DARPA September 26, 2018 DARPA has selected nine teams to compete in the Subterranean (SubT) Challenge – seven in the physical Systems track and two in the Virtual track – to develop new approaches to rapidly map, navigate, and search underground environments to better equip warfighters and first responders to explore human-made tunnel systems, urban underground, and natural cave networks. The teams will design and develop novel solutions that address the challenges of subterranean environments in tunnel systems, urban underground, and natural cave networks, culminating with a final event encompassing elements from all three environments… read more.
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DARPA Announces $2 Billion Campaign to Develop Next Wave of AI Technologies
DARPA September 7, 2018 Starting in the 1990s, DARPA helped usher in a second wave of AI machine learning technologies that created statistical pattern recognizers from large amounts of data. To address the limitations of the first and second wave AI technologies, DARPA seeks to explore new theories and applications that could make it possible for machines to adapt to changing situations. To better define a path forward DARPA announced a multi-year investment of more than $2 billion in new and existing programs called the “AI Next” campaign. Under AI Next, key areas to be explored may include automating critical DoD […]
DARPA has an ambitious $1.5 billion plan to reinvent electronics
MIT Technology Review July 30, 2018 To move beyond Moore’s Law the chances are that radically new materials, and new ways of integrating computing power and memory, will be needed. Shifting data between memory components that store it and processors that act on it sucks up energy and creates one of the biggest hurdles to boosting processing power. DARPA launched a $1.5 billion, five-year program known as the Electronics Resurgence Initiative (ERI) to support work on advances in chip technology. The agency has just unveiled the first set of research teams selected to explore unproven but potentially powerful approaches that […]
Accelerating the Exploration of Promising Artificial Intelligence Concepts
DARPA July 7, 2018 Artificial Intelligence Exploration (AIE) will constitute a series of unique funding opportunities that use streamlined contracting procedures and funding mechanisms to achieve a start date within three months of an opportunity announcement. Researchers will then work to establish the feasibility of new AI concepts within 18 months of award. The agency’s diverse portfolio of fundamental and applied AI research programs is aimed at shaping a future in which AI-enabled machines serve as trusted, collaborative partners in solving problems of importance to national security… read more. BAA
DARPA Seeks to Expand Real-Time Radiological Threat Detection to Include Other Dangers
DARPA News February 20, 2018 DARPA announced its SIGMA+ program, an expansion of the existing SIGMA program. The program calls for the development of highly sensitive detectors and advanced intelligence analytics to detect minute traces of various substances related to WMD threats. SIGMA+ will use a common network infrastructure and mobile sensing strategy. The detection network would be scalable to cover a major metropolitan city and its surrounding region. The program is structured around two Phases. The first phase focuses on developing novel sensors for chemicals, explosives, and biological agents, the second phase focuses on network development, analytics, and integration. […]
DARPA Seeks to Improve Military Communications with Digital Phased-Arrays at Millimeter Wave
DARPA News January 24, 2018 DARPA is launching the Millimeter-Wave Digital Arrays (MIDAS) program which aims to develop element-level digital phased-array technology that will enable next generation DoD millimeter wave systems. Research efforts will focus on reducing the size and power of digital millimeter wave transceivers, enabling phased-array technology for mobile platforms and elevating mobile communications to the less crowded millimeter wave frequencies. MIDAS is focused on two key technical areas. The first is the development of the silicon chips to form the core transceiver for the array tile. The second area is focused on the development of wide-band antennas, […]
Ocean of Things Aims to Expand Maritime Awareness across Open Seas
Source: DARPA, December 6, 2017 DARPA’s Ocean of Things program seeks to enable persistent maritime situational awareness over large ocean areas by deploying thousands of small, low-cost floats that could form a distributed sensor network. Each smart float would contain a suite of commercially available sensors to collect environmental data—such as ocean temperature, sea state, and location—as well as activity data about commercial vessels, aircraft, and even maritime mammals moving through the area. The floats would transmit data periodically via satellite to a cloud network for storage and real-time analysis. The technical challenge lies in two key areas: float development […]