DARPA

Ex-hacker leaves Pentagon's TOP-SECRET war boffins for Google

What will he do? We don't know - it's a secret

Security16 Apr 2013 | 10

Boffins build robo-CHIMP for DARPA challenge

Four hands, four tracks, and big iron inside

Personal Tech13 Mar 2013 | 12

Raytheon to build low-orbit, disposable satellites for DARPA

Battlefield viewing from the edge of space

Science23 Jan 2013 | 58

DARPA shells out $194m for 'phase 6' of STARnet chip project

Nothing like SkyNet – we hope

Legal23 Jan 2013 | 16

DARPA planning 100 Gbps wireless

Seeks interest in development and demonstrations

Networks18 Dec 2012 | 8

Kiwis demo DARPA-funded rocket project

Video Launch tests high-density propellant

Science19 Nov 2012 | 13

Drone security project to go open source

DARPA project to stop droneware being hacked will see some software freed

Security19 Nov 2012 | 11

DARPA looking for citizen sky-watchers

Why not find some space junk in your spare time?

Science18 Nov 2012 | 6

DARPA demos cyborg binoculars to spot the enemy

Brain-augmented CCTV for the forces

Science20 Sep 2012 | 18

DARPA builds faster-than-Usain-Bolt Cheetah robot

Still caged in a lab at Pentagon's mad scientist bureau... FOR NOW

Science06 Sep 2012 | 31

Pentagon develops 'Plan X' for next-gen online combat

'Battle units' to defend global networks

Security23 Aug 2012 | 12

DARPA aiming for Mach-20 hypersonic rocketplane 'by 2016'

Blazing hot booming sky-spear 'is the new Stealth'

Science09 Jul 2012 | 17

DARPA overjoyed that its hypersonic glider came apart, blew up

REAL inventors and scientists cause explosions

Bootnotes23 Apr 2012 | 21

DARPA boffins seek Terminator-style disaster-zone rescue robot

Car-driving, tool-using tsunami-surviving android needed

Science11 Apr 2012 | 27

Obama gets the big data bug

Swings swags of simoleons at science

SaaS29 Mar 2012 | 3

Congress warned that military systems may already be pwned

Radical rethink of computer security needed

Security24 Mar 2012 | 57

Top DARPA bomb boffin in explosive move to Google

Counter-terror expert disarmed by Choc Factory's charm

Science13 Mar 2012 | 8

Robot NIGHTMARE sets new leggy-bot speed record

Video It's those DARPA thrill-seekers again

Science05 Mar 2012 | 54

Siri's artificially intelligent news anchor sister bags $6.2m

Funding found for DARPA-backed web sniffer Trapit

SaaS10 Jan 2012 | 6

Former coder, NASA 'naut to lead DARPA starship dream

Galactic bus boss also Trekkie, 1st African-American woman in space

Science09 Jan 2012 | 40

Boffins demo time-warp cloaking device

New tool for hackers

Science05 Jan 2012 | 51

US deploys 1.8 gigapixel helicopter surveillance drones to Afghanistan

Boeing A160T Hummingbird carries upgraded spying eye

Legal29 Dec 2011 | 40

US boffins unleash piezoelectric insect cyborg

'Leccy-generating beetle for hazardous missions

Science29 Nov 2011 | 16

Terry Pratchett computer sniper-scope: Spec-ops mini version

Secret supertroops want version for solo shooter

Legal24 Nov 2011 | 22

Huge US command-&-control airship gets quantum optics

Fibre-fat pipage for 'Blue Devil' aerial computer warship

SaaS22 Nov 2011 | 27

Robot ostrich spy outpaces world’s fastest sprinters

Two legs good, four legs bad

Science21 Nov 2011 | 38

DARPA boffins develop unfeasibly light metal fluff-structure

Nano-nickel wonder stuff bar can rest atop a dandelion

Science18 Nov 2011 | 37

Hypersonic missile successfully hits Ronald Reagan

Mach 8 glider warhead covers 2,400 miles in 20-odd mins

Legal18 Nov 2011 | 18

Elite DARPA cyber heroes will protect interwebs

'We invented it, we'll save it'

