Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Nuclear power could be of some use in space as well

A new project has NASA and DARPA seeing how effective nuclear power could be in space.

The Space Hour

This illustration made available by NASA shows the Space Launch System during liftoff. On Wednesday, March 13, 2019, NASA's top official said the space agency's new rocket won't be ready for a moon shot next year. (Marshall Space Flight Center/NASA via AP)

And old idea gets a fresh look: A nuclear-powered space ship

Science News

DARPA teams up with an industry group to advance semiconductor science

Technology

AP/Jose Luis Magana

DARPA’s Embedded Entrepreneurship Initiative fosters innovation ecosystem, not just innovations

Defense

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

DARPA is hard at work on the next generation of hypersonics

Defense

NAPA

One of the government’s leading technologists is now a National Academy fellow

Technology

New GEOINT strategy will direct agencies to look at commercial services first

Contracting

DARPA awards a super-high-tech artificial intelligence research project

Artificial Intelligence

Replacing mountains of code doesn’t have to take forever

Technology

House Majority Leader prepares lawmakers for continuing resolution

Federal Newscast

A briefcase of a census taker is seen as she knocks on the door of a residence Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020, in Winter Park, Fla. A half-million census takers head out en mass this week to knock on the doors of households that haven't yet responded to the 2020 census. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Census Bureau short on enumerators officials said were needed

Federal Newscast

Building trust in AI is key to autonomous drones, flying cars

DoD is experimenting with ways to improve autonomy in unmanned vehicles, and build trust in that autonomy between the platforms, their operators and the…

Defense

High angle view of business executives walking through a revolving door

DoD’s two top research officials announce departure

Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Michael Griffin and Lisa Porter, who is the deputy, will step down July 10.

Defense

FILE - In this Oct. 17, 2017, file photo, U.S. Army soldiers hone their long-distance marksmanship skills as they train at Fort Benning in Columbus, Ga. The soldiers are members of the Army's new Security Force Assistance Brigade. The Army, for the first time, will send soldiers from one of it's new training brigades to Africa in the coming weeks, expanding the use of the new specialized units as the Pentagon looks at possible troop cuts on the continent. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)

DIU showed significant strides in 2019 after further entrenching itself in DoD

Defense

The Defense Innovation Unit made significant strides in increasing the number of commercial prototypes that made it into warfighters’ hands and quickening the pace to award contracts in 2019.