Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA

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. 

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). 

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. 

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. 

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

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... 

Hydrogen buses operate in Montreal and Bavaria, an H2-powered passenger ship sails in Italy, and the 2008 Olympics in Beijing featured hydrogen vehicles. Russia has flown a jet, fueled partly by hydrogen. In the United States, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), NASA, and the Air Force are jointly developing an Earth-orbit airplane fueled by... 

I acknowledge the support of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)-fimded Air Force contract (F33615-83-C-5006) administered by the Air Force Wright Aeronautical Laboratories/Materials Laboratory and the Dow Corning Corporation. I thank A. Zangvil, University of Illinois, for the SAM profiles. 

The Immune Building Program of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) used FBE as a primary metric. FBE is defined as the fraction of the building (by volume) in which occupant exposures would exceed a prescribed level or guideline, typically evaluated as a function of the mass of agent released. 

The authors acknowledge the provision of friction stir processed materials and data on monotonic and cyclic behavior of the NiAl bronze by M.W. Mahoney and C.B. Fuller, Rockwell Scientific Corporation. The Naval Surface Warfare Center (Carderock, MD) supplied the NiAl bronze materials, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), with Dr. L. Christodolou as program sponsor, provided the funding for this work. 

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