Microsoft, Google, Anthropic and OpenAI will collaborate with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency on a two-year competition to advance the development of artificial intelligence-based cybersecurity systems that could be used to detect and address software vulnerabilities and protect critical infrastructure from cyberattacks. The AI companies will share their technologies and expertise with DARPA’s AI […] More

The CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 is injecting billions of dollars into the United States’ domestic semiconductor chip manufacturing industry in a move that aims to reposition the country as a leader in this critical and fast-growing area. According to Dr. Mark Rosker, director of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s Microsystems Technology Office, the legislation […] More

Raytheon, an RTX business, and Northrop Grumman will continue to build and conduct additional flight tests of Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept systems powered by scramjet engines under a follow-on contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The Raytheon-Northrop team will incorporate production enhancements into the existing HAWC design and validate system capabilities through additional […] More

Northrop Grumman will design an autonomous aircraft system capable of taking off from and landing vertically on a moving naval ship at sea. Under a new Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program, the contractor said Thursday it will develop an AdvaNced airCraft Infrastructure-Less Launch And RecoverY demonstrator with increased payload capacity and endurance to support […] More

General Dynamics’ Applied Physical Sciences arm subcontracted General Atomics’ electromagnetic systems business for a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency-initiated program on propulsion technology. GA-EMS announced Friday that it will be responsible for the design, engineering and analysis of the propulsion system for the Advanced Propulsor, Experimental program. In April, Applied Physical Sciences won the prime […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is set to hold a proposers day on June 30 to discuss an upcoming broad agency announcement for a program that aims to develop novel techniques to identify and remediate system vulnerabilities. The Intelligent Generation of Tools for Security initiative seeks to pioneer artificial intelligence-driven cybersecurity hardening approaches to […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has named nine companies to develop and demonstrate conceptual designs for an uncrewed aerial system with vertical landing and takeoff, and long endurance leap-ahead capabilities. The AdvaNced airCraft Infrastructure-Less Launch And RecoverY initiative seeks to develop and flight demonstrate a VTOL aircraft that can be deployed and recovered from […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has unveiled a new program to develop novel tunable optical materials operating across multiple spectral ranges in the visible and mid and long-wave infrared electromagnetic spectrum bands. DARPA said Wednesday the Accelerating Discovery of Tunable Optical Materials program seeks to use advancements in artificial intelligence to discover and develop […] More

CACI International and a Raytheon Technologies subsidiary are two industry participants in a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program that seeks algorithmic tools capable of performing decision-making tasks in a challenging scenario such as combat triage. DARPA said Tuesday four teams will support the development of a framework for building trustworthy artificial intelligence algorithms under […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is working with Umbra, Terran Orbital, Northrop Grumman and Jacobs for an experiment that seeks to leverage synthetic aperture radar satellites to advance warfare capabilities, Breaking Defense reported Friday. DARPA launched the Digital Radar Image Formation Technology program in 2022 to expand the use of commercial SAR satellites in military missions and to […] More

BAE Systems‘ FAST Labs division received a $7 million contract to help the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency develop an autonomous space-based system for military personnel to track key objects of interest across satellite constellations. FAST Labs teamed up with artificial intelligence technology developers AIMdyn and OmniTeq to carry out software development work under the […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched a program that aims to develop novel electrode materials that can be used for a magnetohydrodynamic propulsion system for military undersea platforms. The Principles of Undersea Magnetohydrodynamic Pumps program will run for three and a half years and will validate modeling and simulation tools, including electrochemistry, hydrodynamics […] More