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Cyber
DARPA program aims to make network-connected systems less vulnerable - News
January 15, 2018
ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has launched a new program it calls Configuration Security (ConSec) that aims to develop a system to automatically generate, deploy, and manage inherently more secure configurations of components and subsystems for end-use in military platforms.
Comms
DARPA Hallmark program aims to better manage space assets - News
January 12, 2018
ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Hallmark program -- which the agency describes as a plan to develop revolutionary tools and technologies to plan, assess, and execute U.S. military operations in space -- has completed initial research and awarded Phase 1 contracts to 11 organizations. DARPA is now seeking additional technologies for potential inclusion in the Hallmark program.
Comms
DARPA program to focus on disease outbreak infrastructure, prevention - News
January 08, 2018
ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is debuting a new program -- dubbed Preventing Emerging Pathogenic Threats (PREEMPT) -- that seeks to support military readiness by going after new viral infectious diseases at the source; advance understanding of viruses and their interaction with animals, insects, and humans; and build infrastructure to deliver proactive interventions to reduce the risk from emerging and reemerging pathogens.
Cyber
DARPA's SDR Hackfest tackles UAVs, electromagnetic spectrum, and communications challenges - News
December 15, 2017
MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. The Defense Advance Research Projects Agency?s (DARPA) Bay Area Software Defined Radio (SDR) Hackfest concluded last month displaying innovative ideas on the challenging communications issues that stem from the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum along with the propagation of wireless-enabled devices.
Comms
DARPA promulgates vision of sensor-based "Ocean of Things" - News
December 07, 2017
ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced its "Ocean of Things" program, which the agency says seeks to enable persistent maritime situational awareness over large ocean areas by deploying thousands of small, low-cost floats that would form a distributed sensor network.
A.I.
DARPA issues RFI to innovate in underground mapping, navigation - News
November 27, 2017
ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has issued a request for information (RFI) on potential concepts for innovative technology platforms designed to navigate and map urban underground infrastructure, man-made tunnels, natural cave networks, and other subterranean environments.
Comms
DARPA's new program aims to turn plants into sensors - News
November 20, 2017
ARLINGTON, Va. Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) officials launched a new program to pursue technologies to engineer robust, plant-based sensors that are self-sustaining in their environment and can be remotely monitored using existing hardware. The program - Advanced Plant Technologies (APT) - aims to utilize simple plants as the next generation of intelligence gatherers.
