• The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA, formerly ARPA) has been the military's in-house innovator since 1958, a year after the USSR launched Sputnik. (wikipedia.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)
  • 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)
  • The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency was designed for just that sort of innovation. (nextgov.com)
  • The Princeton team was among 36 semifinalists named last week by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in its "Urban Challenge" - a competition whose purpose is to spur innovation in autonomous robotic vehicles. (princeton.edu)
  • 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)
  • Dr. Gill A. Pratt joined Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as a program manager in the Defense Sciences Office (DSO) in January 2010. (usna.edu)
  • The Research, Development, and Acquisition (RDA) is the core research program of the Department of Defense that was established in 2014 to enhance the related medical research and development programs of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). (health.mil)
  • The project received $13.48 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and is supported by Hopkins Medicine (specifically the department of Neurosurgery), Hopkins Engineering, Johns Hopkins APL, Johns Hopkins Hospital, and Johns Hopkins Bayview Hospital. (fusfoundation.org)
  • Funded by more than $20 million in Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Department of Defense funding, the privately held company is developing unique biomaterials with an initial focus on orthopedic applications including foot and ankle, rotator cuff, and knee ligament, including ACL (Anterior Cruciate Ligament). (expansionsolutionsmagazine.com)
  • Further, by 2024 the Ministry of Defense intends to establish a yet to be named cutting edge research agency modeled on the United States' Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Defense Innovation Unit, he said. (nationaldefensemagazine.org)
  • The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative research proposals in the area of proof engineering, to include proof development, maintenance, deployment, and management. (federalgrants.com)
  • The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has funded the project since 2008 with approximately $53M via Phase 0 , Phase 1 , Phase 2 , and Phase 3 of the Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics (SyNAPSE) program. (prnewswire.com)
  • 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)
  • The division is headed by former DARPA director and Google executive Regina Dugan and was given an investment commitment of hundreds of millions of dollars by Zuckerberg. (rt.com)
  • RESTON, Va. , Sept. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Metron, Inc., a trusted provider of advanced research, scientific, and software solutions for government and commercial markets, announced today that the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), Strategic Technology Office (STO) awarded a $2.134 million Beyond Linear Processing (BLiP) contract to the Company. (wtnh.com)
  • ESSINGTON, PA / ACCESSWIRE / November 21, 2023 / Piasecki Aircraft Corporation , a global leader in rotorcraft and aerial vehicles, announced today that it has been awarded a $37 million multi-year contract by AFWERX, the Air Force's innovation arm in conjunction with the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), as part of its Strategic Funding Increase ( STRATFI ) program. (whnt.com)
  • The Japanese Ministry of Defense will boost the "bridge" money it spends from $6.6 million this year to $137 million in 2023, he said. (nationaldefensemagazine.org)
  • On September 13, 2022, Biden announced his intent to appoint Renee Wegrzyn, formerly of the DARPA biotech office, as the agency's inaugural director, but it is still unknown where its headquarters will be located. (wikipedia.org)
  • In July 2022, U.S. Reps. Suzanne Bonamici, D-OR, and Brian Fitzpatrick, R-PA, proposed legislation to create a National Middle for Superior Improvement in Instruction, focused on R&D and innovation, employing DARPA as a model. (myteacherhelper.com)
  • DARPA also inspired the Advanced Research and Invention Agency in the UK and in 2021 the Biden administration proposed ARPA-C for climate research. (wikipedia.org)
  • A celebration for three new innovation laboratories at Johns Hopkins Bayview Hospital, Johns Hopkins Hospital, and Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) was held virtually on Tuesday, September 14, 2021. (fusfoundation.org)
  • By 2021, more than six billion smartphones were in circulation globally and automated vehicles drove more than 6.5 million kilometres in the US state of California alone. (itf-oecd.org)
  • After spending some $500 million over a 15-year period, the Navy abandoned railgun technology in 2021, announcing that it would concentrate its efforts on hypersonic technology instead. (nationaldefensemagazine.org)
  • DARPA is widely known for creating ARPAnet, the predecessor of the internet, and has been instrumental in advancing hardened electronics, brain-computer interface technology, drones, and stealth technology. (wikipedia.org)
  • We hope with this new DARPA challenge, we will spur such incredible innovation. (darkreading.com)
  • The multi-million-dollar contract will leverage Metron's tracking and signal processing expertise to develop, test, and deploy innovations to increase radar system performance for small-scale sea, air, and ground platforms. (wtnh.com)
  • The multi-million-dollar contract will leverage Metron's tracking and signal processing expertise. (wtnh.com)
