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    The DARPA MICA program could lead to nonliving artificial cells able to carry out functions of living cells for sensing, information processing, and self-repair.
    John Keller
    Sept. 18, 2025
    The MICA program focuses on using microsystems to control biological functions, and will seek hardware demonstrations of molecular catalysts.

    Communications

    The X-ES XChange6300 Embedded Services Router is for stationary and mobile network nodes across wired and wireless links.
    SES/Cailabs
    A rendering of a laser ground station outside a Cailabs building.
    The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) fires a MK 15 Phalanx close-in weapon system during a live-fire exercise in 2023
    Army soldiers exit a 30-millimeter Stryker Infantry Carrier Vehicle during a team fire lane at in Armavir, Armenia, in July 2024.
    The USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125) is the first Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer built in the Flight III configuration.
    A Marine Corps weapons expert loads an Advanced, Medium-Range, Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM), onto a combat jet aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2) in February 2022.
    SFL Missions
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    A Navy aviation ordnanceman secures an AIM-9X air-to-air missile to an F/A-18F Super Hornet during the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise in 2024.
    John Keller
    Sept. 11, 2025
    The Navy intends to negotiate an order to the RTX Raytheon segment in Tucson, Ariz., to design and test a digital proximity fuze for the AIM-9X.
    A Navy F-35 attack jet conducts tests to certify the carrier variant of the fighter aircraft for carrying the AGM-158C Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM).
    John Keller
    Sept. 11, 2025
    LRASM C-3 can exchange information with military satellites, use imaging infrared and RF seekers for survivability and target identification.
    NASA/Dave Ryan
    An artist’s rendering of the Polylingual Experimental Terminal (PExT) payload operating in low Earth orbit. PExT is NASA’s first flight demonstration of a wideband polylingual terminal designed to operate across both government and commercial satellite networks. NASA/Dave Ryan image.
    Sept. 11, 2025
    With this new technology, missions could "roam" seamlessly between government and commercial networks for the first time, just as cell phones jump between networks on Earth without...
    Artillery soldiers fire M31 Guided Multiple Launch Rocket Systems from their M270A1 MLRS during the Thunder Cloud live-fire exercise in Andoya, Norway in September 2021.
    John Keller
    Sept. 10, 2025
    GMLRS has electronic safe-and-arm devices with MEMS accelerometers, solid-state high voltage switches, and serial interfaces for aiming and firing.
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    A photo of a JetBlue tail end on an aircraft.
    Sept. 10, 2025
    JetBlue will begin introducing Project Kuiper’s low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite technology on part of its fleet in 2027.