Tag Archives: DARPA

TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 31, 2020 — Roger Krone, chairman and CEO of Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) and a recipient of the 2020 Wash100 award, has said the company will pair Dynetics with an innovation center that focuses on exploring emerging technology, ExecutiveBiz reported March 18.

LMI has received a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to support a research and development program focused on ensuring network security for logistics operations.

Executive Mosaic is honored to present Mac Curtis, president and CEO of Perspecta, as an inductee into the 2020 edition of the Wash100 Award for his efforts to advance Perspecta’s influence within government’s advancement of cyber and defense technologies through acquisitions and contract awards. 

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected a Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) subsidiary to be DARPA's commercial partner on a mission to demonstrate systems to assemble, update, repair, inspect and relocate customer satellites in orbit.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has chosen Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) to build and demonstrate an extra-large unmanned underwater vehicle through DARPA's Manta Ray program.

A BAE Systems research and development team has been selected to build mixed-mode signal processing technology under a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program to deploy next-generation radio frequency platforms and drive U.S.-based defense electronics manufacturing efforts.

Jim Faist, director of research and engineering for advanced capabilities at the Department of Defense, will serve as a keynote speaker during Potomac Officers Club’s 6th Annual Defense Research and Development Summit 2020 on Tuesday, Feb. 6th. 

Boeing (NYSE: BA) has notified the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency of its intent to end its work on a DARPA program to develop an unmanned reusable launch vehicle that can be used to send small satellites into low-Earth orbit, Spaceflight Now reported Wednesday.

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) and Collins Aerospace has landed contracts from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop technology platforms for countering anti-access/area denial threats. DARPA selected the three companies to participate in the first and second phases of the System-of -Systems Enhanced Small Unit program, according to a notice posted Tuesday on the beta SAM website.

Steven Walker, former director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and a 2019 Wash100 awardee, will officially join Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) on Monday as vice president and chief technology officer.