Cedric Leighton: DoD Works to Address Advanced Persistent Threats
The Defense Department seeks to address cybersecurity concerns such as advanced persistent threats that use unauthorized entities to gain access to networks and steal data from an organization, C4ISR...
View ArticleNavy Plans Anti-Ship Missile Tests Via B-1B Bomber, F-18 Fighter Jets
The U.S. Navy looks to test-launch a new long-range anti-ship missile via a U.S. Air Force bomber by 2017 in response to threats such as the North Korean nuclear crisis and military provocations from...
View ArticleDARPA Delivers 2 Mobius Bionics-Built Prosthetic Arms to Walter Reed; Justin...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has handed the first pair of prosthetic arms to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland in an effort to facilitate the deployment of...
View ArticleDARPA Develops Search Technologies to Locate Online Perpetrators of Human...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency continues ongoing work on the development of next-generation search technologies designed to locate online perpetrators of slavery and human trafficking...
View ArticleAsh Carter Discusses DoD Changes in Farewell Address
Defense Secretary Ash Carter has highlighted changes throughout his 35-year career at the Defense Department during his farewell address in the Pentagon auditorium, DoD News reported Wednesday. Cheryl...
View ArticleHouse Lawmakers Ask DARPA to Review Robotic Satellite Repair Program
Three House lawmakers have called on the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to postpone work on a robotic space repair initiative until DARPA completes a review that seeks to determine whether...
View ArticleMarine Corps Opens Rapid Capabilities Office in Virginia
The U.S. Marine Corps has established a rapid capabilities office at the service branch’s warfighting laboratory in Quantico, Virginia, in an effort to inform future investment plans and force...
View ArticleDARPA Picks 30 Contenders for EM Spectrum Collaboration Competition Phase 1
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected 22 teams and eight individuals for the first phase of a $3.75 million competition that seeks to leverage machine learning platforms to provide...
View ArticleDARPA Seeks to Address Viral Disease Outbreaks Via Nucleic Acid-Based...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has introduced a new program that seeks to develop a platform designed to stop the spread of viral infections in less than two months through the use of...
View ArticleReport: Air Force’s X-37B Space Plane to Conduct Exercise in Orbit
The U.S. Air Force has said a Boeing-built robotic space plane is scheduled to perform an on-orbit exercise this week, Space.com reported Tuesday. Irene Klotz writes that X-37B, also called the Orbital...
View ArticleProfile: Dr. David Honey, ODNI Science and Technology Director
Dr. David Honey serves as director of science and technology at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, where he works to identify strategies for the integration of scientific and...
View ArticleDARPA Test-Flies Aurora Flight Sciences’ VTOL X-Plane Prototype
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has conducted subscale flight tests of an Aurora Flight Sciences-developed vertical takeoff and landing aircraft as part of DARPA’s VTOL X-Plane program....
View ArticleDARPA’s RF Channel Emulator to Support Collaborative Machine-Learning...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has unveiled a radio signal traffic emulator built to simulate electromagnetic communications during DARPA’s collaborative machine-learning competition....
View ArticleDARPA Challenge Seeks to Test Offensive, Defensive Drone Swarm Tactics
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched a challenge that seeks to encourage military students to create and demonstrate defensive and offensive strategies for swarms of small...
View ArticlePresident Trump to Nominate ViraCyte’s Brett Giroir as HHS Assistant...
President Donald Trump plans to nominate Brett Giroir, president and CEO of biopharmaceutical company ViraCyte, as assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health and Human Services. The...
View ArticleDARPA to Fund 8 University Research Efforts Under Neuroplasticity Learning...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will fund eight research projects at seven universities under a four-year program that aims to explore how stimulation of the human body’s peripheral...
View ArticleDoD Officials Cite Threats Against US Military Operational Dominance at...
Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work has said the U.S. military’s superiority over potential competitors is beginning to wane due to adversaries’ level of investment and efforts to close the operational...
View ArticleDARPA Develops Military System Performance Prediction Tools
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has developed mathematical tools and methods to help designers understand risks associated with the design and modeling of large military systems such as...
View ArticleDARPA-Backed Researchers Aim to Help Robots Imbibe Human Norms Via Machine...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has funded a team of researchers to create a machine-learning algorithm designed to help artificial intelligence systems learn human social norms. The...
View ArticleDARPA’s Electronics Tech Devt Project Gets $75M Under FY 2018 DoD Budget Request
The Defense Department‘s budget request for fiscal year 2018 includes $75 million for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s public-private initiative that seeks to support further...
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