Findings / DOW-UAP-D118
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DIRD judges smart windows most promising programmable-matter research for next 5 years
- Verbatim
near-term applications such as smart windows and energy-saving metapolarizers, which offer direct and immediate economic advantages (namely energy savings) and which dovetail neatly with existing infrastructure, should be considered the most promising for research over the next 5 years.
DOW-UAP-D118 · Release 06 · page 19 · war.gov ↗ - Context
The DIRD is a DIA reference product dated 14 December 2009 and prepared under AAWSAP.
- Inference · AI interpretation
This suggests the authors ranked commercially viable applications above the more ambitious aerospace concepts discussed elsewhere in the paper.
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