DARPA's way of supporting the troops!

[StandWatie]

This shit is insane!

The 'Metabolic Dominance and Engineered Tissue' program is aimed at being able to artificially pump up soldier endurance and muscle strength.


The 'Persistence in Combat' program is a bizarre self-treatment scheme which would include pain-reducing and blood-stopping devices and techniques soldiers would apply to their own wounds -even moderately severe ones- thereby bypassing the need for a medic and enabling a soldier to keep fighting, despite serious wounds! Yep, just keep on runnin' through the jungle on that broken leg or with that bullet in the gut! Once that pain-obliterating electrode in your brain is activated, you won't feel a thing!


The 'Continuous Assisted Perfomance' program hopes to find biotechnological ways (implants, metabolic manipulation, etc) to make it possible to push exhausted soldiers on without loss of performance for up to seven days without sleep.

Whoa!


http://www.guerrillanews.com/sci-tech/doc2758.html

[madfloridian]

1. They link to DARPA, but nothing there about this.

How do you look for the documents at DARPA?

[StandWatie]

2. ....

http://www.darpa.mil/dso/thrust/biosci/pic.htm

[Occulus]

4. This could be a good thing.

from the link you gave:

"The Persistence in Combat Program seeks to initiate the development of a new generation of novel noninvasive therapeutic technologies, such as low-level energy therapy (including near-IR, visible, thermal, acoustic, and vibratory fields), to accelerate in vivo tissue repair and the regeneration of tissue, including retinal, corneal, epidermal, dermal, musculoskeletal, neuronal, cartilage, ligaments, and tendons."

Wow. Cool. Rapid-healing technology.

Coooooool. If they do it, it'll eventually find its way into the commercial market. Imagine- you get a cut. Put on this new ointment and the cut is gone three hours later.

Whaddaya say to that?

Cooooooool.....

[madfloridian]

8. 50% of usual water requirements?

SNIP...."Water Harvesting

Program Manager: Dr. Leonard Buckley

The goal of the Water Harvesting Program is to develop and demonstrate technologies to potentially eliminate at least 50 percent of the minimum daily water supply requirement (7qts/day) of the Special Forces, Marine Expeditionary Units, and Army Medium-Weight Brigades. The success of this program will have a global impact on the Preventive Defense and Environmental Security policies of the DoD and the United States by providing potable water within the reach of the warfighter any place, any time. The program seeks to qualify and field prototypes of innovative, energy-efficient systems that harvest and purify/desalt water from nontraditional and traditional sources for 1 to 10,000 soldiers, considering nuclear, biological, and chemical threats. Special emphasis is placed on the development of technologies that efficiently extract water on demand from nontraditional sources for the individual or small groups of warfighter(s) by onsite harvesting from atmospheric moisture, urine, and combusted hydrocarbons......"

[LunaSea]

3. more info on DARPAs solicitation page

on this thread-
<http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=85689>

[paulsbc]

5. cool

stuff ;)

[wuushew]

6. didn't they make a movie about this?

[qb]

7. Here's one from the drug angle