Defense Advanced Research Projects

In the United States, the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Energy (DOE) promoted in 1992 the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) program to develop a DMFC for portable and mobile applications. Several institutions are involved (IFC, JPL, LANE, Giner, Inc.) and small stacks (up to 10 elementary cells) were built by IFC and JPL. The performances are quite encouraging, with power densities of 250 mW/cm at 0.5 V. More details are given in Section V.2. 

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The authors would like to thank Mr. R. H. Bott and Ms. B. E. McGrath for thermal analysis measurements and Dr. Wunderlich (Rohm Tech, West Germany) for the generous donation of various acrylic monomers. We also appreciate the support of the Exxon Foundation, Dow USA, the Army Research Office (ARO) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). 

The authors thank the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for support. 

On Mey 17, 1971, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency [15] funded our proposal that "temperature variations may be evaluated by measuring stable isotope ratios in natural data banks such as tree rings and varves". L. M. Libby had previously calculated [16] the theoretical temperature coefficients of the stable isotope fractionations in manufacture of wood from C02 and H20, finding that the coefficients are small compared with those measured in rain and snow [17]. 

We wish to thank the Office of Naval Research and the Defense Advanced Research projects Agency for partial support of this research. 

Solectria even had government contracts from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and won a bid to build a lightweight Sunrise EV. But, just as Solectria was looking for a partner, the auto companies own electric programs were being launched. Major automakers had their own designs in cars like the GM EV1. The Sunrise did not make it into production and only a few prototypes were built. Solectria did go on to build the Force EV, which is a converted Chevrolet Metro and the company was involved in the GM CitiVan, which was an urban delivery vehicle. 

L. P. Waggoner. Canine Olfactory Sensitivity and Detection Odor Signatures for Mines/UXO, Testing Support for Tuft s Medical School E-Nose, and Fate Effects Team Participation , Final Report for MDA972-97-1-0026, Defense Advance Research Projects Agency, 2002. 

This work was supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency through the Defense Sciences Office and by the US Department of Energy through the Office of Transportation Technology. 

The underwater sensor platform is derived from the Fido explosives vapor sensor, originally developed under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Dog s Nose Program. The vapor sensor, whose operation is discussed in Chapters 7 and 9 and in other publications [7-9], was developed for the task of landmine detection. The underwater adaptation of the sensor is very similar to the vapor sensor. In the underwater implementation of the sensor, thin films of polymers are deposited onto glass or sapphire substrates. The emission intensity of these films is monitored as water (rather than air) flows past the substrate. If the concentration of TNT in the water beings to rise, the polymer will exhibit a measurable reduction in fluorescence intensity. The reduction in emission intensity is proportional to the concentration of target analyte in the water. Because the sensor is small, lightweight, and consumes little power, it proved to be ideal for deployment on autonomous platforms. 

The Biocat II technology is an improvement of the Biocat process (U.S. Patent 5,076,927), which treats acid mine drainage and heap leach effluents. The improvements were made under a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a component of the U.S. Department of Defense (D10362Y, p. 4). If adequate concentrations of sulfuric acid are not present, additional acid may be required to operate the process. 

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) begins a project, Morphing Aircraft Structures, to investigate the potential of such technology as shape-changing wings. 

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Available online. URL http //www.darpa.mil/. Accessed May 28, 2009. DARPA s Web site explains its mission and goals and contains a news section describing the latest research, along with historical information, located on the DARPA Legacy page, about previous projects and results. 

Leonard J. Buckley, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Thomas W. Chapman, National Science Foundation Allen Clamen, ExxonMobil (retired)... 

In 1993, Dubois moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory as a senior staff scientist and was assigned to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). In that... 

The work at QTL Biosystems has been carried out with support from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency under Contract MDA972-00-C-006. 

This work has been supported by the National Science Foundation under grant CHE-9002006 awarded in 1990 to C.A.M. in the form of an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and in part on grant support to M.S.W. from the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. 

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