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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...
The Potomac Officers Club on Wednesday hosted its 8th Annual Defense R&D Summit, which fostered collaborative conversations between distinguished public and private sector defense leaders surrounding the Pentagon’s paramount research and development initiatives to close crucial capability gaps within Department of Defense agencies, d...
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...
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...
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...
The Defense Innovation Unit is seeking commercially made lightweight technologies that could provide nuclear power and propulsion for small to medium military spacecraft sensing and communication systems. DIU said the Department of Defense will need more electrical power for smaller spacecraft as future missions will expand on new capabilities such ...
Daniel Ragsdale, former principal director for cyber in the Department of Defense’s research and engineering office, has been appointed vice president and architect at Arlington, Virginia-based Two Six Technologies. The retired U.S. Army colonel brings his three decades of military experience and his knowledge of cybersecurity to the technolog...
