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Unmanned
Unmanned DARPA VTOL X-Plane contract won by Aurora Flight Sciences - News
March 04, 2016
ARLINGTON, Virginia. Officials at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) Phase 2 contract to Aurora Flight Sciences for the unmanned VTOL Experimental Plane (VTOL X-Plane). The program looks to overcome the challenge of increasing top speeds in VTOL aircraft without sacrificing range and efficiency.
Unmanned
UAVs demonstrate collision avoidance & speed in DARPA FLA program - News
February 26, 2016
ARLINGTON, Va. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) engineers completed the first flight data collection with the common quadcopter unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) platform for the Fast Lightweight Autonomy (FLA) program at the Otis Air National Guard Base, Cape Cod in Massachusetts. Officials deemed the demonstration a success because the quadcopters were able to edge their way around obstacles and achieve their target speeds of 20 meters per second.
Avionics
Helicopter synthetic vision integration and testing continued by Honeywell - News
February 18, 2016
PHOENIX. In a contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) engineers at Honeywell will continue to improve three-dimensional visibility and safety for U.S. military helicopter pilots experiencing inclement weather and harsh environments.
Radar/EW
Advanced cockpit display tech leveraged for military ground vehicles - News
February 15, 2016
PHOENIX. In an agreement with Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Honeywell will provide DARPA's Ground X-Vehicle Technologies (GXV-T) program with its virtual reality instrument panel that replaces glass windows with display technology.
A.I.
DARPA looks to interface human brain with digital world - News
January 29, 2016
ARLINGTON, Virginia. DARPA officials have created a new program that looks to develop an implantable neural interface that would provide unprecedented signal resolution and data-transfer bandwidth between the human brain and the digital world. They are also looking for partners to help them on this quest, hosting an overview of the program, dubbed Neural Engineering System Design (NESD), next week. DARPA anticipates investing up to $60 million in the NESD program over four years.
Comms
Assembling atom-sized pieces for micromachines goal of DARPA A2P program - News
December 31, 2015
ARLINGTON, Virginia. DARPA officials are looking to develop technologies and processes to build nanometer-scale pieces whose dimensions are near the size of atoms—into systems, components, or materials that are at least millimeter-scale in size. The big hurdle to this goal is that many common materials, when fabricated at nanometer-scale, exhibit unique and attractive “atomic-scale” behaviors but lose them when they are built at product scale dimensions such as a few centimeters. So DARPA launched the Atoms to Product (A2P) program and chose ten groups to go and solve this challenge.
Comms
RadioMap spectrum management program reaches final phase - News
November 09, 2015
ARLINGTON, VA. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) advanced RF mapping program - RadioMap - has reached its final phase, therefore DARPA officials selected engineers at Lockheed Martin to further develop technology from Phases 1 and 2 into a full system that can be transitioned to military services.
