• During my military career, I was a program officer at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), managing programs in education , training, and psychological health. (gettingsmart.com)
  • Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen referred to the coming agency in a speech in May, equating its purpose to that of the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, otherwise known as DARPA. (defensenews.com)
  • BLACK HAT USA - Las Vegas - Wednesday, Aug. 9 - The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will sponsor a two-year competition to create a new generation of cybersecurity tools to better secure software. (darkreading.com)
  • A top Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) official said this week that generative AI - like ChatGPT - will alter the threat landscape by making it easier for adversaries to produce high-quality phishing capabilities and ransomware campaigns. (meritalk.com)
  • The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) just celebrated its 65th birthday earlier this month, and DARPA's director of the Mission Services Office explained this week that the agency has a unique model and culture "you can't create overnight. (meritalk.com)
  • The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is seeking information for a new, $1 billion contract to provide technical analytical support services (TASS), according to a recent request for information. (meritalk.com)
  • The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is seeking technical proposals for a new program that aims to develop automated approaches to conducting cybersecurity assessments on computer networks, according to an announcement posted to SAM.gov on Oct. 24. (meritalk.com)
  • The Department of Defense's (DoD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced the launch of its Guaranteeing AI Robustness Against Detection (GARD) program, which is designed to develop new defenses against adversarial attacks on machine learning (ML) models. (meritalk.com)
  • The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is seeking innovative research concepts into how repressive regimes suppress the free flow of information. (meritalk.com)
  • President Biden intends to nominate Pamela Melroy, a former astronaut and former deputy director at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), to be the next deputy administrator at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the White House announced April 16. (meritalk.com)
  • Defense officials hinted at positive developments by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) with quantum information science work at a Senate hearing today, and told senators that the agency is kicking off its Innovation Steering Group under Defense Department (DoD) Secretary Kathleen Hicks to improve adoption of new technologies for DoD agencies. (meritalk.com)
  • The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is searching for new contracted program security personnel to assist the agency in innovation and research for national security efforts. (meritalk.com)
  • The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is seeking information on benchmarks to determine the long-term use of quantum computers, according to a broad agency announcement (BAA). (meritalk.com)
  • Somewhere around half of all ongoing projects at the Department of Defense's (DoD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are currently utilizing AI in some form, DARPA Deputy Director Dr. Peter Highnam said March 24. (meritalk.com)
  • The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has released a Special Notice (SN) to get more information about researching and developing "third wave" AI theory, and ways to address limitations seen in first and second wave AI technologies. (meritalk.com)
  • The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced a program aimed to expand access to domestic manufacturing capabilities for the secure development of custom computer chips for defense systems. (meritalk.com)
  • Stefanie Tompkins took over as the 23rd director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on Monday, returning to an agency she served for 11 years. (meritalk.com)
  • The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is launching an expansion of its Embedded Entrepreneurship Initiative (EEI) to accelerate 150 DARPA-backed technologies from lab to production. (meritalk.com)
  • Join Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) leaders for an overview of the agency's Small Business Programs, including the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs. (utexas.edu)
  • Dr. Blake Bextine currently serves as the Senior Adviser for Department of Defense (DoD) and Commercial Transitions at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). (utexas.edu)
  • Earlier this year, Carnegie Mellon was awarded a $3.6 million contract to collaborate on the project at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which is known as Memex . (reseller.co.nz)
  • The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency was designed for just that sort of innovation. (nextgov.com)
  • Europe will not have a pan-European innovation agency comparable to the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), as proposed by French president Emmanuel Macron last year. (euobserver.com)
  • I propose that, over the next two years, we create a European agency for disruptive innovation in the same vein as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) in the United States during the conquest of space," Macron said there. (euobserver.com)
