Tag Archives: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has unveiled a potential $2B campaign that seeks to invest in research-and-development programs that focus on artificial intelligence. The AI Next campaign is a multi-year investment effort that aims to develop “third wave” AI technologies with contextual reasoning capabilities designed to facilitate human-machine collaboration, DARPA …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 31, 2018 — Systems Planning and Analysis unveiled earlier this month that Pamela Melroy, a former Space Shuttle commander at NASA and retired U.S. Air Force colonel, has joined the company’s board of directors, ExecutiveBiz reported Aug. 21. “Colonel Melroy brings unique and extensive experience in space, hypersonics and …

Seven companies have won spots on a potential five-year, $850 million contract to provide technical and analytical support services to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. DARPA received 12 offers for the multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract through a competitive acquisition process, the Defense Department said Monday. Contractors will vie for cost-reimbursable, fixed-price …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 10, 2018 — BAE Systems will help build tools to support the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s efforts to automatically detect cybersecurity risks in large-scale networks under a potential $5.2 million contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday it will utilize machine learning and attack modeling capabilities to develop …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 7, 2018 — An unmanned spacecraft that Boeing (NYSE: BA) is building for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency may eventually be launched from a new facility that Space Florida is proposing for construction at the Kennedy Space Center, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. Florida Today reported Sunday …

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has chosen multiple research teams from the commercial and academic sectors to address microelectronics innovation challenges as part of an initiative worth up to $1.5 billion over five years. DARPA said Tuesday the Electronics Resurgence Initiative covers six “Page 3” programs that seek to explore …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 16, 2018 — Lockheed Martin’s (NYSE: LMT) Skunk Works division has collaborated with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to conduct a series of flight tests in an effort to demonstrate integrated operations between air, space, land, sea and cyber platforms in contested environments, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 11, 2018 — ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) will carry out advanced systems engineering and technical services supporting the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency under four new task orders worth up to $60 million in total, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The Fairfax, Va.-based technology company will assist DARPA’s …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 5, 2018 — Raytheon’s (NYSE: RTN) BBN Technologies subsidiary has partnered with Charles River Analytics to develop modeling tools that will work to help military planners understand potential causes of a conflict in support of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. CRA …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 22, 2018 — Mac Curtis, president and CEO of Vencore, has said the company’s applied research business in New Jersey would help differentiate the future firm called Perspecta from other government contractors in information technology services, ExecutiveBiz reported May 15. He said Applied Communication Sciences, which rebranded …