  • In late December, DARPA awarded a $1.5 million contract to Raytheon to develop small satellites capable of quickly providing US ground troops with imagery of their surroundings. (businessinsider.in)
  • As part of this 5-year contract worth nearly $15 million, LMI will assist USTRANSCOM with strategic guidance and planning, concept development and maturation, process and method development, and joint combatant command service-led wargames. (lmi.org)
  • When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020, DARPA's 10 years of funding research and development on DNA and RNA vaccines, including a $25 million award to Moderna to help establish its messenger RNA platform, proved critical. (nextgov.com)
  • Metron is proud to be supporting DARPA's efforts to deliver cutting-edge innovations for next-generation radar solutions," stated J. Van Gurley , President and Chief Executive Officer, Metron Inc . "We are pleased to continue our collaboration with DARPA to deliver innovations that enable greater capabilities for the operating forces. (wtnh.com)
  • Race manager and resident sunny optimist Col. Jose Negron unblinkingly predicted that a team would cross the finish line in under 10 hours to claim DARPA's million-dollar prize in the race's inaugural run-yet course designer Sal Fish couldn't bring himself to share this official vision. (popsci.com)
  • The January/February issue of the ACerS Bulletin 's cover article features DARPA's Materials Development for Platforms-a new program that aims to speed up new materials development with a fresh, application-driven approach to innovation. (ceramics.org)
  • In the competition, prizes include $20 million to the teams with the best systems, while up to $1 million will be offered to seven small businesses too. (darkreading.com)
  • Princeton undergraduates who have engineered a self-driving car designed to navigate city streets without human help have been selected as semifinalists in a hotly contested Pentagon competition with top prizes worth $3.5 million. (princeton.edu)
  • Inspired by the success of DARPA, in 2002 the Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA) was created and in 2006 the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) was created. (wikipedia.org)
  • IA white paper was published by former Obama White House staffers, Michael Stebbins and Geoffrey Ling through the Day One Project that proposed the creation of a new federal agency modeled on DARPA, but focused on health. (wikipedia.org)
  • 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)
  • 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 mysterious Building 8 group was launched last year as a DARPA-style agency to drive innovation in "augmented and virtual reality, artificial intelligence, connectivity and other important breakthrough areas. (rt.com)
  • DARPA, the military research agency behind more than six decades of technological breakthroughs, is holding an all-day regional event in Greensboro in two weeks. (wraltechwire.com)
  • CEO Paul Schuepp and Michael Miller co-founded the company in 2003 after a preferred stock offering raised $2 million and they obtained $3 million in grants, to build facial recognition tools for the U.S. Army and Defense Advanced Research Products Agency (DARPA). (securityinfowatch.com)
  • If any section is incomplete, please visit the website for the DARPA Information Innovation Office, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant. (federalgrants.com)
  • As commercial and cross-sector innovation gained pace, governments have gone beyond fixing market failures. (deloitte.com)
  • students must keep up with regular coursework while working at a brisk pace to meet DARPA milestones. (princeton.edu)
  • The Institute of Schooling Sciences (IES), the Office of Education's stats, research and analysis arm, acquired $40 million in new money for investigation and growth, a part of which ought to be employed to "support a new funding possibility for speedy-turnaround, superior-reward scalable answers. (myteacherhelper.com)
  • By capitalizing on recent innovations in the field of radar and sensor technology, and utilizing the power of current computer processing systems, BLiP will enable the same radar performance achieved by large-scale-often expensive-platforms. (wtnh.com)
  • Proliferated SpaceProliferated SpaceSEAKR is making a difference in proliferated space We provide the Pit Boss BMC3 processing, and Storm King ELINT payloads for DARPA 's Blackjack constellation. (seakr.com)
  • The top five semifinalists will win $2 million each and have the opportunity to spend a year advancing their technology," Adams said. (darkreading.com)
  • After completing its site visits, DARPA announced the semifinalists. (princeton.edu)
  • Other myths debunked are claims that investors won't invest without patents, that patents are a useful measure of innovation, that the problem is just with patent trolls, that patents disclose innovation, and a few others as well. (techdirt.com)
  • So, one of the common myths is DARPA invented it and then it diffused. (techpolicyinstitute.org)
  • The advantages for us include access to a technical workforce, strong academic and clinical research partners, our DARPA/DOD partners, and an investor base committed to funding innovation and breakthrough healthcare. (expansionsolutionsmagazine.com)
  • Incredibly compelling combinatorial innovation underpinned by breakthrough. (www.csiro.au)
  • For further information about DARPA please visit the website here . (usna.edu)
  • 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)
  • NSF is also establishing a new research program dubbed Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water Systems (INFEWS). (aaas.org)
