Adapx ( www.adapx.com ), the company that is changing the way that teams collaborate and collect data in the field, today announced that it has been awarded a subcontract from Science Applications International Corporation (NYSE: SAI) in support of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's DARPA Deep Green Program. The...
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are having a big impact on the research portfolio of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. DARPA's focus has shifted over the past seven years to serving the needs of the warfighters in the field--providing them with intelligence about the enemy, tracking bad...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has finished making awards under its recently created "Disruptive Manufacturing Technologies" program. The agency is funding technologies that should result in "pervasive cost savings for multiple" weapons platforms, says the Arlington, Va.-based agency. DARPA selected five bids to pursue manufacturing technologies in three...
RESTON, Va. -- BAE Systems has been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA to create advanced software development tools and processes that meet changing military needs. The work will adapt large-scale software systems to address emerging threats such as asymmetric warfare.
Machine learning, reasoning, perception provide cognitive assistants for novel, robust functions. Significant individual technology advances are being harnessed to facilitate effective cognitive computing systems. These information system technologies focus on a common application that radically improves the way computers support human beings. A cognitive system is emerging that...
By Charles J. Murray, Senior Technical Editor, Electronics The electronics industry's next "killer app" is still a mystery. It might be lying quietly in a nondescript development lab in the Silicon Valley, or it might still be rattling around in the sleep-deprived...
DEPUTY DEFENSE SECRETARY Gordon England at a recent conference in the nation's capital noted that the greatest long-term threat to America is not weapons of mass destruction, but rather the prospect of losing our strength in science and technology. England's observations are quite sobering,...
A technology undergoing investigation provides communications capabilities without human translators. U.S. troops in Iraq are performing investigative fieldings of instant speech-to-speech translators as a result of efforts by several government organizations and private companies. The language barriers faced by U.S. forces and Iraqis inhibit training and routine operations....
OAKLAND -- Before he was arrested in connection with his wifes disappearance, Hans Reiser had gained a reputation as an innovative but controversial figure in the software development world. An article posted on the technology news site Slashdot.org last week elicited more than ...
One of the architects of the much-ridiculed Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's "total information awareness" system says it's time for the U.S. government to invest in protecting the privacy of citizens' personal data. Robert L. Popp, who helped conceive TIA in 2002 while working...
Jesse Sullivan, 59, is the world's first "bionic man," his doctors like to boast. But he's surely not who Hollywood had in mind with the "Six Million Dollar Man" TV series back in the '70s. "We can rebuild him. We have the technology," the show's opening narration intoned. But the...
Now that the Grand Challenge autonomous vehicle race has been won, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA is raising the bar. Last month DARPA announced plans to hold a new competition (www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge) on November 3, 2007: The Urban Challenge calls for autonomous ground vehicles to...
Northrop Grumman has signed a $10.3 million contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA to study the Oblique Flying Wing OFW, a concept that dates back to the 1950s. The OFW consists of little more than engines mounted under a swiveling wing. The point...
THE DREAM IS A fully autonomous rotary-wing unmanned aerial vehicle--one capable of flying through urban canyons, hovering above city streets or perching on building ledges as it gathers intelligence. Researchers at the Georgia Tech's Center of Excellence in Rotorcraft Technology took one step toward...
Stanford University engineers are attributing last month's $2-million Grand Challenge victory to a form of software-based "experience" that enabled their driverless vehicle to stay on the road and avoid obstacles. The school's vehicle, known as Stanley, finished the 132-mile race...
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Sensors Unlimited Inc., global suppliers of shortwave infrared SWIR cameras based on indium gallium arsenide InGaAs technology, has been awarded a contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA Microsystems Technology Office MTO to develop an unprecedented 1280X1024-pixel, dual-wavelength, visible and shortwave infrared focal plane array FPA. The uncooled,...
BBN Technologies has been awarded $2.9 million to lead a multi-year program under the second phase of DARPA's Advanced Speech Encoding (ASE 2) program to develop a noise-robust, ultra-low bit rate vocoding radio. The program's goal is to demonstrate an ultra-low data transmission rate voice communication...
RESTON, Va. -- IPIX Corporation (NASDAQ:IPIX), a premier supplier of 360-degree, immersive imaging technologies for visual intelligence applications, today announced it secured a $2.4 million research contract from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA to research and build the world's highest resolution video camera. The camera will be used for...
UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES UAVs are one step closer to matching, or surpassing, their human-piloted counterparts.The helicopter called GTMax has capabilities of flight control fault identification and reconfiguration, adaptive control, and agile maneuvering, all operating on a single vehicle and under single software architecture.Georgia Tech successfully tested the project sponsored by...
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