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Northrop Grumman studies how to build a railroad on the moon – Easy Reader News

Founded in 1958 after the Soviets launched Sputnik, DARPA’s earlier projects include the Saturn V rocket that first took humans to the moon. Today’s …

Innovation Lightbulb: A Look at DoD’s Trusted & Assured Microelectronics Program – CSIS

What measures is the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) taking to ensure a secure and stable semiconductor supply chain for defense applications?

Firestorm Labs Gets $12.5M in Seed Funding – San Diego Business Journal

Starting With SBIR Contracts … Firestorm has already gotten defense contracts. Much of its work is funded through Small Business Innovation Research ( …

ZE Government Solutions awarded to develop coastal security

CONSHOHOCKEN, PA – ZE Government Solutions (ZEGS) announced that it has been selected by AFWERX for a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) …

The Ultimate Guide to SBIR and STTR Program Budgeting – Security Boulevard

The SBIR program is very competitive, with around a dozen government agencies participating, sizable amounts of money granted as funding, and …

US Air Force stages dogfights with AI-flown fighter jet – Defense News

DARPA’s Air Combat Evolution, or ACE, program has been working for the last four years to refine how the military can use AI for air warfare and …

An AI took on a human pilot in a DARPA-sponsored dogfight – Defense One

Through DARPA’s ACE program, the agency is developing trusted “combat autonomy” using human-machine collaborative dogfighting. The team flew 21 test …

US Military Won’t Say Who Won Real-World Dogfight Between AI and Human

“Things are progressing as well or faster than we had hoped,” Lt. Col. Ryan Hefron, ACE program manager for DARPA, told reporters on Friday. “But …

Air Force, DARPA Demo Machine Learning-Based Autonomy Using X62A VISTA Aircraft

… DARPA’s Air Combat Evolution program. The military branch and DARPA tested the AI-controlled X-62A VISTA aircraft against a manned F-16 plane in …

In a ‘world first,’ DARPA project demonstrates AI dogfighting in real jet – Breaking Defense

“Asking the question of who won [the dogfights] doesn’t necessarily capture the nuance of the testing that we accomplished,” said DARPA ACE Program …