The prospect of super soldiers has never been more plausible.

According to sources, the United States military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is currently working on a creating a system that would enable soldiers in the battlefield to have enhanced battle capabilities, according to Sputnik News.

The system involves the use of a very small implantable chip that is capable of connecting the human brain to a computer, facilitating data delivery from soldier to machine in speeds unlike anything seen before.

If the system does work as planned, the computer implant and the human brain would be able to work together seamlessly, in such a way that the soldier becomes a real-life cyborg, complete with enhanced communication capabilities and increased battle prowess.

For example, instead on relying on more conventional channels, a soldier with the biochip implanted on his or her brain would be able to receive real-time instructions from the command center while in the field. Apart from this, information about enemy positions would also be distributed in a manner that is far more efficient than the ones used today, reported Tech Times.

Dubbed the Neural Engineering System Design (NESD), the human cyborg project uses state-of-the-art systems to facilitate the transfer of data. Project manager Phillip Alvelda stated that the technology being used in the program is far more advanced than those found in supercomputers that are being used today.

"Imagine what will become possible when we upgrade our tools to really open the channel between the human brain and modern electronics," Alvelda said.

After all, with the goal of streamlining data transfer between man and machine, and with the human brain being the most intricate organ in the human body, the technology that the project needs should be nothing short of revolutionary.

Though DARPA's venture into the possibility of human-computer hybrid soldiers might seem outrageous to many, the organization has had the reputation of frequently proving critics wrong in the past. Then again, the organization is also developing technology for synthetic blood, motorized insects, and submersible airplanes. Such concepts are very intricate and grand, and yet DARPA has taken significant strides in accomplishing them.

In essence, DARPA has thrived in the pursuit of the outrageous, eventually coming up with a fully-working concept that eventually ends up revolutionizing the way technology is perceived. Late into the 1960's alone, DARPA played a very important role in the development of networked computer systems, a very ambitious project at the time.

Decades later, and after much innovations, this network was known as the Internet.