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Cyber

DARPA convenes colloquium to advance rigorous cybersecurity techniques - News

June 26, 2025

ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently held its Resilient Software Systems Colloquium, during which more than 300 participants from across the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), defense industry, U.S. government, allies, academia, and formal-methods developers convened as part of DARPA's goal to catalyze widespread adoption of formal methods, mathematically rigorous techniques that can dramatically improve the security and reliability of software systems.

Cyber

Cybersecurity the focus of DARPA Resilient Software program - News

June 19, 2025

ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is teaming with the U.S. Air Force to integrate formal methods-based cybersecurity tools -- a mathematically rigorous approach to software development that helps eliminate exploitable vulnerabilities before software is deployed -- on the MQ-9 Reaper, the first project in the DARPA Resilient Software Systems Capstone program. 

Unmanned

DARPA to test 5 light VTOL drones that can navigate autonomously - News

June 18, 2025

ARLINGTON, Virginia. Five uncrewed aerial system (UAS) designs developed under DARPA’s AdvaNced airCraft Infrastructure-Less Launch And RecoverY (ANCILLARY) program will begin flight testing this month to evaluate vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) performance and mission versatility, DARPA announced in a statement.

Radar/EW

DARPA program reports record-breaking power-transmission distances - News

June 09, 2025

ARLINGTON, Va. In a series of recent tests held at the U.S. Army White Sands Missile Range, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER) program reported setting several new records for transmitting power over distance, with the POWER team recording more than 800 watts of power delivered during a 30-second transmission from a laser situated 8.6 kilometers (5.3 miles) away; over the course of the test campaign, more than a megajoule of energy was transferred.

A.I.

AI- and HPC-ready platform gets DARPA nod - News

April 03, 2025

SUNNYVALE, Calif. Supercomputing company Cerebras Systems announced it won a new contract from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for the development of a state-of-the-art high-performance computing system -- optimized for real-time artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) -- that is ultimately aimed at use in the U.S. defense sector and by commercial concerns.

Radar/EW

Thermal-management innovations sought by DARPA, HRL Laboratories - News

March 13, 2025

MALIBU, Calif. Technology research concern HRL Laboratories will present a superior cooling system for stacks of microelectronic chips as part of a project launched by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) that seeks to create compact thermal-management technology in a chip stack using 3D heterogeneous integration (3DHI).

Unmanned

Autonomous ship completes construction, DARPA reports - News

March 04, 2025

ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) No Manning Required Ship (NOMARS) program completed construction on a prototype of a ship designed to operate autonomously for long durations at sea.