Voices from DARPA

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Episode 5: The Mind Mixer Dec 19, 2016

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In this episode of DARPA’s podcast series, Voices from DARPA, join program manager Paul Cohen of the Agency’s Information Innovation Office as he talks about his efforts to develop better and more seamless ways for human intelligence and machine intelligence to combine their respective strengths into a hybrid and collaborative intelligence that can do more than either of its components.

Episode 4: The Terahertzian Dec 01, 2016

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In this episode of DARPA’s podcast series, Voices from DARPA, join program manager Dev Palmer of the Agency’s Microsystems Technology Office as he talks about turning an early interest in the vacuum tubes of his guitar amplifiers into a career as an electrical engineer. His mission? To push electronic and electromagnetic technology along new frontiers that could lead to more capable radar, electronic warfare, and communications systems, and even to entirely new technologies. In his few years as a program manager, Palmer has scored a world record with the fastest linear amplifier ever made; opened the way to vastly increasing the power output of high-frequency circuits by developing next-generation, miniaturized vacuum electronic devices; and pioneered novel approaches to integrating minuscule magnetic components into the already super-dense microcircuitry on chips. One more thing: with the time he spends commuting, Palmer has given some thought to what it would take to usher teleportation from the science fiction side to the reality side.

Episode 3: The Semiconductor Whisperer Oct 31, 2016

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In this third episode of DARPA’s podcast series, Voices from DARPA, join program manager Dan Green, as he discusses the Agency’s innovation-catalyzing roles in the Age of Semiconductors. For Green, silicon, the celebrity high-tech material of our times, is only one species in what he views as a semiconductor zoo. For his part, Green, who works in the Agency’s Microsystems Technology Office, has been overseeing DARPA’s efforts to usher the compound semiconductor, gallium nitride (or GaN), beyond its already transformative role in the world of LED lighting into a range of electronic and radiofrequency applications important for national security contexts--among them electronic warfare, radar, and communications--and eventually into an empowering variety of applications in the civilian world.

Episode 2: Space Sentinel Oct 12, 2016

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In the latest installment of DARPA’s new podcast series, Voices from DARPA, join program manager Lindsay Millard as she discusses the Agency’s satellite-protecting Space Surveillance Telescope (SST) program. From its mountaintop perch in New Mexico, this revolutionary optical telescope is enabling much faster discovery and tracking of previously unseen or hard-to-find small objects in orbit that could potentially collide with satellites, in a vast volume of space Millard likens to “tens of thousands of oceans.” SST’s wide-open eye on the sky has also become the most prolific tool ever for observing near-Earth objects and asteroids that could potentially impact Earth. After four years of extensive testing and evaluation, DARPA is celebrating the upcoming transition of SST to the U.S. Air Force on Tuesday, October 18, 2016.

Episode 1: Molecule Man Sep 23, 2016

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In this premiere episode of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's new podcast series, Voices from DARPA, program manager Tyler McQuade, who works in the Agency's Defense Sciences Office, reveals his vision of accelerating scientists' ability to discover and make a vast variety of new molecules for medical, military, and many other applications.

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