Digital Government
DARPA wants 'pre-crime' technology
If there's an algortihm out there that can analyze data to identify troubled soldiers, DARPA wants it.
Digital Government
DARPA plans tools to lighten load of battlefield data
DARPA's Insight program will develop automated tools to help human analysts sift and identify valuable battlefied data from a variety of information sources and platforms.
Digital Government
DARPA seeks to shape young minds
DARPA launches a program to interest grade school students in computer science careers.
Digital Government
DARPA aims for fiber-optic link between warfighters' minds, bodies
An award to Southern Methodist University will fund development of two-way, fiber-optic communication between prosthetic limbs and the wearer’s peripheral nerves, reports blogger Brian Robinson.
Digital Government
Can technology erode a mountain of classified documents?
DARPA solicits bids for new technologies to help declassify the mountains of U.S. government classified data.
Digital Government
DARPA wants to blow up military design process, start over
The government's blue-sky R&D agency launches a new effort to reinvent the design and manufacture of defense equipment using computer aid and crowdsourcing.
Digital Government
DARPA tries to know when to hold 'em
DARPA is opening the door for applicants to design solutions with the assumption that most systems and networks have already been compromised.
Digital Government
DARPA unveils program to develop autonomous robots
DARPA's four-year Autonomous Robotic Manipulation program aims to produce robots that can perform complex tasks with minimal human intervention.
Digital Government
DARPA plans a network of virtual satellites
DARPA revises its program to launch clusters of small, wirelessly connected mini satellites.
Digital Government
DARPA sets privacy rules for its programs
New privacy principles provide ethics framework for future DARPA research.
Digital Government
DARPA lays out bedrock R&D privacy principles
Some folks at DARPA have come up with a set of privacy principles that offer some hope that privacy could become a part of fundamental technology R&D, writes blogger Brian Robinson.
Digital Government
DARPA seeks young blood
DARPA is accepting proposals for its next Computer Science Study Group.
Digital Government
DARPA crowdsourcing chief joins Microsoft
Peter Lee, head of DARPA's Transformational Convergence Technology Office, is stepping down to join Microsoft.
Digital Government
Batman and Robin's new secret hideout: DARPA's labs
The boffins at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency may be planning to study the science in the proposed new programs, but the wonks who devise acronyms -- we think it's a super-secret bureau nestled in the deep recesses of a secret agency -- must have worked overtime on the names.
Digital Government
Military, intell agencies dismiss DARPA-led cyber range
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency may be getting squeezed out of the competition to build a test range for potential cyber security solutions.
Digital Government
Former DARPA chief joins policy institute's board
Anthony Tether has joined the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies' board of regents.
Cybersecurity
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DARPA gets proactive about cybersecurity; Hollywood has a long history of making movies about hackers; and it might be time to rethink your approach to employee evaluations.
Digital Government
Timing the pre-emptive cyber defense
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is apparently turning to the hacker community for its next level of cybersecurity development.
Cybersecurity
DARPA: Calling all cyber geneticists
A DARPA research program would combine technologies to apply genetics, anthropology, sociology and physiology to the identification of cyberattackers.
Cybersecurity
DARPA eyes digital fingerprints to track computer attacks
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is holding a conference for those interested in helping with a project to use digital DNA to bolster cyber defense.
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