Benchmark Space Systems offered DARPA a mission architecture called Sapphire for the LASSO lunar orbiter program. Credit: Benchmark Space Systems WASHINGTON — The Defense Advanced Research Projects ...

IonQ stock rocketed higher following news that the company had inked a new DARPA partnership. IonQ has announced that it has achieved the interconnecting two independent trapped-ion quantum systems.

IonQ (IONQ) said it has been awarded a contract in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Heterogeneous Architectures for Quantum (HARQ) program. Shares of the quantum computing ...

In late 2022 Chinese researchers claimed something extraordinary: using today’s relatively basic quantum computers, they could hypothetically unlock encrypted information—the kind that you might send ...

The Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) project is a joint DARPA/US Special Operations Command to build a high speed plane capable of take off and flight without the need of a runway.

DARPA has assigned the designation X-76 to the Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) project, a Bell proof-of-concept technology demonstrator for a high-speed tiltrotor. DARPA (Defense ...

Carrying air-to-air missiles, LongShot is intended to increase the survivability and combat reach of the launch platform. Credit: DARPA An air-launched missile-carrying uncrewed aircraft developed by ...

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, ...

Forget robot wolves and missile-deflecting satellites — those things are already becoming old news. Instead, future wars just might revolve around insect-size spy robots. A recent digest of ...

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 ...

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 ...

DARPA has ended its Liberty Lifter effort to build a full-scale seaplane demonstrator earlier than originally expected, with the agency deciding it was not cost-effective or feasible to build the ...