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Heron Systems-Built AI Emerges Undefeated Against Fighter Pilot in DARPA’s Virtual Dogfight
A Heron Systems-developed artificial intelligence ‘pilot’ on an F-16 Viper jet came out undefeated against a human Air Force fighter pilot in five rounds of simulated air combat as part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s AlphaDogfight Trials.
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Northrop-Led Team Gets DARPA Contract to Build AI-Based Wargame Simulation Tech
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected a Northrop Grumman-led team for a program aimed at integrating artificial intelligence and strategy games to assess technologies in simulated battlefield operations.
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Johns Hopkins APL to Host DARPA’s AI Virtual Air Combat Finals
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory will live-stream an online event from Aug. 18 to 20 for the third and final round of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency competition that will showcase artificial intelligence algorithms in a simulated aerial combat environment.
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DARPA Earmarks Addtl Investment for Charles River Analytics-Led Neuroscience R&D Effort
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded additional funding to a Charles River Analytics-led team to develop a predictive analytics concept aimed at visualizing social influence through computational models.
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DARPA to Proceed Only With Virtual Track of Subterranean ‘Cave Circuit’ Challenge
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has decided to cancel the physical course of its cave circuit event for the Subterranean Challenge and conduct only an all-virtual competition to evaluate proposed situational awareness platforms in that particular underground environment.
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SRI International Selected to Participate in DARPA’s Semantic Forensics Research Project
SRI International has won a potential four-year, $11M contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop an automated technology to detect fake texts, video, images or audio.
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Aerojet Rocketdyne Furthers Propulsion System Test for DARPA Hypersonics Program
A propulsion technology Aerojet Rocketdyne developed for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's hypersonic missile development program, called Operational Fires, has undergone a second round of tests. The company said Tuesday it conducted cold gas tests of OpFires propulsion system components seven months after completion of subscale test firings.
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DARPA Selects Boeing Subsidiary, Lockheed, GTRC for New X-Plane Tech Project
Boeing's Aurora Flight Sciences subsidiary, Lockheed Martin and Georgia Tech Research Corp. have received separate contracts from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to explore active flow control approaches for X-plane development.