In the future of urban warfare, swarms of autonomous drones and ground vehicles will win battles before they even begin. DARPA’s OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program recently tes... Read more
The Pentagon’s top think-tank is thinking up a new way to secure urban objectives – it’s all in the drone swarm. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched a new field experi... Read more
It may be the biggest development in engines in 85 years – and could have major impact on drone development. A revolutionary engine design first demonstrated on the back of a go-kart... Read more
Two years ago, the Pentagon’s top think-tank issued a science-fiction level challenge to researchers – develop a disposable, vanishing drone. In 2015, the Defense Advanced Research Projects... Read more
The American military’s top think-tank is once again looking to researchers to create new and better drone mitigation solutions. Last week, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency issu... Read more
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)has awarded researchers at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and Creare LLC with a $1 million grant from to develop a highly sophisti... Read more
A fixed-wing drone backed by DARPA soared into history books last month after achieving a world-duration flight record for drones in its class. Manufactured by Vanilla Aircraft, the diesel-f... Read more
The U.S. military’s top think-tank is thinking of ways to map and track potentially harmful drones over major American cities. Last month, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency annou... Read more
An anti-UAV company’s drone-dropping launcher proved to be Top Gun during a recent industry competition. Start-up firm OpenWorks Engineering won the Best UAS Interdiction Award at the Counte... Read more
The Pentagon’s futuristic think tank is thinking about how to stop errant drones and it wants the public’s help. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Tactical Technology Office th... Read more
DARPA recently tested three drones for its Fast Lightweight Autonomy program. The goal was a sensor laden quadcopter that could fly autonomously with a tartget speed of 20 meters a second. T... Read more
Two Cambridge groups have been awarded a $3.4 million grant to develop insect drones: tiny, autonomous, and fast-flying drones that mimic the flight capabilities of birds and insects. Drape... Read more
Sometimes new technology sounds far stranger than fiction. The US government’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has released a solicitation for the development of sin... Read more
The drones are learning. A recent DARPA project that piggybacks a “neuromorphic chip” atop a minidrone shows promise in developing computer chips that may someday be able to learn much in th... Read more