• According to Darpa, these wearable interfaces could ultimately enable diverse national security applications such as control of active cyber-defence systems and swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles. (theiet.org)
  • According to Darpa, the N3 teams are pursuing a range of approaches that use optics, acoustics and electromagnetics to record neural activity and/or send signals back to the brain at high speed and resolution. (theiet.org)
  • If your answer to that is yes, get this: the U.S. Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has just announced a build-a-rescue-robot competition with a grand prize of $2 million. (escapistmagazine.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)
  • The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is a research and development agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military. (wikipedia.org)
  • DARPA is independent of other military research and development and reports directly to senior Department of Defense management. (wikipedia.org)
  • While created as the research arm of the Department of Defense, DARPA has played an important role in some of the technologies that have become (or will become) fundamental to modern human societies. (bdtechtalks.com)
  • Darpa envisions two ways to make this happen. (theiet.org)
  • DARPA envisions the motherships will stay out of range of enemy defenses, but the drone swarms would fly into danger and conduct missions such as intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance or electronic warfare. (defensenews.com)
  • The space agency envisions the robot building parts for the International Space Station and satellites in space. (acm.org)
  • The primary drone negation mechanism shoots strong, stringy streamers from reusable interceptors that foul propellers causing loss of propulsion," DARPA explains . (core77.com)
  • It will not only be used for soldiers to control a drone swarm - an example used by Darpa - but will also put sensory information inside people's brains, making them feel pressure or actually see things. (theiet.org)
  • An X-61 Gremlin drone and a C-130 conduct a flight test by DARPA at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah on Oct. 29, 2021. (defensenews.com)
  • Under a contract from DARPA, AeroVironment Unmanned Aircraft Systems has created a hummingbird spy drone, the first two-wing, flapping-wing aircraft that carries its own energy source and can hover as well as move forwards. (tgdaily.com)
  • The work of the global robotics community brought us to this point - robots do save lives, do increase efficiencies and do lead us to consider new capabilities," said DARPA project managed Gill Pratt. (escapistmagazine.com)
  • said Gill Pratt, DARPA program manager. (scitechdaily.com)
  • ARLINGTON, Va. and BOSTON , July 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Approved for Public Release, Distribution Unlimited - The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ) announced that Ginkgo Bioworks (NYSE: DNA), which is building the leading platform for cell programming and biosecurity, has been awarded a 4-year contract worth up to $18 million to reimagine how to manufacture complex therapeutic proteins. (ginkgobioworks.com)
  • The 2007 Urban Challenge is the third in a series of competitions DARPA initiated to foster the development of autonomous robotic ground vehicle technology simulated military supply missions in a mock urban area. (cybernet.com)
  • America's top military research company, DARPA , is using foldable and autonomous robotic legs to help turn helicopters into an invaluable tool for tricky rescues and combat zones. (alphr.com)
  • The addition of self-stabilising robotic legs would make a drastic difference to the safety of helicopter flight. (alphr.com)
  • The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory is building the robotic payload under contract to DARPA. (spacenews.com)
  • DARPA's $4 million "In the Moment" (ITM) program presents the challenge of developing AI algorithms that can both replicate the decision-making process of experienced leaders and apply it to new, rapidly evolving crisis situations. (drexel.edu)
  • The triage domain allows us to get at core issues around trust and delegating decision-making to go beyond the state of the art in AI," said Matt Turek, PhD, DARPA's ITM program manager and deputy director of the Agency's Information Innovation Office. (drexel.edu)
  • Part of the logic behind building for the platform is that DARPA's senior staff sees this as the type of interface the young, fresh-out-of-school tech-savvy cybersecurity recruits they want to hire will be using and familiar with. (techcrunch.com)
  • The internet is an infrastructure that supports all aspects of modern life, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is creating technology to protect U.S. data, networks and national security, DARPA's acting director said in Baltimore today. (hilltoptimes.com)
  • Even a combination of the most advanced technology cannot solve the problems America faces in the cyber domain entirely," he said, and described DARPA's efforts to "create technologies that protect our data, our networks and our national security when it comes to these threats. (hilltoptimes.com)
