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DARPA Calls For Innovators For Complex Defense Systems

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, November 3rd, 2011

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) plans two events around its desire for new innovative sources--companies and individuals--who may be outside the traditional defense industry to help revolutionize the design and manufacturing process for complex defense systems. DARPA expects to pioneer new ways for correct-by-construction fab-less design and a digitally programmable foundry-like manufacturing capability to break the traditional systems engineering paradigm and replace it with one that eliminates multiple iterations of the design-build-test-redesign cycle, the agency said in a…

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