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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.
Unmanned
DARPA's DREaM program aims to take next step in transistor technology - News
March 21, 2017
ARLINGTON, Va. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) officials will host a Proposers Day in support of the Dynamic Range-enhanced Electronics and Materials (DREaM) on March 29, 2017 in Arlington, Virginia. The program is designed to provide openings to path-breaking advances in transistor technology that generate and receive radio frequency (RF) and millimeter-wave signals?which are central in defense-relevant domains such as communications, signals intelligence, and electronic warfare (EW).
Unmanned
DARPA working on program to enable airborne UAS launch-and-recovery system - News
March 17, 2017
ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently completed Phase 1 of its Gremlins program, which has as its goal fielding volleys of low-cost, reusable unmanned aerial systems (UASs) that would be launched and later retrieved in midair. Moving on to the next stage, DARPA has now awarded Phase 2 contracts to two teams, one led by Dynetics (Huntsville, Alabama) and the other led by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (San Diego, California).
Cyber
DARPA selects BAE Systems to develop tech that restores electrical power after cyberattacks - News
March 14, 2017
NASHUA, N.H. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) officials selected BAE Systems to develop technology designed to quickly restore power to the U.S. electric grid after failure caused by a cyberattack. The $8.6 million contract is part DARPA?s Rapid Attack Detection, Isolation, and Characterization Systems (RADICS) program.
