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  • DARPA Transfers Unmanned Anti-Submarine Vessel Prototype to Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Transfers Unmanned Anti-Submarine Vessel Prototype to Navy

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has transitioned a prototype of an unmanned anti-submarine warfare vessel to the Office of Naval Research for further development. DARPA said Tuesday the Sea Hunter vessel was developed under the Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel program to serve as the first unit of a potential new class of unmanned maritime vessels. ACTUV will […] More

  • IvySys to Help DARPA Model Adversarial Activity - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IvySys to Help DARPA Model Adversarial Activity

    IvySys Technologies has received a potential $4.6 million contract from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory on behalf of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to help create mathematical and computational strategies that can model adversarial activity. The DARPA Information Innovation Office’s four-year MAA program will use the new approaches in a push to acquire, deploy, […] More

  • DARPA to Host Live Event for Spectrum Collaboration Challenge Finale in 2019 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA to Host Live Event for Spectrum Collaboration Challenge Finale in 2019

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will host a live event next year for the finale of a three-year collaborative machine intelligence competition designed to mitigate challenges related to spectrum scarcity. DARPA said Tuesday it will host the Spectrum Collaboration Challenge finale event simultaneously with the 2019 Mobile World Congress Americas annual conference in partnership […] More

  • IBM to Deliver Neuromorphic Supercomputer to Air Force Research Lab - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM to Deliver Neuromorphic Supercomputer to Air Force Research Lab

    The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory expects to receive a neuromorphic supercomputer system from IBM in the summer to support the lab’s deep neural-network learning and information discovery tasks, Signal Magazine reported Monday. The machine will feature IBM’s TrueNorth Neurosynaptic System along with an end-to-end software ecosystem, pattern recognition and sensory processing tools. AFRL and IBM formed a partnership in […] More

  • DARPA to Hold OpFires Program Event for Potential Bidders - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA to Hold OpFires Program Event for Potential Bidders

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will conduct an information drive for parties interested to participate in a program that seeks a ground-launched weapon system that can utilize different payloads. DARPA’s Tactical Technology Office will sponsor a Proposers Day to detail the objectives of the OpFires program ahead of a planned broad agency announcement, DARPA said through a […] More

  • Galois to Develop Hardware Security Tools, Methods Under DARPA Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Galois to Develop Hardware Security Tools, Methods Under DARPA Program

    Galois has received a multiyear, $4.5 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop methods and tools to secure hardware for consumer, government and commercial use. The company said Wednesday it will lead a team project under the first phase of DARPA’s System Security Integrated through Hardware and Firmware program that seeks to address hardware vulnerabilities exploited […] More

  • Orbital ATK, DARPA Partner for Combined Cycle Engine Research - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK, DARPA Partner for Combined Cycle Engine Research

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has partnered with Orbital ATK to explore the concept of combined cycle engine technology. Orbital ATK said Tuesday it will examine the possibility of integrating turbine and hypersonic engine technologies into an aircraft propulsion system through DARPA’s Advanced Full Range Engine program. The company aims to help the agency develop a new propulsion system that […] More

  • DARPA to Hold Proposers Day on Quantum Coherence Stabilization Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA to Hold Proposers Day on Quantum Coherence Stabilization Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will conduct a proposers day through webcast on Feb. 1 to discuss a program that seeks to stabilize quantum coherence amid the presence of disorder, noise and interactions through the addition of a “periodic drive.” DARPA said Thursday the Driven and Nonequilibrium Quantum Systems program will form groups of experimentalists and theoreticians […] More

  • DARPA, Consortium Pick 6 University Research Centers for $200M Microelectronics Tech Devt Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA, Consortium Pick 6 University Research Centers for $200M Microelectronics Tech Devt Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and an industry consortium have selected six university research centers to conduct research efforts that seek to address challenges related to microelectronic technologies under a potential five-year, $200 million cost-sharing program. Linton Salmon, manager of DARPA’s Joint University Microelectronics Program, said in a statement published Wednesday JUMP and the […] More

  • DARPA Taps Systems and Technology Research for Undersea Sensor Tech Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Taps Systems and Technology Research for Undersea Sensor Tech Project

    Systems and Technology Research has received $10.6 million to explore undersea sensing systems for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. DARPA will obligate $3.2 million at the time of award from the agency’s fiscal 2017 and fiscal 2018 research and development funds, the Defense Department said Thursday. The research project is scheduled to be finished […] More

  • DARPA Seeks Radio, Network Architectures and Technologies to Address Data Channel Degradation Issues - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Seeks Radio, Network Architectures and Technologies to Address Data Channel Degradation Issues

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency seeks proposals for radio and network architectures and technologies that can sustain the reliability of networks through data channel degradation periods. According to a FedBizOpps report published Jan. 5, the Network Universal Persistence program works to create and showcase radio technologies capable of withstanding signal degradation experienced across military […] More

  • DARPA Seeks Additional Tech to Complement Military Space Asset Mgmt Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Seeks Additional Tech to Complement Military Space Asset Mgmt Systems

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has issued a broad agency announcement to seek additional technology platforms that can help U.S. military personnel manage space assets through rapid delivery and presentation of data. DARPA said Tuesday the Hallmark Tools and Capabilities 2 initiative looks to create and validate technologies to complement a set of tools and systems being […] More