Two requests to industry may help the Pentagon address one of the emerging challenges of warfare: enabling a relatively small ...

Those of you who are familiar with Arthur C. Clarke’s 1955 novel Earthlight may recognize a new weapon from DARPA dubbed the Magneto Hydrodynamic Explosive Munition (MAHEM). In the novel, a commander ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As more governments and commercial companies look to proliferated satellite constellations for increased capacity, some defense ...

Proposals are being sought for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (Darpa) Tactical Boost Glide (TBG) program to demonstrate a rocket-launched hypersonic weapon capable of flying more than ...

DARPA has initiated an effort to build a new, stealthy spy plane. Unlike other aircraft, this X-plane will feature a hybrid electric propulsion system. The XRQ-73 will be much quieter than traditional ...

A fundamental tenet of the modern maker movement is that everyone wants to build something. Especially the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Today DARPA took a break from funding ...

The Defense Department has been warning of the growing risks of weapons in space, but the massive increase in objects about to enter low-Earth orbit will make tracking potential weapons even harder. A ...

That autonomous fighter jet from DARPA is so 2023 that the agency is already well into a bid to give future combat jets autonomy for multi-ship missions over the horizon.… DARPA's Artificial ...

Autonomous tanks (including the green-eyed machines being tested by DARPA) and unmanned drones have become the order of the day in modern warfare. Without the need for pilots aboard, rocket-powered ...

A new kind of hypersonic vehicle could infiltrate an enemy’s most defended area, strike a target and then—unlike the rest of the disposable, Mach 5-plus missiles produced or acknowledged to ...