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Unmanned
Service-academy challenge pushes DARPA to test groups of unmanned vehicles - News
May 12, 2017
ARMY NATIONAL GUARD CAMP ROBERTS, Calif. More than 40 cadets and midshipmen from the U.S. Military Academy, the U.S. Naval Academy, and the U.S. Air Force Academy recently participated in the "Service Academies Swarm Challenge," in which teams formed and tested the capabilities of swarms of highly autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) invited the young officers-in-training to develop and flight test novel ideas for how best to use UAV swarms in future wars.The three-day experiment concluded with an aerial battle in which the Naval Academy took home the win, a trophy, and bragging rights over its rival academies.
Comms
DARPA invites potential proposals for future programs - News
May 01, 2017
ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Sciences Office (DSO) of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) -- an office that identifies and pursues high-risk, high-payoff research initiatives across a broad spectrum of science and engineering disciplines -- has announced that it will host Discover DSO Day (D3) on June 15 with the aim of sharing research concepts and engaging with potential proposers to gain new insights for possible future programs.
Cyber
Rockwell Collins and HACMS team to secure DARPA platforms from cyberattacks - News
April 25, 2017
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected a team led by Rockwell Collins to use mathematics-based development methods to secure platforms against cyberattack. Such methods, developed by Rockwell Collins and its partners in DARPA?s High Assurance Cyber Military Systems (HACMS) program, are aimed at strengthening cyber resilience by eliminating important classes of system vulnerabilities.
Cyber
DARPA's Colosseum testbed now available for use in SC2 challenge - News
April 21, 2017
LAUREL, Md. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) officials announced the grand opening of the Colosseum, a next-generation electronic emulator of the electromagnetic spectrum. The Colosseum is located in 30-foot by 20-foot server room on the campus of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland.
Cyber
Security at the hardware level is the goal of DARPA's SSITH program - News
April 10, 2017
ARLINGTON, Va. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) officials launched a new program that aims to protect against cyberintruders at the hardware and circuit level, rather than relying only on software-based security patches. The System Security Integrated Through Hardware and Firmware (SSITH) program aims to design security directly at the hardware architecture level.
Cyber
DARPA turns to chemistry to innovate the next computing concept - News
March 24, 2017
ARLINGTON, Va. The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced its Molecular Informatics program, which seeks a new paradigm for data storage, retrieval, and processing. The focus is to investigate and exploit the wide range of structural characteristics and properties of molecules to encode and manipulate data instead of the traditional way of using binary digital logic of computers based on the Von Neumann architecture.
Cyber
DARPA contracts with Vencore Labs for advanced cyberdefense research - News
March 24, 2017
ARLINGTON, Va. The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced that it has awarded Vencore Labs, Inc., with multiple contracts to deliver research in the area of cyberdefense against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. The contracts are valued at $17.7 million and will be performed as part of DARPA?s Extreme DDoS Defense (XD3) program over the next three years.