  • Palermo writes that the new system, dubbed the "Gremlin" program by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), aims to do a better job of spotting enemy aircraft by using groups of multiple drones. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is providing funds to four aerospace manufacturers to develop novel aircraft capable of achieving fixed-wing jet speeds, while also offering vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) capability. (flightglobal.com)
  • The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded developed contracts aimed at creating neural implants that could make it possible for the human brain to speak directly with computers at near-instantaneous speeds, the federal agency announced in a press release . (govtech.com)
  • The Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) wants small companies to help it find new ways to project U.S. military power in space. (space.com)
  • The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is investing $70 million to develop a new implant that can track, and respond to, brain signals in real time. (rt.com)
  • San Diego-based General Atomics (GA) was awarded a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop scalable processes for the cost-effective large-scale production of algae triglyceride oil and an algae-derived JP-8 jet fuel surrogate. (ga.com)
  • While Point-Of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) devices are already on the market, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) argues that current devices are too expensive and fall short on interpreting key datasets. (sociable.co)
  • It's overseen by a new innovation steering group chaired by Shyu and has requested funding in the DOD's fiscal 2023 budget request. (fedscoop.com)
  • The Biological Technologies Office (BTO) is one of the seven technical offices within DARPA, an agency of the U.S. Department of Defense that is responsible for the development of advanced technology for national security. (wikipedia.org)
  • He joined DARPA as a program manager in March 2016, and has served twice as acting deputy director of the Biological Technologies office. (utexas.edu)
  • Many other individuals and organizations contributed to this success: former DARPA program managers Dan Wattendorf and Matt Hepburn, along with Geoff Ling, the Biological Technologies Office director at that time, and former DARPA Directors Regina Dugan and Arati Prabhakar. (nextgov.com)
  • Funded Track competitors will be selected from proposals submitted to a Small Business Innovation Research solicitation . (darkreading.com)
  • The solicitation is part of the agency's Bringing Classified Innovation to Defense and Government Systems (BRIDGES) initiative, which seeks to connect innovative companies with government agencies in order to solve "challenging problems that exist in the classified realm," according to DARPA's statement . (space.com)
  • According to DARPA's official solicitation documents , most of the existing programs related to space superiority "do not incorporate the latest innovations from the booming commercial 'new space' industry," slowing down the DoD's ability to field emerging technologies. (space.com)
  • That same sentiment was echoed by DARPA leadership in this solicitation. (space.com)
  • They consolidate memory, shape emotions, cue heuristics and biases in judgment, influence in-group/out-group distinctions, and may affect the fundamental contents of personal identity," reads the DARPA solicitation posted on Oct. 7. (livescience.com)
  • Telesat of Ottawa, Canada, is the third company to receive a study contract for Blackjack, a DARPA demonstration mission that envisions deploying 20 satellites - each carrying one or more payloads. (spacenews.com)
  • Defense contractor Leidos will assist Telesat in fulfilling the DARPA contract, Telesat said in a press release. (spacenews.com)
  • Telesat received an earlier contract Nov. 16 worth approximately $550,000 to help DARPA better understand "commercial, commoditized buses, their operational concepts, and to define their mechanical, electrical, and network interfaces," Paul Thomas, DARPA's project manager for Blackjack, said by email. (spacenews.com)
  • Her background also includes work in DARPA support offices, including the Director's Office (DIRO) and the Mission Services Office (MSO), where she served as the contract program manager for DARPA's largest and most complex support contract. (utexas.edu)
  • Prior to her time at DARPA, Ms. Thabet spent time as an attorney, specializing in contract law and general litigation. (utexas.edu)
  • I am identifying government innovation brokers and the sponsors that fund them and charting the interest areas for which they seek innovators. (defenseone.com)
  • All of them are in one way or another reaching out to the commercial market in search of innovators and innovations, often to address the same problems. (defenseone.com)
  • Embracing Nature's Genius: Manta Ray Northrop Grumman's Innovation In the realm of underwater innovation, one company stands out - Manta Ray Northrop Grumman. (scribodeneir.com)
  • DARPA is soliciting innovative proposals to enable revolutionary advances that address the security and operation of the large-scale megasystems for manufacturing, infrastructure, and logistics in modern societies. (defencescienceinstitute.com)
  • DARPA Information Innovation Office (I2O) is soliciting innovative research proposals. (defencescienceinstitute.com)
