Combat is too complicated and chaotic for existing AI to analyze, and DARPA is trying to figure out the best way to combine algorithms with human expertise.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.A new approach to speed, scale and efficiency for the industrial base
Radars, EW, EO/IR, space imagery, and microelectronics are brought under one roof for a streamlined approach to common people and factories.
The Biden administration also unveiled a new executive order targeting US investment in Chinese AI, quantum and microelectronic tech.
By Jaspreet Gill
The Space Force is interested in DRACO primarily as an option for allowing it to undertake rapid on-orbit maneuvers, but also for potential future missions out to the Moon, Mars and beyond.
By Theresa Hitchens
The robotic arms built by the Naval Research Laboratory to be carried on a SpaceLogistics Mission Robotic Vehicle are designed to operate “autonomously” to do “inspection, orbital adjustment, repair and upgrade” missions on spacecraft “that were not designed to be grappled,” Bill Vincent, the lab’s program manager, told Breaking Defense.
By Theresa Hitchens
Todd Master, Umbra’s chief operating officer and a former DARPA official, told Breaking Defense on May 22 that DRIFT “is a legitimately great example of how government can actually advance capability using commercial investments instead of just saying ‘leverage commercial’ over and over.”
By Theresa Hitchens
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Understanding the environment is the baseline for successful naval operations. To develop more and better undersea charts, the Navy is combining hydrography with autonomy for the first time.
By Breaking Defense
A DARPA official couldn’t confirm an exact launch date for the two Telesat birds, but explained in an email today that the agency is awaiting on a launch slot as well as the availability of an integration facility.
By Theresa Hitchens
Modernizing military simulation with open systems architecture
Best-of-breed common models and architecture enable virtual training and testing with the same data in a cyber-resilient posture.
DARPA envisions a plane launching a drone, which in turn can launch its own weapons.
By Michael Marrow
The program seeks to revolutionize how the Pentagon approaches both sealift and airlift, using a trick of physics in low-altitude flight.
By Justin Katz
“When people like to question the validity or usefulness of this engine, I point them to Wernher von Braun,” said Tabitha Dodson, DRACO program manager at DARPA, “because this was more or less his idea.”
By Theresa Hitchens
The goal of the CRANE program is to pioneer the use of active flow control (AFC) techniques, that allow a pilot to change the aerodynamics of the plane and thus its performance.
By Theresa Hitchens
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Understanding the environment is the baseline for successful naval operations. To develop more and better undersea charts, the Navy is combining hydrography with autonomy for the first time.
By Breaking Defense
Greg Kuperman, Space-WATCH program manager in DARPA’s Strategic Technology Office told Breaking Defense they’re actively seeking space companies to provide data, and later will figure out how to aggregate it into an effective, dispersed LEO-monitoring system.
By Theresa Hitchens
Physicists say it is a flip of the coin whether quantum computing will end up a revolutionary capability or not much better than today’s supercomputers. And yet, quantum’s potential means there’s too much promise there to ignore.
By Barry Rosenberg
