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DARPA to Host Proposers Day for GEO Robotic Servicing Program
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will host a proposers day on May 22 to discuss with industry a new program that aims to build robots that will operate in orbit to support satellites and other space-based infrastructure.
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DoD Innovation Org Seeks Prototype Pathways for Satellite Data Processing
The Defense Innovation Unit is seeking prototype concepts for a processing system intended to translate spacecraft-obtained data transmitted through commercial gateways into a usable format for users in forward operating locations.
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DARPA Office Director Justin Sanchez to Join Battelle as Technical Fellow
Justin Sanchez, director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's biological technologies office, will officially join Battelle in late June to serve as a technical fellow. More
Northrop to Develop Biological Sensing Tech Prototype Under DARPA PALS Research Program
A consortium that includes Northrop Grumman will develop prototype sensing tools to support a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program aimed at determining which marine organisms could help the U.S. military detect and track undersea threats.
Three Firms Selected to Participate in DARPA Launch Challenge
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected Vector Launch, Virgin Orbit subsidiary VOX Space and one unnamed company to compete for a program designed to give the U.S. military new technologies to launch small payloads into orbit.Â
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IvySys to Help Detect Online Disinformation Campaigns Through DARPA Program
IvySys Technologies received a three-year contract to support a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program that aims to detect online disinformation campaigns with the use of technology.
Steven Walker, Director of DARPA, Inducted Into 2019 Wash100 for Leadership in Advancing Artificial Intelligence, Other Tech Programs
Executive Mosaic is pleased to announce that Steven Walker, director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, as an inductee into the 2019 Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of the most influential voices in the government contracting arena — for his focus on emerging technology such as artificial intelligence.
DARPA Seeks Proposals for Fourth OFFSET Swarm Sprint, Announces Third Sprint Awardees
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has announced two awardees for the third sprint of the OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics program and begun to seek proposals for the fourth sprint. Soar Technology and Carnegie Mellon University received separate contracts to perform work under the OFFSET program’s third sprint, which aims to explore new human-swarm teaming technologies, DARPA said Monday.
ÂDARPA Invites AI-Based Language Acquisition Concept Submissions
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is inviting potential vendors to submit ideas on how to develop an artificial intelligence process that would help computers to acquire language.
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Rocket Lab’s Electron Launch Vehicle Delivers DARPA Satellite Into Orbit; Peter Beck Quoted
Rocket Lab recently delivered the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Radio Frequency Risk Reduction Deployment Demonstration satellite into orbit aboard the Electron launch vehicle. The R3D2 launch was the first Rocket Lab launch for the year, the company announced Thursday.