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...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has won a $41.2 million contract to produce and test an unmanned underwater vehicle demonstrator for the second phase of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency-funded project. The company will help DARPA build a full-scale long-endurance UUV system under the cost-plus-fixed-fee Manta Ray Phase 2 contract, the Depart...
On Tuesday, the Potomac Officers Club hosted its third Data-Driven 2021 Series event, The Cost of AI, during which eminent government agency and industry leaders joined together to discuss the budgetary implications, potential disruption scenarios, opportunities and challenges inherent in integrating innovative artificial intelligence solutions as...
Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory has secured a $225 million sole-source contract to perform research, development and engineering work for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. APL will receive task orders under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to help DARPA turn scientific and technical theori...
The costs associated with artificial intelligence development, training and implementation will be the focal point of discussions for the next event in the Potomac Officers Club’s Data-Driven 2021 Series. Timothy Grayson, director of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s Strategic Technology Office, will kick off the “The ...
An industry team led by Serco Group‘s U.S. subsidiary has completed conceptual design work for a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program that aims to build and demonstrate an unmanned surface vessel capable of long-duration autonomous operations at sea. DARPA downselected Serco Inc.’s Voyager team to move into the preliminary d...
