And what if that battery could be fueled by nuclear waste? That’s the future scientists are working toward in DARPA’s “Rads to Watts” program, which aims to create lightweight batteries with a high ...

Mynaric has been selected as a key development partner to create a benchtop model of a next-generation optical communications terminal as part of Phase 1 of the Space-based adaptive communications ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has ended its experiment to create a heavy cargo seaplane. The nearly three-year-old Liberty Lifter program was intended to design and build - and ...

Aurora Flight Sciences and DARPA hope to see the X-65 drone fly next year after suffering delays and cost growth.

DARPA plans to develop a high-supersonic, long-range strike missile powered by a rotating detonation engine (RDE), seeking to advance a potentially more efficient and affordable form of ...

It took four decades for Fred Downs to be able to pinch himself with his left hand. Or open a jar. Or turn a key in the front door of his Virginia home. Downs now sports a new prosthetic arm funded by ...

A new program by the defense agency that helped develop stealth technology and GPS aims to measure and predict how human teams perform together and improve training with scientific tools. The Defense ...

Hundreds of military, government and commercial satellites reside today in geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO) some 22,000 miles (36,000 kilometers) above the Earth – a perch ideal for providing ...

Taking a plot point from the 1990 Sean Connery movie thriller The Hunt for Red October, DARPA is working on a super-silent submarine drive that has no moving parts and provides propulsion through the ...

DARPA wants to use UAVs as laser energy relays. Credit: DARPA DARPA has launched its Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER) program, an effort to demonstrate the long-distance wireless ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced its developing artificial intelligence (AI) that is "trustworthy for the Defense ...