  • DARPA is soliciting innovative research proposals in the area of proof engineering, to include proof development, maintenance, deployment, and management. (defencescienceinstitute.com)
  • DARPA is collaborating with the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation on SUBNETS, and it is currently soliciting proposals from various research teams. (rt.com)
  • The first BTO office director in 2014-2015 - Dr. Geoffrey Ling, MD. The current BTO office director is Dr. Kerri Dugan, who joined joined DARPA as BTO's deputy in August 2019, and was named director in December 2020. (wikipedia.org)
  • Under the relatively new shift to emphasize all things cyber in the German military, the Defence Ministry's Cyber Innovation Hub, created last year, is slated to survey the domestic technology startup scene for ideas with potential military application. (defensenews.com)
  • Darpa is a US defence agency that had a crucial role in the space race, as well as laying the basis for the internet. (euobserver.com)
  • Her predecessor was Dr. Bradley Ringeisen, who joined DARPA as BTO's deputy director in 2015 and was named director in 2019. (wikipedia.org)
  • Vector, Virgin Orbit, and a company in stealth mode have qualified for the DARPA Launch Challenge, which will involve performing two launches on short notice in early 2020. (spacenews.com)
  • COLORADO SPRINGS - Three launch vehicle developers, one of which is still in stealth mode, have qualified to compete in a DARPA competition in early 2020 to demonstrate responsive launch capabilities. (spacenews.com)
  • In a briefing at the 35th Space Symposium here April 10, DARPA announced that Vector, Vox Space and a stealth-mode company have qualified to participate in the DARPA Launch Challenge. (spacenews.com)
  • More updates soon as I finish up the last day here at the DARPA Technology Symposium in Anaheim, California. (michaelbelfiore.com)
  • So far, I've found 25 currently active other transaction (OT) authority consortia , 16 Partnership Intermediary Agreement (PIA) organizations, and nearly 100 government innovation support agencies, ranging from the Marine Corps Rapid Capabilities Office to the Army Applications Laboratory to the National Geospatial Information Agency's GEOworks , with many in between. (defenseone.com)
  • Plus, Chattanooga joins Kansas City in adopting a Facebook chatbot, DARPA invests $65 million in developing two-way brain-computer interface, and NYC launches a pair of tech initiatives in Brownsville. (govtech.com)
  • Her experience includes work in multiple DARPA Technical Offices where she supported all aspects of the DARPA programmatic lifecycle from program concept to transition. (utexas.edu)
  • DARPA is a military research agency tasked with rapidly creating innovative new technologies by investing in high-risk, high-reward programs that push the boundaries of current scientific understanding. (gettingsmart.com)
  • At the Grand Challenge, DARPA agreed to let him stage a remote-control demonstration for the by now autonomous-bike-crazed media. (popsci.com)
  • DARPA, the U.S. Department of Defense military research agency, whose work has resulted in staples of modern life such as the Internet and GPS systems, is now working with a San Francisco-based R&D lab - Otherlab - to develop the world's most advanced industrial paper airplanes. (bigthink.com)
  • Combining a legacy of over 60 years of federal expertise with our innovation ecosystem, we minimize time to value and accelerate mission success. (lmi.org)
  • Enhancing the ability of the small business community to create and transition revolutionary technologies that benefit the warfighter, federal government, and commercial marketplace is of paramount importance in Ms. Thabet's role of Program Director, DARPA Small Business Programs Office (SBPO). (utexas.edu)
  • A nice piece on a recent talk by DARPA director of innovation, Dan Kaufman. (acm.org)
  • Martin Kern has been interim director of the European Institute for Innovation and Technology for almost three years. (euobserver.com)
  • DARPA director Tony Tether has just released the list of 36 teams that made it into the semi-finals for the Urban Challenge for autonomous vehicles capable navigating through city streets with other moving traffic. (michaelbelfiore.com)
  • The DARPA program, titled "Narrative Networks," bases itself on the idea that human brains physically change so as to fit new information into coherent narratives. (livescience.com)
  • DARPA plans to not only figure out why hearing or reading a particular story may change someone's life, but also plans on developing sensors that can scan people's brains to identify those changes. (livescience.com)
  • Learn what makes DARPA unique and how to get started with their office. (utexas.edu)
  • The Small Business Programs Office (SBPO) serves the small business community by creating an environment within DARPA that recognizes and utilizes small business as a primary source of innovative solutions. (utexas.edu)
  • In addition to major military innovations for stealth and hypersonics, DARPA programs have revolutionized our lives by developing critical technologies for the internet, mRNA vaccines, GPS, speech recognition systems, artificial intelligence, and much more. (gettingsmart.com)
  • DARPA aims to pay no more than $6 million per satellite, including launch. (spacenews.com)
  • Shyu has been pushing for a similar innovation funding mechanism called the Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve (RDER) that aims to achieve the same goal. (fedscoop.com)
  • Perri Adams, the DARPA program manager for the AI Cyber Challenge, confirmed that the qualifying event will take place in spring 2024, with the top 20 candidates participating. (nextgov.com)
