I can only wonder what DARPA are doing currently behind all the secrecy, assuming whatever disclosed in the book is, let say, 20 years back technology.
p/s: there doesn't seems to be a lot of red-tape in approving whatever the 'researchers' wants to do, at least in the past
p/s: there doesn't seems to be a lot of red-tape in approving whatever the 'researchers' wants to do, at least in the past