{"id":178564,"date":"2023-12-18T02:11:52","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T08:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/raytheon-to-create-darpas-airborne-wireless-internet-for-energy"},"modified":"2023-12-18T02:11:52","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T08:11:52","slug":"raytheon-to-create-darpas-airborne-wireless-internet-for-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/raytheon-to-create-darpas-airborne-wireless-internet-for-energy","title":{"rendered":"Raytheon to create DARPA\u2019s airborne \u201cwireless internet for energy\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/raytheon-to-create-darpas-airborne-wireless-internet-for-energy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>DARPA has tapped Raytheon to design and develop a wireless, airborne relay system to \u201cdeliver energy into contested environments,\u201d as part of its Energy Web Dominance program, in which DARPA wants to be able to power anything from nearly anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Under a two-year, US$10 million DARPA contract, Raytheon will create a <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/technology\/darpa-laser-beam-power-across-distances\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER) system<\/a>, using a series of high altitude unmanned aircraft equipped with laser-based power receiving and transmitting capabilities. Energy will be beamed up to high altitude, then relayed across however many jumps are necessary to reach the target area.<\/p>\n<p>That target might be on the ground, or it might itself be another autonomous aerial platform, in which case it could stay airborne as long as necessary, its batteries being constantly charged from afar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DARPA has tapped Raytheon to design and develop a wireless, airborne relay system to \u201cdeliver energy into contested environments,\u201d as part of its Energy Web Dominance program, in which DARPA wants to be able to power anything from nearly anywhere. Under a two-year, US$10 million DARPA contract, Raytheon will create a Persistent Optical Wireless Energy [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}