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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.

    Uncrewed

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    An aircraft on the tarmac as workers load or unload baggage.
    The Kongsberg RT-20 is designed to resist the corrosive effects of salt water and salt spray in the marine environment.
    Sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) practice loading an inert-dummy RIM-162 Evolved SeaSparrow Missile into a launcher.
    NASA/Rob Lorkiewicz photo.
    The Research Aircraft for electric Vertical takeoff and landing Enabling techNologies Subscale Wind Tunnel and Flight Test undergoes a free flight test on the City Environment Range Testing for Autonomous Integrated Navigation range at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia on April 22, 2025. NASA/Rob Lorkiewicz photo.
    The Gateway space station will be a vital component of the Artemis missions to return humans to the lunar surface for scientific discovery and chart the path for the first human missions to Mars.
    A BQM-177 is launched from the U.S. Marine Corps Medium Range Intercept Capability system during a live-fire test at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., in September 2022.
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    Raytheon is building launchers to enable helicopters and UAVs to launch the shoulder-fired Stinger missile, shown here.
    John Keller
    Aug. 13, 2025
    Launchers pair with helicopter and UAV avionics, and use the same missile as the shoulder-launched Stinger, but with specialized launch rails.
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    Aug. 13, 2025
    The drones still need well-trained employees to oversee them and can have a hard time in certain weather, Dee-Ann Durbin writes for the Associated Press.
    Military researchers are trying to develop energy-efficient approaches to power-hungry machine learning applications on the battlefield.
    John Keller
    Aug. 12, 2025
    Machine learning uses an inordinate amount of electricity, which could overwhelm current power generation and storage capabilities on the battlefield.
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    M-FAT seeks to blur the line between EW and cyber warfare by developing cyber countermeasures that disrupt small uncrewed aircraft -- particularly command and control links -- in contested environments with an emphasis on low-collateral damage.
    John Keller
    Aug. 11, 2025
    M-FAT seeks to counter swarming uncrewed aircraft with electronic warfare (EW); cyber warfare; machine automation; and low-collateral-damage missiles.
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    The Army wants affordable attritable uncrewed aircraft able to attack enemy targets, conduct electronic attack, and perform surveillance and reconnaissance.
    John Keller
    Aug. 7, 2025
    Army experts are looking for uncrewed aircraft that are networked, autonomous, and able to operate in teams that offer lethal and non-lethal effects.