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    Marillyn Hewson: Lockheed Increased 2015 R&D Spending to $839M to Meet National Security Demand

    Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson has said the company increased its investments in research and development efforts to $839 million in 2015 in an effort to meet its international clients’ current and future defense and national security requirements. She noted in her speech at Lockheed’s 2016 Media Day in Virginia Tuesday that such investments went to the development […] More

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    DARPA Calls for Improvised Threat R&D Proposals; John Main Comments

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has issued a solicitation for research proposals for the Improv program that aims to build prototypes designed to pose security threats to potential adversaries through commercially available products. A broad agency announcement posted Friday on FedBizOpps stated that DARPA will select the proposals that will enter the feasibility study phase following the submission […] More

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    System High Corp. Lands $21M Option for DARPA Security, Intell Support Program

    System High Corp. has received a $21.03 million contract modification to support the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s security and intelligence directorate. DARPA awarded the fourth option to the base contract that brings the total cumulative value to$97,630,625. The company will continue to provide systems engineering and technical assistance to DARPA under the fourth option year, the […] More

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    DARPA, University of Delaware Partner for Small Composite Parts Manufacturing R&D

    The University of Delaware has landed a $15 million cooperative agreement with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to help explore methods to produce small composite parts for military equipment. DARPA and the university will work to develop reconfigurable forming and molding processes for the fabrication of composite structures under the Tailorable Feedback and Forming program, the Defense Department said Friday. The agency received six proposals […] More

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    PARC Lands DARPA Contract to Develop Printer for Macroscopic Objects

    PARC has been awarded a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency contract to build a nanotechnology-enabled printer that uses micrometer-size particles to produce macroscopic objects. The company said Wednesday the contract was awarded as part of DARPA’s Atoms to Product program, which began research efforts in December 2015. PARC said it will employ the help of Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland in […] More

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    Lockheed, DARPA Experiment With New Microchip Cooling System; John Ditri Comments

    Lockheed Martin has developed technology for the thermal management of high-powered microchips as part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s Inter/Intra Chip Enhanced Cooling Applications initiative. The company said Tuesday its microfluidic cooling system aims to increase the performance of monolithic microwave integrated circuit-based power amplifiers and embedded systems. A team of DARPA and Lockheed researchers found during a study that […] More

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    DARPA Launches New Social Science Program; Adam Russell Comments

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has started to accept industry proposals for a program in search of new technologies and methods to use in social science studies. DARPA’s Next Generation Social Science program aims to evaluate causal models of human social behaviors through several disciplines such as sociology, economics, political science, anthropology, psychology, computer sciences, physics, biology and math, […] More

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    DARPA, SRI International Partner for Data Privacy, Sharing Tech Integration Project

    SRI International has secured an $8.5 million contract to help the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency devise methods for the integration of enterprise data privacy, security and exchange tools. The company said Thursday it will study how privacy protection technology can facilitate use of sensitive data for humanitarian relief operations and other critical missions through DARPA’s Brandeis program. […] More

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    DARPA Taps General Dynamics for Classified Network Support Contract

    General Dynamics has received a one-year, $25.4 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to support classified information technology systems at the agency’s mission services office. The Defense Department said Thursday General Dynamics will provide classified office computing, networking, desktop, infrastructure, equipment, software, data and communications support services to MSO under the cost-plus-award-fee contract. Work is […] More

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    Galois-Led TAMBA Project to Test DARPA Data Privacy Program Brandeis

    Galois has been awarded a $6.2 million Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency contract to test the privacy of systems for DARPA’s Brandeis program. The Galois-led Testing and Modeling of Brandeis Artifacts team comprised of the University of Pennsylvania, University of Maryland College Park, Hebrew University and Charles River Analytics will work on the project, Galois said Feb.18. Galois […] More

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    LGS, DARPA Build Laser Tech With Waveform Agility; Stephan Wielandy Comments

    LGS Innovations has completed work on a laser platform designed to improve the capability of light detection and ranging systems to detect and analyze objects of interest. The company developed the laser system with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s strategic technology office under the Laser Radar Technology program, LGS said Tuesday. LRT is a […] More

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    Honeywell, DARPA Ink Agreement on Virtual Reality Display for Military Vehicles

    Honeywell will provide virtual reality display systems for military ground vehicles under an agreement with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The company said Thursday the Ground X-Vehicle Technologies program works to enhance survivability, agility and mobility of ground vehicles through a 360-degree outside view for drivers. “The development of virtual window technology is a […] More