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Isn't DARPA investing in this space? Seems like the kind of thing they're usually interested in.
by jplayer01 8y ago
Isn't DARPA investing in this space? Seems like the kind of thing they're usually interested in.
- hef19898 8y agoAnd then you have your usual suspects: Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop General Dynamics in the US, BAe Sytems in the UK, Dassault and Airbus in France and Germany. Not sure wether the military is really interested in a civilian OS.
- ChuckMcM 8y agoSure, but DARPA and their contracts don't move the technology like a bunch of enthusiasts hacking on DJI drones. I presume that is why the Army has been doing things with the DJI drones (I'm sure they do stuff with Boeing drones or equivalents as well but I am also sure they aren't $1500 off the shelf at WalMart). It just seems like having a vibrant domestic drone market would be a strategically useful thing.
- jplayer01 8y agoPretty much all modern technology is based on stuff DARPA and other government institutions have funded over the past decades. I'm not sure what you expect a couple of hackers to be able to do without a similar amount of funding. Research and development is ridiculously expensive.