• DARPA has looked into everything from satellite miniaturization to Hyperloop style drone throwers, but a satellite's mirror is the hardest part to launch in most cases. (extremetech.com)
  • The drone project is backed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Pentagon's research arm. (livescience.com)
  • When the drone landed, more than half of its fuel was still on board, according to DARPA officials. (livescience.com)
  • DARPA is working on several drone projects as the technology has continued to advance, the agency said. (livescience.com)
  • DARPA is an agency of the U.S. Department of Defense and is widely known for inventing the digital protocols that gave birth to the internet. (koreatimes.co.kr)
  • 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)
  • The unique benefits of the iBioPharma plant-based technologies have attracted competitive funding from the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) of the U.S. Department of Defense. (blogspot.com)
  • Vanilla's VA001 is designed to stay aloft for up to 10 days of nonstop flight, carrying a 30-lb. (14 kilograms) payload, DARPA said. (livescience.com)
  • A small winged glider designed by Pentagon researchers was the payload for Thursday's launch. (spaceflightnow.com)
  • The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory is building the robotic payload under contract to DARPA. (spacenews.com)
  • since its inception in 1958, the defense advanced research projects agency, or darpa, has grown to become the defense department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science research and development agency. (cognitive-liberty.online)
  • But in the case of Darpa -- the Defense Department's cutting-edge science and technology division -- Congress proclaimed 'poor execution' a half-dozen times, as it trimmed more than $130 million from Darpa's approximately $3 billion budget. (blogspot.com)
  • from darpa's earliest defensive advances to hundreds of ongoing programs, jacobsen exposes both sides of the darpa coin: the fantastic technological advances from which we all benefit, and the darker side drawn up in a race for military supremacy. (cognitive-liberty.online)
  • 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)
  • Weinberger has interviewed more than one hundred former Pentagon officials and scientists involved in DARPA's projects-many of whom have never spoken publicly about their work with the agency-and pored over countless declassified records from archives around the country, documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, and exclusive materials provided by sources. (penguinrandomhouse.com)
  • October 19, 2016 Got Something to Sell to the Pentagon? (aptac-us.org)
  • The previously unreported but concentrated interest by Huawei Technologies, a company once at the center of a federal investigation and which has come under scrutiny by U.S. spy agencies , came in the form of phone calls and emails sent to select individuals involved in engineering machines that competed in the 2016 DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge. (cyberscoop.com)
  • Because the program is classified at the "secret" level, a DARPA spokesperson declined to share more details about it. (nextgov.com)
  • A DARPA spokesperson told CyberScoop it had issued no guidance forbidding tournament participants from entering into business talks with foreign governments or companies as long as they followed the rules of the technical competition itself. (cyberscoop.com)
  • From the CGC announcement up to and including the final event, the teams could engage with whomever they wanted as long as the Entrant complied with the rules," a DARPA spokesperson said. (cyberscoop.com)
  • In the first-ever history about the organization, New York Times bestselling author Annie Jacobsen draws on inside sources, exclusive interviews, private documents, and declassified memos to paint a picture of DARPA, or "the Pentagon's brain," from its Cold War inception in 1958 to the present. (kobileins.com)
  • from agent orange in vietnam to insect-sized drones in use today, from the earliest networked computers and the internet to smart rockets and war zones under 24-hour video surveillance, darpa is responsible for innovations that have changed the course of war, national security, and strategic planning at the highest levels. (cognitive-liberty.online)
  • 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)
  • The agency's chief figures Darpa is being punished for holding its contractors accountable for their work. (blogspot.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)
  • 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 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced this week that it had chosen nine teams for its Gamebreaker program , which basically asks teams to hack commercial video games using AI, so their methods may be applied to improve Pentagon war games. (sociable.co)
  • The Pentagon's brain : an uncensored history of DARPA, America's top secret military research agency. (cognitive-liberty.online)
  • WASHINGTON, D.C. ― President Yoon Suk Yeol visited the U.S. Pentagon's National Military Command Center (NMCC) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Thursday (local time), where he received briefings from U.S. military leadership. (koreatimes.co.kr)
  • At DARPA, Yoon was briefed by DARPA Director Stefanie Tompkins on the overall operation of the agency and viewed advanced technologies under research. (koreatimes.co.kr)
  • According to a DARPA blog post , the agency had been working on an Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel program, whose goals included using "nonconventional sensor technologies" for the "robust continuous track of the quietest submarine targets. (nextgov.com)
