Would You Like To Be Able To See In Complete Darkness?
The Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the secretive and innovative research arm of the US Department of Defence (DoD) has for nearly six decades been working on a variety of projects to give the United States a technological advantage over its adversaries. Now, it’s tackling one of the oldest challenges faced by soldiers the world over: How to see your enemies at night without them seeing you?
DARPA programme manager of microsystems tech office, Jay Lewis, spoke with Tech Insider at a recent Pentagon event and told them of one of DARPA’s recent projects to create a device that could allow soldiers to “see clearly in pitch-black conditions.”
Thermal imaging isn’t exactly breaking news, but current tech is cumbersome, expensive, and heavy, which makes it far from ideal for the battlefield. Proliferation of existing technologies has made them affordable for large-scale adversaries like hostile armies, greatly reducing the technological advantage of the United States.
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