  • As a performer on DARPA's Reimagining Protein Manufacturing (RPM) project, Ginkgo aims to deliver revolutionary advances in on-demand protein manufacturing by leveraging Cell-Free Protein Synthesis (CFPS) to enable rapid, high-yield, distributed production of human therapeutic proteins that support national security objectives. (ginkgobioworks.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)
  • TERN, a joint program between DARPA and the U.S. Navy's Office of Naval Research (ONR), aims to create a system that would enable small ships to operate both intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) and combat drones. (nationalinterest.org)
  • The Economist has called DARPA the agency "that shaped the modern world," and said that "Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine sits alongside weather satellites, GPS, drones, stealth technology, voice interfaces, the personal computer and the internet on the list of innovations for which DARPA can claim at least partial credit. (wikipedia.org)
  • During this flight test - the fourth deployment of the Gremlins - two of the small drones successfully carried out all formation flying positions and safety features before one was successfully recovered, DARPA said. (defensenews.com)
  • DARPA hopes the program - named for the imaginary, mischievous creatures that World War II-era pilots blamed when their aircraft or equipment malfunctioned - will one day allow the military to launch groups of small sensor-laden drones from bombers, cargo planes or smaller aircraft such as fighters. (defensenews.com)
  • After the mothership collects the drones and brings them back to base, ground crews would get them ready for another flight within 24 hours, DARPA said in a 2018 report. (defensenews.com)
  • The Gremlin drones are made by Dynetics, a subsidiary of Leidos. (defensenews.com)
  • DARPA hopes to dispense with evolutionary randomness and assemble biological creatures, genetically programmed to live indefinitely and presumably do whatever their human masters want. (popsci.com)
  • However, a new DARPA program called Atoms to Product (A2P) hopes to change that. (singularityhub.com)
  • Through this program, Ginkgo hopes to transform how therapeutic proteins are made, replacing cell-based methods with cell-free methods. (ginkgobioworks.com)
  • In October 2020, DARPA kicked off a series of flight tests in which it tried, but failed, nine times to recover three Gremlins. (defensenews.com)
  • COVID-19 (research projects) DARPA, May 22, 2020. (cdc.gov)
  • 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)
  • This challenge is going to test supervised autonomy in perception and decision-making, mounted and dismounted mobility, dexterity, strength and endurance in an environment designed for human use but degraded due to a disaster," she continued. (escapistmagazine.com)
  • Building that autonomy, Littlefield says, "was probably the most difficult technical challenge from a DARPA perspective. (ieee.org)
  • In this case, DARPA is looking for a wearable suit that can help protect warfighters. (technovelgy.com)
  • The vision of the Warrior Web program, grounded in human physiology and performance, is to develop and demonstrate the technologies required to create a compliant, warfighter-wearable, quasi-passive and adaptive suit system to both reduce injuries and retain optimal warrior performance. (technovelgy.com)
  • BAE Systems has announced that it has been awarded a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract to develop the next generation Multi-Function Radio Frequency (MFRF) Advanced Rotary Wing Multifunction Sensor (ARMS) system for helicopter operations. (shephardmedia.com)
  • The Canadian Commercial Corporation (CCC) is has been awarded an indefinite-delivery indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract by the US DoD to provide a high-lift heliporter designed and manufactured by Dart Aerospace to the USN. (shephardmedia.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)
  • One such concept is the use of air-launched UAS program is the Gremlins, a DARPA initiative to develop reusable a air launched Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS). (defense-update.com)
  • In 2013, DARPA launched the Brain Initiative, an ambitious project that brings together universities, tech companies and neuroscientists to discover how the brain works and develop technologies that enable the human brain to interact with the digital world. (bdtechtalks.com)
  • As the testbed for its XAI initiative DARPA has chosen intelligence analysis, where analysts have to pore over huge volumes of data coming out of videos, cameras and other sources. (bdtechtalks.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)
  • Consider the Pentagon's effort to build the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, a plane meant to be used by all branches of the military. (freedomsphoenix.com)
  • That's why DARPA, the Pentagon's future projects wing, wants better, portable atomic clocks, small enough to go into battery-powered devices. (popsci.com)
  • The 132-foot-long, diesel-powered vessel was built by U.S. defense contractor Leidos under DARPA 's ACTUV program, a somewhat clunky nested acronym that stands for Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel. (ieee.org)
