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Unmanned
DARPA's Aerial Dragnet program aims to track small UAS in urban setting - News
September 15, 2016
ARLINGTON, Va. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) officials announced it's Aerial Dragnet program, which aims to seek innovative technologies to provide persistent, wide-area surveillance of all unmanned aerial systems (UAS) - including small UAS - operating below 1,000 feet in a large city. The focus on the program is to protect military troops operating in an urban setting, the program has the potential to find civilian application to help protect U.S. metropolitan areas from UAS-enabled terrorist threats.
Radar/EW
Smartphone-sized nuclear-radiation detectors developed by DARPA - News
August 26, 2016
ARLINGTON, Va. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) researchers developed and demonstrated a network of smartphone-sized mobile devices that can detect radioactive materials.
Comms
ARPA, DARPA, and Jason - Blog
August 24, 2016
WARFARE EVOLUTION BLOG: After the success of the Manhattan Project, that ended World War II in the Pacific, the Pentagon significantly reduced expenditures on research and development of weapons as the world enjoyed peace. That was a mistake considering the actions taken by the Russians in the following decade.
Unmanned
DARPA issues RFI for protection against small unmanned air systems - News
August 17, 2016
ARLINGTON, VA. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) officials issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking ideas and approaches to improve protection of fixed and mobile ground and naval forces against a variety of small unmanned air systems (sUAS) threats and tactics.
Cyber
DARPA declares Mayhem as winner of Cyber Grand Challenge - News
August 05, 2016
LAS VEGAS. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Cyber Grand Challenge (CGC) named ForAllSecure?s computer system, Mayhem, as the winner of the world?s first all-hacking competition. Team TECHx with Xandra took second place and Mechanical Phish designed by team Shellphish placed third in the competition.
Unmanned
DARPA looks to integrate PCBs onto chip-sized devices - News
July 28, 2016
ARLINGTON, Virginia. Officials at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) want to take another step forward in electronics miniaturization by essentially integrating the collective functions hosted by an entire PCB onto a device that is about the size of a single chip.
Cyber
PFP Cybersecurity to study cyberthreat detection in IoT tech for DARPA program - News
July 26, 2016
VIENNA, Va. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) officials selected PFP Cybersecurity to study advanced analog cyberthreat detection in Internet of Things (IoT) connected technologies for the agency's Leveraging the Analog Domain for Security (LADS) program.