Security08 Nov 2011 | 8

Cray results suffer from AMD delays

History repeats itself, but won't threepeat

HPC01 Nov 2011 | 2

US Matrix-style Cyberwar firing range moves forward

Sim-people's endlessly repeated armageddon draws nearer

Software20 Sep 2011 | 6

DARPA software to trawl Bin Laden laptops, thumb drives

Mil-spook gear to deal with haul from Special Ops raids

Software31 Aug 2011 | 16

DARPA wants a working manned starship for $500k

Mere seed money for mighty humanity-saving organisation

Science30 Aug 2011 | 35

DARPA shells out $21m for IBM cat brain chip

Here, Skynet Skynet

Science18 Aug 2011 | 66

DARPA drops another HTV-2

To lose one is unfortunate, two looks like carelessness

Science12 Aug 2011 | 68

DARPA project seeks immortality, suspended animation

Shot? Blown up? Chill out until you reach hospital

Science19 Jul 2011 | 36

CIA's DARPA working on human-brain-mimicking tech

Company that built the first internet node hired

Legal14 Jul 2011 | 7

'Robots can save America', says Obama

'As C-in-C I can assure you the machines seem peaceful'

Legal27 Jun 2011 | 47

Fridge-sized war raygun for US bombers gets $40m

Pew pew pew pew pew pew WARNING OVERHEAT WARNING Aw jeez

Science23 Jun 2011 | 55

DARPA issues call for notions on Starship-for-2111 plan

'We want an organisation able to squash the USA like a bug'

Science16 Jun 2011 | 68

DARPA wants weapons-grade military cloud computing

The clouds of war gather over the Pentagon

SaaS17 May 2011 | 9

MIRACULOUS new AIRSHIP set to fly by 2013

Helium buoyancy issue solved at last?

Science06 May 2011 | 72

DARPA, NASA look to spawn STARSHIP enterprise

Self-building interstellar shipbuilder sought

Science05 May 2011 | 53

DARPA says surveillance vid-search tool is ready for use

To roll out across 'multiple military programmes'

Software03 May 2011 | 10

DARPA aims to make renewable power practical at last

At Afghanistan combat bases, anyway

Science13 Apr 2011 | 36

DARPA wants secure Droids, iPads, iPhones

Pentagon boffins can bear BlackBerry shame no longer

Networks11 Apr 2011 | 19

Robo-warship sub hunter: Free DARPA crowdsauce game

Crewless Mary Celeste ghost-frigate sonar thrills

Science07 Apr 2011 | 45

DARPA: Send limbless troops back to war with robo-arms

Brainplug cyborgs to get superhuman reaction times

Science01 Apr 2011 | 47

Cray strides past another $12m DARPA milestone

Climbing towards the 'Cascade' range

HPC11 Mar 2011 | 1

Giant 5-year-mission aerial wing-ship to fly in 2011

Solar stratoplane set for New Mexico takeoff

Science11 Mar 2011 | 23

US robot ornithopter spy-hummingbird in flight test triumph

Al-Qaeda to form Dick Dastardly bird-buster squadron?

Science17 Feb 2011 | 29

DARPA to pay hackers and hobbyists for help

Your tax dollars at rest

HPC15 Feb 2011 | 1

US gov says it can't build an interstellar starship

Plans to spawn an organisation which can

Science10 Feb 2011 | 56

US cyberwar firing range to demo by July

Weapons-grade warez to hammer 'replicant' sim-people

Science26 Jan 2011 | 13

Next smartphone tech? Predator style thermal cameras

Soon we'll all be picking keypad locks with our mobes

Personal Tech25 Jan 2011 | 43

Custom ICs in small numbers to be cheap as (normal) chips

DARPA boffins' amazing claim

Channel12 Jan 2011 | 26