[SpaceProgram] Very good news from discussion with the DARPA 100YSS program manager tonight

[cole santos]

Ive listed some projects I had ideas for on another thread. Is there a
new google doc for this new RFP proposal?

On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Ricky Ng-Adam <rngadam at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just to reiterate: they're asking us to resubmit the proposal mostly as-is.
> Which is pretty much what you are proposing (creating a non-profit,
> distributing grants to hackerspaces for space projects in a wide number of
> areas).
>
> I think what could be useful is to include one pagers for some projects that
> we would initiate the project pool with.
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 1:37 PM, cole santos <cksantos85 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Its a little more selective in its space project categories than the
>> 100yss. But instead of pursuing a particular project, it would be nice
>> to just redistribute the money with our own micro grant process for
>> the exact same RFP requirements. So the global hackerspace
>> organization could hold contests on projects related to the RFP and
>> distribute prizes to winners. We could start small with RFI contests
>> with a few 100 bucks or so for the best idea for a particular
>> technology track followed for an RFP to match the winning RFI. We
>> should leave weapons out for liability purposes (explosives and
>> firearms requires federal and state licencing and they should just get
>> their own DARPA grant if they are organized enough to get one of
>> those) unless it is a non leathal weapon (microwave, foam, whatever)
>> or a combat enabling tech such as augmented reality HUD. I think that
>> the platform category should however be included in our global
>> hackerspace consortium challenges with the space stuff. Many makers
>> are already making UAV and FPV aircraft, blimps, balloons, boats,
>> tracked vehicles, and other craft.
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Luke Weston <reindeerflotilla at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > It's worth noting that DARPA contributes to heaps of cutting-edge
>> > fundamental research that has no direct, obvious military value. Heaps
>> > of civilian scientists at universities across the world are happily
>> > involved in valuable civilian basic science and technology research
>> > that attracts funding from DARPA and occasionally other DOD agencies
>> > such as the Army Research Office, and they're certainly not just
>> > building weapons or building better bombs or anything like that.
>> >
>> > Well known examples would include the DARPA Grand Challenge for
>> > autonomous vehicle research, and a lot of quantum computing and
>> > quantum communications research, for example a lot of the research
>> > done by the universities affiliated with the ARC Centre for Quantum
>> > Computer Technology in Australia (http://www.cqc2t.org/), as well as
>> > this for example:
>> >
>> > http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2010/11/new-initiative-to-develop-a-system-that-controls-prosthetic-limbs-naturally/
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >  Luke
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