DARPA - Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency - Encyclopedic Coverage, Documents, Reports - Aerospace, Robotics, Nanotech, Electronics, Cognitive Computing (Four CD-ROM Set)

This up-to-date and expanded electronic book on four CD-ROMs has a comprehensive collection of military documents, publications, reports, and presentations on America's primary agency for advanced military research: DARPA. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's mission calls for radical innovation for national security, searching worldwide for revolutionary high-payoff ideas. This extraordinary, encyclopedic collection of detailed material is heavily illustrated; in addition to over 42,000 pages reproduced with Adobe Acrobat and fully indexed, there are nine movie clips of the Grand Challenge autonomous vehicle competitions in WMV format. Contents include: Data, documents, reports, presentations on hundreds of ongoing research programs: Defense Research Sciences; Information and Communications Technology; Biological Warfare Defense; Tactical Technology; Materials and Biological Technology; Electronic Technology; Advanced Aerospace Systems; Space; Advanced Electronics; Command, Control, and Communications Systems; Land Warfare; Network-Centric Warfare; Sensors; Guidance; Advanced Aerospace Systems; Advanced Electronics Technologies; Biological Warfare Defense; Cognitive Computing Systems; Defense Research Sciences Robotics, Nanotechnology, Spacecraft and aerospace systems; Nano-scale devices; hybrid biological/inorganic devices; spin dependent materials; comparative genomics; language translation; automatic target recognition; next generation optical systems; millimeter wave; security-aware systems; learning locomtion; bio-inspired; unconventional therapeutics; riverine crawler underwater vehicle; compact military engines; Vertical Infiltration, Persistent Extraction Robot (VIPER), high power fiber lasers; small-scale actuators, Photonics; Microelectromechanical MEMS, smart materials, chip scale atomic clock, Deep View Radar imaging; Tactically Responsive Satellites; Falcon/Hypersoar Hypersonic Cruise Vehicle; Space Assembly and Manufacture; Space Robotics