• The Falcon Hypersonic Test Vehicle-2 was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, atop a Minotaur 4 rocket that carried it to the edge of space, performed what DARPA described as a series of aggressive banks and turns, and then released the glider. (smh.com.au)
  • DARPA said Wednesday it has successfully conducted the first flight test of its Operational Fires (OpFires) program to develop a ground-launched hypersonic missile capability. (defensedaily.com)
  • The SCIFiRE Program is based on more than 15 years of collaboration between Australia and the United States on science and technology research into hypersonic scramjets, rocket motors, sensors, and advanced manufacturing materials. (theepochtimes.com)
  • Via Satellite 03-28-2016] The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is reviving its in-orbit servicing efforts through a new public-private partnership program called Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS). (lifeboat.com)
  • Will 2016 Be the Year of Wireless Energy? (freewave.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)
  • Until now, the neuroscience programs at DARPA, the mad science wing of the Department of Defense, have focused on technologies for warfighters who have returned. (acm.org)
  • The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), a research agency housed within of the U.S. Department of Defense, is looking to develop new remote sensing technologies in order to monitor the Arctic both above and below the ice and enhance regional maritime security. (foreignpolicyblogs.com)
  • BERKELEY, Calif., Nov. 21, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rigetti Computing, Inc. (Nasdaq: RGTI) ("Rigetti" or the "Company"), a pioneer in full-stack quantum-classical computing, today announced that it was awarded Phase 2 of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Quantum Benchmarking Program to develop benchmarks for quantum application performance on large-scale quantum computers. (centralillinoisproud.com)
  • The goal of the DARPA Benchmarking Program is to create key quantum computing metrics for fault tolerant quantum computing, make those metrics testable, and estimate the required quantum and classical resources needed to reach critical performance thresholds. (centralillinoisproud.com)
  • DARPA envisions the Navy leaving its Upward Falling technologies submerged in waters far from an actual fleet and (presumably) in areas where geopolitical hostility is at least possible if not probable. (popsci.com)
  • DARPA envisions that significant cost-savings could be achieved if traditional methods are forsaken given the vast distances in the Arctic that make the region expensive for manned missions to study. (foreignpolicyblogs.com)
  • This is the driving idea behind DARPA's Upward Falling Payloads (UFP) program, which seeks to create technologies that would allow the Navy to leave unmanned systems and other distributed technologies hidden in the ocean depths for years on end and deploy them remotely at the push of a button when the need arises. (popsci.com)
  • DARPA seeks to develop and demonstrate the RSV on orbit within the next five years. (lifeboat.com)
  • The project, which is part of the DARPA Analog Spectral Processors (ASP) program, seeks to use MEMS technology to create radio front-ends. (militaryaerospace.com)
  • 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 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)
  • Agency officials said Tuesday that ARM is now in "an orderly closeout phase" after the administration announced plans to cancel the mission in its fiscal year 2018 budget proposal earlier this year. (spacenews.com)
  • Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, warned at a hearing this week that unless negotiations on a 2018 Pentagon budget start now, it's likely the Defense Department will start the fiscal year on a continuing resolution, keeping funding at 2017 levels. (spacenews.com)
  • Those teams with the best options will be assessed next spring, with semifinalists announced next summer at DEF CON 2024 and winners announced the following year at DEF CON 2025. (darkreading.com)
  • Plan X is set to run for the next few years, through 2017, and it could take a very different form before it's ready for actual use by soldiers. (techcrunch.com)
  • More than five years passed before a winner was declared in 2017. (sociable.co)
  • DARPA is looking for technology proposals that can help address key issues mainly in the areas of long-term submersible survivability, deep underwater communications, and the "risers"-the vehicles that would contain the payloads and deliver them to the surface on demand. (popsci.com)
  • Boeing won a DARPA contract last month to develop the vehicle, designed to demonstrate a reusable first stage that, with an expendable upper stage, can launch medium-sized payloads inexpensively. (spacenews.com)
  • That closeout includes cancellation of selections of payloads and members of an investigation team for the mission that were announced last year. (spacenews.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)
  • This challenge can accelerate those efforts pretty quickly, as two years ago, nobody was using AI to write code at all, and today, it's become sort of the daily workflow for significant portion of coders. (darkreading.com)
  • The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is planning to accelerate transition of its adaptive vehicle make (AVM) portfolio to the defence industrial base ahead of original schedule. (army-technology.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)