  • DARPA said at the time those attempts were each inches away from working, and all Gremlins safely parachuted to the ground. (defensenews.com)
  • Originally known as the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), the agency was created on February 7, 1958, by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in response to the Soviet launching of Sputnik 1 in 1957. (wikipedia.org)
  • The name of the organization first changed from its founding name, ARPA, to DARPA, in March 1972, changing back to ARPA in February 1993, then reverted to DARPA in March 1996. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the 1960s and 1970s, DARPA (then known as ARPA), created ARPANET, the computer network that became the precursor to the internet. (bdtechtalks.com)
  • If successful, A2P could help enable creation of entirely new classes of materials that exhibit nanoscale properties at all scales," DARPA program manager John Main said in a news release , "It could lead to the ability to miniaturize materials, processes and devices that can't be miniaturized with current technology, as well as build three-dimensional products and systems at much smaller sizes. (singularityhub.com)
  • But DARPA is building a real version that's designed to make both cyberdefense and attacks using computer technologies more immersive, giving military hackers a way to look around the data and go "swimming in the Internet," as DARPA Plan X program manager Frank Pound explained to WIRED. (techcrunch.com)
  • The equipment - mounted on an otherwise unmodified, unmanned helicopter - successfully demonstrated the ability to land and take off from terrain that would be impossible to operate from with standard landing gear," said DARPA program manager Ashish Bagai. (alphr.com)
  • If we can relax the heat problem,' a DARPA program manager said, 'we can crank up the amplifier and increase the range of radar. (defensenews.com)
  • Program Manager Joe Parrish: DARPA is "working closely with the Air Force to answer any questions House and Senate appropriators may have as Congress goes forward in its budget deliberations. (spacenews.com)
  • ITM will investigate this basis for trust in the context of human off-the-loop decision-making in difficult domains and seeks to enable the development, evaluation, and fielding of algorithmic decision-makers in difficult domains. (drexel.edu)
  • We hope with this new DARPA challenge, we will spur such incredible innovation. (darkreading.com)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Since its founding, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has been a hub of innovation. (bdtechtalks.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)
  • You can have innovation that replaces one product for another product, but that doesn't really create jobs. (euobserver.com)
  • The innovation that creates jobs is the one that is disruptive, that creates an all new market," he said. (euobserver.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)
  • In 2008, DARPA -- the US government's military research wing -- launched the Instant Fire Suppression (IFS) research program, tasked first with finding out more about the actual nature of fire, and then using this new-found knowledge to develop novel fire suppression techniques. (extremetech.com)
  • But the prototypes it creates will be available for existing voting machine vendors or others to freely adopt and customize without costly licensing fees or the millions of dollars it would take to research and develop a secure system from scratch. (macobserver.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)
  • Learn more about the research at DARPA.mil, " Atoms to Product: Aiming to Make Nanoscale Benefits Life-Sized . (singularityhub.com)
  • The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is launching a $300 million collection of research efforts that could change the way the military models, designs, and ultimately manufactures its next generation of vehicles and weaponry. (freedomsphoenix.com)
  • The Defense Research Advanced Projects Agency (DARPA) has taken risks where others wouldn't. (biocentury.com)
  • Last month the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced the start of the second phase of its Tactically Exploited Reconnaissance Node (TERN) program. (nationalinterest.org)
  • A new project, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, aims to make the guidance of experienced decision-makers available to people who are thrust into leadership positions during crisis situations. (drexel.edu)
  • The focus on triage will encourage research teams to work directly on some of the hardest decision-making challenges possible. (drexel.edu)
  • By collaborating with academia, industry, and government partners, DARPA formulates and executes research and development projects to expand the frontiers of technology and science, often beyond immediate U.S. military requirements. (wikipedia.org)
  • DARPA comprises approximately 220 government employees in six technical offices, including nearly 100 program managers, who together oversee about 250 research and development programs. (wikipedia.org)
  • Ann Arbor, Michigan - Team Cybernet, a semifinalist in the 2007 DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) Urban Challenge, arrived in Victorville, California, today to compete in the final stages of the competition. (cybernet.com)
