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DARPA invisibility cloak: An adversarial pattern that makes objects invisible to detectors. Photo courtesy of the University of Maryland Department of Computer Science.

Al weapons stretch U.S. imaginations; Pentagon wary of ‘invisibility cloaks,’ ‘digital twins’

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

A security official moves journalists away from the Wuhan Institute of Virology after a World Health Organization team arrived for a field visit in Wuhan in China's Hubei province on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. The WHO team is investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic has visited two disease control centers in the province. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) **FILE**

‘Smoking gun’: Scientist claims evidence COVID-19 created by researchers in Chinese lab

By Staff - The Washington Times

This Feb. 10, 2021, file image taken by the United Arab Emirates' &quot;Amal,&quot; or &quot;Hope,&quot; probe released Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021, shows Mars. Scientists say they've confirmed the meteorite from Mars contains no evidence of ancient Martian life. The rock caused a splash 25 years ago when a NASA-led team announced that its organic compounds may have been left by living creatures, however primitive. Researchers chipped away at that theory over the decades. A team of scientists led by Andrew Steele of the Carnegie Institution published their findings Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022. (Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center/UAE Space Agency, via AP) ** FILE **

Mars, here we come: NASA teaming up to make nuclear-powered rocket

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

This handout photo provided by the U.S. Navy shows a common hypersonic glide body (C-HGB) launching from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, in Kauai, Hawaii, March 19, 2020, during a Department of Defense flight experiment. The department is working in collaboration with industry and academia to field hypersonic war-fighting capabilities. (Luke Lamborn/U.S. Navy via AP) ** FILE **

Successful hypersonic weapons test shows U.S. still in the race, Pentagon says

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

The login/sign-up screen for a Twitter account is seen on a laptop computer in Orlando, Fla., on Tuesday, April 27, 2021. (AP Photo/John Raoux) **FILE**

Twitter gave researchers for Defense Department access to info for use in government programs

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

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‘War of weaponized influence’: U.S. spending millions to hunt down foreign tweets, memes

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

This March 27, 2008, file photo, shows the Pentagon in Washington. Reports of sexual assaults across the U.S. military increased by a very small amount in 2020, a year when troops were largely locked down for months as bases around the world grappled with the COVID-19 pandemic, according to U.S. officials. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

DARPA, Pentagon’s research arm, getting billions in taxpayer dollars it never requested

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Engineer Harold Graham, of Buffalo, N.Y., glides over a parked car during a demonstration of a one-man, rocket-powered jet pack, outside of the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., June 16, 1961. The demonstration, sponsored by the Army, draws a crowd of Pentagon workers. The control tower at left is used in directing helicopter traffic to and from the Pentagon. (AP Photo/Henry Burroughs) **FILE**

U.S. military looking for a few good flying jetpacks

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

This Jan. 21, 2017, file photo shows the floor of the main lobby of the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Va. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File) **FILE**

DARPA, In-Q-Tel fund work to stop China from buying America’s intellectual property

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

In this Nov. 24, 2020, photo President Donald Trump speaks in the press briefing room as Vice President Mike Pence listens in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) **FILE**

AP FACT CHECK: Trump distorts military role in vaccines

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

In this April 14, 2015, file photo provided by the California Institute of Technology, Dr. Charles Y. Liu, left, a neurosurgeon at the University of Southern California, laughs with patient Erik Sorto in Pasadena, Calif. Liu led a team of doctors that implanted tiny chips into Sorto's brain in 2013 to allow him to control a robotic arm using his thoughts. It's the latest attempt at creating mind-controlled prosthetics to help disabled people gain more independence. (Lance Hayashida/Caltech via AP) ** FILE **

Brain chipping for good — brain chipping for bad

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

In this undated photo provided by Business Roundtable shows Denise Zheng, vice president at Business Roundtable, overseeing the technology and internet innovation committee. Zheng talked to the Associated Press about the group’s proposal for consumer data privacy legislation and prospects in Congress (Business Rountable via AP)

Insider Q&A: Business Roundtable executive on data privacy

By MARCY GORDON - Associated Press

This undated photo provided by the Boyce Thompson Institute shows corn leaf aphids used in a study to modify crop plants through engineered viruses. In an opinion paper published Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018, in the journal Science, the authors say the U.S. needs to provide greater justification for the peace-time purpose of its Insect Allies project to avoid being perceived as hostile to other countries. Other experts expressed ethical and security concerns with the research, which seeks to transmit protective traits to crops already growing in the field. (Meena Haribal/Boyce Thompson Institute via AP)

Scientists: US military program could be seen as bioweapon

By CANDICE CHOI and SETH BORENSTEIN - Associated Press

Ecovative gets $9.1M DARPA contract for living materials

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Defunding ARPAe Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Advanced Research Projects Agency — Energy (ARPA-E) must be funded

By David M. Hart

A U.S. Marine tests DARPA's Legged Squad Support System. (Facebook, DARPA, U.S. Marine Corps)

Pentagon’s invention factory, DARPA, reveals key to success: 4-year ‘expiration date’ for staff

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

In this March 19, 2014, file photo, Sandy Roberts, Starbucks strategy manager for global coffee engagement, pours samples of coffee for shareholders and other guests, at Starbucks' annual shareholders meeting in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Taxpayers fund Pentagon study: ‘Walking with coffee: Why does it spill?’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Arnold Schwarzenegger stars in the 1990 movie "Total Recall" as a man who has false memories planted into his mind. (Columbia/TriStar Pictures, "Total Recall" trailer)

Pentagon plans brain implants to restore lost memories, open ‘the door to the possibility’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency says its "Upward Falling Payload" is ready for Phase 3 testing in the deep sea. (DARPA)

Pentagon drones to burst from secret ocean pods at a moment’s notice

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Johnny Matheny demonstrates the Pentagon's Modular Prosthetic Limb" at the DARPA Technology Expo in Washington, D.C. (Tech Insider video screenshot)

Pentagon unveils mind-controlled prosthetic at DARPA technology expo

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times