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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 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.
    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).
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    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.
    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.
    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.
    A NATO tactical director operates inside a NATO AWACS aircraft during a military exercise last June.
    John Keller
    Sept. 4, 2025
    STARS is intended to blend research and fielded systems to ensure that advanced RF and microwave technologies do not remain stuck in laboratories.
    An Army National Guard cryptologic linguist trains in 2022 on a new tactical dismounted electronic warfare and signals intelligence (TDEWS) system at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pa.
    John Keller
    Sept. 3, 2025
    TROUT project focuses on rapidly fieldable real-time signal processing prototypes to analyze RF transmissions automatically for time-critical alerts.
    A 3rd Infantry Division Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle drives off of a barge during a wet-gap crossing exercise on Fort Stewart, Ga., in 2021.
    John Keller
    Sept. 2, 2025
    The AMPV armored combat vehicle has several electronic subsystems that involve communications, situational awareness, and command and control.