The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched a new program that seeks to bring together a diverse group of talented professionals worldwide to explore emerging science and technology applications through a combination of online game and social media tools. DARPA said Wednesday it seeks ideas on how to design an online collaborative platform that …
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency plans to establish a consortium of government and industry space experts that will create technical and safety standards for on-orbit servicing operations of commercial satellites. DARPA said Tuesday the Consortium for Execution of Rendezvous and Servicing Operations will research, develop and publish non-binding, consensus-derived technical and safety standards …
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will hold a Proposers Day on Dec. 7 via webcast to provide information on a program that seeks to explore mathematical methods for use in the development of human-machine teaming systems in support of the military’s national security missions. DARPA said Monday the Agile Teams program aims …
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Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency researchers have began to develop a 100-gigabit-per-second wireless communications system and will continue further development and testing within the next year, C4ISR & Networks reported Friday. Adam Stone writes the 100G program looks to position networking assets at altitudes of around 60,000 feet and distribute …
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The Defense Department plans to invest up to $3 billion in funds in an effort to build and field unmanned underwater vehicles designed to perform surveillance operations, the Washington Post reported Thursday. Rear Adm. Mathias Winter, head of the Office of Naval Research, said at a Center for Strategic and …
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Arati Prabhakar, director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has said DARPA has launched programs that seek to make the space environment a “real-time operational domain” in support of military missions, intelligence and other national security efforts, DoD News reported Tuesday. Cheryl Pellerin writes Prabhakar said at the 4th annual …
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Fred Kennedy serves as senior policy adviser for national security, space and aviation at the national security and international affairs division of the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy. He came to OSTP in July 2016 after he previously worked as senior materiel leader at the space production division …
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Kerry Long, program manager at the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, has said humans have the capability to change the future of the cyber domain, C4ISRNet reported Friday. “If you think about it, cyber space is really the one environment that we’re fighting in that we can actually change,” Long said …
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The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency has rolled out an automated event coder that works to identify almost 300 types of socio-political events in text. IARPA funded the release of the Accurate Events from Natural Text software in efforts boost activity in the research community, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence …
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has deployed more than 1,000 networked mobile detectors at the National Mall in downtown Washington as part of an exercise to track radioactive material threats in urban areas. DARPA said Friday the scavenger hunt was conducted as part of the agency’s SIGMA program that aims to create networked …
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