The Patriot Missile System provides defense of critical assets and maneuver forces belonging to the corps and to echelons above corps against aircraft, cruise missiles and tactical ballistic missiles. US Army
Gamers Are Enlisted To Battle Bugs In Military Weapons -- MSNBC/Innovation
DARPA wants help with software problems from thousands of online players
Software bugs can prove deadly on the battlefield — a lesson learned when a buggy Patriot missile defense system failed to intercept a Scud missile that killed 28 American soldiers during the first Gulf War in 1991. To prevent such weapons disasters, the U.S. military wants to transform dull bug-hunting tasks into fun problem-solving games that attract swarms of online players.
The idea cooked up by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Defense Department's research arm, follows in the spirit of the "gamification" trend that transforms ordinary or routine activities into entertaining ones. Each game would be tailored around common bugs or problems in the software programs that control modern military weapons.
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