- + 2024/05/10 Catalyzing an Integrated Lunar Economy: Initial Results of the LunA-10 Capability Study—The 10-Year Lunar Architecture (LunA-10) Capability Study aims to catalyze the setup of a future commercial lunar infrastructure framework for peacefu...
- + 2024/05/01 Manta Ray UUV Prototype Completes In-Water Testing—The Manta Ray prototype uncrewed underwater vehicle (UUV) built by performer Northrop Grumman completed full-scale, in-water testing off the coast of ...
- + 2024/05/01 Disruptors Wanted: Microsystems Technology Office Sets Out the Welcome Mat—DARPA's Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) is looking for new ideas, new perspectives, and new people - so office leaders are opening the doors on J...
- + 2024/04/30 Voices from DARPA Podcast Episode 78: Introducing ELSI—As a global leader in innovation, DARPA starts an average of 50 new programs each year. These programs span a variety of technical disciplines to deve...
- + 2024/04/23 RACER Speeds Into a Second Phase With Robotic Fleet Expansion and Another Experiment Success—DARPA's Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER) program successfully tested autonomous movement on a new, much larger fleet v...
- + 2024/04/22 Acquisition Innovation: From Other Transactions to Fast-Pitch Proposals—A list of DARPA's greatest hits includes technologies that have had a profound and lasting impact - breakthroughs that can, and have, reshaped the wor...
- + 2024/04/17 ACE Program Achieves World First for AI in Aerospace—DARPA's Air Combat Evolution (ACE) program has achieved the first-ever in-air tests of AI algorithms autonomously flying an F-16 against a human-pilot...
- + 2024/04/11 OPEN Program Seeks to Prove Technology Capability for Global Critical Materials Market Transparency—The DARPA Open Price Exploration for National security (OPEN) research and development program aims to develop forecasting technology to enable the ma...
- + 2024/04/05 Streamlining Delivery Modalities for Biologic Therapeutics to Improve Patient Outcomes—Efforts to develop novel biologic therapeutics have provided critical resources to enable warfighter readiness and counter existing and emerging bioth...
- + 2024/03/28 Voices from DARPA Episode 77: Meet DARPAConnect —In 2022, the DARPA Forward event series offered a powerful lesson in breaking down barriers of entry in pursuit of national security breakthroughs. To...
- + 2024/03/26 SXSW Panel Replay: Real or Not, Defending Authenticity in a Digital World—Have you ever wondered if that video you're watching, the photo you're looking at, or even that person on the other line is the real deal? Deepfakes a...
- + 2024/03/21 Extending the Golden Hour for Enhanced and Timely Combat Care—DARPA's GOLDen hour extended EVACuation, or GOLDEVAC, program aims to test whether a field medic could manage a complex polytrauma patient via automat...
- + 2024/03/21 ARPA-H Joins DARPA’s AI Cyber Challenge to Safeguard Nation’s Health Care Infrastructure from Cyberattacks—The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) is joining forces with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to expand the A...
- + 2024/03/14 Deepfake Defense Tech Ready for Commercialization, Transition —The threat of manipulated media has steadily increased as automated manipulation technologies become more accessible, and social media continues to pr...
- + 2024/03/11 Enabling a New Paradigm for Flexible, Point of Need Design and Manufacturing—DARPA's new Rubble to Rockets (R 2 ) program aims to overcome current limitations to manufacturing in supply chain-denied environments by developing p...
- + 2024/03/11 DARPA Selects Small Businesses to Compete in the AI Cyber Challenge—As part of the AI Cyber Challenge's Small Business Track Competition, DARPA awarded seven companies $1 million each to develop AI-enabled cyber reason...
- + 2024/03/08 DARPA Explores Additive Manufacturing’s Revolutionary Potential for Futuristic Microsystems—DARPA played a seminal role in establishing materials science as a discipline. One of the latest disruptive efforts in new materials and applications,...