  • Follow InnovationNewsDaily on Twitter @News_Innovation , or on Facebook . (livescience.com)
  • The document postulated that the agency, overseen by the two ministries for interior and exterior security, would help ensure Germany's "technological innovation leadership. (defensenews.com)
  • DARPA is a research and development agency of the US Department of Defense (DoD), responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military. (darkreading.com)
  • DARPA , an agency within the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) tasked with researching and developing new technologies, issued a statement outlining how it wants private companies outside of the typical base of legacy defense contractors to submit ideas related to "space superiority. (space.com)
  • Not only does DARPA want to map out exactly how diseases establish themselves in an individuals brain, the agency also wants its implant to be able to record the signs of illness in real time, deliver treatments, and monitor the treatment's effectiveness. (rt.com)
  • Whether the agency can actually achieve its goal in five years is a question mark - one neuroscientist told the New York Times that, like nearly all DARPA projects, it's "overambitious" - but new discoveries concerning how the brain functions are expected regardless. (rt.com)
  • The DARPA Robotic Challenge Finals, a 3-day affair which just concluded at the Pomona Fairgrounds, is a far bigger event than I imagined. (therobotreport.com)
  • DARPA Robotics Challenge official Brad Tousley said, "There is a long way to go. (therobotreport.com)
  • The overall experience made me appreciate the DARPA challenge and the money invested to get the ball rolling in this important area of disaster relief. (therobotreport.com)
  • We hope with this new DARPA challenge, we will spur such incredible innovation. (darkreading.com)
  • When last we visited with the men and women, the boys and girls, the Red Teams and Blue Teams and Road Warriors of the DARPA Grand Challenge off-road robotics race, back in March, we signed off on a note of authentic ambivalence. (popsci.com)
  • The valley of death is a challenge DOD innovation and acquisition leaders have been grappling with for years . (fedscoop.com)
  • The challenge, according to DARPA, is that the few AI tools that have been developed to date have required "hundreds of POCUS patient datasets to be collected and manually annotated by expert clinicians for each medical condition. (sociable.co)
  • The new project is part of President Obama's BRAIN initiative, which sets aside $100 million in its first year to develop new innovations in neuroscience. (rt.com)
  • We have a competition that shapes innovation around real world problems. (darkreading.com)
  • Todd Master, the manager of the competition at DARPA, said the unnamed company will identify itself closer to the dates of the competition. (spacenews.com)
  • While the competition involves larger tech firms, DARPA will also fund seven small businesses with up to $1 million to participate in the competition's initial phase. (nextgov.com)
  • DARPA expects to announce the next round of SPRINT funding in May 2024. (flightglobal.com)
  • No other event offers designers, researchers and decision-makers the opportunity to interact with each other while seeing and learning first-hand the latest innovations, tools and best practices. (dac.com)
  • DARPA canceled a smallsat program called the F6 System in 2013 after investing close to $200 million . (spacenews.com)
  • The Darpa system in the US is a little bit different from that," said Moedas. (euobserver.com)
  • LMI's innovation ecosystem and over 60 years of extensive knowledge in logistics management and modernization methods will improve outcomes for USTRANSCOM by optimizing lifecycle system performance, availability, and sustainment. (lmi.org)
  • Adrian Turner shares how we can capture this value and build our competitive advantage in key areas, as well as re-think our innovation system to drive scale. (www.csiro.au)
  • AICC will also ask the prize winners to open source their system such that the innovations produced by AICC can be used by everyone, from volunteer open source developers to commercial industry," Adams said. (nextgov.com)
  • We're trying to design tools that can secure as much software as possible throughout society," a DARPA official said on Tuesday's press call. (nextgov.com)
  • The staff either didn't know about or was unable to tap the vaunted and rapidly expanding ecosystem of government innovation brokerages created by the Pentagon, IC and civilian agencies. (defenseone.com)
  • Race organizers granted the team the luxury of a second try and time to make some quick software fixes, and for Take 2, the Acura came roaring out of the gate hard left and knocked over a two-and-half-foot-high concrete guard before DARPA could hit the E-Stop, a don't-try-this-at-home moment of autonomous mayhem that proved popular with the evening TV news broadcasts. (popsci.com)
  • Bextine came to DARPA from the University of Texas at Tyler where he was a Professor of Biology and Assistant Vice President for Research and Technology Transfer. (utexas.edu)
  • In response to a question about whether innovation is necessarily related to new technology and big breakthroughs, Lady Barbara Judge, chairman of the United Kingdom's Pension Protection Fund, defined innovation as either "using something new, or something known, but in a different way, different time or a different place. (upenn.edu)
