An IBM quantum computing mixing chamber in the company's Thomas J Watson Research Center. (IBM) Programme officials with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have selected 11 US and ...

The Pentagon’s secretive technology incubator has launched its latest X-plane competition, this time with an eye toward identifying concepts for a highly efficient uncrewed cargo drone. The US Defense ...

The X-65 aircraft, which Aurora Flight Sciences is building for DARPA as part of the CRANE program, will use short air bursts to steer instead of traditional flaps and rudders. But rising costs, ...

DARPA's Lift Challenge aims to develop small uncrewed aircraft systems (drones) capable of carrying up to four times their own weight, a substantial leap from the typical 1:1 payload-to-weight ratio.

DARPA has launched a prize challenge to demonstrate multicopter uncrewed aircraft that can carry payloads more than four times their weight in a stated goal of tapping into the U.S. “garage innovator” ...

The military's research agency wants rapid sensing, artificial intelligence-driven decision support and automated interventions that can work in austere battlefield environments. The Defense Advanced ...

DARPA recognizes that insect-scale flying robots have immense military potential. In laboratories around the world, engineers are racing to shrink robotics into microscopic proportions, many examples ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Journalist, analyst, author, podcaster. The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded Australian quantum ...

Imagine Top Gun without pilots. Not exactly summer blockbuster material. But that is what the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has in mind for the future of the military. According to ...

The “Liberty Lifter” fits neatly into the operational concepts sculpting how US joint forces intend to compete and win in the Western Pacific. All hail the “ekranoplan”! The US military may have hit ...

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has ended a programme to build a large wing-in-ground (WIG) craft dubbed Liberty Lifter. The demonstrator was meant to prove the ability to ...

Aurora Flight Sciences tweaked its original Liberty Lifter design to move floats to its wingtips and adjust its tail to better accommodate its aft cargo door. (Aurora Flight Sciences) The Defense ...