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DARPA Seeks Small Businesses to Bid on Program to Seize High-Altitude, Slow-Flying Objects

DARPA Seeks Small Businesses to Bid on Program to Seize High-Altitude, Slow-Flying Objects
Sailors assigned to Assault Craft Unit 4 prepare material recovered in the Atlantic Ocean from a high-altitude balloon for transport to federal agents at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek, Va. on Feb. 10 (U.S. Navy Photo)

The problems encountered by the U.S. Air Force earlier this year in shooting down a slow flying, high-altitude Chinese balloon have led the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to launch a small business innovation research (SBIR) effort to identify new ways to capture such objects for further analysis. DoD has said that the balloon conducted reconnaissance of U.S. military sites. DARPA's goal under the Capturing Aerial Payloads to Unleash Reliable Exploitation (CAPTURE) program is to conduct a final design review…

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