  • The US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) has officially funded a programme to develop a brain-to-machine interface - in the form of a headset designed to let military personnel control weapons through brain activity alone. (theiet.org)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • SUBNETS is going to be a cross-disciplinary, expansive team effort and the program will integrate and build upon historical DARPA research investments. (rt.com)
  • The $50 million program is looking initially for research proposals for that lay out how those design tools will work and the microchip security architecture they will build. (fedscoop.com)
  • Just when you thought that intelligence agencies have got all of that brainwashing and mind control techniques down pat, along comes the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and their effort in developing new brain chips which will supposedly be able to implant or remove specific memories from a subject. (ubergizmo.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) 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)
  • 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)
  • 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 study was supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Warrior Web Program, grants from the National Science Foundation, the American Heart Association and the National Institutes of Health, a Rolex Award for Enterprise, the Harvard University Star Family Challenge, and Wyss Institute and SEAS funding. (medscape.com)
  • DARPA is hoping to have the new implant developed within five years. (rt.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)
  • Read more about Darpa , Implant and Social Hit . (ubergizmo.com)
  • The goal of Tern is to give forward-deployed small ships the ability to serve as mobile launch and recovery sites for medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aerial systems (UAS)," DARPA said in a press release announcing Phase 2 of the program. (nationalinterest.org)
  • DARPA appears to agree with the full-body submersion vision of hacking's future, as it's working on an Oculus Rift-based interface for use by U.S. military hackers, one part of its Plan X project for making digital warfare easier to train for and operate. (techcrunch.com)
  • Darpa is entering the second phase of its Unmanned Ship (Nomars) program, which aims to build a new unmanned surface ship that can operate for one year at sea. (teknonel.com)
  • DARPA announced this week that SSL is will be ready for a "systems requirements review for the spacecraft bus in October 2018. (spacenews.com)
  • Today, DARPA shows off a new breakthrough: Extinguishing a flame using sound. (extremetech.com)
  • For more than fifty years, DARPA has held to a singular and enduring mission: to make pivotal investments in breakthrough technologies for national security. (cafepress.com)
  • And, according to White, this first of its kind breakthrough by his Limitless Space Institute (LSI) team sets a new starting point for those trying to manufacture a full-sized, warp-capable spacecraft. (ufostalker.com)
  • A challenge will be offered to teams to build tools using AI in order to solve open source's vulnerability challenges. (darkreading.com)
  • Named the AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC), the intention is to create AI-driven systems to help address cybersecurity issues and ensure more secure software. (darkreading.com)
  • A case-based reasoning approach is ideal for a technological challenge like this, because there is a fairly clear justification for the decisions the program is making," Weber said. (drexel.edu)
  • DARPA set out to solve a common challenge for forward troops: how can you reliably detect potential threats and targets of interest without making it a resource drain? (scitechdaily.com)
  • In 2004, DARPA launched the Grand Challenge, a competition that set the stage for current developments and advances in self-driving cars. (bdtechtalks.com)
  • If you think that the DARPA Robotics Challenge is going to be a quiet academic sort of thing, then DARPA for one doesn't agree. (i-programmer.info)
  • The DARPA Robotics Challenge DRC ( Darpa Robotics Challenge Grows ) seems to be turning into a bit of a circus. (i-programmer.info)
  • The challenge for DARPA, Burke said, is "how to make things smaller. (optics.org)
  • One way to meet this challenge is distributed manufacturing at the point of care," said Jason Kelly, CEO and co-founder of Ginkgo Bioworks. (ginkgobioworks.com)
  • According to the Agency's announcement, the goal of the program is to create the foundation for trusted algorithmic decision-making in challenging domains, such as medical triage, where there is no right answer, and, as a result, there is no preexisting ground truth on which to train the program. (drexel.edu)
  • DARPA is keen, it seems, to see what advances can be made by combining the knowledge and creativity of robotics experts with that of developers from fields outside of robotics. (escapistmagazine.com)
  • Battery advances make. (aviationweek.com)
  • To get better atomic clocks to troops, DARPA wants to take advantage of recent advances in atomic physics, like laser-cooled and magneto-optically trapped atomic samples, or radio-frequency trapped ion samples. (popsci.com)
