DARPA to Use Shrimp, Plankton to Detect Undersea Threats
6/3/2019
By Mandy Mayfield
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s biological technology office will begin prototyping sensing capabilities using undersea organisms such as plankton and shrimp to detect threats.
DARPA launched its biological technology office in 2014 to begin research in hopes of aiding the Defense Department in the fight against unique forms of bioterrorism, and deploy biological countermeasures to thwart peer adversaries, according to the agency.
Northrop Grumman was awarded a contract in April to develop biological sensing hardware to observe patterns in the marine environment and help classify targets.
http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2019/6/3/darpa-to-use-shrimp-plankton-to-detect-undersea-threats
