DARPA news from FierceGovernmentIT

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency hopes to reduce the cost and shorten the deployment-time of defense communication systems with a new plan to repurpose the valuable components in Read more...

In an effort to better understand how information spreads across a population, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency challenged teams of researchers to find the coordinates of 10 red weather Read more...

Visual recognition software has developed to the point where the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency believes the private sector could deliver a tool capable of extracting a range of information Read more...

The ability to track the origin and spread of memes would be a useful battlefield tool, says the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. In a broad area announcement for research proposals dated Read more...

Cybersecurity gets robust attention in the fiscal 2012 budget request released Feb. 14 by President Obama, with federal agencies requesting billions of dollars dedicated to cyber. The Homeland Read more...

Much of the $4 billion the federal government putatively spends on network and information technology research annually in fact goes to other purposes such as mere IT infrastructure support for other Read more...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is seeking to replicate the open source software development model for the design of vehicles. In a broad agency announcement released Oct. 22, DARPA Read more...

Ever-increasing amounts of data are driving the military to look to automated ways to detect patterns and threats. The Air Force, for example, says current methods of making computer models that Read more...

Among the losers in the Senate Appropriations Committee version of the fiscal 2011 military spending bill is WIN-T, for which Senate appropriators say the Army asked for $25 million too much to spend Read more...

Declaring that robotic technology is reaching a tipping point of intense growth, the federal government says its prepared to fund small business robotics research for purposes ranging from home Read more...