I already tried to talk to DARPA with a very, very viable powerplant and actuation system. They are so incredibly corrupt they don't want innovations. It's just another "milk the tax money to funnel projects to our friends" department of the government.
I could give you viable power armor in six months with enough manpower and budget. Then you could decide the level of protection and speed you wanted versus weight. It ain't the stupid supercomputer-slaved money pit that DARPA claims is necessary.
People like me wait in the shadows, because the government is too phenomenally corrupt to do anything that doesn't redirect money to their buddies and owners. One day when DARPA is a real, actual research department, you will see people like me at the fore.
Until, it's just another corrupt and rotten scum bucket holding back tech, funneling it to "foreign interests" and spending vast gobs of money on stupid stuff.
DARPA is the FBI of technology. They might as well install their facility in Tel Aviv with a secondary branch in Beijing. The phenomenally worthless and money-wasting crap they come out with boggles the mind. Try checking out the website that shows where the latest government contracts went, and to whom, and for what.
We don't need deodorant condoms or automatic masturbation gloves or whatever the heck they are spewing these days.
DARPA is Deep State, one hundred percent.