Meet the Man With the Pentagon’s ‘Luke Skywalker Arm’

The few people who have heard of it think of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA — and the military, for that matter — as just for killing people, but of course there is much more to both, like mercy, caring and healing. This DARPA prosthetic limb project may make a huge difference […]

Countering Silent Subs

Acknowledgements to prime contractor of the program Leidos, Inc. China and Russia (and other countries including Iran) have been adding relatively cheap and virtually silent, diesel-electric submarines to their fleets. These subs are quickly becoming one of the biggest threats to naval operations and to a $1.8 trillion commercial shipping industry. Detecting and tracking these […]