DARPA

LLM-driven C-to-Rust. Not just a good idea, a genie eager to escape

Opinion Automatic for the people? Don’t mind if we do

Software12 Aug 2024 | 89

DARPA slaps down credit card for 3D military chiplets – $840M ought to be enough?

UT-Austin lab gets the job, and five years to do it

Public Sector18 Jul 2024 | 5

DARPA searched for fields quantum computers really could revolutionize, with mixed results

It's not all hype, but more work is needed before solutions are feasible or affordable

Systems24 Jun 2024 | 34

DARPA awards in-orbit manufacturing contract to Momentus

In the not too distant future agency wants to found factories in the sky

Science02 Jun 2024 | 3

Take two APIs and call me in the morning: How healthcare research can cure cyber crime

Opinion In evolving smarter security, open source is the missing link

Cyber-crime28 May 2024 | 3

DARPA's latest toy is a 20-foot, 12-ton tank that drives itself

Crew entirely optional

Offbeat25 Apr 2024 | 35

US Air Force says AI-controlled F-16 fighter jet has been dogfighting with humans

Video Robo-plane was made to restrain itself so as not to harm pilot or airframe

AI + ML18 Apr 2024 | 109

What if AI produces code not just quickly but also, dunno, securely, DARPA wonders

As 70% of boffinry nerve center's projects involve machine learning

AI + ML02 Apr 2024 | 13

Ransomware can mean life or death at hospitals. DEF CON hackers to the rescue?

Interview ARPA-H joins DARPA's AIxCC, adds $20M to cash rewards

Cyber-crime26 Mar 2024 | 24

DARPA tasks Northrop Grumman with drafting lunar train blueprints

Um. Let's successfully land on Moon without immediately faceplanting first, amirite?

Science20 Mar 2024 | 63

DARPA's air-steered X-65 jet heads into production with goal of flying by 2025

Moving parts on a plane? What is this, Kitty Hawk?

Offbeat04 Jan 2024 | 65

Stratolaunch takes ready-to-fly hypersonic craft skyward, but still no launch

Scheduled summer Mach 5 flight deadline came and went

Science06 Dec 2023 | 12

DARPA worried battlefield mixed reality vulnerable to 'cognitive attacks'

Hacks, physical tricks could turn headsets into vomit extractors, but tests already show no ops needed for that

Public Sector12 Oct 2023 | 6

DARPA takes its long-duration Manta undersea drone for a test-dip

Autonomous sub should recharge and resupply in perfect stealth, hopefully

Security28 Sep 2023 | 3

US amends hypersonic weapons strategy: If you can't zoom with 'em, boom 'em

DARPA awards Boeing $70.5M to develop intercept technology

Offbeat12 Sep 2023 | 17

What DARPA wants, DARPA gets: A non-hacky way to fix bugs in legacy binaries

When you need to patch a problem in your drone and no one's got the source

Devops18 Aug 2023 | 63

DARPA wants interoperability standard for Moon living

Less lunacy? LunA-10 is seeking designs for 'optimized and integrated lunar infrastructure'

Science16 Aug 2023 | 5

Don't shoot! DARPA wants to capture future spy balloons in one piece

Being blasted with a missile and plummeting 60,000 feet can do a real number on hardware, it turns out

Offbeat10 Aug 2023 | 34

DARPA tells AI world: Make a model that secures software, there's $25M in it for you

Black Hat If you're so smart, prove it by safeguarding our infrastructure

Black Hat and DEF CON09 Aug 2023 | 8

NASA, DARPA enlist Lockheed to build nuclear-powered spacecraft

Hey, at least this one isn't an actual bomb

Science27 Jul 2023 | 16

How Sandia hopes to accelerate US hypersonic weapons development

You want this to go faster? OK, send in the contractors. That'll do the trick

Science01 May 2023 | 10

How DARPA wants to rethink the fundamentals of AI to include trust

Comment Would you trust your life to the current generation of AIs? Yeah, we wouldn't either

AI + ML20 Apr 2023 | 25

Wow, so they actually let AI fly an F-16 fighter jet

You can be my Bing man anytime

AI + ML14 Feb 2023 | 61

DARPA's quantum computing is powered by ... FOMO

Microsoft and friends happy to assuage Uncle Sam's anxiety — for a price

Science02 Feb 2023 | 6

How to shave years off the journey from military lab to real-world use

Interview DARPA's Blake Bextine talks us through taking inventions commercial

Government Tech Week26 Jan 2023 |

US Cyber Command, DARPA ink cyberwar R&D pact

Interview Out of the valley of death and into operational use, ideally

Government Tech Week24 Jan 2023 | 3

DARPA wants to upgrade the way we make chips. How exactly will that work?