  • Only paradigm-shifting researchers need apply: DARPA says it's looking for "innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, or systems. (fedscoop.com)
  • That being said DARPA thinks that by playing video games, gamers will be able to help identify any software flaws in the process . (ubergizmo.com)
  • Now we're not talking about the flaws within the games itself, but rather the process of playing certain types of games would allow DARPA to identify flaws found in the programming language itself or in open source software, after which DARPA would then notify the organization about it. (ubergizmo.com)
  • First, they say that DARPA has the wrong idea about hoping to overcome evolution's supposed randomness, and that evolution really represents a super-efficient design algorithm. (popsci.com)
  • This makes it easier for the human decision-maker to understand its logic - which is expected to help make the human decision maker willing to delegate to the algorithm. (drexel.edu)
  • For instance, if a doctor wants to trust a treatment recommendation made by an AI algorithm, they have to know what is the reasoning behind it. (bdtechtalks.com)
  • Darpa is preparing for a future in which a combination of unmanned systems, artificial intelligence, and cyber operations may cause conflicts to play out on timelines that are too short for humans to effectively manage with current technology alone," said N3 programme manager Al Emondi. (theiet.org)
  • It's been a long time since a Pentagon project from the DARPA labs truly evoked a "WTF DARPA? (popsci.com)
  • A previous project, the DARPA-backed SoloTrek XFV Exo-Skeletor Flying Vehicle, failed to develop into an operational aircraft. (aviationweek.com)
  • A positive project of DARPA several years ago (early 2000s) was funding Sonex for the development of their enhanced internal combustion engine. (corbettreport.com)
  • The first phase of the project will take 18 months, and at the end of it, DARPA wants to see a working proof of concept. (popsci.com)
  • Researchers say the SpiderFab project has the potential to change the way spacecraft are built and deployed. (acm.org)
  • One aim of the project is to create production methods that are compatible with Good Manufacturing Practices, thereby facilitating adoption by the pharmaceutical industry. (ginkgobioworks.com)
  • DARPA and Galois will publish the source code for the software and bring prototypes to the 2019 Def Con Voting Village. (macobserver.com)
  • First and foremost among these particular bots are mechanized First Responders, a group of machines built to assist distressed humans in especially dangerous places, such as nuclear disaster zones or buildings damaged by earthquakes. (escapistmagazine.com)
  • CT2WS built on the concept that humans are inherently adept at detecting the unusual. (scitechdaily.com)
  • The amount of resources made available … will depend on the quality of the proposals received and the availability of funds. (fedscoop.com)
  • These games will be the basis for reproducible innovations in the instrumentation of educational games, including how to design games to be diagnosticof student learning and socio-emotional development , and how to make educational games adaptive to learner's developing knowledge state and collaborative skill. (cmu.edu)
  • The historic achievement made by the Nano Hummingbird is an example of the leading-edge innovations introduced and deployed almost routinely by the AeroVironment UAS team," says Tom Herring, AV senior vice president and general manager of Unmanned Aircraft Systems. (tgdaily.com)
  • At the beginning of the year, DARPA demoed small-scale electromagnetic fire suppression (video at the end of the story), and now -- as you can see below -- the agency has created an acoustic wave fire extinguisher. (extremetech.com)
  • The agency is also hoping such an interface could make it easier for service members to carry out complex tasks as well as help them multitask. (theiet.org)
  • Rather than affecting areas of the brain, Darpa expects this to work at single-neuron resolution, connecting to each neuron individually, with the agency anticipating that this method could achieve ten degrees of freedom. (theiet.org)
  • 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)
  • However large or small, the agency will make awards in three phases. (fedscoop.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)
  • Such an agency would make Europe an innovator and not a follower," the French president added. (euobserver.com)
  • Problems such as stress cracks may arise from the way those systems interact, but in many cases those problems don't become apparent until a full prototype is actually built, triggering costly do-overs. (freedomsphoenix.com)
  • The Pentagon plans to build a prototype of such an unmanned 'arsenal platform' in 2017. (defense-update.com)
  • The hand-made prototype has a wingspan of 6.5 inches tip-to-tip and weighs less than an AA battery. (tgdaily.com)
  • To make this website work, we log user data. (shephardmedia.com)
  • Awardees must build chips that work with existing software and be able to assure security "while maintaining the performance and power required for system operation. (fedscoop.com)
  • DARPA always likes to work on technologies that are for the good of everybody, defense and civilians. (bdtechtalks.com)
