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Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2006 John Keller	DARPA NAV Program Seeks to Make Insect-like Surveillance UAVs a Reality U.S. military researchers are kicking off a project to develop an unmanned aerial vehicle called the nano air vehicle, which is roughly the size of a dragonfly, to perform covert surveillance and reconnaissance missions in important and dangerous areas.
National Defense April 2011 Stew Magnuson	Ghost of Comanche Haunts Army Helicopter Leaders as They Push for New Models Army Aviation officers want a family of new helicopters. Not now, but 20 years from now. Two decades may sound like a long time - but its is not when developing Army rotary wing aircraft.
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Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006 John Keller	DARPA approaches industry for ideas for unmanned underwater surveillance technology The agency seeks to improve underwater surveillance in and along ocean coasts, ocean harbors, lakes, and rivers with a distributed set of stationary and mobile assets.
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