA’s POWER program partners to develop optical power beaming relays – Optics.org

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is entering the first phase of the Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER) …

Efficient, Low-Cost and Optimized Riblet Application to Standard Contoured Aircraft Surfaces

Program: SBIR. Solicitation Topic Code: N222-114. Solicitation Number: 22.2. Timeline. Solicitation Year: 2022. Award Year: 2023.