In this episode of Voices from DARPA, get inside the full-spectrum engineering head of Dr. Troy Olsson, a program manager since 2014 in the Agency™s Microsystems Technology Office (MTO). Listen in as Olsson describes progress toward vanishing materials that can keep sensitive electronic components out of adversaries™ hands; unmanned air ve...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6Y9YHU_tQw Thus begins inventor Dean Kamen’s recollection of how he began working with DARPA to develop the LUKE Arm, a new generation of prosthetic limb that gives amputees unprecedented, near-natural arm and hand motion. On June 30, 2017, two veterans became the first recipients of these arms....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg-FH1Gn2Ls On Friday, June 30th, at a ceremony at the Manhattan campus of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ New York Harbor Health Care System, two veterans living with arm amputations became the first recipients of a new generation of prosthetic limb that promises them unprecedented, near-natural arm and han...
DARPA FLA researchers discuss their unique approaches to achieving autonomous flight without GPS or remote control (RC) communication links....
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 16, 2017 ” Boeing (NYSE: BA) will work with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to hold flight tests on a company-built unmanned reusable suborbital spaceplane at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Spaceflight Now reported Tuesday that Boeing and DARPA have selected Cape Cana...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 6, 2017 ” Intel (Nasdaq: INTC), Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), Georgia Institute of Technology, a Qualcomm Technologies subsidiary and the Energy Department‘s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will build a graph analytics processor for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, ExecutiveBiz reporte...
Dr. Arati Prabhakar, the director of DARPA, describes DARPA’s big ambitions for the future of technology and national security. She spoke at DARPA’s “Wait, What? A Future Technology Forum” on Sept. 9, 2015....
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 26, 2017 ” Boeing (NYSE: BA) will design, build and test a demonstration spacecraft for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in support of efforts to use a hypersonic aircraft that would bring national security payloads to space with less cost and time spent, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. DARPA said Wednesday&n...
U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded a grant to UL to help mitigate security risks for cybersecurity testing of the Internet of Things (IoT) and design gateways for industrial control system (ICS) applications. The DARPA grant will enable UL to identify the main areas of an industrial IoT gateway that re...
Sikorsky has successfully demonstrated phase 2 of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)™s Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System (ALIAS) program. Phase 2 demonstrates the ALIAS kit installed in a Sikorsky S-76® helicopter and Cessna 208 caravan....
