Skynet suiting up DARPA funding released

 

Fear not DARPA has been funded with some additional money.

It sounds that this project will be for some sort of exoskeleton suit or mech suit research of sorts.

BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc., Burlington, Mass., is being awarded a $79,051,718 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract (HR0011-13-C-0075).  This award supports the DARPA Insight program, which is developing an adaptable, integrated human-machine exploitation and resource management system.  The estimated completion date is Jan. 28, 2016.  The contracting activity is the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Arlington, Va.

Defense.gov