- + 2024/03/07 Video: Researchers Develop Missing LINC to Help Vehicles Adapt to Unknowns—Imagine a world where the number of vehicle accidents is cut in half. DARPA's Learning Introspective Control (LINC) program is developing machine lear...
- + 2024/02/29 Voices from DARPA Podcast Episode 76: The Quantum Logician—In this episode we hear from quantum physicist Dr. Mukund Vengalattore, a program manager in DARPA's Defense Sciences Office, who oversees a portfolio...
- + 2024/02/15 BLUE Aims to Capture, Convert Ocean Energy with Low Environmental Impact—A new DARPA program is exploring the potential for dissolved organic matter, phytoplankton, zooplankton, and even microplastics to continually refuel,...
- + 2024/02/08 DARPA’s REMA Program to Add Mission Autonomy to Commercial Drones—Commercial drone technology is advancing rapidly, providing cost-effective and robust capabilities for a variety of civil and military missions. DARPA...
- + 2024/01/24 Establishing Qualification Processes for Point-of-Need Pharmaceutical Products—DARPA's new Establishing Qualification Processes for Agile Pharmaceutical Manufacturing (EQUIP-A-Pharma) program seeks to demonstrate a real-time digi...
- + 2024/01/22 DARPA Reboots AI Tools for Adult Learning Competition—Technological advances and changes in economic conditions are shifting the skills needed to build an adaptive and successful workforce. As underscore...
- + 2024/01/18 Voices from DARPA Podcast Episode 75: The Metamaterial Visionary—We usually think of materials based on our experience in the natural world. For example, something that's light is usually fragile (like a feather) or...
- + 2024/01/18 Registration Open for DARPA Discovery Event in San Francisco—The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is hosting an in-person gathering in San Francisco Feb. 21-22 to engage with science and technol...
- + 2024/01/03 DARPA Moves Forward on X-65 Technology Demonstrator—DARPA has selected Aurora Flight Sciences to build a full-scale X-plane to demonstrate the viability of using active flow control (AFC) actuators for ...
- + 2023/12/14 AI Cyber Challenge Opens Registration, Adds $4 Million in Prizes, Shows Scoring Algorithm and Challenge Exemplar—Registration for DARPA's AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC) is now open. The Small Business Track submission deadline is January 15, 2024 and the Open Track s...
- + 2023/12/14 Utility-Scale Quantum Program Advances Toward Prototyping—DARPA's Underexplored Systems for Utility-Scale Quantum Computing (US2QC) program seeks to determine whether an underexplored approach to quantum comp...
- + 2023/12/06 DARPA-Funded Research Leads to Quantum Computing Breakthrough—A team of researchers working on DARPA's Optimization with Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum devices (ONISQ) program has created the first-ever quantum...
- + 2023/12/05 Collaborating Toward Integrated Commercial Lunar Infrastructure—DARPA has selected 14 companies for the 10-Year Lunar Architecture (LunA-10) Capability Study, which aims to catalyze the setup of a future civil luna...
- + 2023/11/21 Voices from DARPA Podcast Episode 74: Young Faculty Award—Established in 2006, the DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) program aims to identify and engage rising academics in early-career research positions - par...
- + 2023/11/17 Next-Generation Microelectronics Manufacturing Opens Phases 1 and 2—DARPA is seeking collaboration that will shape the Next-Generation Microelectronics Manufacturing (NGMM) program - an effort to help usher in a new er...
- + 2023/11/08 DARPA Seeks Revolutionary Ideas from Early Career Researchers at US Academic Institutions—Researchers in academia and from equivalent positions at non-profit research institutions may submit executive summaries and proposals to almost two d...
- + 2023/11/07 DARPA Triage Challenge Seeking Self-Funded Teams—DARPA is seeking self-funded teams to participate in the DARPA Triage Challenge, a series of events to spur development of novel physiological feature...
- + 2023/11/06 DARPA Transitioning Technology to Help Protect Largest US Metropolitan Region—In advance of formal technology transition, DARPA's SIGMA+ program concluded a three-week capstone event with the Port Authority of New York and New J...
