Upward falling payloads advances deep-sea payload technology
Thursday, March 27, 2014 - 10:00
in Earth & Climate
DARPA's Upward Falling Payloads (UFP) program, which intends to address these challenges, centers on developing deployable, unmanned, nonlethal distributed systems that would lie on the deep-ocean floor in special containers for years at a time. US forces could remotely activate these deep-sea resources from remote command centers, and recall them to the surface when needed. In other words, they would "fall upward." The program is completing its first phase and is about to enter its second.