Dr. Alvaro Velasquez is the Program Manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Read on and learn more about his duties and responsibilities as a defense official.   We invite you to join the Potomac Officers Club’s 5th Annual Artificial Intelligence Summit on March 21, 2024. Reserve your slot now and register here. […] More

Rigetti Computing has received a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to proceed with the second phase of the Quantum Benchmarking Program. Under the potential $1.5 million award, the company said Tuesday it will collaborate with the University of Technology Sydney, Aalto University and the University of Southern California to develop benchmarks for quantum application performance.

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Raytheon, an RTX business, will produce high-power-density gallium nitride transistors to enhance the electronic capability of radio frequency sensors under a four-year, $15 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. RTX said Thursday it will integrate military-grade GaN transistors into radar systems to increase range and radar resource management capabilities as part of DARPA's Technologies for Heat Removal in Electronics at the Device Scale program.

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ECS has secured a prime spot on the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s $1.25 billion Technical and Analytical Support Services contract vehicle. ECS will offer technical, analytical and program support services to help DARPA achieve its research and development mission goals, the Fairfax, Virginia-based company announced on Wednesday.

ECS is sponsoring the Potomac Officers Club's 2023 Homeland Security Summit on Nov. 15. At the event, you will have the opportunity to hear from top public and private sector homeland security experts, who will come together for a variety of speeches and panels. Click here to learn more and click here to register for the summit.

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will bring together government, industry, academia and international stakeholders through the Lunar Guidelines for Infrastructure Consortium to facilitate technical discussions and develop interoperability standards for commercial lunar infrastructure and related technologies. The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory will oversee LOGIC to help establish an independent, permanent forum that will serve as a venue for various stakeholders to collaborate in support of the lunar community.

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Raytheon has secured a contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop and demonstrate a novel rotating detonation engine propulsion system capable of powering long-range weapon systems. The RTX business will integrate a rotating detonation engine technology into a full-scale free-jet test system under the Gambit engine development program.

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency selected four teams for a new program aimed at developing algorithms and architectures as the foundation for trustworthy artificial intelligence systems. The Assured Neuro Symbolic Learning and Reasoning program will focus on combining data-driven machine learning and traditional symbolic reasoning to build robust and reliable autonomous systems, DARPA said Monday.

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has started soliciting concepts that could be developed into new technologies to enable warfighters to defend and protect space systems from adversaries as part of the space superiority topic of DARPA’s Bringing Classified Innovation to Defense and Government Systems program. Interested offerors for the space superiority technical domain may […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has started soliciting concepts that could be developed into new technologies to enable warfighters to defend and protect space systems from adversaries as part of the space superiority topic of DARPA’s Bringing Classified Innovation to Defense and Government Systems program. More

RTX, Draper and Beam Co. have won contracts from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to design relay technologies to serve as the foundation of an airborne wireless energy distribution concept. DARPA said Thursday the three companies will develop conceptual designs of the Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay and perform benchtop tests under the POWER […] More

Raytheon, an RTX business, has won a contract to design and demonstrate airborne optical energy relays under a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program meant to enhance energy distribution and performance in military vehicles. The company will specifically support the Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay Program as part of the $10 million cost-plus-fixed-fee award, the Department […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Microsystems Technology Office is inviting the industry to submit research ideas to address existing and future challenges in information and communication technologies. A notice posted Wednesday on SAM.gov states that the Forward-Looking Experimentation program aims to identify ICT innovations in seven topics: cognition; communications and connectivity; intelligent sensing; distributed […] More