  • DARPA is being deliberately coy about the kinds of ideas it is soliciting, the agency said. (nextgov.com)
  • Discover the definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, in this Pulitzer Prize finalist from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51 . (kobileins.com)
  • The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, better known as DARPA, held a robotics competition in Miami, Fla. over the weekend. (thehollowearthinsider.com)
  • But the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Warrior Web program is a step closer to developing a soft, low-powered 'exosuit' that will augment soldiers' physical capabilities. (i-hls.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)
  • The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Defense Sciences Office (DSO) is moving toward that goal. (technewsworld.com)
  • We're pretty sure that means the Pentagon agency hasn't considered a future where police "blade runners" help violently "retire" escaped lab replicants of humans. (popsci.com)
  • She returned quickly this September with The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency . (publishersweekly.com)
  • The CGC - a competition organized by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) that included participation from multiple leading collegiate computer science programs - represented a historic moment in the broader cybersecurity field as it showed for the first time how a computer is able to automatically, independently and intelligently create, launch and simultaneously defend against cyberattacks. (cyberscoop.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 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)
  • The definitive history of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Pentagon agency that has quietly shaped war and technology for nearly sixty years. (penguinrandomhouse.com)
  • We learn how DARPA was responsible during the Vietnam War for both Agent Orange and the development of the world's first armed drones, and how after 9/11 the agency sparked a national controversy over surveillance with its data-mining research. (penguinrandomhouse.com)
  • The solution which will enter the early development stage this summer is an initiative of the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). (i-hls.com)
  • "The WPI research is an outgrowth of a two-year project funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the first phase of a major effort aimed at finding ways to enable mammals-including humans-to regenerate tissue in digits and limbs lost to traumatic injury. (blogspot.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)
  • Drones already play an important role in military efforts, with functions ranging from surveillance missions to equipment delivery, DARPA said. (livescience.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)
  • Last month, Google announced it would not renew its contract with a Pentagon initiative called Project Maven. (therealnews.com)
  • So Project Maven is a, is a defense, is a Pentagon initiative that tries to, wants to apply AI technology to some of, sort of, the Pentagon's thorniest issues. (therealnews.com)
  • U.S. Pacific Command asked the Pentagon in 2009 to rush the development and production of sophisticated long-range missiles that, officials insisted, the United States needs in order to stay a step ahead of its enemies. (nationaldefensemagazine.org)
  • Defense officials see this program as a case study in how the Pentagon can acquire vastly improved weapons that may be only the "80 percent solution" but can be delivered faster than the ideal system. (nationaldefensemagazine.org)
  • By using a flexible membrane capable of taking even violent shaking with ease, these DARPA researchers hope to address both the fuel and protection costs associated with large space mirrors. (extremetech.com)
  • DARPA Director Arati Prabhakar and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel talk about the latest updates on technologies coming out of DARPA. (fedscoop.com)
  • Because of the urgency of the program we found the only way to make that timeline was to take the best airframe that we could find, JASSM ER, and put all the DARPA technologies they were developing into that airplane," Engdahl said in an interview. (nationaldefensemagazine.org)
  • Over the decades, DARPA has been responsible for countless inventions and technologies that extend well beyond military technology. (penguinrandomhouse.com)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • DARPA Automates Dogfighting To Develop Pilot Trust In AI In Combat is available to both Aviation Week & Space Technology and AWIN subscribers. (aviationweek.com)
  • In the secretary's conference room, Arati Prabhakar, director of DARPA, provided Hagel with a demonstration of the agencies' prosthetic technology advancements. (fedscoop.com)
  • The tactile feedback system should be operational in a few months, according to Dr. Justin Sanchez, a program manager at DARPA who works with prosthetics and brain-related technology. (fedscoop.com)
  • Did the Pentagon just admit that stealth technology may not work anymore? (nationalinterest.org)
  • DARPA says it wants to see if it's possible to "go beyond evolutionary advances in stealth technology and disrupt traditional doctrines of air dominance/air supremacy? (nationalinterest.org)
  • And so Google, which is just one of the contractors that's working on this project, was trying to use its AI technology, and apply it to this task to help the Pentagon develop essentially vision, visual recognition and scanning technology for drones, so that they can more effectively target people for assassinations. (therealnews.com)
  • This record-breaking flight demonstrated the feasibility of designing a low-cost UAV able to take off from one side of a continent, fly to the other, perform its duties for a week and come back - all on the same tank of fuel," Jean-Charles Ledé, DARPA program manager, said in a statement . (livescience.com)
