by Allen McDuffee | Feb 26, 2014 | Monitor
Image: Darpa Darpa has taken on a new role in military procurement: quality control. The military’s research agency is developing a device to detect used and counterfeit electronic components in the Pentagon’s supply chain, hoping to get a handle...
by Allen McDuffee | Dec 16, 2013 | Monitor
After more than 10 years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon’s research group has announced a new system that could help U.S. troops and multinational forces communicate — a problem that frequently plagued the countries’ cooperation in...
by Allen McDuffee | Sep 13, 2013 | Monitor
DARPA, the Pentagon’s research agency, has recently revealed its plans to boost the Navy’s response to threats in international waters by developing submerged unmanned platforms that can be deployed at a moment’s notice.
by Spencer Ackerman | Mar 26, 2013 | Monitor
The specs for Darpa’s next big drone program point to its potential to act as a datalink between ships and planes. That would solve big problems for the Navy and Air Force.
by Noah Shachtman | Dec 31, 2012 | Monitor
Drones may be at the center of the U.S. campaign to take out extremists around the globe. But the Pentagon says there’s a “pervasive vulnerability” in the robotic aircraft — and in just about every car, medical device and power …