Lift Challenge offers $6.5 million in prizes to teams that can achieve a payload-to-weight ratio greater than 1:1.

DARPA is holding a competition that will reward UAS designs that can improve current payload-to-weight limitations.

In a move that sounds like the wildest of science fiction, DARPA has announced its new Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER) program that plans to use lasers relayed by airborne platforms ...

The United States government’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced the 11 quantum computing ...

A 1980s-era semiconductor fab in Austin, Texas, is getting a makeover. The Texas Institute for Electronics (TIE), as it’s called now, is tooling up to become the only advanced packaging plant in the ...

Artist’s concept for energy web platform. It was the old Air Force commercials that claimed science fiction is what they do every day, but the latest high technology to come from U.S. military ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded autonomy developer PhysicsAI a contract to design, train and test AI-enabled soaring capabilities for drones, the company announced today.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency last week said it has selected 11 companies to proceed to Stage B of the ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. In December, a special fighter jet made multiple flights out of ...

That could all turn out to be as squishy as the original issue, of course. The trick is how it’s implemented into DARPA’s work. If it’s successful, that could turn out to be as equally a high-payoff ...

A DARPA program is claiming a major breakthrough in quantum computing. The Optimization with Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum devices (ONISQ) program has created the world's first quantum circuit with ...

The selected companies will undergo evaluation to determine if their concepts for a viable quantum computer can be ...