DARPA

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 | 54

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

ROUNDUP A confluence of recent confusion from around the world that you may have missed

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 | 108

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

US military chucks $2bn at AI, Google touts machine-learning data search, and more

Roundup The AI stories you may have missed this week

AI + ML08 Sep 2018 | 12

Boffins build 'body-on-a-chip' for drugs tests

Buffet of 10 organ types to check for reactions

Science14 Mar 2018 | 2

Boffins pack more info onto photon for faster quantum key distro

Qubits are old hat: this uses 'qudits' - a photon with more than two simultaneous states

Science27 Nov 2017 | 14

DARPA lays out cash-splash to defibrillate Moore's Law

Electronics resurgence program gets US$75 million more for 2018

Legal14 Sep 2017 | 15

DARPA's robot sat-fixing program survives sueball strike

Aerospace firm says there's no market for this stuff, wants to build it anyway

Science17 Jul 2017 | 7

DARPA cracks wallet to open heads: Brain interface projects get Uncle Sam's backing

It's hoped cutting-edge tech will bridge broken senses

Science10 Jul 2017 | 7

DARPA orders spaceplane capable of 10 launches in 10 days

Boeing to build 'Phantom Express' on heir to Space Shuttle's main engine

Science25 May 2017 | 42

Robot lands a 737 by hand, on a dare from DARPA

Building a bot for the co-pilot's seat may be cheaper than adding automation software

AI + ML17 May 2017 | 106

Shock horror: US military sticks jump leads on human brains to teach them a lesson

DARPA's current thinking for potential future bright sparks

Science28 Apr 2017 | 25

DARPA seeks SSITH lords to keep hardware from the Dark Side

'Make chips secure', because nobody's thought of that before

Security12 Apr 2017 | 5

AI vuln-hunter bots have seen things you people wouldn't believe

Usenix Enigma 2017 New classes of bugs found by machine-learning-powered tools

AI + ML03 Feb 2017 | 17

Smart bombs, smart bullets – now guided smart artillery shells, thanks to DARPA dosh

US Navy ordnance contract goes Raytheon

Science18 Jan 2017 | 55

If you have a problem, if no one else can help – and if you can find them – maybe you can hire DARPA's A-Teams

AI pity the fool

AI + ML29 Nov 2016 | 5

Hypersonic cruise missile scores US$175m DARPA cash

Raytheon gets the job of delivering death from above at Mach 5

Legal01 Nov 2016 | 28

DARPA hands space junk spotting scope to US Air Force

Space Surveillance Telescope can spot specks of shiny 36,000km away

Science23 Oct 2016 | 15

DARPA unveils robot co-pilot

Your inflatable buddy in the cockpit

AI + ML19 Oct 2016 | 11

Mechanical Phish auto-exploit auto-patch kit lands on GitHub

Vuln-hunting robot ready to roam the world

Security22 Aug 2016 | 1

Game over, security researchers – DARPA’s AI bug hunters are coming for your jobs

DEF CON First 'Cyber Grand Challenge' shows software can eat itself

Security05 Aug 2016 | 8

Mad-tech labcoat-sporters DARPA pit infosec AI against itself

It's the Cyber Grand Challenge

AI + ML04 Aug 2016 | 18

White hat hacker AI bots prepare for DARPA's DEF CON cyber brawl

Software must automatically find bugs in rival code. Are you not entertained?

Security13 Jul 2016 | 8