DARPA

As the commercial space industry expands, one of the biggest challenges remains: how to construct large-scale structures in orbit without being limited by the size of a rocket’s cargo fairing. DARPA’s Novel Orbital and Moon Manufacturing,…

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded Sikorsky a $6 million contract to integrate an autonomous flight system onto the UH-60M Black Hawk to experiment with AI-enabled operations. Sikorsky will add its MATRIX autonomy…

Raytheon, an RTX company, received a four-year, $15 million contract from DARPA to increase the electronic capability of RF sensors with high-power-density Gallium Nitride (GaN) transistors. The result is an expected 16x higher output power…

By Carolyn Mathas Researchers used the ‘robot scientist’ Eve and automated text analysis to semi-automate reproducing research results. Reproducibility is a major challenge in science. Led by the University of Cambridge,…

Universities Space Research Association (USRA) announced the beginning of operations for phase-2 of DARPA's Optimization with Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum devices (ONISQ) program. Phase 1 launched in 2020, and USRA was selected to lead…

Recently the DARPA Mobile Force Protection (MFP) program demonstrated a Counter-Unmanned Air System (C-UAS) multilayer defense architecture at Eglin Air Force Base. The goal—to defeat unauthorized drone intrusions over military…

A Honeywell-led team was awarded a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), to develop a portable device that extracts drinking water from surrounding air. The effort is part of DARPA's Atmospheric Water…