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Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2005 John Keller	DARPA sets sights on improving analog-to-digital conversion The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is looking for proposals that more effectively find the useful information content embedded in a complex radio-frequency environment and directly measure it in a concentrated form.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2005 John Keller	DARPA Scientists Seek Next Generation of Wireless Data Networking DARPA wants to take research to the next level by developing a revolutionary mobile ad-hoc network prototype that improves effective performance by an order of magnitude or more relative to the current state of the art.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006 John Keller	DARPA approaches industry for ideas for unmanned underwater surveillance technology The agency seeks to improve underwater surveillance in and along ocean coasts, ocean harbors, lakes, and rivers with a distributed set of stationary and mobile assets.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2007 John Keller	DARPA seeks to create lightweight fisheye optical imaging sensor with 120-degree field The idea is to demonstrate a focal plane array integrated on a hemispherical surface that will enable high-performance imagers that are smaller and with wider fields of view than are available today.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2007 John Keller	DARPA Seeks to Push State of the Art in Emissive Micro-Displays for Moving 3D Images Scientists at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency are asking industry for revolutionary advances in high-resolution affordable emissive micro-displays (EMDs) for dynamic holography.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2005 John Keller	Editor's Notebook: Darpa Details Requirements for High-Energy Diode-Laser Initiative The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is moving ahead with a program to develop a 100-kilowatt weapons-grade diode laser capable of destroying military targets.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2007 John Keller	DARPA program to develop computer system to forecast wars and other political instability The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency seeks industry's ideas on developing an advanced computer system (called the Integrated Crisis Early Warning System, or ICEWS) that is able to predict global wars and other political instability.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2010 John Keller	DARPA Eyes Foliage-Penetrating Radar Signal Processing Workstation to Detect Infantry Moving in Forests Radar signal processing experts at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are asking industry to develop a data-processing workstation to help pinpoint concentrations of foot soldiers moving in thick forests and other dense foliage.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2008 John Keller	DARPA seeks proposals on photonic delays as a building block for optical computing Scientists at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency are trying to find compact, robust ways to control the flow of photons in future applications of optical computing.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2010 John Keller	DARPA Launches RATS Program for Advanced Speech-Recognition Algorithms in Noisy Conditions Scientists at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency are launching a program to develop speech transcription, translation, and, speech signal processing technologies that function effectively in noisy places to support intelligence gathering.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2010 John Keller	Persistent Surveillance with UAV-Mounted Infrared Sensors is Goal of DARPA ARGUS-IR Program Scientists at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are asking industry to develop staring infrared sensors able to provide long-term persistent surveillance from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2010 John Keller	DARPA Seeks to Develop Optics for Space-Based Video Surveillance System Astronomers plan to develop a large, diffractive optics membrane and communications equipment for a geosynchronous orbit-based telescope, which is to be part of a space-based video surveillance system.
National Defense April 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Can DARPA Rescue the Pentagon From Its Acquistion Doldrums? The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency launched a program last year to figure out how to build complex weapons five times faster than before. Now comes word that they also intend to revolutionize the way the military buys communications satellites.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2008 J.R. Wilson	The Agency of Continuing Vision: DARPA Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is celebrating its 50th anniversary, and several reviews are being written of its contributions to various areas of military and civilian science and technology
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2006	DARPA selects Raytheon to Develop Secure Enterprise Network The award also calls for Raytheon to maintain and transition DARPA's existing networks to meet future requirements, which could potentially bring the contract value to more than $57 million.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2006 John Keller	DARPA Launches Sandblaster Helicopter Avionics Program Scientists at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are launching a helicopter avionics program called Sandblaster to help pilots fly safely in zero-visibility conditions such as dust, fog, rain, and snow.
Information Today September 24, 2015	Cengage Learning Acquires Ed Tech Company Cengage Learning acquired Learning Objects, whose learning platform and instructional design services power online programs and courses for higher education institutions.
National Defense September 2009 John Paul Parker	At the Age of 50, it's Time for DARPA to Rethink its Future DARPA can be rightly proud of its rich legacy of innovation. With some bureaucratic tinkering, inspiration and experimentation, it can be even more effective in the future.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2006 John Keller	DARPA NAV Program Seeks to Make Insect-like Surveillance UAVs a Reality U.S. military researchers are kicking off a project to develop an unmanned aerial vehicle called the nano air vehicle, which is roughly the size of a dragonfly, to perform covert surveillance and reconnaissance missions in important and dangerous areas.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2009	Breakthrough in Nitride Integrated Circuits is Aim of $16.2 Million DARPA Contract to TriQuint Semiconductor TriQuint experts are investigating revolutionary advances in nitride semiconductor technology to enable these devices to operate at very high frequencies while maintaining extremely favorable voltage breakdown characteristics.
National Defense December 2006 Lawrence P. Farrell	DARPA Sets Tone for Technological Superiority Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England recently noted that the greatest long-term threat to America is not weapons of mass destruction, but rather the prospect of losing our strength in science and technology.
InternetNews November 22, 2006 Clint Boulton	National Security Brings The Big Bucks The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded IBM and Cray roughly $500 million Tuesday to develop supercomputers that run advanced computations at unprecedented speed and performance for national security.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2010 John Keller	Extreme-Field-of-View Surveillance Imaging Technology is Goal of DARPA FDOS Program The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is asking industry to develop high-resolution 3D imaging technology with wide field of view and depth of field for use in reconnaissance and surveillance applications.
National Defense December 2013 Stew Magnuson	Simulator to Help Developers Push Robotics Technology Forward A simulator intended to give robot makers a hand during a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency contest is expected to remain an integral part of how developers design the machines in the future.
D-Lib September 2002 Emile L. Morse	Evaluation Methodologies for Information Management Systems The DARPA IM Evaluation project has developed an evaluation methodology that can assist system developers in assessing the usability and utility of their systems. The key components of an evaluation plan are data, users, tasks and metrics.
National Defense November 2014 Valerie Insinna	Motherships May Overwhelm Future Adversaries With Robot Hordes Military agencies and defense contractors have created design concepts and fledgling programs that embody Hydra's survivability and versatility
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2008 J.R. Wilson	DARPA Black Swift Seeks to Capitalize on Lessons Learned From NASP DARPA and the U.S. Air Force have joined efforts to develop a hypersonic aerospace vehicle to function as a low-Earth-orbit spacecraft and capable of speeds as fast as Mach 6.
IEEE Spectrum February 2006 Jean Kumagai	U.S. Defense Dollars For Computer Science Plunge As long-term, federally funded projects become increasingly rare, some important problems aren't being addressed. However, it is critical for the future of IT in the United States and around the world that we figure it out.
IEEE Spectrum February 2013 David Schneider	Hands Off Hands-On DARPA shouldn't fund programs in primary or secondary schools, even if they help improve STEM education. A seemingly innocuous U.S. government grant to O'Reilly Media's Make magazine division, to help create 1000 high school "makerspaces" sparked a brouhaha.
National Defense November 2007 Stew Magnuson	Research Agency Wants Help Solving The Seemingly Impossible The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has a reputation for taking on challenges that sometimes seem to defy the laws of physics -- or at least common sense. Transparent Walls and Dirt... Building Simulators Without Computer Programmers... etc.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2009 J.R. Wilson	Directed-Energy Weapons Will be the Next Generation of Precision-Guided Munitions Directed-energy weapons are on the top of the wish list for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).