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In April 2021, DARPA announced the start of DRACO by awarding 18-month Phase 1 contracts to General Atomics for the nuclear reactor concept design ($22 million), and to Blue Origin ($2.5 million) and Lockheed Martin ($2.9 million) for their competing operation system and demonstration system concept designs. [19] [20]
DARPA is well known as a high-tech government agency, and as such has many appearances in popular fiction. Some realistic references to DARPA in fiction are as "ARPA" in Tom Swift and the Visitor from Planet X (DARPA consults on a technical threat), [ 262 ] in episodes of television program The West Wing (the ARPA-DARPA distinction), the ...
In July 2023, DARPA exercised options on both teams’ initial proposals, and awarded GA-ASI an additional $21.5 million, and Aurora about $19.5 million, to fund continued development efforts. [ 10 ] Specifications for the craft included the ability to fly less than 100 feet (30 m) from sea level to harness ground effect, and the ability to ...
Illustration of Hypersonic Test Vehicle (HTV) 2 reentry phase. The DARPA FALCON Project (Force Application and Launch from Continental United States) was a two-part joint project between the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the United States Air Force (USAF) and is part of Prompt Global Strike. [1]
DARPA has coordinated with NASA to make LunA-10 complementary to NASA architecture studies. [13] An update on the program occurred in April 2024. With industry participants providing insight on how a lunar economy could be operationalized. Many proposals relied on the viability of in-situ resource utilization and low enough launch costs. [14] [15]
The Defense Sciences Office (DSO) is one of seven technical offices within DARPA, an agency of the U.S. Department of Defense that is responsible for the development of advanced technology for national security. [1] In a 2021 news story, DARPA described it "a highly exploratory office that identifies and accelerates new technologies." [2]
The ARPANET was established by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (now DARPA) of the United States Department of Defense. [1] Building on the ideas of J. C. R. Licklider, Bob Taylor initiated the ARPANET project in 1966 to enable resource sharing between remote computers. [2] Taylor appointed Larry Roberts as program manager.
The Vertical Take-Off and Landing Experimental Aircraft (VTOL X-Plane) program was an American research project sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The goal of the program was to demonstrate a VTOL aircraft design that can take off vertically and efficiently hover, while flying faster than conventional rotorcraft ...