Recent DARPA robots include sea-based microdrones, cockroach-style surveillance bots, and even cyborg insects.

There is an exciting new biotechnology research project coming to two Louisiana Universities. DARPA, the central research and ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, is forming agreements with U.S. universities to help advance the development of quantum computers. The first step was a partnership with ...

If the Pentagon is to harness the promise of quantum-powered devices, it needs ways to connect them to today's data networks. But networking has been the “black sheep” of quantum research, says the ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency unveiled the first set of tech companies selected to participate in its Quantum Benchmarking Initiative as the U.S. government continues to investigate ...

DARPA's autonomous Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV), the USX-1 Defiant, took a major step toward operational status as a bottle of spirits was broken over its bow at the Everett Ship Repair in Everett, ...

From the Internet to GPS, DARPA's biggest successes and failures. May 16, 2008 — -- In 1957, the Soviet Union caught the US completely off-guard. Its military launched Sputnik -- the world's ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. SAN FRANCISCO — The final round of a cybersecurity competition run by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will take ...

"The phenomenon is highly repeatable. We discovered an unplanned new technique for identifying objects entering the earth's atmosphere." Researchers with the U.S. military's Defense Advanced Research ...

The Pentagon’s secretive technology research arm is ending a project to develop a heavy-lift amphibian aircraft. After three years or research and development, the US Defense Advanced Research ...

Only a few past missions, like NASA's GRAIL, have attempted operations in very low orbits around the moon. Credit: NASA WASHINGTON — DARPA is seeking proposals for a small lunar orbiter that could be ...