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Department of Defense

2024/03/21 Extending the Golden Hour for Enhanced and Timely Combat Care

DARPA - Thu, 2024-03-21 00:00
DARPA's GOLDen hour extended EVACuation, or GOLDEVAC, program aims to test whether a field medic could manage a complex polytrauma patient via automated resuscitation tools, starting near the point of injury and continuing throughout the entire evacuation process. Specifically, GOLDEVAC seeks to determine whether it is possible to resuscitate and oxygenate a patient, for up to two days, via a single tube inserted into a patient's blood vessel, without the risk of blood clots or bleeding.
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2024/03/21 ARPA-H Joins DARPA’s AI Cyber Challenge to Safeguard Nation’s Health Care Infrastructure from Cyberattacks

DARPA - Thu, 2024-03-21 00:00
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) is joining forces with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to expand the Artificial Intelligence Cyber Challenge (AIxCC). Cyber and ransomware attacks on America's health care systems have increased significantly in recent years, often preventing patients from receiving care and compromising their personal information . By collaborating with DARPA on the AIxCC, ARPA-H aims to spur the development of AI-enabled technology to safeguard hospitals, pharmacies, and medical devices from cyberattacks.
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2024/03/14 Deepfake Defense Tech Ready for Commercialization, Transition

DARPA - Thu, 2024-03-14 00:00
The threat of manipulated media has steadily increased as automated manipulation technologies become more accessible, and social media continues to provide a ripe environment for viral content sharing.
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2024/03/11 Enabling a New Paradigm for Flexible, Point of Need Design and Manufacturing

DARPA - Mon, 2024-03-11 00:00
DARPA's new Rubble to Rockets (R2) program aims to overcome current limitations to manufacturing in supply chain-denied environments by developing production and design approaches that can accommodate widely variable input materials.
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2024/03/11 DARPA Selects Small Businesses to Compete in the AI Cyber Challenge

DARPA - Mon, 2024-03-11 00:00
As part of the AI Cyber Challenge's Small Business Track, DARPA awarded seven companies $1 million each to develop AI-enabled cyber reasoning systems that automatically find and fix software vulnerabilities at scale.
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2024/03/08 DARPA Explores Additive Manufacturing’s Revolutionary Potential for Futuristic Microsystems

DARPA - Fri, 2024-03-08 00:00
DARPA played a seminal role in establishing materials science as a discipline. One of the latest disruptive efforts in new materials and applications, the Additive Manufacturing of Microelectronic systEms (AMME) program, seeks to launch microsystems manufacturing far beyond today's state of the art.
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2024/03/07 Video: Researchers Develop Missing LINC to Help Vehicles Adapt to Unknowns

DARPA - Thu, 2024-03-07 00:00
Imagine a world where the number of vehicle accidents is cut in half. DARPA's Learning Introspective Control (LINC) program is developing machine learning (ML) methods that may bring that scenario closer to reality.
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2024/02/29 Voices from DARPA Podcast Episode 76: The Quantum Logician

DARPA - Thu, 2024-02-29 00:00
In this episode we hear from quantum physicist Dr. Mukund Vengalattore, a program manager in DARPA's Defense Sciences Office, who oversees a portfolio of fundamental research programs aimed at unlocking new quantum insights and overcoming challenges to enable revolutionary capabilities for defense. These include harnessing atoms and superconducting structures for novel sensing applications (imagine tiny, super-sensitive antennas, infrared detectors or gyroscopes that vastly outperform much larger antennas, IR cameras, and gyroscopes of today); developing better quantum bits (qubits) for quantum computing (including using photons to encode information in novel ways); enabling field-deployable, tactical-grade mobile atomic clocks for our troops; and discovering new quantum materials for applications ranging from quantum computing to biomedical imaging.
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2024/02/15 BLUE Aims to Capture, Convert Ocean Energy with Low Environmental Impact

