Patrick Tucker writes that DARPA’s proposed fiscal 2015 budget amounts to $2.9 billion, up from $2.8 billion for the previous year.
DARPA Director Arati Prabhakar presented the budget to the House Armed Services Committee Wednesday and detailed plans to allot $15 million for the Big Mechanism program, $8 million for the Advanced Capabilities in Engineering Biology program, $44.8 million for biological warfare defense and $27.5 million for a reusable space plane.
Tucker reports that DARPA has also requested funding increases for work in biological warfare defense and sensor technology.