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  • LGS Innovations to Build Optical Intersatellite Comm Terminals for DARPA; Kevin Kelly Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    LGS Innovations to Build Optical Intersatellite Comm Terminals for DARPA; Kevin Kelly Comments

    LGS Innovations has been selected to develop optical communication terminals meant to facilitate communication between two micro-satellites of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in low-Earth orbit. LGS will build a pair of lightweight, low-power laser communication terminals that DARPA plans to launch on the agency’s small satellites as part of the Inter-Satellite Communication Link initiative, the company said Wednesday. “Small satellites […] More

  • Vincent Tang: DARPA Seeks Proposals for Scientific Simulation, Complex Design Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vincent Tang: DARPA Seeks Proposals for Scientific Simulation, Complex Design Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has asked industry for proposals to help DARPA in its push to move forward scientific simulations of physical systems in an effort to carry out complex designs. DARPA said Friday the Accelerated Computation for Efficient Scientific Simulation program’s goal is to develop a new processor with updated simulation capacity for design, prediction, and discovery for use in partial […] More

  • Northrop, RFID Global to Present Counterfeit Electronic Part Detection Tools at DARPA Demo Day - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop, RFID Global to Present Counterfeit Electronic Part Detection Tools at DARPA Demo Day

    Northrop Grumman and its partner RFID Global Solution will showcase at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency-hosted Demo Day a miniaturized chip and software designed to detect counterfeit electronic components. RFID Global said Tuesday it developed the Visi-Trac software application in support of a $12.3 million contract that Northrop received from DARPA in 2015 for the agency’s […] More

  • Raytheon BBN-Led Team Seeks to Extend Mobile Apps’ Viability Under Air Force Contract; Partha Pal Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon BBN-Led Team Seeks to Extend Mobile Apps’ Viability Under Air Force Contract; Partha Pal Comments

    A team led by a Raytheon subsidiary will work to develop techniques that seek to extend the functionality of mobile applications for up to a century under a four-year, $7.8 million contract with the U.S. Air Force. Raytheon BBN Technologies will collaborate with Securboration, Syracuse University, Vanderbilt University and Oregon State University on the project as part of the Defense Advanced […] More

  • Charles River Analytics Secures DARPA Contract for Adaptable Software Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Charles River Analytics Secures DARPA Contract for Adaptable Software Systems

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded an estimated four-year, $8 million contract to Charles River Analytics to develop a software system that can understand, learn and adapt to changes in its technological environment. CRA plans to develop the Probabilistic Representation of Intent Commitments to Ensure Software Survival system as part of DARPA’s Building Resource Adaptive Software Systems […] More

  • DARPA Picks 8 for Armored, Agile Ground Vehicle Research; Christopher Orlowski Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Picks 8 for Armored, Agile Ground Vehicle Research; Christopher Orlowski Comments

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected eight organizations to research and develop an armored ground vehicle that can accommodate additional armor without compromising mobility and speed. DARPA said Tuesday the agency is interested in a vehicle with track and suspension technologies, agile motion systems, 360-degree data visualization technology and a signature management system […] More

  • DARPA Seeks Proposals for Future Secure Messaging Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Seeks Proposals for Future Secure Messaging Platform

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has asked for proposals from industry to develop a secure messaging platform for the U.S. military that is accessible via a web browser or standalone native application. proposals on the for potential a Secure Messaging Platform. DARPA said Friday it also wants the platform to separate the message creation from the message transfer […] More

  • DARPA Launches New Mathematics, Algorithms Research Program for Fabrication Methods - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Launches New Mathematics, Algorithms Research Program for Fabrication Methods

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has unveiled its Transformative Design research program to develop new mathematics and algorithms that will work to help apply new materials and fabrication methods. DARPA said Friday the TRADES project’s goal is to develop new tools that addresses potential mismatches between technologies, representations and algorithms do with nexisting material properties. “Structural and functional complexities introduced by today’s advanced […] More

  • SRI International Launches Wearable Robotics Venture - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SRI International Launches Wearable Robotics Venture

    SRI International has unveiled a new spin-off venture named Superflex that will develop wearable robotics in an effort to help humans apply their musculoskeletal systems for multiple uses. SRI said Thursday the technology was originally created under a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency-funded Warrior Web project that aimed to maximize soldier performance, minimize injury risk and help soldiers carry heavier load. Rich Mahoney will oversee Superflex operations as […] More

  • Charles River Analytics Unveils Crowd-Sourced Software Verification Framework - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Charles River Analytics Unveils Crowd-Sourced Software Verification Framework

    Charles River Analytics has introduced a framework designed to manage and analyze crowd-sourced software verification tools. The framework is presented as part of the Crowd-Sourced Formal Verification program of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Charles River said Friday. “Software should go through formal verification to ensure that mission-essential software is free from disruptive errors […] More

  • DARPA Introduces Miniaturized Electronic Components for Wireless Communications - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Introduces Miniaturized Electronic Components for Wireless Communications

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has unveiled a new set of minitiaturized electronic components DARPA has called “circulators” its researchers designed with doubled radio frequency capacity to give users increased web search and download speeds via wireless communications. Columbia University electrical engineers Harish Krishnaswamy and Negar Reiskarimian led the project under DARPA’s Arrays at Commercial Timescales program and introduced […] More

  • Flightglobal: Northrop Plans Alternate Market for Proposed DARPA Unmanned Spaceplane - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Flightglobal: Northrop Plans Alternate Market for Proposed DARPA Unmanned Spaceplane

    Northrop Grumman seeks to introduce its reusable unmanned spaceplane prototype to the commercial satellite launch market even as the company works on its design for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Experimental Spaceplane-1 program, Flightglobal reported Thursday. James Drew writes that Doug Young, vice president of space systems resiliency at Northrop, told Flightglobal the company plans to continue developing its XS-1 concept […] More