  • The education specialists work with the game developers to apply key elements of the framework to make sure that the game's mechanics, dynamics, and aesthetics work to support the game's educational and socio-emotional objectives according to established instructional design principles. (cmu.edu)
  • As part of this effort, the education specialists work with the game designers to make each game maximally diagnostic. (cmu.edu)
  • Modular robotics is tremendously exciting, because instead of being constrained to one specific design that can do a limited number of things, a robot that's modular can be reconfigured (on the fly, even) to do whatever you want it to do, provided you have the hardware and software experience to make it work. (ieee.org)
  • Mathematically not that complex, but ohh so hard to make work in practice. (diydrones.com)
  • Over the past 18 years, Darpa has demonstrated increasingly sophisticated neurotechnologies that rely on surgically implanted electrodes to interface with the central or peripheral nervous systems. (theiet.org)
  • For most of us, that whole 'having hardware and software and experience' has kept modular robots from being something that we can really take advantage of, but over the last few years, user-friendly systems like Cubelets and MOSS have made it possible to build robots from modular parts without any programming at all. (ieee.org)
  • But DARPA is known for early involvement in hugely influential technologies like GPS, the internet, and graphical user interfaces. (singularityhub.com)
  • Why isn't it common knowledge that these technologies started as DARPA-funded projects? (corbettreport.com)
  • To allow operations to continue during cyberattacks, DARPA is developing technologies to rapidly detect, isolate and characterize cyberattacks on the electric power grid, Walker said. (hilltoptimes.com)
  • The program is working on anomaly-detection technologies that are sensitive but have low false-alarm rates in a U.S power grid system that's made up of more than 3,500 different grids, Walker said. (hilltoptimes.com)
  • DARPA is also working on network isolation and threat-characterization technologies for cyber systems that include normal information technology and integrated control systems hardware and software, he said. (hilltoptimes.com)
  • Neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux said, "DARPA seems to be going full steam ahead on these kinds of technologies. (ubergizmo.com)
  • While every attempt has been made to describe the technologies in a straightforward manner, to fully address the nuances of the concepts and to correctly describe the technology, the level of information and detail may exceed the interest of the casual reader. (cdc.gov)
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  • Darpa also said that the technology has to be "read and write", meaning that it will be bi-directional. (theiet.org)
  • Read more about Darpa and Security . (ubergizmo.com)
  • Land-based airstrips are also more vulnerable to enemy missiles, and frequently create tension​ with local populations. (nationalinterest.org)
  • The US Air Force and DARPA are looking at new concepts of operations that will enable unmanned platforms to support the future air component in all operational environments. (defense-update.com)
  • The DEFENDER and AGILE programs formed the foundation of DARPA sensor, surveillance, and directed energy R&D, particularly in the study of radar, infrared sensing, and x-ray/gamma ray detection. (wikipedia.org)
  • Ginkgo's synthetic biology platform, coupled with its extensive expertise in iterative Design-Build-Test-Learn -driven biological engineering, enables the rapid prototyping, optimization, and development of proteins, enzymes, metabolic pathways, and whole organisms under commercial-scale manufacturing conditions processes. (ginkgobioworks.com)
  • The program aims to develop a new amphibious tank in a collaborative process that allows designers to predict how all its components will interact before it is ever built. (freedomsphoenix.com)
  • Darpa plans to develop fleets of autonomous ships to enhance the US Navy. (teknonel.com)
  • DARPA is building a US$10 million open source voting system to ensure elections can't be manipulated ( via Motherboard ). (macobserver.com)
  • You might have thought that this test of robotics would be of interest to just the few, well probably quite a few, robot enthusiasts in the world, but now DARPA seems to want the whole world to watch. (i-programmer.info)
  • In return, DARPA committed to providing the robotics package to be integrated with the satellite. (spacenews.com)
  • We want to create systems that automatically defend any kind of software from attack, from use in commercial industry to life-saving medical devices," Adams said. (darkreading.com)
  • Very few countries are able to manufacture military jets and warships that marry electronics, novel materials, and cutting-edge propulsion systems. (freedomsphoenix.com)
  • Where I think we're headed at DARPA in the Winning in the Cyber Domain set of programs is what I loosely referring to as creating a cyber system-of-systems approach," Walker explained. (hilltoptimes.com)
  • He's helped hunt down replicants and save humanity from genocidal Cylon robots of our own making. (popsci.com)