- + 2023/11/02 OP TEMPO Explores Bio-Based Tools to Predict, Optimize Team Performance—The Objective Prediction of Team Effectiveness via Models of Performance Outcomes (OP TEMPO) program aims to develop an objective, biologically inform...
- + 2023/10/25 Increasing Transparency in Critical Materials Price, Supply, and Demand Forecasts—In partnership with the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the DARPA Open Price Exploration for National Security (OPEN) program aims to enhance ...
- + 2023/10/24 Can Math Secure Mixed Reality Systems from Attack—To fulfill its mission to prevent technological surprise, DARPA intends to get in front of this issue before military personnel widely rely on MR for ...
- + 2023/10/23 AI Forward Recap Q&A—Earlier this year, DARPA's Information Innovation Office (I2O) announced plans for AI Forward - the agency's latest initiative to reimagine the future...
- + 2023/10/20 Voices from DARPA Podcast Episode 73: The AI Cyber Challenge—Ahead of the AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC) Open Track registration period, which begins December 1, 2023, this episode of Voices from DARPA features Perr...
- + 2023/10/18 DARPA Selects Teams to Boost Supply-and-Demand Network Resiliency—DARPA selected teams to develop new tools and analytics capable of helping the Department of Defense and its commercial partners improve systemic resi...
- + 2023/10/17 A New Take on Modeling & Simulation for Improved Autonomy—Multiple factors limit the potential of modern autonomous systems (e.g., self-driving vehicles and uncrewed aircraft and watercraft).
- + 2023/10/11 Accelerating Interoperability Standards for Commercial Lunar Infrastructure—Through the Lunar Guidelines for Infrastructure Consortium (LOGIC), DARPA will convene stakeholders across industry, academia, and government to ident...
- + 2023/10/11 Teams Developing Datasets to Support DARPA Triage Challenge—The Research Infrastructure for Trauma with Medical Observations (RITMO) effort aims to combine large-volume multimodal sensor, intervention, and medi...
- + 2023/09/29 Voices from DARPA Episode 72: Reinventing Microelectronics Manufacturing—Supply chain disruptions stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, among other issues, shined a bright light on the global reliance on microchips. In the U...
- + 2023/09/27 In-Water Tests for DARPA Manta Ray Scaled Prototype—DARPA's Manta Ray program hit a key milestone with an in-water splash test off of Oahu, Hawaii, of performer PacMar Technologies' scaled prototype to ...
- + 2023/09/25 ANSRs to Hard AI Questions—DARPA selected the following teams to explore diverse, hybrid architectures that integrate data-driven machine learning with symbolic reasoning, a pro...
- + 2023/09/18 Seeking Innovative Concepts for Space Superiority —DARPA is seeking innovative concepts from small businesses and nontraditional defense contractors in the technical domain of space superiority as the ...
- + 2023/09/12 DARPA Seeks Tech Solutions to Create Autonomous Capabilities for Commercial Drones—Commercial drone technology is advancing rapidly, providing cost-effective and robust capabilities for a variety of civil and military missions. As sm...
- + 2023/09/08 Slipping Smoothly Through the Sea—As ships, boats, and uncrewed underwater vehicles (UUVs) move through the water, they experience resistance, or drag, caused by waves and friction fro...
- + 2023/09/07 POWER Program Selects Teams to Design Power Beaming Relays—DARPA is entering the first phase of the Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER) program, aimed at revolutionizing energy distribution throug...
- + 2023/09/07 AI-Powered Education Tools Chosen for Further Development —DARPA awarded $750,000 to further develop solutions as part of AI Tools for Adult Learning - a competitive opportunity launched last fall that focus...
- + 2023/08/18 Voices from DARPA Episode 71: The Quantum Mechanic—In popular culture, quantum is a descriptive term often added to various technical topics and projects to make them sound cool. But what is quantum me...
