Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military

DARPA aims research funding at a low cost unhackable computer

By turning computer circuits into unsolvable puzzles, a University of Michigan team aims to create an unhackable computer with a new $3.6 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Todd Austin, U-M professor of computer science and engineering, leads the project, called MORPHEUS. Its cybersecurity approach is dramatically different from today’s, which relies

DARPA aims research funding at a low cost unhackable computer

New flat microscope and software could compensate for a person’s loss of vision or hearing

Rice University engineers are building a flat microscope, called FlatScope TM, and developing software that can decode and trigger neurons on the surface of the brain. Their goal as part of a new government initiative is to provide an alternate path for sight and sound to be delivered directly to the brain. The project is

New flat microscope and software could compensate for a person’s loss of vision or hearing

Implanted brain-interface device could transform how artificial systems enhance brain functions

In new DARPA project, researchers exploit the latest in silicon electronics to invent an implanted brain-interface device that could transform how artificial systems enhance brain functions. Today, implanted electrode devices for stimulating the brain are extremely crude devices with only a handful of electrodes that are used to mitigate the effects of Parkinson’s, epilepsy, and

Implanted brain-interface device could transform how artificial systems enhance brain functions

DARPA Virtual Eye Lets Emergency Responders ‘See’ What They Can’t See

The best thing to give first responders before they enter a smoky room or the site of a chemical spill, or to soldiers before they enter a hostile bunker, is a picture of what’s inside. Exploring an unsecured space in 3D from a safe distance could be a matter of life or death. A team at

DARPA Virtual Eye Lets Emergency Responders ‘See’ What They Can’t See

DARPA to Build “Virtual Data Scientist” Assistants Through A.I.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced on Friday the launch of Data-Driven Discovery of Models (D3M), which aim to help non-experts bridge what it calls the “data-science expertise gap” by allowing artificial assistants to help people with machine learning. DARPA calls it a “virtual data scientist” assistant. This software is doubly important because

DARPA to Build “Virtual Data Scientist” Assistants Through A.I.

DARPA wants actor attribution platform to pin and predict cyber crime

‘Enhanced Attribution’ will anonymise threat data, reveal past and future crimes The US Military skunkworks Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is hoping to build a platform to help bolster the treacherous world of attack attribution that would generate, anonymise, and share threat data. The agency is seeking proposals for an “Enhanced Attribution” program which

DARPA wants actor attribution platform to pin and predict cyber crime

DARPA Fast Track Program Invites Non-traditional Roboticists to Help Bolster National Security

Robotics Fast Track foresees cost-effective development of new capabilities by engaging cutting-edge groups and individuals who traditionally have not worked with the federal government The past 10 years have seen an explosion of robotics advances from small businesses and individuals, thanks in part to lower manufacturing costs and the global rise of community workshops such

DARPA Fast Track Program Invites Non-traditional Roboticists to Help Bolster National Security

DARPA Seeks to Create Software Systems that Could Last 100 Years

Program aims to generate applications capable of adapting to change, without extensive reprogramming As modern software systems continue inexorably to increase in complexity and capability, users have become accustomed to periodic cycles of updating and upgrading to avoid obsolescence—if at some cost in terms of frustration. In the case of the U.S. military, having access

DARPA Seeks to Create Software Systems that Could Last 100 Years

DARPA Seeks to Remove Communication Barrier Between Human and Computers

Program explores ways to assemble complex ideas from elementary ones given language and context The lifelong human imperative to communicate is so strong that people talk not only to other people but also to their pets, their plants and their computers. Unlike pets and plants, computers might one day reciprocate. DARPA’s new Communicating with Computers

DARPA Seeks to Remove Communication Barrier Between Human and Computers

DARPA’s Terahertz Breakthrough Could Help Ease Spectrum Crunch

Administrators at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency celebrated their first Guinness World Record last week for sponsoring the creation of the world’s fastest solid-state amplifier integrated circuit. At a ceremony in Arlington, VA, the Guinness representative joked it was the geekiest record ever. The amplifier, which was developed by Northrup Grumman, can operate at 1

DARPA’s Terahertz Breakthrough Could Help Ease Spectrum Crunch

Blood-cleansing “Artificial Spleen” Technology Could Increase Survival Odds for the Future

Prototype’s novel approach uses magnetic nano-sized beads to filter deadly microbes and toxins from the bloodstream Sepsis—a life-threatening over-reaction by the immune system to infection—afflicts 18 million people a year worldwide and kills between 30 and 50 percent of them. Sepsis poses a significant threat to warfighters who suffer combat injuries that predispose them to

Blood-cleansing “Artificial Spleen” Technology Could Increase Survival Odds for the Future

