Benchmark Space Systems offered DARPA a mission architecture called Sapphire for the LASSO lunar orbiter program. Credit: Benchmark Space Systems WASHINGTON — The Defense Advanced Research Projects ...

IonQ stock rocketed higher following news that the company had inked a new DARPA partnership. IonQ has announced that it has achieved the interconnecting two independent trapped-ion quantum systems.

In late 2022 Chinese researchers claimed something extraordinary: using today’s relatively basic quantum computers, they could hypothetically unlock encrypted information—the kind that you might send ...

The Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) project is a joint DARPA/US Special Operations Command to build a high speed plane capable of take off and flight without the need of a runway.

DARPA has assigned the designation X-76 to the Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) project, a Bell proof-of-concept technology demonstrator for a high-speed tiltrotor. DARPA (Defense ...

Carrying air-to-air missiles, LongShot is intended to increase the survivability and combat reach of the launch platform. Credit: DARPA An air-launched missile-carrying uncrewed aircraft developed by ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

Through its Tactical Technology Office (TTO), DARPA wants to move drones to the next level with its Lift Challenge – a US$6.5-million competition aimed at creating small drones capable of lifting ...

The Pentagon’s technology incubator has launched a competition seeking novel designs for uncrewed cargo aircraft capable of carrying payloads more than four times their own weight, with applications ...

The X-65 aircraft, which Aurora Flight Sciences is building for DARPA as part of the CRANE program, will use short air bursts to steer instead of traditional flaps and rudders. But rising costs, ...

The military's research agency wants rapid sensing, artificial intelligence-driven decision support and automated interventions that can work in austere battlefield environments. The Defense Advanced ...

DARPA and the US Air Force have started the High Mach Gas Turbine (HMGT) program to develop reusable hypersonic planes. The core technology revolves around Turbine Based Combined Cycle (TBCC) ...