The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) selected L3Harris Technologies [LHX] for Phase 1 of the No Manning Required Ship (NOMARS) program to design an unmanned ship concept, the company said March 2. NOMARS is a two-phase program to demonstrate the reliability and feasibility of an ...
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Boeing [BA] subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences was selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as the first awardee in a potential X-plane project designed to explore the use of active flow control technologies as a primary control method for aircraft, eliminating movable ...
The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) will soon issue a request for information on commercial and government payloads it could use in an upcoming launch competition, an agency official said May 23. The RFI will be “coming out in the next week or two,” said Todd Master, ...
China has shot ahead of the United States in developing futuristic military technologies like hypersonics and artificial intelligence because the Pentagon’s risk-averse culture repels the innovative talent needed to tackle those problems, according to a prospective Defense Department scientist. ...
More than 20 teams have indicated they might participate in the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s (DARPA’s) Launch Challenge, a competition designed to promote rapid access to space for the Department of Defense, the agency said May 7. During the challenge, which is slated for late ...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has tapped Dynetics Inc. to conduct a demonstration in which a manned C-130 transport plane will launch and recover small unmanned aerial vehicles in mid-air. The Dynetics-led team has received a 21-month, $38.6 million contract award to ...