- + 2023/08/15 A Framework for Optimized, Integrated Lunar Infrastructure—Anticipating a burgeoning cislunar and lunar economy of scientific research and commercial development in the coming decade, DARPA is soliciting innov...
- + 2023/08/09 Embarking on Quest for New Quantum Materials—Current approaches for quantum computing, sensing, communications, and signal-processing rely on superconducting electronic devices that can manipulat...
- + 2023/08/09 DARPA AI Cyber Challenge Aims to Secure Nation’s Most Critical Software—At Black Hat USA 2023, DARPA issued a call to top computer scientists, AI experts, software developers, and beyond to participate in the AI Cyber Chal...
- + 2023/08/08 DARPA Seeks Solutions to Preserve Bio-samples Without Cold Storage—Emerging infectious disease hotspots are expected to increase globally within the next 50 years. Lab-based testing technology has advanced, but agnost...
- + 2023/07/28 Voices From DARPA Episode 70: Innovating How We Innovate—There are many ideas in the world, but truly good ones are few and far between - especially when it comes to breakthrough technologies that can change...
- + 2023/07/26 DARPA Kicks Off Design, Fabrication for DRACO Experimental NTR Vehicle—DARPA, in collaboration with NASA, is advancing toward the goal of the world's first in-orbit demonstration of a nuclear thermal rocket (NTR) engine v...
- + 2023/07/20 Turning Scrap Wood into Strong, Sustainable Materials for Re-use—DARPA's new Waste Upcycling for Defense (WUD) program aims to research and develop an end-to-end process for turning scrap wood and other cellulosic w...
- + 2023/07/20 Next-Generation Microelectronics Manufacturing Aims to Sustain R&D Ecosystem—With a focus on the future wave of microsystems innovation, DARPA has selected 11 organizations to begin work on the Next-Generation Microelectronics ...
- + 2023/07/18 Class is in Session: Teams Selected to Teach AI Agents to Interact with People & Learn—As part of DARPA's Environment-driven Conceptual Learning (ECOLE) program, several university teams and industry performers will attempt to create art...
- + 2023/07/17 Creating Advanced Knowledge Curation for Complicated Socioeconomic Systems—Knowledge curation involves acquiring information from many sources; triaging it as unimportant, contextual, or actionable; identifying factors and ca...
- + 2023/07/13 Asserting the U.S. Advantage: Delivering Highest-Qualified, Cutting-Edge Tech to Troops Faster—Today, troops around the world can leverage troves of data at their fingertips, including at the tactical edge. That access marks an important step fo...
- + 2023/07/12 DARPA Seeks Input on Novel Methods to Separate, Purify Rare Earth Elements—Rare Earth Elements (REEs) are used in a range of products and manufacturing processes - including permanent magnets, catalysts, fiber optics, and pho...
- + 2023/07/11 Teams Selected to Develop New Mental Health Screening Tool for Early Detection of Suicidality —DARPA has selected two industry-led and two university-led teams for the Neural Evidence Aggregation Tool (NEAT) program. NEAT seeks to provide clinic...
- + 2023/06/29 DARPA Seeks to SHIELD Blood from Fungal and Bacterial Pathogens—DARPA's new Synthetic Hemo-technologIEs that Locate & Disinfect (SHIELD) program aims to develop broad, preventive treatments for warfighters who ...
- + 2023/06/23 DARPA Seeks a New Gold Standard in Cybersecurity —DARPA's Intelligent Generation of Tools for Security (INGOTS) program aims to identify and fix high-severity, chainable vulnerabilities before attacke...
- + 2023/06/22 Ensuring Reliable Communications Between U.S., Allied Partners at the Tactical Edge—DARPA's Secure Handhelds on Assured Resilient networks at the tactical Edge (SHARE) program successfully developed and integrated software and network...
- + 2023/06/22 ANCILLARY Project Selects Teams to Develop Initial Concepts for VTOL X-Plane —DARPA has selected nine companies to produce initial operational system and demonstration system conceptual designs for a vertical takeoff and landing...
