The National Interest on MSN

DARPA wants to create nitric acid from thin air

Currently, nitric acid—a crucial chemical for weapons production—must be synthesized from ammonia, tying the United States to foreign exporters and presenting a supply chain risk in a future war.
Futurism

Nine of the the Most Amazing DARPA Projects

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has always been at the forefront of technological advancements. Its goal: to invest in national security technologies that are likely to lead to ...
Directions Magazine

DARPA Pushes Autonomous Surveillance Forward With New BAE Systems Contract

Keeping continuous watch over objects on Earth from orbit has long been more aspiration than reality. Now, a new research contract suggests the U.S. defense community wants to turn that idea into an ...
Dark Tech Official on MSN

DARPA’s TERN project aims to give small ships their own recon drones

Even with unmatched naval power, the U.S. still faces limits when it comes to launching surveillance aircraft from smaller ...
C4ISRNET

Four DARPA programs that lean on nature for inspiration

DARPA’s Insect Allies program is an attempt to use insects to transfer genetic material between mature plants within a single-growing season. (Luis Robayo/AFP/Getty Images) The Air Force announced ...
Aviation Week Network

DARPA’s Frosty Looks To Improve Arctic Over-The-Horizon Radar

DARPA’s Frosty Looks To Improve Arctic Over-The-Horizon Radar is published in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, an Aviation ...
Yahoo Finance

How DARPA seeded the ground for a rapid COVID-19 cure

Former Director of DARPA, Regina Dugan, joined Yahoo Finance Live to discuss this secretive government agency behind COVID-19 vaccines. SEANA SMITH: As Pfizer's vaccine starts to get distributed this ...
Futurism

DARPA Tried Using the Earth’s Atmosphere as a Giant Sensor and Detected Something Interesting

While trying to determine if it could use the entire Earth’s atmosphere as a massive sensor, the US military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) made a highly unusual detection. The ...
Fast Company

How DARPA, The Secretive Agency That Invented The Internet, Is Working To Reinvent It

The government agency that invented the network that runs the world seems to think so. So the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has launched a program aimed at “completely rethinking ...
Wired

Darpa Is Developing a Search Engine for the Dark Web

A new search engine being developed by Darpa aims to shine a light on the dark web and uncover patterns and relationships in online data to help law enforcement and others track illegal activity. The ...
CBS News

DARPA: Nobody's safe on the Internet

The following script is from "DARPA Dan" which aired on 60 Minutes Feb. 8, 2015. Lesley Stahl is the correspondent. Shachar Bar-On, producer. The recent cyber invasions of Sony studios and military ...