  • Last week, a new Materials Innovation Platforms (MIP) program funded by the National Science Foundation made its first awards to Penn State University and Cornell University, with the aim to "significantly accelerate materials research and development," according to a recent NSF news release . (ceramics.org)
  • Metron, in collaboration with Duke University and Azure Summit Technology (AST), will provide DARPA with algorithms, theoretical analysis, and a software testbed to optimize and evaluate end-to-end system performance in the first phase. (wtnh.com)
  • Fundamental research and development on next-generation wireless technologies, along with important spectrum policy work carried out by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), will drive information technology- and innovation-based economic growth. (greencarcongress.com)
  • He presently manages the Autonomous Robotic Manipulation (ARM), Maximum Mobility and Manipulation (M3), Nano Air Vehicle (NAV), Cognitive Technology Threat Warning System (CT2WS), System of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics (SyNAPSE) and DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) programs. (usna.edu)
  • Embody's growth within the City of Norfolk's internationally recognized Norfolk Innovation Corridor confirms we remain a premier destination for technology businesses. (expansionsolutionsmagazine.com)
  • Craig Schlenoff, a project manager at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), reviewed the iFace on behalf of DARPA with seven to nine soldiers at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. (securityinfowatch.com)
  • Funded Track competitors will be selected from proposals submitted to a Small Business Innovation Research solicitation . (darkreading.com)
  • Focussing innovation on key societal issues and reducing friction-often involving ecosystem building. (deloitte.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)
  • 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)
  • The lesson for other challenges, from cybersecurity to climate change, is obvious: Governments can and should take steps to speed up the development of innovative solutions for the benefit of society-focussing on reducing friction by strengthening innovation ecosystems and providing funding, coordination and strategy for critical issues. (deloitte.com)
  • Second, since liberal democracies depend heavily on private companies for most R&D, most innovation, and virtually all delivery of tech-intensive goods and services, the governments of these nations need to promote cross-border alignment and cooperation among their mostly private national innovation systems. (issues.org)
  • The Horizon Scan workstream of the ITF Mobility Innovation Hub helps governments plan and act early to navigate uncertainty. (itf-oecd.org)
  • 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)
  • The BRAIN Initiative (including funding from NSF and DARPA) would increase to over $300 million. (aaas.org)
  • The National Science Foundation (NSF) will invest more than $400 million over the next seven years to support fundamental wireless research and to develop platforms for advanced wireless research in support of the White House's Advanced Wireless Research Initiative . (greencarcongress.com)
  • In the last decade, wireless usage across the US has expanded significantly, with nearly 350 million smartphones, connected tablets and wearable devices in use-more than double the number from a decade ago-carrying more than 100,000 times the traffic they supported in 2008. (greencarcongress.com)
  • Each of the remaining teams received a site visit this summer from DARPA officials. (princeton.edu)
  • Anyone interested in learning more can visit http://innovation.nyc . (govtech.com)
  • It was founded in the early 1980s as a spin-out of the University of Utah and has been one of the top recipients of DARPA funding over the past three decades. (bgr.com)
  • The Administration has also again revived its proposal for a National Network for Manufacturing Innovation . (aaas.org)
  • All responsible sources capable of satisfying the Government's needs may submit a proposal that shall be considered by DARPA. (federalgrants.com)
  • You are now leaving the website that is under the control and management of DARPA. (darpa.mil)
  • Leveraging external innovation to drive mission delivery-often involving novel partnerships. (deloitte.com)
  • Myth 2: Patents drive innovation. (techdirt.com)
  • Patents do not drive innovation, they ban innovation. (techdirt.com)
  • If patents are driving innovation, which is claimed, then this outright ban must be shown to have side effects that somehow drive innovation to a larger extent than the extent to which the direct ban destroys it. (techdirt.com)
  • This does neither drive innovation nor a healthy competitive market. (techdirt.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)
  • Nations are strengthening their innovation ecosystems to develop long-term competitiveness and sustainability. (deloitte.com)
  • It's really about two things," Randy Gricius, director of Raytheon's space innovations group, told Business Insider. (businessinsider.in)
  • The pandemic showed how government can help speed up innovation in every area-from production of masks to tests, drugs and vaccine production. (deloitte.com)
  • This report explores the role of government as a catalyser of innovation for public good. (deloitte.com)
  • The appearance of hyperlinks does not constitute endorsement by DARPA of non-U.S. Government sites or the information, products, or services contained therein. (darpa.mil)
  • Naval Medical Center San Diego stands at the forefront of medical innovation, being the first military hospital on the West Coast to implement osseointegrated amputation surgery. (health.mil)
