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Radar/EW
DARPA GXV-T program seeks smarted, faster armored ground vehicles with eight contracts - News
May 30, 2016
ARLINGTON, Virginia. Officials at DARPA have launched a program to improve the U.S. military ground vehicle resistance to armor-piercing weapons that does not reduce speed and mobility or increase development and deployment costs. under the program, dubbed Ground X-Vehicle Technology (GXV-T) program, DARPA officials awarded contracts to eight organizations.
Comms
NextGen social science and the warfighter - Other
April 29, 2016
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency?s (DARPA) researchers are trying to find humanity?s driving factor. To do this, they started the Next Generation Social Science (NGS2) program, which will focus on developing new methods and tools that will allow researchers to build models of human social behavior.
Radar/EW
DARPA's TRADES program addresses design challenges with advanced materials - News
April 25, 2016
ARLINGTON, Va. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) officials announced the TRAnsformative DESign (TRADES) program in an effort to develop new mathematics and algorithms that can take advantage of the design space that has been enabled by new materials and fabrication methods.
Unmanned
UAV demonstrates optical sense-and-avoid capability - News
April 13, 2016
ARLINGTON, Va. DARPA?s Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System (ALIAS) program completed flight tests with the sense-and-avoid (SAA) system integrated into an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). In the demonstration, the UAV detected and tracked in real-time a Cessna 172G aircraft.
Unmanned
DARPA & ONR to begin open-water testing on unmanned "Sea Hunter" ship - News
April 11, 2016
PORTLAND, Ore. The Office of Naval Research (ONR) and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will begin open-water testing of the Agency?s Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV) program.
Unmanned
DARPA selects four teams for its Gremlins program - News
April 01, 2016
ARLINGTON, Va. Phase 1 contracts of DARPA?s Gremlins program were distributed to four teams led by Composite Engineering, Inc. in Roseville, California; Dynetics, Inc. in Huntsville, Alabama; General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. in San Diego, California; and Lockheed Martin Corp. in Dallas, Texas.
Comms
DARPA's new grand challenge focuses on a collaborative electromagnetic spectrum - News
March 28, 2016
ARLINGTON, Va. The Spectrum Collaboration Challenge (SC2) aims to imbue radios with advanced machine-learning capabilities so they can develop strategies that optimize the use of the wireless spectrum. In this new Grand Challenge announced by DARPA officials, the agency will reward teams that develop smart systems that collaborate and maximize the flow of radio frequency (RF) signals.