  • Called the DARPA Robotics Challenge, or DRC , it aims to accelerate the development of robots that can help humans, not only with nuclear emergencies but also with fires, floods, earthquakes, chemical spills, and other kinds of natural and man-made disasters. (ieee.org)
  • It gives us a visceral feel for what it means to fly at Mach 20,' DARPA Director Regina Dugan said in a statement. (smh.com.au)
  • According to a new solicitation by DARPA , adult stem cells are seen as the regenerative regimen of choice. (technovelgy.com)
  • DARPA plans to kick off the public-private partnership via a program solicitation in the near future. (lifeboat.com)
  • John Kamp, a deputy program manager for DARPA, stated in a press release , "We seek to increase the diversity of contributors, including environmental research organizations, academia, traditional defense contractors and others. (foreignpolicyblogs.com)
  • The agency's goals include demonstrating safe, reliable, useful and efficient operations in or near Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO), demonstrating on live GEO satellites in collaboration with commercial and U.S. government spacecraft operators, and supporting the development of a servicer spacecraft with sufficient propellant and payload robustness to enable dozens of missions over several years. (lifeboat.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)
  • The three-year project comprises two phases. (centralillinoisproud.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)
  • On Thursday DARPA announced the AMD program , which aims to develop new, AI-based systematic approaches that increase the pace of discovery and optimization of high-performance molecules. (sociable.co)
  • IceBridge requires a pilot to fly the plane across the western Arctic for a few hours a day, whereas DARPA aims to be able to monitor the Arctic autonomously and continuously, without interruption. (foreignpolicyblogs.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)
  • 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)
  • DRS and the other technologies DARPA hopes to investigate differ from many of the systems currently used to monitor the Arctic, which often rely on planes, satellites, ships and submarines. (foreignpolicyblogs.com)
  • DARPA said the test, conducted at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, demonstrated technology maturation of OpFires key components, including the first stage rocket motor, missile canister and missile round pallet (MRP). (defensedaily.com)
  • Under the RSGS vision, the partners would join a DARPA-developed modular toolkit, including hardware and software, to a privately developed spacecraft to create a commercially owned and operated Robotic Servicing Vehicle (RSV). (lifeboat.com)
  • Under the relatively new shift to emphasize all things cyber in the German military, the Defence Ministry's Cyber Innovation Hub, created last year, is slated to survey the domestic technology startup scene for ideas with potential military application. (defensenews.com)
  • Much remains unknown about the German military's approach to artificial intelligence, famously dubbed by Russian President Vladimir Putin last year as the technology that holds the key to ruling the world. (defensenews.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)
  • 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 programme manager army lieutenant colonel Nathan Wiedenman said collaboration with DMDII may expand the number of active participants in AVM technology development and also help extend the potential application of AVM research to non-military domains. (army-technology.com)
  • Over ten years ago (2008) DARPA was developing technology. (lovinglifetv.com)
  • While DARPA announced that this program would be used to "counter emerging threats," it did not specify whether or not the technology would be weaponized. (sociable.co)
  • DARPA would contribute the robotics technology, such as the previously developed Front End Robotic Enabling Near-Term Demonstration (FREND) robotic arm, expertise, and a government-provided launch. (lifeboat.com)
  • In its announcement , DARPA highlights distributed remote sensing (DRS) as one possible technology that could be applied in the Arctic. (foreignpolicyblogs.com)
  • The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va., has selected Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to lead an effort to use micro electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) technology to revolutionize the state of the art in radio technology. (militaryaerospace.com)
  • US-based Raytheon, a business of aerospace & defense company RTX, has been awarded a four-year, $15m contract from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to increase the electronic capability of radio frequency sensors with high-power-density gallium nitride (GaN) transistors. (semiconductor-today.com)
  • For nearly 25 years, Raytheon has invested in gallium nitride R&D, using it in defense systems like the Patriot, LTAMDS/GhostEye family of radars, APG-79(v)4 and SPY-6 family of radars. (semiconductor-today.com)
  • COLOGNE, Germany - Germany Defence and Interior ministry officials are pushing for the creation of a new agency this year that will study disruptive technologies relevant to Germany's defense and security. (defensenews.com)
  • Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen referred to the coming agency in a speech in May, equating its purpose to that of the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, otherwise known as DARPA. (defensenews.com)
