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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has developed an injectable foam it hopes can help reduce deaths resulting from internal bleeding. The agency said the foam uses two separate liquid compounds for compressing the wound and reducing blood loss during the “Golden Hour,” the time window during which soldiers are moved to a treatment facility [...]
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Raytheon has won a $1.5 million Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency contract to build small satellites for situational awareness in battlespace, the company announced Thursday. Under the Space Enabled Effects for Military Engagements program, the company’s team will build six satellites for ground testing. Raytheon is developing and building hardware for exoatmospheric kill vehicles, said [...]
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Northrop Grumman will join Raytheon and BAE Systems in helping the Defense Department‘s research arm develop a new radar for tracking moving targets through clouds, Military & Aerospace Electronics reports. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded Northrop a contract to join the team working on the Video Synthetic Aperture Radar radar, which DARPA wants to [...]
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Raytheon‘s BBN Technologies subsidiary is developing new tools for analyzing text and inferring meaning for a program sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Air Force Research Laboratory. BBN said its scientists are also working on tools for finding relationships and anomolies in the text Deep Exploration and Filter of Text program. [...]
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Raytheon’s missile systems segment has been awarded by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) with a $949,679 contract to take part in the space enabled effects for military engagements (SeeMe) program, reports John Keller for Military & Aerospace Electronics. Raytheon engineers are tasked with creating satellites that would cost up to $500,000 each, [...]
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IBM is entering phase three of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program to develop intelligent machines, the Defense Department announced Tuesday. The company won a $11,986,879 contract modification to move forward on hardware, perception and simulation for the Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics program. According to the Pentagon, this new phase of the [...]
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A team of computer scientists led by Rockwell Collins and also featuring Boeing will develop cyber attack protection software for unmanned vehicles for the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency. NICTA, a Sydney-based information and communications technology research center backed by the Australian government, is also a member of the team, according to a Thursday release. [...]
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BAE Systems has won funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop new computing technology for weapons systems, Nextgov reports. The $10.6 million award comes through the Power Efficiency Revolution For Embedded Computing Technologies initiative, which aims to provide more effective embedded computing per watt of electrical power, Dawn Lim reports. DARPA recently [...]
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected two technology firms to develop new electronic parts that control computer functions, with the goal of energy efficiency, Nextgov reports. Silicon Valley-based SRI International, author of the iPhone’s Siri feature, and New York City-based compiler maker Reservoir Labs received $15 million combined through the agency’s Power Efficiency [...]
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Northrop Grumman, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and NASA‘s Dryden Flight Research Center have conducted flight demonstrations for a program aimed at creating autonomous aerial refueling between two unmanned high-altitude aircraft. During the flights between Jan. 11 and May 30, the company said two NASA Global Hawk drones flew within 100 feet of each [...]
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