Memory-restoring implants coming from DARPA

Teams will develop and test implantable therapeutic devices for memory restoration in patients with memory deficits caused by disease or trauma DARPA has selected two universities to initially lead the agency’s Restoring Active Memory (RAM) program, which aims to develop and test wireless, implantable “neuroprosthetics” that can help servicemembers, veterans, and others overcome memory deficits

Memory-restoring implants coming from DARPA

How The DARPA Of The Energy World Wants To Change The Electricity Grid

ARPA-E is investing in moonshot energy ideas that are so audacious, they might just change how we power our society. Batteries made with chemicals that we mine from rhubarb plants, rather than expensive metals taken out of the earth. Magnets that clip onto electrical lines and reroute electrons. Solar panels that work efficiently even when

How The DARPA Of The Energy World Wants To Change The Electricity Grid

DARPA Z-MAN Program Demonstrates Human Climbing Like Geckos

Bio-inspired climbing technology could increase troop safety and freedom of maneuver DARPA’s Z-Man program has demonstrated the first known human climbing of a glass wall using climbing devices inspired by geckos. The historic ascent involved a 218-pound climber ascending and descending 25 feet of glass, while also carrying an additional 50-pound load in one trial,

DARPA Z-MAN Program Demonstrates Human Climbing Like Geckos

Automating Cybersecurity – Computer, Heal Thyself

If only computers themselves were smart enough to fight off malevolent hackers. That is the premise of an ambitious two-year contest with a $2 million first prize, posed to the world’s computer programmers by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, better known by its acronym, Darpa. It is the blue-sky, big-think organization within the Defense Department that created a

Automating Cybersecurity – Computer, Heal Thyself

From Idea to Market in Eight Years, DARPA-Funded Deka Arm System Earns FDA Approval

DARPA’s Revolutionizing Prosthetics program delivers on goal of providing advanced prosthetic upper limb with near-natural control mechanisms to amputees DARPA launched the Revolutionizing Prosthetics program with a radical goal: gain U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for an advanced electromechanical prosthetic upper limb with near-natural control that enhances independence and improves quality of life

From Idea to Market in Eight Years, DARPA-Funded Deka Arm System Earns FDA Approval

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Johns Hopkins APL Books $515M DARPA R&D, Engineering Services Contract Modification
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has received a $515 million contract modification to continue providing the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency with research ... Maryland ...
America’s Enemies on Notice as DARPA Unveils Massive ‘Manta Ray’ Uncrewed Underwater Vehicle
Called the Manta Ray because of its shape, the uncrewed underwater vehicle is currently under development by DARPA and Northrop Grumman. On May 1, DARPA said the prototype of the new UUV completed ...
DARPA Manta Ray is a Breakthrough Unmanned Drone Submarine
Manta Ray was built through a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) program aimed at advancing key technologies to benefit future UUV designs, including techniques to manage energy, ...
Northrop Grumman’s Manta Ray: DARPA’s Revolutionary UUV Testing
April saw the revealing of a groundbreaking innovation in unmanned underwater vehicles (UUV), courtesy of Northrop Grumman. Dubbed the Manta Ray, this vehicle emerged after rigorous testing overseen ...
DARPA Completes Testing of Underwater Drone That'll Give Sharks Nightmares
The company that broke the news was Northrop Grumman, and it appears these guys only let us know about the drone after the completion of some crucial testing under the guidance of the Defense Advanced ...

The Latest Bing News on:

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Discovery

Johns Hopkins APL Books $515M DARPA R&D, Engineering Services Contract Modification
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has received a $515 million contract modification to continue providing the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency with research ... Maryland ...
America’s Enemies on Notice as DARPA Unveils Massive ‘Manta Ray’ Uncrewed Underwater Vehicle
Called the Manta Ray because of its shape, the uncrewed underwater vehicle is currently under development by DARPA and Northrop Grumman. On May 1, DARPA said the prototype of the new UUV completed ...
DARPA Manta Ray is a Breakthrough Unmanned Drone Submarine
Manta Ray was built through a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) program aimed at advancing key technologies to benefit future UUV designs, including techniques to manage energy, ...
Northrop Grumman’s Manta Ray: DARPA’s Revolutionary UUV Testing
April saw the revealing of a groundbreaking innovation in unmanned underwater vehicles (UUV), courtesy of Northrop Grumman. Dubbed the Manta Ray, this vehicle emerged after rigorous testing overseen ...
DARPA Completes Testing of Underwater Drone That'll Give Sharks Nightmares
The company that broke the news was Northrop Grumman, and it appears these guys only let us know about the drone after the completion of some crucial testing under the guidance of the Defense Advanced ...