No surprise that military extreme science agency Darpa is behind the project, which is called REPAIR, or Reorganization and Plasticity to Accelerate Injury Recovery.

Following an investigation, the Department of Defense planned to release a list of military bases to be closed or "realigned" -meaning that they would be adapted to different purpose.

The research at the Florida institute, the first to research military uses of sensory augmentation, is funded by the Defense Department. The exact amount of the expenditure is unavailable.