The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded six companies spots on a potential five-year, $1.25 billion contract for technical, advisory and analytical support services. DARPA received 12 offers for the multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, which will provide services for all of the agency’s technical and ...
It’s that time of the year: the Potomac Officers Club is ready to reveal initial details about its annual, definitive gathering on all things autonomous technology, the Artificial Intelligence Summit. 2024’s edition has been set for Feb. 28 and registration is now open. The 2024 AI Summit is the fifth consecutive iteration of an e...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has secured a potential $70.5 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to perform work under the second phase of the Glide Breaker program. DARPA launched a competitive acquisition for the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract in accordance with the original broad agency announcement and is obligating $8.2 million...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected a team led by Intel‘s (Nasdaq: INTC) research arm to develop a tactical-grade clock with microsecond precision for positioning, navigation and timing. Intel Labs will work with the University of Pennsylvania, Carnegie Mellon University and IS4S to create a size, weight and power-optimi...
An RTX (NYSE: RTX) division will help the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency develop foundations to enable artificial intelligence-driven decision-making in uncontrolled environments such as mass casualty triage and disaster relief. Under the In The Moment program of DARPA, a Raytheon BBN-led team will train algorithms using scenario-based ex...
Gary Sauer, a former program manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has been named vice president of business development for advanced research and development at Eqlipse Technologies. He will lead the expansion and transition of Eqlipse’s R&D capabilities to operational programs that support defense and intelligence com...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected 11 teams from the commercial and academic sectors to kick off the preliminary phase of the Next-Generation Microelectronics Manufacturing program. DARPA said Thursday the organizations will work on foundational research to help develop a center for producing 3D heterogeneously integrated mic...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has started a program that aims to make microelectronic technology more resistant to the effects of radiation in a space environment by implementing a testing system for 3D heterogeneously integrated chips. DARPA said Thursday the Advanced Sources for Single-event Effects Radiation Testing effort will pu...
David “Heat” Lyons, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel, has joined Scientific Systems Co. Inc. as vice president of business development. He will bring to the role over three decades of aerospace and defense industry experience as he oversees SSCI’s client base and new markets, the company said Thursday. Lyons, a global strike subjec...
The U.S. Department of Defense’s high-level technology incubation arm, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, was formed in early 1958 in response to the Soviet Union’s launch of the first artificial Earth satellite: Sputnik 1. Now, DARPA officials are seeing the viability of the Soviet Union’s space program nearly seven decades ago re...
