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.

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 ...

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.

Upward Falling Payloads would be remotely launched to disrupt and monitor enemy ships.

Sparton Corporation has been awarded a Phase 1 contract for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Upward Falling Payload (UFP) program.

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 ...

The concept of DARPA's Upward Falling Payloads (UFP) would be "deployable, ... The contact is broken down into three phases, which cover the communications, risers, and payload.

Jan 24, 2013: DARPA's Upward Falling Payloads Program planss to hibernate robots on sea floor (Nanowerk News) Today, cost and complexity limit the Navy to fewer weapons systems and platforms, so ...

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

The Upward Falling Payloads pods, DARPA records show, would be targeted for the almost 50% of global waters that are more than 4 kilometers deep. Those waters, DARPA notes, provide "vast areas for ...

DARPA wants its drones to fall upwards. It sounds like nonsense at first, but this "Upward Falling Payloads" (UFP) program is actually quite clever. First of all, the Navy needs to plant unmanned ...