Interview Dr Dev Palmer talks us through a JUMP in materials, algorithms, tools

Government Tech Week23 Jan 2023 | 5

Let me X-plane: Boeing R&D unit sheds rudder, ailerons, flaps for DARPA project

US research agency paying $42.4m for working full-scale aircraft that ejects air out of its surfaces

Offbeat18 Jan 2023 | 44

US Air Force tests its first fully functional hypersonic missile

I used to be a missileer like you, then I took an ARRW in the knee

Science14 Dec 2022 | 52

SpaceX chases government cash with Starshield satellites

If Starshield smells like Space-BACN, that's because it probably is

Networks06 Dec 2022 | 13

Intel chips in on optical modem for DARPA's 'internet of satellites'

Mmmmm... smells like Space-BACN

Networks11 Oct 2022 | 3

DARPA seeks a few good AI coders to help America find its own rare minerals

There's some pocket change in it for you, if you can crack this nut

AI + ML17 Aug 2022 | 12

Intel, Amazon, and SpaceX asked to tuck into DARPA's Space-BACN

Internetwork of satellite networks advances to 'actually building' stuff stage

Science11 Aug 2022 | 12

DARPA seeks portable muon-making machine to see through almost anything

We currently make muons at CERN, so this is quite the miniaturization job

Science25 Jul 2022 | 55

DARPA study challenges assumptions about distributed ledger (and Bitcoin) security

Blockchain not as decentralised as many assume, finds Pentagon sponsored research

Security22 Jun 2022 | 12

DARPA wants to refuel drones in flight – wirelessly

Boffin agency seeks help to shoot 100kW through the air with lasers, but contributors don't have long to deliver

Edge + IoT14 Jun 2022 | 24

DARPA backs virtual worlds for autonomous off-road vehicles

Intel and co outline Holodeck-like efforts for combat bots

AI + ML27 Apr 2022 | 1

DARPA says US hypersonic missile is ready for real world

A new arms race emerges

Science06 Apr 2022 | 67

DARPA to build life-saving AI models that think like medics

Project is a M*A*S*H-up of machine learning and battlefield decision-making

AI + ML30 Mar 2022 | 6

ARPANET pioneer Jack Haverty says the internet was never finished

When he retired with stuff left on his to-do list, he expected fixes would flow. They haven't

Networks01 Mar 2022 | 125

UK's ARIA innovation body 'hasn't even begun to happen' says former research lead

Updated DARPA imitator not doing much after two years of Johnson government

Science20 Oct 2021 | 17

DARPA plans thousands-strong satellite constellation Space-BACN sandwich

Mmmm... BACN. Is there anything it can't do?

Networks15 Sep 2021 | 8

Virginia school board learns a hard lesson... and other stories

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Bootnotes05 Sep 2021 | 44

Gloom-dwelling subterranean robots battle for million-dollar DARPA prize

SubT Challenge pits high-tech rescue drones against one another in upsettingly non-violent combat

Offbeat21 Jul 2021 | 21

Robots still suck. It's all they can do to stand up – never mind rise up

Feature Simultaneous localisation and mapping is hard so for the foreseeable future ’bots will remain bolted down

AI + ML07 Jul 2021 | 55

DARPA nails cash to project 'FENCE' — a smart camera that only sends pics when pixels change

Research agency also open-sources FETT hardware bug bounty platform and tools

Security06 Jul 2021 | 27

An anti-drone system that sneezes targets to death? Would that be a DARPA project? You betcha

Hotshot snotbot shows grotty terror plot buzzbots what's what

Edge + IoT10 Jun 2021 | 73

That AI scanning your X-ray for signs of COVID-19 may just be looking at your age

In brief Plus: DARPA wants to spend $1m on AI research studying information warfare

AI + ML07 Jun 2021 | 7

DARPA adds RISC-V to its Toolbox: Defense researchers can get special access to SiFive chip designs

Labs offered tech by Arm as well as its upstart rival and others

Science07 Apr 2021 | 5

DARPA picks Intel to automate conversion of FPGAs into ASICs for military applications

Chipzilla hints at bringing 10nm ASIC FAB to US soil to sate desire for faster and cheaper custom silicon

On-Prem19 Mar 2021 | 11

British govt emits fuzzy vision for UK version of American boffin special forces group Darpa

Aria. Doesn't have quite the same ring to it, does it?

Science19 Feb 2021 | 53

So long, Top Gun... AI software waxes US F-16 pilot's tail 5-0 during virtual dogfight drills

Video Well, Maverick, you've lost that lovin' feeling and it's gone, gone, gone

AI + ML21 Aug 2020 | 68

Robot Rin Tin Tin can rescue you from that collapsed mine shaft

It might even hand you the fire extinguisher

Science18 Sep 2019 | 20

Uncle Sam to blow millions on mind-control weapon tech that can be fitted without surgery

DARPA eggheads want brain-machine interfaces that work at the speed of soldiers' thoughts. No further comment...

Science22 May 2019 | 59

Quit worrying about killer robots, they are coming whether you like it or not – and they absolutely will not stop

The only winning move is not to play, as a wise computer said

AI + ML15 May 2019 | 107

Take my bits awaaaay: DARPA wants to develop AI fighter program to augment human pilots

I feel the need, the need for a general adversarial network

AI + ML09 May 2019 | 61