  • BLACK HAT USA - Las Vegas - Wednesday, Aug. 9 - The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will sponsor a two-year competition to create a new generation of cybersecurity tools to better secure software. (darkreading.com)
  • Sept 15/10) In April 2008, 3 teams received Phase 1 contracts to begin developing develop a radical new aircraft, under a US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) program known as "Vulture. (defenseindustrydaily.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)
  • 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)
  • A top Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) official said this week that generative AI - like ChatGPT - will alter the threat landscape by making it easier for adversaries to produce high-quality phishing capabilities and ransomware campaigns. (meritalk.com)
  • The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) just celebrated its 65th birthday earlier this month, and DARPA's director of the Mission Services Office explained this week that the agency has a unique model and culture "you can't create overnight. (meritalk.com)
  • The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is seeking information for a new, $1 billion contract to provide technical analytical support services (TASS), according to a recent request for information. (meritalk.com)
  • The 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) announces the launch of an AI chemistry program, Accelerated Molecular Discovery (AMD), to develop new molecules for US military capabilities. (sociable.co)
  • The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is looking to make artificial intelligence more trustworthy through a series of projects that test an AI's capacity for self-evaluation and that make the AI "show its work" for human evaluation. (sociable.co)
  • These discussions progressed to planning workshops designed to develop research values and agendas and culminated in the National Science Foundation (NSF)/Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)/National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Research in Digital Libraries Initiative announced in late 1993. (dlib.org)
  • This year, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) turned 60. (acm.org)
  • DARPA is looking outside its agency walls for new ideas. (foreignpolicyblogs.com)
  • While Point-Of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) devices are already on the market, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) argues that current devices are too expensive and fall short on interpreting key datasets. (sociable.co)
  • In the new program, "Digital Libraries Initiative -- Phase 2", NSF, DARPA and NASA are joined by the National Library of Medicine, the Library of Congress, and the National Endowment for the Humanities as primary sponsors [ http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/1998/nsf9863/nsf9863.htm ]. (dlib.org)
  • For instance, a NASA operation that's in its fourth year, IceBridge uses daily flights from Thule and Kangerlussuaq, Greenland to Fairbanks, Alaska to survey sea ice. (foreignpolicyblogs.com)
  • DARPA said preliminary analysis of this month's flight showed that the Minotaur rocket placed the HTV-2 at the planned release point and at the proper velocity and orientation, and the separation from the booster was clean. (smh.com.au)
  • In just 29 months, the DARPA-Lockheed Martin team has established controlled flight and demonstrated 70 percent of system capability. (defensedaily.com)
  • Rocket Lab's next Electron launch, which was scheduled for late February, has been pushed back to the second half of March because of the delayed arrival of its payload, a DARPA experimental satellite. (space.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)
  • For its Assured Arctic Awareness program (AAA), DARPA has budgeted $4 million to award to researchers with ideas on how to harness the difficult northern conditions to their technologies' advantages. (foreignpolicyblogs.com)
  • With AAA, DARPA is primarily concerned with developing technologies for under-ice and surface awareness. (foreignpolicyblogs.com)
  • Under the sea ice, DARPA is especially interested in anti-submarine warfare technologies. (foreignpolicyblogs.com)
  • Why isn't it common knowledge that these technologies started as DARPA-funded projects? (corbettreport.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)
  • Forty Years of Ebolavirus Molecular Biology: Understanding a Novel Disease Agent Through the Development and Application of New Technologies. (cdc.gov)
  • DARPA plans to hold a Grand Challenge-like event every 18 to 24 months until a team wins the $1 million. (theregister.com)
  • Rocket Lab didn't indicate if the delay in the DARPA mission would impact those plans. (space.com)
  • Aiming to plug a gap in IR capabilities, DARPA in the US is seeking partners for the Optomechanical Thermal Imaging (OpTIm) programme. (shephardmedia.com)
  • Cubic Blue Shell, a train-as-you-fight solution, has been in use by the British Army for three years offering an indirect fire training system that simulates artillery drills and weapons effects. (shephardmedia.com)
  • To celebrate, DARPA held a conference in Washington, D.C. One of the highlights. (acm.org)
  • ACM has announced it will celebrate 50 years of the ACM A.M. Turing Award, also known as the 'Nobel Prize of Computing,' with a high-profile conference to be held. (acm.org)
  • DARPA (some call it the mad science division of the Pentagon) organized the DRC as a kind of Olympic decathlon for robots , open to teams from anywhere on the globe. (ieee.org)
