Tag Archives: DARPA

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.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded BAE Systems a contract to develop two cybersecurity tools designed to protect electronic files as part of DARPA's Safe Documents program.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has chosen BAE Systems to create a semi-autonomous technology that would help military personnel to plan missions. BAE will develop the Multi-domain Adaptive Request Service software to facilitate automatic battlespace data collection across air, sea, land and space domains, the company said Tuesday.

On Tuesday, Potomac Officers Club (POC) hosted its Unmanned Systems in the Future Fight Forum featuring Maj. Gen. Peter Gersten, special assistant to the Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans and Programs (AF/A5/8) for the U.S. Air Force, as the keynote speaker. In addition, an expert panel featuring Jim Thomson …

Three industry teams led by prime contractors BAE Systems, Scientific Systems and SEAKR Engineering have been selected to design an autonomous mission management platform for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Project Blackjack, C4ISRNET reported Thursday.

Six companies have received separate contracts from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to  develop autonomous underwater robots for deep-sea exploration. L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX), Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), SoarTech, EdgeTech and Kitware will build the systems as part of DARPA's Angler program.

Rod Phillips, formerly vice president of operations at McLean, Va.-based By Light Professional IT Services, has been promoted to chief learning officer.

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has utilized multiple heterogeneous unmanned vehicles to demonstrate a swarming approach during a field experiment with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Eight teams have been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to participate in a virtual competition that seeks to demonstrate the use of artificial intelligence algorithms in simulated aerial combat.