  • Currently, UUVs have to surface each time they need to send a message, according to a DARPA program manager. (i-hls.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)
  • In a move sure to excite cash-strapped astronomers and terrify nervous libertarians, DARPA now says it could have a way around that problem, making high-fidelity space cameras much quicker and cheaper to launch. (extremetech.com)
  • To say the Pentagon is concerned about China's military expansion would be an understatement - just ask the Indian Navy. (asiatimes.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)
  • A nice piece on a recent talk by DARPA director of innovation, Dan Kaufman. (acm.org)
  • American tax dollars are diverted from massive Pentagon and corporate military budgets into projects designed to take care of the nation's people. (angelfire.com)
  • Proposals for development have been coming in since January and following early-stage research and development this summer, DARPA projects that a prototype portable AMEBA could be ready within four years. (i-hls.com)
  • Here's a link to a search of all the DARPA projects related to healthcare and a bit about the Urban Challenge, cars that drive themselves, anticipated in 5 years or so. (blogspot.com)
  • The NMCC is a key command and control center inside the Pentagon that directly assists the U.S. president and military commanders in emergencies. (koreatimes.co.kr)
  • This is the book on DARPA, a compelling narrative about this clandestine intersection of science and the American military and the often frightening results. (kobileins.com)
  • What could DARPA do with several billion, or its military masters with even more? (extremetech.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)
  • DARPA started out with a traditional waypoint following cruise missile like JASSM and gave it an electronic "brain" that makes it semi-autonomous. (nationaldefensemagazine.org)
  • DARPA awards engineering firm Ricardo with $9.8 million to aid efforts. (nextgov.com)
  • DARPA envisions awarding $4 million in prize money to winning teams in three challenges, according to documents. (nextgov.com)
  • DARPA said it is expecting to award up to $30 million for the program. (nextgov.com)
  • DARPA announced today it has awarded an SRI International-led multi-organization team a US$12 million, two-year contract to develop such a revolutionary system. (technewsworld.com)
  • DARPA has committed just a piddling $6 million out of next year's budget toward BioDesign. (popsci.com)
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  • Congress Cut DARPA Budget by $130 Million - Why? (blogspot.com)
  • On land, DARPA suggests the future of war will be smaller and more lethal ground units operating without the immense infrastructure of forward operating bases and long supply lines. (nationalinterest.org)
  • Interestingly, the example of future ground combat that DARPA cites is "Starship Troopers," the legendary sci-fi novel and movies of troops in powered armor. (nationalinterest.org)
  • But Google, as part of that announcement, did not rule out future contracts with the Pentagon. (therealnews.com)
  • A pair of machine-controlled aircraft dogfighting against a pair of human-piloted fighters in the skies over Nevada-that science fiction scenario is one potential culmination of a new DARPA program to automate air combat maneuvering using artificial intelligence. (aviationweek.com)
  • 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)
  • DARPA is looking to the gaming industry for inspiration on different ways to leverage AI, with a specific focus on hacking video games like StarCraft II, so the Pentagon can advance its war game scenarios. (sociable.co)
  • However, DARPA now intends to build AMEBA small enough to be installed on UUVs for direct underwater communication - and even one small enough for troops to carry in their packs. (i-hls.com)
  • An engineering team is reviewing available data to understand this event," DARPA said in a written statement. (spaceflightnow.com)
  • Going forward, DARPA is working on ways to keep miniature magnetic or electrical fields moving and generating the power necessary to produce such low-frequency waves. (i-hls.com)
  • DARPA and SSL are working under a so-called "other transactions agreement" where the government and the contractor share program costs. (spacenews.com)
  • It's been a long time since a Pentagon project from the DARPA labs truly evoked a "WTF DARPA? (popsci.com)
  • Have had a long time connection with them, from early Pentagon days, to fairly recently. (acm.org)
  • A concurrent DARPA program, called Instant Foundry Adaptive Through Bits , will be tapped to help create the final vehicle. (nextgov.com)
  • This does not make sense, why don't we find other ways to spend the funds, like perhaps some additional limbs for soldiers that come home from war, bionic arms and hands which DARPA has funded and helped create? (blogspot.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)
  • 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)
  • Had the Pentagon pursued a clean-sheet design, a seven-year delivery timeline would have been unthinkable. (nationaldefensemagazine.org)
  • Now, DARPA is looking for other ways that U.S airpower can accomplish its objectives even without air superiority, such as "lethality through a combination of overwhelming performance (e.g. hypersonics) and overwhelming numbers (e.g. swarming low-cost weapons). (nationalinterest.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)
  • Back when the Pentagon shopped at rummage sales?And I'm fuzzy on this whole "detecting trip wires and snipers" tactic, here. (military.com)