Battlefield-Deployed U.S. troops Could soon be equipped with portable electronic devices That self-destruct on command, if the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency's VAPR (Programmable Vanishing Resources) project comes to fruition.
DARPA is currently seeking the public's input as to how Such technologies Could be Developed and Manufactured and so, on 14 February 2013, is staging a workshop dedicated VAPR ideas.
There's a strong security element to 21st century battlefield tactics Involving small electronic systems.That's Because, Following the completion of a Particular operation, Detecting and Recovering all associated electronic devices is a difficulty and Involved procedure. Any unrecovered systems left behind Could, subsequently, be retrieved by enemy forces, or end up on the black market. Enemy Forces in possession of gadgets Said Could then, Theoretically, gain strategic advantage immediate year.
Self-destructing Electronics
The electronics VAPR self-destructing program intends to counter this position by mobile devices Producing That can, literally, as soon as they're dissolved done with. Quite how they'd dissolve Has not yet beens, established goal-insertion into water-beens HAS Already Ruled Out and Applying Them to heat, gold Exposing Them to some kind of signal is regarded Being.
The Desired outcome is limited lifespan-electronics systems That, oz used, are rendered useless as far as enemy strengths are Concerned.
"DARPA is looking for a way to make electronics last PRECISELY That as long as They Are needed" Explained agency representative Alicia Jackson. "The breakdown of Such devices Could be triggered by a signal or command from smells Any number of feasible environmental conditions, Such as temperature."
She continued: "We want to economic development of a revolutionary new class of electronics for a variety of systems Whose transience Does not require submersion in water. This is a tall order, and we imagine a multidisciplinary approach. Performers from the material science community will be Sought to economic development of novel substrates. "
Armed Forces International will revisit this topic in future news coverage.
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