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New space industry emerges to inspect, refuel and repair abandoned satellites
•The program will service two to three dozen satellites in a distant geostationary orbit.
Pentagon working on app that will keep track of US soldiers' health by monitoring their smartphone data
Ians •DARPA last week announced that it has awarded a $5.1 million contract to Kryptowire to develop Warfighter Analytics using Smartphones for Health programme.
NASA partners with DARPA to build robots to refuel and repair satellites
Ians •"Service stations in orbit" — the name given to these robotic satellites — would not only refuel satellites but also drastically improve their longevity and lifespan.
Boeing and DARPA are developing the Phantom Express, a spaceplane for launching nanosatellites
Tech2 News Staff •Boeing and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are collaborating on an experimental spaceplane, under the XS-1 program.
US Air Force's X-37B space plane completes two-year secret mission
Tech2 News Staff •The just-ended mission, known as OTV-4, was launched in May 2015 and conducted secret experiments for a total of 718 days while in orbit.
Facebook F8: Building 8 team developing tools to help you type out your thoughts
Fp Archives •The social network giant, at its annual developers conference, unveiled Wednesday projects aimed at allowing users to use their minds to type messages or their skin to hear words.
"Mayhem" wins DARPA's Cyber Grand Challenge
Fp Archives •A software program dubbed "Mayhem" was poised to win the final round of a three-year contest to teach computers to launch and defend against cyber attacks, earning a $2 million prize for the team that wrote the winning code.
Facebook woos Google's Regina Dugan, former head of DARPA and Google ATAP
Tech2 News Staff •Regina Dugan, former head of DARPA and vice president of Google's ATAP group has now moved to Facebook. At Facebook, she will be heading a group labelled Building 8, which is positioned as a rival to Google's ATAP.
Maybe not sci-fi, but robots readied for big tests
Fptechno •The real world has not caught up yet with "Star Wars" and its talking, thinking robots...
US working on cyberwarfare software with videogame-style interface
Shunal •The United States' experimental research wing - the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) - has been working on new technology...