DARPA - Thu, 2024-02-15 00:00
A new DARPA program is exploring the potential for dissolved organic matter, phytoplankton, zooplankton, and even microplastics to continually refuel, and thus extend the mission life, of ocean-deployed sensors. The BioLogical Underwater Energy, or BLUE, program seeks to solve the energy problem with low environmental impact using these abundant and energy-dense forms of marine biomass and other substances.
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2024/02/08 DARPA’s REMA Program to Add Mission Autonomy to Commercial Drones

DARPA - Thu, 2024-02-08 00:00
Commercial drone technology is advancing rapidly, providing cost-effective and robust capabilities for a variety of civil and military missions. DARPA's Rapid Experimental Missionized Autonomy (REMA) program aims to enable a drone to autonomously continue its predefined mission when connection to the operator is lost. The program is focused on constantly providing new agnostic drone autonomy capabilities for transition in one-month intervals to outpace adversarial countermeasures. REMA progressed from program announcement to contract awards in just 70 business days.
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2024/01/24 Establishing Qualification Processes for Point-of-Need Pharmaceutical Products

DARPA - Wed, 2024-01-24 00:00

DARPA's new Establishing Qualification Processes for Agile Pharmaceutical Manufacturing (EQUIP-A-Pharma) program seeks to demonstrate a real-time digital regulatory approval framework for multiple finished drug products produced on a single reprogrammable hardware platform. The program aims to support up to four pilot agile pharmaceutical manufacturing sites that will generate the data required to inform the creation of a future regulatory framework.

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2024/01/22 DARPA Reboots AI Tools for Adult Learning Competition

DARPA - Mon, 2024-01-22 00:00
Technological advances and changes in economic conditions are shifting the skills needed to build an adaptive and successful workforce. As underscored in the 2023 National Defense Science & Technology Strategy, the United States cannot create 21st-century capabilities using 20th-century education practices. The World Economic Forum (WEF) further predicts that by 2025, 50% of all workers worldwide will need reskilling to compete in the market. The increasing reliance on technology in jobs across the market has imposed additional challenges for the workforce, especially for those from low-income and historically marginalized populations.
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2024/01/18 Voices from DARPA Podcast Episode 75: The Metamaterial Visionary

DARPA - Thu, 2024-01-18 00:00
We usually think of materials based on our experience in the natural world. For example, something that's light is usually fragile (like a feather) or something heavy is usually strong (like a brick). But what if we could engineer a material that had completely new characteristics that defied properties found in nature? Engineered materials, also known as metamaterials, allow us to do just that.
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2024/01/18 Registration Open for DARPA Discovery Event in San Francisco

DARPA - Thu, 2024-01-18 00:00
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is hosting an in-person gathering in San Francisco Feb. 21-22 to engage with science and technology companies, universities, and other research and engineering organizations interested in exploring scientific areas ripe for disruption. The event, called Discover DSO Day (D3), is sponsored by DARPA's Defense Sciences Office (DSO), whose goal is to identify and pursue high-risk, high-payoff research initiatives across a broad spectrum of science and engineering disciplines and transform them into important, new game-changing technologies for U.S. national security.
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2024/01/03 DARPA Moves Forward on X-65 Technology Demonstrator

DARPA - Wed, 2024-01-03 00:00
DARPA has selected Aurora Flight Sciences to build a full-scale X-plane to demonstrate the viability of using active flow control (AFC) actuators for primary flight control. The award is Phase 3 of the Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors (CRANE) program.
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2023/12/14 Utility-Scale Quantum Program Advances Toward Prototyping

DARPA - Thu, 2023-12-14 00:00
DARPA's Underexplored Systems for Utility-Scale Quantum Computing (US2QC) program seeks to determine whether an underexplored approach to quantum computing can achieve utility-scale operation - meaning its computational value exceeds its cost - faster than conventional predictions.
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2023/12/14 AI Cyber Challenge Opens Registration, Adds $4 Million in Prizes, Shows Scoring Algorithm and Challenge Exemplar

DARPA - Thu, 2023-12-14 00:00
Registration for DARPA's AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC) is now open. The Small Business Track submission deadline is January 15, 2024 and the Open Track submission deadline is April 30, 2024. More details are available below and in the streaming video announcement from DARPA program manager Perri Adams.
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