The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched a four-year program that aims to develop transient and programmable gene modulators designed to temporarily boost the body’s defenses against chemical, biological and radiological threats. The PReemptive Expression of Protective Alleles and Response Elements program “will study how to support [the human …
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The Defense Department has asked “fourth estate” agencies that have workloads in 105 data centers to move their applications to a Defense Information Systems Agency-managed commercial cloud platform, Federal News Radio reported Wednesday. A May 3 memo says fourth estate agencies should migrate virtualized workloads to the milCloud 2.0 platform …
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The White House has created a select committee on artificial intelligence that will operate as part of the National Science and Technology Council. The establishment of the new committee comes as the Trump administration makes AI as a research-and-development priority and works to maintain the country’s technological leadership, the White …
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has tested a hard dock and recovery system as part of a program that aims to demonstrate an airborne platform to launch and recover multiple unmanned aerial systems. DARPA said Wednesday the separation and captive flight tests occurred at Yuma Proving Ground and marked a …
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has picked research teams that will develop new machine learning methods designed to enable artificial intelligence systems to adapt to new changes and implement previous knowledge and skills to new situations. DARPA said Thursday teams from the University of California in Irvine, Tufts University and …
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched a 42-month program that aims to develop new platforms designed to speed up the detection of zero-day vulnerabilities through computer-human collaboration. The Computers and Humans Exploring Software Security program will deal with five technical areas and one of those areas will initially …
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will host an event in July to kick off a potential five-year, $1.5 billion program that aims to spur “transformative” innovation in the electronics field. DARPA said Friday it expects to attract senior representatives from both the public and private sectors to the inaugural Electronics Resurgence …
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Researchers at the University of Southern California and Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have demonstrated a proof-of-concept system designed to restore and improve memory function in humans as part of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program. DARPA unveiled in November 2013 the Restoring Active Memory program that aims to address …
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s fiscal year 2019 budget request includes $254.7 million to fund various space programs such as an experimental space plane, a launch competition and an on-orbit satellite servicing platform, Parabolic Arc reported Friday. DARPA seeks $62 million for the Experimental Spaceplane One program to fund Boeing‘s ongoing efforts to …
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President Donald Trump has nominated Lisa Porter, an executive vice president at In-Q-Tel and director of IQT Labs, to be deputy undersecretary for research and engineering at the Defense Department, the White House announced Friday. Porter served as president of Teledyne Technologies‘ scientific and imaging business before she joined In-Q-Tel. Her federal career also includes time as …
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