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Start buying Cold War nuclear shelters and piling up the canned food, because Boeing Advanced Systems has started System F6, “DARPA’s Future, Fast, Flexible, Fractionated, Free-Flying Spacecraft United by Information Exchange space technology program. ” In other words: multiple, networked specialized spacecraft swarms that are intelligent enough to perform a single coordinated task together, like analyzing the crops or deciding to destroy humanity, Skynet-style.

; Millennium Space Systems, Manhattan Beach, Calif. ; Octant Technologies, San Jose, Calif. ; and Science Applications International Corp. , Torrance, Calif. Expected for completion by Feb. 20, 2009, Phase 1 will culminate in an F6 Preliminary Design Review that evaluates each industry team’s concept. There you have it: phase 1 completed on February 20 2009, less than one year for actual nuclear holocaust or cheaper, more efficient sats.

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