  • Heading again several administrations, there is been desire in developing an State-of-the-art Study Tasks Company for Education (ARPA-Ed), akin to the Defense Highly developed Investigation Jobs Company (DARPA) that supports innovations for the military services. (myteacherhelper.com)
  • The company has more than $265 million invested in the development of its technologies and more than 300 patents related to its innovations. (bgr.com)
  • Embody, Inc. , a Norfolk, Virginia based-medical device company developing novel collagen-based technologies for soft tissue repair, will invest $5 million to expand its headquarters at Innovation Research Park at Old Dominion University in the City of Norfolk. (expansionsolutionsmagazine.com)
  • Security needs have propelled development of facial recognition tools and a sector of biometric identification, but unlike applications such as automated iris and fingerprint identification, no mobile device is now on the market to match facial images to identities, the company said, making iFace an innovation. (securityinfowatch.com)
  • In addition, some of the innovations developed under Project BioShield may become important in the treatment of naturally occurring diseases. (espionageinfo.com)
  • The U.S. Navy deployed the first En-Route Care System medical expeditionary capability aboard the Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group during a regularly scheduled deployment, Oct. 14. (health.mil)
  • Subsequently, he became a professor at Franklin W. Olin College, and before joining DARPA, was Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs and Research. (usna.edu)
  • In 2013, DARPA awarded $25 million to Moderna to help establish its messenger RNA platform. (nextgov.com)
  • Hoover joined PARC in 2011 and oversees PARC's work for clients in diverse focus areas and competencies including networking, novel electronics, human-centered innovation services, cleantech, intelligent systems, contextual intelligence, and more. (cxotalk.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)
  • At the Grand Challenge, DARPA agreed to let him stage a remote-control demonstration for the by now autonomous-bike-crazed media. (popsci.com)
  • In 2007, Apple released its first iPhone and an automated vehicle completed the DARPA urban self-driving challenge for the first time. (itf-oecd.org)
  • Both technologies are prime examples for innovations that change the way our societies function. (itf-oecd.org)
  • After all, one of the major incentives for "large innovations" (the ones that move things dramatically forward, not small detail changes) may not happen. (techdirt.com)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • SEAKR is honored to be featured in DARPA 's press release as leading a great team in achieving Mandrake 2 success. (seakr.com)
  • We don't have a functional system out there that isn't based on patent and doesn't profit from patents in other jurisdictions, so we don't know that abolishing patents would have a long term beneficial effect on innovation. (techdirt.com)
  • We are grateful for Embody, Inc.'s decision to invest $5 million in its Norfolk headquarters and create 92 high-wage jobs," said Norfolk Mayor Kenneth Cooper Alexander. (expansionsolutionsmagazine.com)
  • 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)
  • Digital innovation can deliver $315 billion in gross economic value to Australia over the next decade. (www.csiro.au)
  • To demonstrate scalability, IBM also revealed a 16-chip system with sixteen million programmable neurons and four billion programmable synapses. (prnewswire.com)
  • Even before the pandemic, government's role as a solution catalyser was growing in breadth and complexity, with an emphasis on how to harness innovation across sectors for public good. (deloitte.com)
  • Seeding critical areas of innovation-a traditional role, but now using more agile approaches. (deloitte.com)
  • Over the past decade, many liberal democracies have become aware of their growing economic links with China , considering that country's role as both a huge market for exports and a global leader in manufacturing capability and related innovation. (issues.org)
  • This achievement underscores IBM's leadership role at pivotal transformational moments in the history of computing via long-term investment in organic innovation. (prnewswire.com)
  • In May, DARPA winnowed the field of competitors from 89 entrants to 53. (princeton.edu)
  • Reflecting the importance of the research platforms to the US wireless industry, more than 20 companies and private-sector associations, including equipment vendors, device manufacturers and wireless carriers, have cumulatively pledged more than $35 million in cash and in-kind donations to enable the construction of these research platforms. (greencarcongress.com)
  • At the end of February, the U.S. Department of Energy launched a $40 million effort to improve materials for clean energy solutions. (ceramics.org)
  • In these roles, Hoover was responsible for multi-million dollar R&D investments and product strategy encompassing several platforms and market offerings. (cxotalk.com)
  • Norfolk is excited about the arc of innovation bending toward equity, especially in a period of challenging and evolving global competition for new businesses and jobs," said Delegate Jackie Hope Glass. (expansionsolutionsmagazine.com)
  • Anuvu , formerly known as Global Eagle, has secured a commitment for $50 million of growth capital to support its constellation plans. (satellitetoday.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)
  • Whilst the remaining model of the omnibus monthly bill fell brief of providing the $100 million requested to create that different center, said Schneider, it enables IES to make a different unit housed at the Nationwide Center for Education and learning Research to focus on innovation. (myteacherhelper.com)