Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

Updated 01-14-2001

DARPA periodically places a list of projects "out there", which give companies the opportunity to get government funding with which to design and build solutions. The problem areas include munitions and conventional weapons, advanced vehicles, new missiles, rockets, guidance systems, protective clothing, advanced computer systems and software, lasers, masers, Synthetic Aperture Radar, target acquisition and analysis, and much more. They also get into such interesting areas as:

• Covert video cameras which detect movement and turn on, which have built-in storage memory and remote infrared beam playback capability which can run on an internal battery for one year. Oh yes, this entire camera and recorder is less than 1/10th cubic inch in size! We're talking about a video camera and solid state recorder that is smaller than a house fly.
• Electromagnetic "flux compression generators" which can produce several BILLION watts of power - to power EMP (electro magnetic pulse) and microwave weapons which can instantly destroy every electrical device for thousands of feet.
• Miniature hovering aircraft 6 inches in diameter, with video and infrared viewing capability which can fly up to 10,000 feet altitude, 40 miles distance, and dash and dart at over 100 KPH. Insect size covert viewing platforms are also being researched now. Some of the video cameras are mere millimeters in size, and the aircraft may be covered with them.
• Millimeter wavelength microwave imaging systems for "though the wall" covert viewing. These systems produce almost video quality images of people inside offices and homes - right through walls and doors.
• Weapons which can kill and maim - using radio waves, sound, and light.
• Some of these EMP weapons can be easily built and used by terrorists to destroy or disable commercial aircraft electronics on approach or takeoff at airports. The electromagnetic pulses contain enough energy that it may be possible for fuel tank vapors to be explosively ignited - indeed, terrorists may have already brought down American commercial planes already. Typically, an EMP weapon leaves little trace that it has been used. Depending on type of weapon, there may be no sound or other indication that it has been fired. A Texas company was contracted by the government to develop sensors to be placed on aircraft to help protect against this type of attack, but the contract was cancelled. See Texas Engineering Solutions: http://www.dallas.net/~pevler/
• A software toolkit to be used by "spook" agencies, which contain special viruses to infect a suspect's computer, which periodically contacts the spook's computer and snitches on where the suspect has gone on the internet, and what he has done. The virus also disables all encryption software on the PC, so files cannot be made private. The user has NO indication this has been done to the PC.

I used the Web Ferret search engine to search for ARPA, and dug through 3,000 links to find these reports, both current and old. You are free to do the same. WebFerret is at: http://www.ferretsoft.com/

I combed through a few thousand abstracts and picked out the "good stuff". I then separated it into loose categories and present it to you below. Please browse those areas that are of interest to you. Heck, browse it all, I guarantee you'll find almost all of it fascinating. This is where hundreds of millions of YOUR tax dollars is being spent. But remember, the REALLY good projects would never be mentioned by DARPA or any other government agency on the Internet! God only knows what else is happening. Oh yes, one more thing - do a search on "ECHELON" once you get install Web Ferret. Big Brother IS watching.

Below are the most interesting (my opinion) of the projects that I reviewed.

Click on the link to view the abstracts:

• Video cameras, display technology, Head Mounted Displays, etc.
• Microwave, millimeter wave viewing, Synthetic Aperture Radar, etc.
• Energy Weapons, and some countermeasures
• Micro Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
• Super capacitors
• High Voltage, high power switches and related projects
• Super Body Armour, armor plate, munitions, explosives, etc.
• Electrical power generation super batteries, solar cells (very, very powerful and very cheap!):
• Optics, Lasers, Electrocamoflauge, other optical projects
• Human tracking devices, covert surveillance, GPS equipment, robotic explosive devices, etc.
• Computer related projects, covert virus software, super memory storage
• Rockets,thrusters,aircraft,spacecraft related
• Very special materials and materials processing
• Remote controlled and fully Autonomous Vehicles
• Nuclear related
• Miscellaneous - guaranteed chock full of really interesting projects!

Of course I do not expect you to just out-and-out believe me on all this!

The proof? I found all of this and much more in abstracts that DARPA periodically publishes.

Some examples on the Web as of 09/12/99:

DARPA solicitation information from their own SBIR site: http://www.sbirsttr.com/

You can find much info here - just follow links to SBIR on http://iridium.nttc.edu/

Also see: http://rsfq1.physics.sunysb.edu/sasha/Correlator/abs1darp.html

For info on the SBIR program, go visit them! : http://www.acq.osd.mil/sadbu/sbir/

For a first hand account of the SBIR program, and how the government cancelled the project and failed to protect the commercial airplanes YOU ride in, go visit Mr. A.E. Pevler, President of Texas Engineering Systems, who was contracted to design an anti-terrorist system against EMP weapons: http://www.dallas.net/~pevler/

Phaser type weapon: http://www.n6rpf.com-us.net/hsv/

A new law is in the works which would allow law enforcement agents to SECRETLY invade your home and modify your PC with just such a virus when you are not there. See: http://www.infowar.com/class_1/99/class1_083199a_j.shtml

Some other interesting DoD weapons: http://www.mk.net/~stratus/unclass.htm

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