The Pentagon Wants to Buy That Bomb You’re Building in the Garage - Defense One (via @stephane)
▻http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2016/03/darpa-IED-bomb-tinkerers/126649
On Friday, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or #DARPA, announced that they would award money to people who can turn consumer electronics, household chemicals, 3-D printed parts, cheap drones or other “commercially available technology” into the next improvised weapon [un programme en trois phases].
(…) “Proposers are free to reconfigure, repurpose, program, reprogram, modify, combine, or recombine commercially available technology in any way within the bounds of local, state, and federal laws and regulations. Use of components, products, and systems from non-military technical specialties (e.g., transportation, construction, maritime, and communications) is of particular interest”