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The Pentagon agency tasked with creating with breakthrough technologies for national security has awarded contracts to two universities to create memory chips for service members and veterans suffering from traumatic brain injuries or disease.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will pay a team from UCLA up to $15 million over four years, and a team from the University of Pennsylvania up to $22.5 million for the same time period to lead the Pentagon’s Restoring Active Memory (RAM) program. A $2.5 million contract with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has been made for a team to develop an implantable neural device for the UCLA-led effort …. http://www.washingtontimes.com