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But some of the star patterns you could zoom into in a dark planetarium were not publicly disclosed by NASA in the 1960's.
And there is nothing new under the sun.
originally posted by: ICycle2
a reply to: CharGreen
I would say your about right on paper. Future designs would be about 50 years out so they are looking to about 2070. However whats being tested probably only about 20 years or so. Many of the dvances DARPA uses are from the civilian world.
What they do is set up a project and let companies compete to fill the role. Then you have each branch that ave there own research branch for example the Army Research Laboratory, these tend to modify existing technology. Heres an example:
www.army.mil...
Now things have changed slightly with new organizations such as United States Army Futures Command. There job is to plan for future fighting by implimenting the latest technology.
en.wikipedia.org...
This is what I meant by on paper they will design future combat vehicles for example or get a missile on the drawing board. But they wouldnt produce them they work like DARPA and set up projects and use civilian companies to complete their projects. Every branch does this though odly very rearly work together.
So now on to things in developement they are running about 20 years in advance of curent technology but that is only because they pay for the research companies do. This is how military end up with patents they paid for the research.
Though as a side note you can apply for a patent and the government can decide that it is a national secret which forbids you from even discussing it. For example I can come up with a new super balistic shield and the government can decide its classified and I can no longer even speak of it. This again goes back to whats on paper is about 50 years ahead.
originally posted by: Zaphod58
There are areas where the military bleeding edge out strips civilian tech, but not by the commonly heard 50+ years. People working on the cutting edge are still using things that are years behind what's out in the civilian world. I've heard more than one complaint that there was software that would make things much easier to do their job, but they can't use it because it hasn't been through certification by the Pentagon.
originally posted by: Baddogma
I personally have no first hand testimony other than witnessing what looked like future tech in the air a couple times,