- + 2023/06/16 Voices from DARPA Podcast Episode 69: Demystifying Deepfakes—In this episode of Voices from DARPA, Dr. Wil Corvey, program manager for DARPA'S Semantic Forensics (SemaFor), discusses how the program goes beyond ...
- + 2023/06/14 DARPA’s SafeDocs Creates Safer Documents for Safer Computing—Researchers with DARPA's Safe Documents (SafeDocs) program have developed new methods and tools that allow people to confidently click documents and...
- + 2023/06/13 A Network Security Revolution Enhanced by Quantum Communication—Through QuANET, DARPA will explore how integrating quantum and classical approaches to networking could provide quantum physics-based security capabil...
- + 2023/06/12 Improving Combat Casualty Outcomes Through Point-of-Need Care—DARPA's new Anesthetics for Battlefield Care (ABC) program is a fundamental research effort that seeks to produce safe, battlefield-ready anesthetics ...
- + 2023/06/07 Beyond Liquid Crystal: DARPA Seeks Novel Tunable Optical Materials—Liquid crystals are ubiquitous tunable optical materials most commonly known for the vibrant colors and sharp images they enable on flatscreen TVs, sm...
- + 2023/06/06 Developing Trustworthy AI to Inform Decisions When Every Moment Counts—DARPA has selected performers for the In the Moment (ITM) program to create the foundation for trusted algorithmic decision-making in challenging do...
- + 2023/05/18 Taking a New Look at Fundamental Tech for Quiet Undersea Propulsion—Since the 1960s, academic, commercial, and military researchers have attempted to realize a novel form of maritime propulsion involving no moving part...
- + 2023/05/18 Voices from DARPA Podcast Episode 68: Space Manufacturing—This Voices from DARPA episode features discussions with Dr. Andy Detor, program manager in DARPA's Defense Sciences Office, as well as Dr. Anne Che...
- + 2023/05/12 New Sensors With the HOTS for Extreme Missions—Modern technologies are laden with sensors - a now-customary fact of life in much of the world. On smart watches and phones, and in cars and homes, se...
- + 2023/05/04 DARPA Brings 2023 ERI Summit to Seattle—The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will host the Electronics Resurgence Initiative (ERI) Summit August 22-24, 2023, in Seattle, con...
- + 2023/04/21 Developing Agile, Reliable Sensing Systems with Microbes—Current environmental monitoring approaches can rely on both distributed sensor networks - on the ground or in the water - and remote sensing platform...
- + 2023/04/20 Voices from DARPA Podcast Episode 67: Wireless Power Beaming—This 13-minute episode of the Voices from DARPA podcast series explores the possibility of an "energy web" that, much like the World Wide Web allows f...
- + 2023/04/14 Seeking Innovative Concepts for Next-Generation Antennas—DARPA is soliciting disruptive ideas from small businesses and nontraditional defense contractors for novel antenna designs, materials, manufacturing,...
- + 2023/04/11 RACER’s Off-Road Autonomous Vehicles Teams Navigate Third Test—DARPA's Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER) program recently conducted its third experiment to assess the performance of ...
- + 2023/04/10 The Key to Securing Legacy Computing Systems—Through its new Compartmentalization and Privilege Management (CPM) program, the agency is seeking proposals to develop tools that can automatically r...
- + 2023/03/27 Show Us the Proof: Formal Methods Can Be Applied at Large Scale—DARPA's Pipelined Reasoning of Verifiers Enabling Robust Systems (PROVERS) program will develop formal methods tools to guide software engineers throu...
- + 2023/03/23 Concrete in Disrepair? DARPA May Help You BRACE It—Recent years have seen an emergence of so-called living materials, or materials that have the properties of living things. The DARPA Bio-inspired Rest...
- + 2023/03/22 Breaking the One Part-One Material Paradigm—In traditional design and manufacturing of planes, ships, vehicles, and other engineered structures, every part or individual component is typically c...
