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Things are really beginning to heat up in the field of laser weapons. The giant Airborne Laser is finally gearing up for real-life, missile-zapping tests. New solid-state lasers like Raytheon’s Phalanx can already shoot down mortar rounds. Now, Darpa is weighing in with an yet another technology: HELLADS or “High Energy Liquid Laser Area [...]

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By Noah Shachtman
The Pentagon’s way-out research arm is looking for new ways to locate and identify radio frequency signals. But Darpa won’t say much about its new “Retriever” project, announced Monday. Virtually everything about the program has been “classified TOP SECRET.“

Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Method to Thomas Madness on Obama Birth Certificate
…Thomas’s legal meddle on the Obama birth certificate non-issue fits perfectly in with his jaundiced interpretation of law and its practice and his private vow to get revenge on his liberal tormentors.
Study: Nearly half of world’s jailed journalists come from Web…More [...]

Tom Burghardt
Just when you thought the Pentagon’s Dr. Strangeloves couldn’t design anything more devilish than they have already, new plans on the drawing board may help make the science of repression an ever-more lucrative market for capitalist grifters in the defense and security industries.

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Noah Shachtman
The Pentagon wants to be able to peer inside your apartment building — picking out where all the major rooms, stairways, and dens of evil-doers are.
The U.S. military is getting better and better at spotting its enemies, when they’re roaming around the streets. But once those foes duck into houses, they become a whole [...]

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Noah Shachtman
Darpa, the Pentagon’s far-out research wing, is launching a new, classified effort to find enemies by the phone they use. It’s called Gandalf.
Announced yesterday by Darpa, the SECRET/NOFORN program’s goal is to employ “set of handheld devices” to track down a particular “signal emitter of interest,” using “radio frequency geolocation.”
The “specific goals and [...]

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Noah Shachtman

Almost two years ago, I started working on a story on Darpa’s plans to make troops stronger, smarter, and tougher to kill. My research had all-but-dead-ended. So Sharon graciously offered to submit a Freedom of Information Act request, on my behalf. It took Darpa forever. Logistical hijinks only made things worse. But the agency [...]

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By William Saletan
Posted Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2008, at 11:49 AM ET
For the last couple of days, in the Human Nature blog, I’ve been looking into a breakthrough cryptically reported in Iraq and Afghanistan: the ability of U.S. unmanned aerial vehicles to identify and track human targets “even when they are inside buildings.” Several recently reported [...]

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By Noah Shachtman
May 06, 2008 | 2:17:00 PM
The Pentagon’s way-out researchers don’t just want to build an Internet simulator, to test out cyberwar tactics. They want the range’s operators to “realistically replicate human behavior and frailties,” too.

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from Danger Room by Sharon Weinberger
The Pentagon’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency is funding work looking at releasing energy from nuclear isomers, an area of research that was once supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency as part an investigation into a new class of explosives. Now, according to news reports, two research groups are [...]