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Tightening budgets force DARPA to alter course for R&D
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has been at the forefront of some of the most innovative technologies ever created — including the Internet. But as budgets tighten, the agency's director says she's trying to figure out how to deal with an increasingly complex threat environment as less money flows into the research and development pipeline.
Tags: DoD , research and development , Arati Prabhakar , Jared Serbu , technology , cybersecurity , GPS , sequestration
Sequestration already taking toll on DoD's research and development
Defense agencies and services are pulling back hundreds of millions of dollars worth of grants and contracts. Impending furloughs will further impair DoD's ability to get money out the door.
Tags: DoD , Congress , science and technology , sequestration , Matthew Klunder , Alan Shaffer , Arati Prabhakar , Jared Serbu , House Armed Services Committee , budget , research and development
Pentagon researches new life for dead satellites
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is spending $180 million to test technologies that could scavenge defunct communication satellites for their valuable parts and recycling them to build brand new ones for cheap.
Tags: DoD , satellites , technology
Scientists making fishy robots for naval research
Tags: DoD , Navy , Office of Naval Research , Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center ,
DARPA asks tech companies for cyber war ideas
The research agency DARPA is hosting a daylong event Sept. 27 on its upcoming "Plan X" that focuses on building solid attack strategies and tools.
Tags: Cybersecurity Update , technology , DoD , Federal Drive
NIST wants software to help spot smartphone security holes
The military, working through DARPA, is trying to develop its own marketplace of apps for helping troops in the field.
Tags: cybersecurity , Cybersecurity Update , technology , NIST , DoD , Federal Drive
DARPA floats crowdsourcing to develop amphibious vehicle
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is looking into whether open collaboration can produce a design for a Marine Corps amphibious vehicle.
Tags: DoD , DoD Report , Marine Corps
DARPA to scrutinize internet
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency mission is to maintain the technological superiority of the U.S. military and prevent technological surprise. So what they are planning to do now to meet that mandate is promoting research to study chatter certain groups of Internet users. They want to track how online groups evolve on certain social media sites and learn how criminal organizations and hacker collectives evolve.
Tags: DoD , Pentagon & Beyond , J.J. Green ,
Fed-backed company develops tool to scan smart phones for security gaps
Tags: Cybersecurity Update , cybersecurity , technology , Duo Security , smart phones
FBI uses cybersecurity heavyweights to tackle fuzzing attacks
Using a DARPA grant and its own money, the FBI has enlisted researchers at George Mason University to try out so-called fuzzing attacks.
Tags: FBI , cybersecurity , Cybersecurity Update , technology
