DARPA, the U.S. military’s advanced research agency, is funding space laser projects amid simmering concerns that America’s strategic adversaries are already developing this satellite ...

A new study claims China’s next-gen stealth drones use half the energy, last three times longer.

The Pentagon recognised this early on, but it was not until 2023 that the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) greenlit the X-65 programme, a radical drone designed to validate ...

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DARPA aims to discover and develop scientific and engineering research that can be leveraged in creating advanced capabilities for the Department of Defense. DSO, meanwhile, pursues emerging ...

A U.S. startup, supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), has developed a new manufacturing process that reduces the production time for traveling-wave tubes (TWTs) from over ...

Satellites get damaged. Repairing them requires launching replacement components on rockets. The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is now exploring an alternative: growing these ...