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    LGS Innovations to Develop Computing Resource Allocation Algorithms Under DARPA Program

    LGS Innovations has received a four-year, $7.5 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to create decision-making algorithms for computing resource allocation. The company said Wednesday it aims to develop algorithms and protocols that will work to simultaneously connect, identify and allocate dispersed computing assets under the first phase of DARPA’s Dispersed Computing program. Kevin Kelly, […] More

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    DARPA Taps Voxtel to Develop Autonomous Navigation, Military Imaging Tech

    Voxtel has secured a potential $5.2 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to provide software-reconfigurable imaging and ranging sensors designed to perform autonomous navigation and military imaging. The company said Tuesday it aims to create a multimode fused image sensor technology that will combine laser detection, radar sensing and short-wavelength infrared passive imaging […] More

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    Rocket Crafters to Build, Test Hybrid Rocket Engine Under DARPA Contract

    Rocket Crafters Inc. has received a $542,600 contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop and test a large-scale hybrid rocket engine. RCI said Tuesday it will use its Direct-Digital Advanced Rocket Technology to design, build and test a throttle-capable hybrid rocket engine with a thrust capacity of up to 5,000 pound-force. The […] More

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    Charles River to Extend Probabilistic Modeling Tools Devt Under DARPA Contract Option

    Charles River Analytics has received a one-year, $500,000 contract option from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to further develop probabilistic modeling tools designed to help system engineers analyze and predict system performance in uncertain environments. The company said Monday the award extends work under DARPA’s Probabilistic Model-Based Programming Techniques for Prediction, Analysis, and Control program, which seeks […] More

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    DARPA to Host Proposers Day on Autonomous Tech Safety Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will host a Proposers Day on Aug. 15 in Arlington, Virginia, to discuss a program that seeks to boost the safety of autonomous systems. DARPA said Monday it aims to develop design and analysis tools that can help guarantee the safety of autonomous platforms and support the use of such systems in “safety-critical” […] More

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    BAE to Design Submerged Vessel Detection Tech Under DARPA Program

    BAE Systems has received a $4.6 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to design a technology for submarines to detect other submerged vessels from a long distance. The company said Tuesday it aims to create sonar technologies designed to maximize the detection range, identification and tracking capacities of submarines under the first phase […] More

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    DARPA Taps 1 Firm, 5 Research Orgs for Neural Engineering System Design Program

    Five research organizations and one company have received contracts from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to research and develop technologies needed to create an implantable neural interface that can facilitate communication between the brain and digital systems. DARPA said Monday the awardees will conduct work under the Neural Engineering System Design program that seeks to demonstrate systems […] More

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    Xerox’s PARC Subsidiary to Develop Interactive Sense-Making Tech for DARPA

    Xerox‘s PARC subsidiary has received a multimillion dollar contract to help the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency create an interactive sense-making platform as part of efforts to advance scientific research on artificial intelligence. PARC said Monday it will develop the Common Ground Learning and Explanation system that may explain the performance capacity of autonomous systems. COGLE will […] More

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    Xerox PARC to Collaborate With Siemens, 2 Universities on DARPA’s Design Modeling Tool Devt Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected a team composed of Xerox’s PARC subsidiary, Siemens, Georgia Tech and Michigan State University to build digital modeling tools designed to transform manufacturing processes through the TRAansformative DESign program. DARPA’s TRADES program seeks to further develop computer-aided design software to fabricate complex objects through the use of existing […] More

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    Space Systems Loral to Conduct On-Orbit Refuelling Service for SES Satellite

    SES has entered an agreement with MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates to carry out a satellite life extension mission using an on-orbit refuelling spacecraft made by MDA’s Space Systems Loral subsidiary. The agreement will make SES the first commercial customer of the satellite refuelling service and will allow the company to activate the service when needed, SES said Wednesday. […] More

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    Air Force Research Lab, IBM Partner to Develop Neurosynaptic Supercomputer

    The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has teamed up with IBM to build a supercomputing platform designed to facilitate information discovery and neural network learning. The brain-inspired supercomputer will run on the IBM TrueNorth Neurosynaptic System’s 64-chip array and will have sensory processing and pattern recognition functionalities equivalent to 16 billion synapses and 64 million […] More

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    DARPA Calls for WMD Detection Ideas

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants information on current products and services that can help increase the detection rate for weapons of mass destruction via networked sensors. DARPA said in a FedBizOpps notice published Wednesday it aims to explore new technologies to help defend metropolitan- and city-sized environments from radiological and nuclear-based threats under the SIGMA program. The program looks […] More