DARPA’s new MASH program aims to use autonomous robot medics to treat soldiers and save lives on the battlefield.| The Debrief
DARPA unveils DRBY, the world’s largest real-time RF emulator, transforming how the U.S. tests electronic warfare systems.| The Debrief
The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) marked a strong presence at two cornerstone cybersecurity events, Black Hat USA 2025 and DEF CON 33, engaging with security leaders, showcasing our initiatives, and fostering collaboration to advance open source security.| openssf.org
Texas A&M University's George H.W. Bush Combat Development Complex will receive $59.8 million to develop a way for autonomous helicopters to fight to wildfires in the state. The funds appropriated from the Texas legislature will go toward acquiring up to four UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters and developing their autonomous configuration, as well as to facilities, tools and equipment for research, testing and integration of firefighting capabilities over the next two years, according to a release f...| InnovationMap
Discover how OpenSSF is advancing MLSecOps at DEF CON 33 through a panel on applying DevSecOps lessons to AI/ML security. Learn about open source tools, the AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC), and efforts to secure the future of machine learning systems.| Open Source Security Foundation
DARPA has launched a new "Liberty Lifter" program to design, build and test a highly-efficient wing-in-ground effect aircraft for transporting "very large, heavy loads" over long distances without runways. Prototypes could fly as early as 2027.| New Atlas
If you've been hoping for a long-range, low-cost, heavy-lift seaplane using Wing-In-Ground effect (WIG), you'll have to be patient because DARPA has confirmed that it has cancelled its US$98-million Liberty Lifter project.| New Atlas
This blog considers two recent papers on the dynamics of scientific research: one in Nature and one by the brilliant physicist, Michael Nielsen, and the brilliant founder of Stripe, Patrick Collison, who is a very unusual CEO. These findings are very important to the question: how can we make economies more productive and what is the […]| Dominic Cummings's Blog
Leave it to DARPA to turn disaster relief into a competitive sport for robots, and for Google to walk away with the prize. On Saturday, 16 robotics teams from around the world competed in the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials for 2013, as part of DARPA’s project for developing robots capable of…| New Atlas
Federal research leaders suggested Tuesday that AI could lead industries to “nearly eliminate software vulnerabilities” in critical infrastructure.| CyberScoop
Laura Kim, Ph.D., has been awarded a DARPA Young Faculty Award in support of her project “Room-Temperature Strong Coupling in Intercalated 2D Plasmonic Systems.” The $500,000, two-year project seeks to unlock quantum phenomena that have traditionally remained exclusive to cryogenic temperatures, bringing them into room-temperature environments by using layered nanoscale materials that confine light with extreme precision.| ECE Florida News
DARPA-funded researchers from Harvard University have identified an Alzheimer's drug that could place patients in suspended animation.| The Debrief
DARPA is hosting a QBI (Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI)) proposers day on Sept. 3, 2024, for quantum computing companies that believe they are on track| NextBigFuture.com
If there's one word that keeps military planners from sleeping at night, it's "hypersonic." The ability to fly at more than five times the speed of sound holds the promise of getting to the antipodes in less time than it takes to drive across town. However, it also makes possible deadly weapons…| New Atlas
For two weeks last July, I cocooned myself in a hotel in Portland, OR, living and breathing probabilistic programming as a “student” in the probabilistic programming summer school run by DARPA. The school is part of the broader DARPA program on Probabilistic Programming for Advanced Machine Learning (PPAML), which has resulted in a great infusion … Continue reading →| Some Thoughts on a Mysterious Universe
Bell has released a video showing off its High-Speed Vertical Takeoff and Landing (HSVTOL) technology in action. The two-minute video shows a ground test of the nacelle system used to lift and land a VTOL X-plane before converting to jet flight.| New Atlas
The case for a COVID-19 research-related origin is becoming exponentially stronger while arguments for other origin hypotheses have either been debunked or ...| jamiemetzl.com