U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

Defensive microwave antenna systems under contract by Raytheon, USAF, Navy - News
December 19, 2023TUCSON, Ariz. Raytheon will design, build, and test two high-power microwave antenna systems for the U.S. military that will use directed energy to defeat airborne threats; the systems are intended to be rugged and transportable for use on the front lines where needed.
DARPA chooses Raytheon to develop wireless airborne energy-relay web - News
December 14, 2023ARLINGTON, Va. The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded Raytheon a two-year, $10 million contract to design and develop a wireless airborne-relay system to deliver energy into contested environments as part of its Energy Web Dominance program.
RF sensors to get GaN boost under DARPA, Raytheon agreement - News
November 21, 2023ANDOVER, Mass. Raytheon won a four-year, $15 million contract from DARPA [the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency] to increase the electronic capability of radio frequency (RF) sensors using high-power-density gallium nitride (GaN) transistors.
DARPA program aims to secure DoD mixed-reality systems - Other
October 24, 2023ARLINGTON, Va. The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), as it looks into the near future in which military personnel widely rely on mixed-reality (MR) systems for their missions, recently launched the Intrinsic Cognitive Security (ICS) program to explore and validate mathematical approaches to ensure that MR system designs mitigate potential cognitive attacks.
Rad-hard project from DARPA aims to speed deployment of reliable space electronics - News
July 17, 2023ARLINGTON, Va. A new project from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is attempting to help government and industry more quickly and reliably harden space-based microelectronics against damage caused by single-event effects, such as solar flares.
DARPA program aims to strengthen cybersecurity via automation - News
July 10, 2023ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) launced a program it calls the Intelligent Generation of Tools for Security (INGOTS) initiative, which intends to identify and fix high-severity, chainable computer vulnerabilities using new techniques driven by program analysis and artificial intelligence (AI) to measure vulnerabilities within complex systems like web browsers and mobile operating systems.
VTOL UAS program from DARPA chooses nine for initial concept - News
June 23, 2023ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) chose nine companies to produce initial operational system and demonstration system conceptual designs for a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) uncrewed aerial system (UAS) -- nicknamed the AdvaNced airCraft Infrastructure-Less Launch And RecoverY program or "ANCILLARY -- that will be able to deploy and retreat without the large mechanical launchers and landing/recovery equipment currently used today.