  • It's been a long time since a Pentagon project from the DARPA labs truly evoked a "WTF DARPA? (popsci.com)
  • We hope with this new DARPA challenge, we will spur such incredible innovation. (darkreading.com)
  • Building that autonomy, Littlefield says, "was probably the most difficult technical challenge from a DARPA perspective. (ieee.org)
  • The robots competing in the DARPA Robotics Challenge face eight complex tasks based on a disaster-response scenario. (ieee.org)
  • The challenge for DARPA, Burke said, is "how to make things smaller. (optics.org)
  • The challenge, according to DARPA, is that the few AI tools that have been developed to date have required "hundreds of POCUS patient datasets to be collected and manually annotated by expert clinicians for each medical condition. (sociable.co)
  • NSF and DARPA funded additional workshops as part of the DLI to develop consensus on specific digital libraries topical areas and boundaries, to bring together researchers to stimulate cross-disciplinary interaction, and to ponder together how best to adapt to a rapidly changing global information environment. (dlib.org)
  • The problem that DARPA is trying to solve revolves around current approaches to develop molecules for specific applications, which, according to DARPA, are intuition-driven, mired in slow iterative design and test cycles, and ultimately limited by the specific molecular expertise of the chemist who has to test each candidate molecule by hand. (sociable.co)
  • The ultimate goal of AMD is to speed the time to design, validate, and optimize new molecules with defined properties from several years to a few months, or even several weeks," said Anne Fischer , program manager in DARPA's Defense Sciences Office. (sociable.co)
  • The AI Exploration program is one key element of DARPA's broader AI investment strategy that "will help ensure the U.S. maintains a technological advantage in this critical area," according to the DARPA announcement. (sociable.co)
  • DARPA tends to support high-risk, high-reward projects with a futuristic bent. (foreignpolicyblogs.com)
  • Space exploration, self-driving vehicles, advanced biometrics, and robotics are among the cool projects in the works at DARPA that are likely to have applications in the enterprise, too. (informationweek.com)
  • DARPA awarded Lockheed Martin a $32 million deal in January 2020 to move into Phase 3 of OpFires, to work on weapon system integration leading into critical design review and then flight testing ( Defense Daily , Jan. 17). (defensedaily.com)
  • I found a group of SBIR Phase I contracts awarded by DARPA in 2015, most of them related to the XS-1 launcher program. (parabolicarc.com)
  • RadioMap adds value to existing radios, jammers and other RF electronic equipment used by our military forces in the field," said John Chapin, DARPA program manager. (freewave.com)
  • DARPA will award $1 million to the team that makes it first all the way to Vegas, if it can get there in under 10 hours. (theregister.com)
  • DARPA has committed just a piddling $6 million out of next year's budget toward BioDesign. (popsci.com)
  • Hart joined Virgin Orbit as president earlier this year, and now additionally takes on the chief executive role as Virgin Orbit becomes a company independent of suborbital spaceflight company Virgin Galactic. (spacenews.com)
  • DARPA will be sending off the teams in a time-trial format based on their performance in test runs. (theregister.com)
  • Some of ACTUV's autonomous testing has already been done over the last two years or so using a "surrogate"-a 40-foot work boat based on the U.S. Gulf Coast that has the same software and above-water sensors. (ieee.org)
  • Integrating quantum sensors will require plenty of help from the photonics community, a top DARPA researcher said in a presentation at Photonics West in San Francisco, last week. (optics.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)
  • The video you will see here was a presentation to select members of the US military nearly ten years ago where the presenter details how back then they could transform your memories. (lovinglifetv.com)
  • DARPA is building an Artificial Intelligence Exploration (AIE) program to turn machines into "collaborative partners" for US national defense. (sociable.co)
  • Shortly thereafter, DARPA will host a proposers day to provide potential partners with further details about the RSGS program. (lifeboat.com)
  • DARPA is keen to find partners for the Optomechanical Thermal Imaging (OpTIm) programme. (shephardmedia.com)
  • What DARPA doesn't need is weapons platforms, and rightly so. (popsci.com)
  • Millions of years ago themolten rock had frozen to form the Sea of Rains, and now the weapons of theships were turning it once more to lava. (space.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)
  • SEAKR is honored to be featured in DARPA 's press release as leading a great team in achieving Mandrake 2 success. (seakr.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 leaders are calling this "mosaic warfare. (nationaldefensemagazine.org)
  • However, a DARPA spokesperson said that the launch was postponed "to provide the prime contractor with additional time to complete payload and spacecraft validation and verification. (space.com)
  • The semifinalists will have a year to build a system that can rapidly defend critical infrastructure from attack. (darkreading.com)
  • When the problem occurred, the HTV-2's flight safety system autonomously guided it in a controlled descent to splashdown along the planned trajectory, DARPA said. (smh.com.au)