Briefs

Feb 10, 2003. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency last week released a strategic plan, which lays out the agency's vision for the controversial Total Information Awareness project, as well as its top eight research areas. The DARPA report, made public Feb. 6, states that as a result of 'constant strategic reassessment,' the agency is emphasizing research in eight strategic areas:

• Counterterrorism.
• Assured use of space.
• Networked manned and unmanned systems.
• Robust, self-forming networks.
• Detect, identify, track and destroy elusive surface targets.
• Characterization of underground structures.
• Bio-revolution.
• Cognitive computing.

• The Software for Distributed Robotics program ...
• The High Productivity Computing Systems program ...
• The Enduring Personalized Cognitive Assistant.