US Defense Department agency that funds advanced, high-risk research in areas like AI, cryptography, and computing for military applications.
NAWCAD landed a drone on a moving ship with onboard cameras, motion sensors and software, without GPS or a pilot. The center says it is designed for nearly any drone flight computer, so the Navy could field it by software upgrade.
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IonQ says its photonic link entangled a trapped-ion qubit with a solid-state memory more than 1,000 times a second. That answers the speed question for modular quantum machines.
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PsiQuantum has won a conditional Pentagon commitment for a loan of up to $150m to expand its plant in Milpitas, California. PsiQuantum says the money would buy test, assembly and cryogenic equipment for prototypes, The Next Web reported, so it mainly adds capacity to check hardware.
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DARPA moved four quantum firms, Atom Computing, Diraq, IBM and IonQ, into the final stage of its benchmarking programme, joining Microsoft and PsiQuantum. Buyers hearing quantum pitches now get a government check of six designs against a 2033 goal of a machine worth more than it costs.
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DARPA selected Xint, one of three winners of its $29.5 million AIxCC contest, to research AI-driven security analysis of Department of War messaging apps. The work aims its automated find, triage and patch pipeline at messaging code and binaries the military actually runs.
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Maryland has committed $52.5 million of a four-year ceiling of up to $100 million for a Discovery District quantum hub. In exchange, DARPA stops evaluating Microsoft's hardware remotely from Redmond and Europe.
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The Hanover, New Hampshire company says more than $7 million of Space Force, Navy and DARPA work is already signed, more than double what its investors just put in, and the single-chip technology behind it dates to a 2016 startup called WebSensing.
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ARIA's Enduring Atmospheric Platforms budget has gone from a £50M estimate in December 2025 to £70M across 18 teams, and the milestone it buys is a week of station-keeping at 300 watts, beyond what high-altitude aircraft have managed so far.
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Atalanta is selling Argo on the strength of the satellite network Russia crippled in 2022. In the reporting, the math is attested by the vendor and its customer, and by nobody else.
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Katalyst's LINK is trying to save a NASA telescope after tumbling out of control. Northrop Grumman's servicing vehicle reaches its first geostationary customer in about a year.
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Reuters reports that Unitree's Go2 descends from openly published, US military-funded locomotion work. Anyone buying legged robots now inherits that dual-use history.
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The agency wants noninvasive tools that stimulate plasticity in specific neural circuits. It concedes those tools do not exist, and the program is in its earliest stages.
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A roughly fivefold gain in RF power density came from heat removal, not new device physics. DARPA still wants an eightfold cut in thermal resistance inside the transistor.
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