  • It is true that since the trials the robots have improved a lot and there are lots of people looking forward to seeing them perform better, much better, but the video makes it look as if the spectators are going to see something from a sci fi movie. (i-programmer.info)
  • Fable is somewhere in the middle, with a degree of modularity that is based on self-contained individual modules with their own batteries, sensing, communication, and actuation, that can be snapped together to make more complex robots. (ieee.org)
  • Though the announcement didn't specify exactly what approaches will be pursued, a few fascinating methods we've covered for making on tiny scales include specially folded DNA and 3D printed structures with nearly nanoscale details. (singularityhub.com)
  • More practical approaches to building on the nanoscale could have wide ranging influence from health and medicine to manufacturing and materials science. (singularityhub.com)
  • This is an opportunity to use the technology to make a real difference to build something that can achieve dramatic structural change," she said. (darkreading.com)
  • In pursuit of this mission, DARPA has developed and transferred technology programs encompassing a wide range of scientific disciplines that address the full spectrum of national security needs. (wikipedia.org)
  • While helicopters traditionally need flat ground to land and take off from, DARPA and the Georgia Institute of Technology are looking into enabling helicopters to land on incredibly uneven ground. (alphr.com)
  • But as the technology fundamentally works in the same way, there's no reason to believe this won't make its way onto full-sized helicopters in the future. (alphr.com)
  • When the government, defense contractors and tech giants team up to create the next generation of military technology, who wins and who loses? (corbettreport.com)
  • DARPA launched the Cognitive Technology Threat Warning System (CT2WS) program in 2008 with the goal of maximizing warfighters' awareness of their surroundings by developing man-portable visual threat detection devices. (scitechdaily.com)
  • CT2WS succeeded in creating a technology kit capable not only of identifying up to 91 percent of targets during testing with extremely low false-alarm rates, but also widening a warfighter's field of view to 120 degrees when all components of the kit are used in tandem. (scitechdaily.com)
  • Google and Microsoft are already employing some of these techniques and moving the technology forward," Walker said, noting that DARPA is transitioning it to other parts of the government. (hilltoptimes.com)
  • IN THE VIDEO] (This boat developed by Darpa moves completely autonomously. (teknonel.com)
  • To drum up even more visitors there is a video that uses clips from the previous trials to make things look really exciting. (i-programmer.info)
  • DARPA released a video of the successful recovery that showed the Gremlin latching into a docking bullet that extended from the C-130, folding its wings into its body and then being gripped by a recovery arm that took it into the C-130. (defensenews.com)
  • 5 μm) containing SARS-CoV-2 with a 3-jet Collison nebulizer and fed them into a Goldberg drum to create an aerosolized environment ( Video ), using an initial virus stock of 10 5.75 -10 6 50% tissue-culture infectious dose (TCID 50 ) per mL. (cdc.gov)
  • DARPA is preparing to grant contracts for the construction and flight demonstration of Portable Personal Air Mobility System prototypes that can be used by soldiers for short hops of 10 km (6.2 mi. (aviationweek.com)
  • Later phases will involve the building and testing of prototypes and demonstrations that the tools can be scaled for mass production. (fedscoop.com)
  • The F-35 is now expected to cost $135 million per plane and $1.5 trillion over the life of the program, making it the most expensive weapons system in military history. (freedomsphoenix.com)
  • The semifinalists will have a year to build a system that can rapidly defend critical infrastructure from attack. (darkreading.com)
  • In May of the following year, it signed a memorandum of understanding with ONR to make it a joint program. (nationalinterest.org)
  • The report by Darpa also mentions six degrees-of-freedom control of machine. (theiet.org)
  • In Phase 3, a performer would be selected to build a full-scale demonstrator Tern system for ground-based testing, culminating in an at-sea demonstration of launch and recovery. (nationalinterest.org)
  • The field of nanotechnology aims to build components or even entire machines so small they approach the atomic. (singularityhub.com)
  • The hardware will also be open source made from designs created at another DARPA program. (macobserver.com)
  • Plan X was a DARPA effort to create for the first time a common operating picture for warriors in cyberspace. (hilltoptimes.com)
  • Capturing the knowledge along with this context as it is created currently requires a dedicated effort on the part of the person performing the task, which often does not happen. (infodocket.com)
  • By creating a more accessible brain-machine interface that doesn't require surgery to use, Darpa could deliver tools that allow mission commanders to remain meaningfully involved in dynamic operations that unfold at rapid speed. (theiet.org)