U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Avionics
Software security contract signed between BAE Systems and DARPA - News
December 05, 2024MERRIMACK, NH. BAE Systems' FAST Labs research and development organization agreed to a $6 million contract with the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as part of the DARPA Pipelined Reasoning of Verifiers Enabling Robust Systems (PROVERS) program, which is aimed at further securing software development across the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD).
Cyber
Cyber hardening program from DARPA gets RTX BBN Technologies on board - News
November 07, 2024CAMBRIDGE, Mass. RTX's BBN Technologies unit won a contract to support the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) Compartmentalization and Privilege Management (CPM) program, which seeks to harden cybesecurity for legacy computing systems.
Unmanned
U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopters will evaluate Sikorsky flight-autonomy system under DARPA contract - News
October 14, 2024WASHINGTON. Sikorsky reports it won a $6 million award from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to install the Sikorsky ALIAS/MATRIX flight-autonomy system onto the U.S. Army’s experimental fly-by-wire UH-60M Black Hawk helicopter.
Cyber
DARPA program aims to eliminate memory-safety vulnerabilities - News
August 01, 2024ARLINGTON, Va. The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has initiated a new program that intends to automate the translation of the world’s highly vulnerable legacy C code to the inherently safer Rust programming language.
A.I.
DARPA program strives to increase trust in combat autonomy in partnership with Cubic Defense - News
July 29, 2024SAN DIEGO. Cubic Defense is an integral part of the team of industry, government, and academia industry partners collaborating in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Air Combat Evolution (ACE) program, which is underway in an effort to increase trust in combat autonomy by using human-machine collaborative dogfighting as its challenge problem.
Unmanned
DARPA introduces XRQ-73 as new hybrid-electric X-plane - News
June 25, 2024ARLINGTON, Virginia. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) officially designated the hybrid-electric uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) developed under its Series Hybrid Electric Propulsion AiRcraft Demonstration (SHEPARD) program as the XRQ-73, the agency announced in a statement.
Radar/EW
DARPA officials to present keynote addresses at IMS 2024 - News
May 20, 2024WASHINGTON, D.C. -- 2024 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS). Several of the technical sessions at the IMS 2024 conference -- set to be held June 16-21, 2024 -- will feature keynote speakers from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), a research and development agency of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military.