  • DARPA identifies ambitious goals or "moonshots" and creates programs to reach them in 3-4 years. (gettingsmart.com)
  • Prior to joining SBPO, Ms. Thabet spent more than 13 years with Booz Allen Hamilton supporting DARPA and the DoD by providing program and project management for complex government contracts with a focus on project and financial management. (utexas.edu)
  • But DARPA has been leading the effort for more than 10 years and its funding of potential vaccines and antibody treatments created the framework for the deployment of new vaccines in record time. (nextgov.com)
  • DARPA is hoping to have the new implant developed within five years. (rt.com)
  • Here we are four years later, and DARPA is stressing the same importance on developing algorithms that can aid professionals in accurately making diagnoses and carrying out medical procedures. (sociable.co)
  • In 2013, DARPA awarded $25 million to Moderna to help establish its messenger RNA platform. (nextgov.com)
  • The interesting thing is that it's gotten lots of hype, it's gotten a lot of credit and there's very little recognition of where the true innovation actually occurred. (upenn.edu)
  • These innovation hubs came into existence precisely to ease the way into the government market for nontraditional suppliers with bleeding-edge products and services. (defenseone.com)
  • Discover what you can achieve where innovation meets inspiration. (lmi.org)
  • Every innovation starts with a bit of inspiration. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • The Portuguese commissioner added that in response the EU has set up a European innovation council, which is there to support startups and give advice on how to scale up innovative ideas. (euobserver.com)
  • From insight to innovation, learn how LMI can support your mission. (lmi.org)
  • The innovation that creates jobs is the one that is disruptive, that creates an all new market," he said. (euobserver.com)
  • A shared purpose that puts us at the forefront of innovation and technological advancements, contributing everywhere from the depths of the ocean to the mysterious expanse of space. (northropgrumman.com)
  • Space exploration, self-driving vehicles, advanced biometrics, and robotics are among the cool projects in the works at DARPA that are likely to have applications in the enterprise, too. (informationweek.com)
  • DARPA X-plane projects are typically intended to foster creativity and innovation amongst participants, outlining only a general problem set and basic performance requirements. (flightglobal.com)
  • While most people would agree that they are in favor of innovation, providing a succinct definition or example of it is a tougher question, noted participants in a panel on the topic at the Wharton Economic Summit 2013. (upenn.edu)
  • Werbach moderated a panel on the topic at the recent Wharton Economic Summit 2013 held in New York City, during which he challenged the participants to define innovation, talk about its relationship to entrepreneurship, and explain what is needed to nurture it. (upenn.edu)
  • I've helped philanthropies think about how to adapt DARPA approaches for creating higher-risk, high-impact programs with an eye on equity, inclusion, and scaling. (gettingsmart.com)
  • Review of DARPA FY 2015 Research Programs" (PDF). (wikipedia.org)
  • DARPA is taking a stab at improving portable ultra-sound devices with AI to respond to injuries in real-time directly on the battlefield. (sociable.co)
  • Specifically, DARPA wants companies to submit ideas about "new methods and technologies that may provide warfighters with disruptive options for protecting and defending space systems. (space.com)
  • Congress has provided remarkable new authority for the Defense Department and other agencies to waive procurement rules, test before buying, and get innovation fielded quickly. (defenseone.com)
  • Fundamental research models typically used in education will not adequately keep up with the pace of development, innovation, and adoption. (gettingsmart.com)
  • Tremendous innovation is happening in the commercial space industry, yet long procurement timelines and a relatively small number of cleared companies can limit adoption of those new innovations in defense and government space initiatives," Air Force Maj. (space.com)
  • And there's an opportunity in this country to create the breakthroughs but also to think about other types of innovation and combinatorial innovation. (www.csiro.au)
  • Ms. Jennifer Thabet is an experienced program manager with an extensive background supporting DARPA and the DoD. (utexas.edu)
  • Yancopoulos put his definition of innovation in the context of the industry in which he works - biotechnology - reminding the audience and fellow panelists that at the turn of the millennium, the sequencing of the genome was being hailed as a great innovation. (upenn.edu)
  • So what's going on right now and Kate alluded to it, is we're seeing the power of combinatorial innovation. (www.csiro.au)
  • The Brownsville Innovation Lab was first announced in March, and initial tech demos will be installed at Osborn Plaza in Brownsville, including the latest version of Bigbelly's solar-power trash cans , which hold as much as five times more waste than a standard can, and two Soofa smart benches that use solar power to provide free charging for tablets and phones. (govtech.com)
  • To understand the power of stories to shape modern conflicts, DARPA, the Defense Department's research arm, has initiated a program that will investigate how storytelling and narrative shape our neurobiology. (livescience.com)