It has the trappings of a science-fiction film: Robot pods soundlessly lie in wait on the ocean floor until summoned to the surface, launching drones capable of hibernating inside the capsules for ...

The Upward Falling Payload (UFP) program intends to overcome these barriers,” DARPA said on its website. DARPA’s statement continues: “Nearly 50 percent of the world’s oceans are deeper than 4 km, ...

The agency described its Upward Falling Payloads program as an effort to hide underwater capsules that ... DARPA's ideal payload would fit within a spherical capsule 17 inches in diameter or a ...

DARPA already intends to set a drone ship out to sea, and now it's revealed plans for undersea payloads that lie dormant for years and launch themselves to the surface when remotely commanded.

Upward falling payloads (UFP) The Upward Falling Payload concept is intended to create unmanned, nonlethal systems that lie on the ocean floor for years at a time.

The DARPA Upward Falling Payload (UFP) program intends to overcome these barriers. The UFP concept centers on developing deployable, unmanned, nonlethal distributed systems that lie on the deep-ocean ...

DE LEON SPRINGS, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Sparton Corporation (NYS: SPA) was awarded a Phase 1 contract for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Upward Falling Payload (UFP ...

This "Upward Falling Payloads" (UFP) program is actually quite clever. First of all, the Navy needs to plant autonomous devices like unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) inside of capsules across the ...

Drones that can hibernate for years on the ocean floor before being remotely activated to burst through the surface and into the air could be a reality soon as military researchers begin testing ...

The Upward Falling Payload (UFP) project, as DARPA calls it, centers on pre-deploying deep-ocean nodes years in advance in forward areas which can be remotely commanded to launch to the surface.

The Applied Physics Lab at the University of Washington will be a part of the Sparton team to provide additional deep ocean design expertise.