The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency intends to meet with interested contractors next month to discuss a new program aimed at building a small unmanned air system that would deploy and recover from a vessel’s flight deck or an austere ground site without requiring additional equipment. DARPA’s Tactical Technology Office will spo...
Serco Group‘s U.S. subsidiary and industry partners will begin the second leg of an unmanned surface vessel development and demonstration program spearheaded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. As part of Phase 2 of the No Manning Required Ship program, DARPA said Monday the team’s medium USV concept dubbed Defiant is expected ...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is seeking information on microelectronics manufacturing-related capabilities and processes to help it plan for a domestic research, development and production center for 3D heterogeneous integration microsystems. In a presolicitation notice posted Friday on SAM.gov, DARPA said the broad agency announcem...
BAE Systems, CACI International and Peraton have received separate contracts from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop approaches that would facilitate interoperability between heterogeneous tactical networks and allow military personnel to connect on demand. The three companies will lead teams to conduct research efforts for the...
Fred Kennedy, former director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s tactical technology office, has formed a company with the goal of developing nuclear thermal rocket engine technology to support cislunar space programs. Dark Fission Space Systems aims to work with government and industry partners in efforts to accelerate the on-orbi...
Executive Mosaic has inducted Stefanie Tompkins, director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, into the 2022 edition of the Wash100 Award in recognition of her efforts to advance national defense capabilities and drive agency culture. This marks the first time that Tompkins has been named among Executive Mosaic’s top officials and...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is seeking novel approaches to building a utility-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer through the Underexplored Systems for Utility-Scale Quantum Computing program. “If there’s an underexplored area of quantum computing showing promise for a faster breakthrough than we previously expected, we want...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 15, 2022 — CACI International (NYSE: CACI) is now tasked to provide the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency with 40 optical communications terminals for inter-satellite links under a $16.3 million contract, ExecutiveBiz reported. The deal in support of DARPA’s Blackjack program was awarded to SA Photonics, whic...
System High Corp. will continue to help the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency maintain protection measures across DARPA programs under a five-year contract. The company said Thursday it will assist the agency’s security and intelligence directorate in efforts to protect technology projects from the development phase through the transit...
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Director Stefanie Tompkins is set to deliver a morning keynote speech at the Potomac Officers Club’s 8th Annual Defense Research and Development Summit on Jan. 19. Tompkins, who took the helm of DARPA as its 23rd director in March 2021, leads the Department of Defense’s research and development organ...
