The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected two teams to help in the first stage of development of a full-scale, wing-in-ground lifter seaplane demonstrator. DARPA said Wednesday the team of General Atomics and Maritime Applied Physics Corp. and the group consisting of Aurora Flight Sciences, Gibbs & Cox and ReconCraft will join the agency and the Department of […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will hold a Proposers Day on Feb. 21 at its Arlington, Virginia conference center to provide information on an upcoming broad agency announcement for a program aimed at developing cyber technologies for combat use. According to a notice published Friday, cyber technology development activities meant to enhance warfighter performance and […] More

BAE Systems‘ research and development arm has advanced to the third leg of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s initiative focused on ensuring cybersecurity of electronic files. At phase 3 of DARPA SafeDocs program, FAST Labs is now able to work with defense and industry partners on refining its cybersecurity tool suite, BAE Systems said.  […] More

Duality Technologies, a developer of secure data collaboration tools, has been selected to participate in the second phase of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program that seeks to protect and preserve sensitive information in virtual environments.  The company said Tuesday it will continue to lead an industry team in developing a hardware accelerator for […] More

Semiconductor Research Corp. and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency have selected seven university-run research centers as part of the second iteration of the Joint University Microelectronics Program. The centers will focus on seven research themes of JUMP 2.0: cognition; communications and connectivity; intelligent sensing to action; systems and architectures for distributed compute; intelligent memory […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will hold a Proposers Day on Jan. 19 at its conference center in Arlington, Virginia, to provide potential offerors information on the objectives of a program that seeks to build and demonstrate propulsion systems that could enable sustained operations in very low Earth orbit. The Otter program intends to […] More

Boeing’s Aurora Flight Sciences subsidiary has received a potential $42.2 million contract to perform work on the next phase of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program that seeks to demonstrate an aircraft design based on active flow control. Aurora will work on the second and third phases of the Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has released a solicitation for a new development and demonstration program for an unmanned X-plane capable of vertical landing and take-off and long endurance leap-ahead in small spaces. The SAM.gov notice posted on Thursday centers on the Advanced Aircraft Infrastructure-less Launch and Recovery, or ANCILLARY, project. DARPA is looking […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has released a presolicitation notice for a potential $78 million contract that aims to provide for the development of a command and control system to enable different types of unmanned systems to perform in contested environments.  DARPA’s Strategic Technology Office is seeking innovative proposals from industry sources capable of […] More

General Atomics’ aeronautical systems business has secured a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for the development of an aircraft capable of sustained seaborne strategic and tactical lift. The Defense Department said Friday the $8 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract award is in support of DARPA’s Liberty Lifter program. The program’s focus is on designing, building and […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has started soliciting proposals for a program that seeks to develop artificial intelligence agents and modeling and simulation approaches for multiship, beyond visual range defensive and offensive air combat missions. The AI Reinforcements program intends to advance tactical autonomy capabilities that could work with sensors, electronic warfare and other […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Tactical Technology Office issued a request for information as part of its plan to explore the use of radio frequency power beaming and relay in small unmanned aerial systems. The project is part of DARPA’s Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay program, which aims to enhance energy distribution and performance in […] More