The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched a sensor development program aimed at advancing the said technology’s capabilities to enable high-bandwidth, expanded-dynamic-range sensing operations at extreme temperatures. DARPA said Friday the High Operational Temperature Sensors initiative looks to address possible thermal limitations of microelectronic sensor technologies for next generation turbine engines or high-speed flight. […] More

Zapata Computing and L3Harris Technologies have submitted 30 challenge scenarios in quantum computing as part of a research contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The companies are leading an initiative to develop benchmarks for practical quantum computing applications in defense and other sectors, Zapata said Wednesday. The real-world computational challenges were presented as […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is seeking input from developers of technologies capable of bridging business process logic gaps. In a presolicitation notice posted on SAM.gov Thursday, DARPA said the Business Process Logic Program intends to address the issues and vulnerabilities in business systems that control and manage defense-critical processes such as manufacturing, infrastructure and […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has issued a broad agency announcement for a new program to develop microbial sensing devices for use in environmental monitoring activities. Tellus is aimed at creating an interactive methodology to design microbial sense-and-respond devices to detect a range of chemical and physical signals, collect and process the information and […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is seeking concepts focused on enhancing designs, components, production and processing for next generation antenna, the first topic under its Bringing Classified Innovation to Defense and Government Systems program.  The objective is to explore new antenna designs that offer substantially boosted performance or a significant reduction in size, weight, […] More

In early 2022, the Department of Defense released its new technology vision, which identified 14 technology areas critical to maintaining U.S. national security in the transforming warfighting environment. Quantum, which represents just one of these areas, has reached its “second revolution,” as experts move to perfect this technology and harness its benefits. To accelerate the development […] More

Riverside Research has partnered with two companies and one university to develop technology under a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program aimed at disrupting cyber attackers’ exploitation mechanism in computing platforms. The nonprofit scientific research organization on Monday unveiled High Peaks Cyber, BedRock Systems and Boston University as teammates on the Hardening Development Toolchains Against […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected Peraton‘s applied research unit to create machine learning-based introspection tools to enable military assets to respond and adapt to unpredictable events. Peraton Labs said Thursday it will develop an artificial intelligence-powered adaptive control system that will provide guidance and situational awareness in real-time to an autonomous controller […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected research teams from Ginkgo Bioworks, Leidos and Northwestern University for the Reimagining Protein Manufacturing program that seeks to build tools to help accelerate on-demand production of protein-based drugs. “The current process for producing protein-based therapeutics requires more than a year to establish, while still requiring purification and […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency completed the first flight tests of artificial intelligence algorithms on a Lockheed Martin-built modified F-16 fighter jet, dubbed X-62A Variable In-flight Simulator Test Aircraft, in December. The AI algorithms developed through DARPA’s Air Combat Evolution program were uploaded into VISTA at the Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected Galois to advance to the final phase of the Safe Documents program under which the software company will develop new methods of enhancing the cybersecurity of electronic data formats. Galois said Friday it will partner with Verocel and Real-Time Innovations to create a code generator meant to […] More

Intel has been selected to participate in a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program to develop cryptography tools for safeguarding integrated computing systems from cyberthreats. The company said Wednesday it will work with the University of California, San Diego to test and demonstrate the Cryptographic Capability Computing memory safety mechanism as part of the Hardening […] More