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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.

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    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.
    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.
    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.
    The U.S. Navy’s fourth Trident II D5 Performance Evaluation Missile was launched from the submerged USS Tennessee (SSBN 734) in December 1989, off the East Coast of Florida.
    The Greensea Systems Bayonet 250 is for explosive ordnance disposal in littoral environments in shallow water and surf zones. It provides autonomous capabilities for mine and explosive threat neutralization.
    John Keller
    Sept. 9, 2025
    The Marine Corps AUGV is to be based on the Greensea Bayonet series AUGV, which comes in three different sizes with the models 150, 250, and 350.
    Desktop trainers display naval aviation's new carrier-based joint air training program in a lab at the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division near its Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Md., in 2024.
    John Keller
    Sept. 9, 2025
    Collins Aerospace will build six SPARTA 12 flight aircraft flight management computer functional equivalent units and update SPARTA 12 equipment.
    U.S. Marine Corps aviation ordnance technicians load an AGM-179 joint air-to-ground munition (JAGM) onto an AH-1Z M299 launcher at Kadena Air Base, Japan, in June 2024.
    Lockheed Martin
    Sept. 8, 2025
    JAGM uses multi-mode guidance with semi-active laser for precision and a fire-and-forget millimeter wave radar for moving targets in all-weather.
    This artist's concept depicts the DARPA Artificial Intelligence Reinforcements (AIR) program to develop tactical autonomy for multi-ship beyond-visual-range air combat missions, and to enable crewed and uncrewed combat aerial vehicles to work together.
    John Keller
    Sept. 8, 2025
    AIR seeks machine autonomy to enable coordinated AI-driven behaviors between crewed F-16 test aircraft and eventually to uncrewed combat aircraft.
    The Burke-class destroyer USS Higgins (DDG 76) launches a standard missile 2 (SM-2) from the forward vertical launching system while operating in the Philippine Sea last spring.
    John Keller
    Sept. 5, 2025
    SM-2 attacks aircraft, missiles, or ships using semi-active homing, or over the horizon using inertial guidance and terminal infrared homing.