- + 2023/03/21 DARPA Selects Teams to Build Beneficial Biofilms—Bacteria have evolved to be everywhere, all the time. The DARPA Arcadia program is leveraging that fact to build protective biofilms, working with nat...
- + 2023/03/16 Episode 66: How to Create AI Technology We Can Trust—This episode features an excerpt from a recent presentation by Dr. Kathleen Fisher, the director of the Information Innovation Office, which is leadin...
- + 2023/03/16 Oversight Program Aims to Make Space Domain More Tactically Relevant for Military Planners, Warfighters—DARPA aims to help military planners keep track of up to 1,000 targets of interest through management of available space domain resources. The goal of...
- + 2023/03/14 B-SURE Teams Ready to Blast Off!—Three university teams and an industry performer will explore and take initial steps to mitigate risks associated with manufacturing capabilities that...
- + 2023/03/14 Creating Small Batches of Purified Pharmaceuticals with Minimal Byproducts—The annual demand for medical countermeasures (MCMs) in the Department of Defense is on the order of hundreds of grams, but current manufacturing meth...
- + 2023/03/07 DARPA Seeks Input to Advance Hybrid Quantum/Classical Computers—Although fault-tolerant quantum computers are projected to be years to decades away, processors made from tens to hundreds of quantum bits have made s...
- + 2023/02/24 Join DARPA to Reimagine the Future of AI for National Security —How do we build artificial intelligence and machine learning systems that people can trust? DARPA wants to answer this question with the help of acade...
- + 2023/02/23 DARPA, Services Demonstrate Battlefield Airspace Deconfliction Software—DARPA's Air Space Total Awareness for Rapid Tactical Execution (ASTARTE) program recently demonstrated new automated flightpath-planning software that...
- + 2023/02/23 Episode 65: A Sprint to Tomorrow, Powered by Teamwork—If it seems like microchips have been a consistent conversation topic lately, it's for good reason. Supply chain disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pa...
- + 2023/02/15 DARPA RPM Aims to Speed-Up Production of On-Demand Protein-Based Therapeutics—Department of Defense (DoD) access to critical protein-based therapeutics is limited by the slow pace and substantial costs associated with current pr...
- + 2023/02/13 ACE Program’s AI Agents Transition from Simulation to Live Flight —In less than three years, artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms developed under DARPA's Air Combat Evolution (ACE) program have progressed from cont...
- + 2023/02/03 Teams Begin Work to Develop Tasty Food from Air, Water, and Electricity—DARPA's Cornucopia program aims to create a variety of healthy new microbial-based foods using three ingredients - air, water, and electricity-with mi...
- + 2023/02/01 DARPA Selects Performer Teams for Liberty Lifter X-Plane Program—Two teams -- General Atomics working with Maritime Applied Physics Corporation and Aurora Flight Sciences working with Gibbs & Cox and ReconCraft ...
- + 2023/01/31 DARPA Collaborates with Commercial Partners to Accelerate Quantum Computing—DARPA has selected three industry corporations for the Underexplored Systems for Utility-Scale Quantum Computing (US2QC) program. US2QC seeks to deter...
- + 2023/01/31 DARPA Team Begins Work on Field Deployable Whole Blood Equivalent—Bleeding is the most common cause of potentially survivable death in trauma, in both military and civilian settings. Whole blood is recognized as the ...
- + 2023/01/30 Final Flight of HAWC Program Screams Through the Sky—The joint DARPA and U.S. Air Force Hypersonic Airbreathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) completed yet another successful flight test. The Lockheed Martin ver...
- + 2023/01/25 VIDEO: A New Generation of AI Assistants —The Perceptually-enabled Task Guidance (PTG) program aims to develop virtual "task guidance" assistants that can work with different sensor platforms ...
- + 2023/01/25 This Chilling Effect on Stacked Chips Could Ignite Computing at the Edge—As the future of microsystems technology converges around three-dimensional heterogeneous integration (3HDI), the scientists, researchers, and enginee...
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