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DARPA Pegs Partners for Low-Earth Orbit Satellite Translator
ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 15, 2022 — The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected 11 teams to carry out work under Phase 1 of the Space-Based Adaptive Communications Node program, known as Space-BACN. The project seeks to create a low-cost, reconfigurable optical communications terminal that adapts to most optical inter-satellite link standards, translating between diverse satellite constellations. Space-BACN would create a network of low-Earth orbit satellites to enable seamless communication between
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PITTSBURGH, Nov. 12, 2018 — A team from Carnegie Mellon University will compete in the systems track of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA’s) Subterranean Challenge, a multiyear robotics competition with a $2 million prize in which robots will...
Lasertel Awarded Phase 1 Contract
TUCSON, Ariz., Nov. 15, 2017 — Custom laser diode supplier Lasertel has been awarded a Phase 1 contract to participate in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Efficient Ultra-Compact Laser Integrated Devices (EUCLID) program. With an award of just over $1...
OSU Gets $6.5M DARPA Grant for AI Research
CORVALLIS, Ore., June 28, 2017 — Eight computer science professors in Oregon State University's College of Engineering have received a $6.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to make...
Penn State’s Werner Awarded $8M to Advance Engineered Metamaterials Research
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., June 6, 2017 — Doug Werner, John L. and Genevieve H. McCain Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering at Penn State, has been awarded nearly $8 million to continue his pioneering work in metamaterials development from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency...
Defense, Environment, Health Care in Focus at DCS 2017
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DCS 2017 Brings Defense, Environment Into Focus
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Noninvasive Brain Control Possible with New Light-Sensitive Protein
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Sub-RF Imaging Advanced by Lasers
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Amplification Concept Simplifies Ultrafast Lasers
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Laser Devised for On-Chip Optical Connections
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QD Vision Awarded Contract
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QD Vision Awarded DARPA Contract
WATERTOWN, Mass., Aug. 18, 2011 — QD Vision Inc. was awarded a $900,000, 12-month R&D development contract from DARPA to advance its quantum dot-based infrared materials and to deliver two prototype devices, the company announced yesterday. At the end of the program, QD...
Tessera Appoints New Board Member
SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 15, 2011 — Anthony J. Tether, PhD, has been appointed to the board of directors at Tessera Technologies Inc., effective immediately, the company announced. He is the former director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The addition...
Preserving Moore’s Law Pushes Lithography to its Limits
May 1, 2011 — The race is on to develop the next technology that will enable manufacturers to continue scaling down their chip sizes. Will optics provide the answer everyone is looking for? The brisk march of optical lithography has set the pace for the shrinking...
The Slow-Light Race Is On
Feb 1, 2011 — Since the notion of slow light first became a reality more than a decade ago, scientists have been exploring its use in fundamental studies of light-atom systems as well as for long-term applications in all-optical data processing, quantum...
Edible Optics, Implantable Electronics
MEDFORD, Mass., Aug. 11, 2010 — A decade of research has yielded new uses for an ancient material – silk fibers. Thanks to their amazing mechanical properties as well as their looks, silk fibers have been important materials in textiles, medical sutures, and even armor for...
DNA Could Drive Next-Gen Logic Chips
DURHAM, N.C., May 13, 2010 — A Duke University engineer is using the unique properties of DNA, the double-helix carrier of all life’s information, to produce simple, next generation logic circuits inexpensively in almost limitless quantities. Chris Dwyer, assistant...
Surveillance Applications for Iris Recognition
DALLAS, April 19, 2010 — Researchers are expanding new miniature camera technology for military and security uses so soldiers can track combatants in dark caves or urban alleys, and security officials can unobtrusively identify a subject from an iris scan. The two new...
Nanogenerators Power New Sensors
ATLANTA, Ga., March 29, 2010 — By combining a new generation of piezoelectric nanogenerators with two types of nanowire sensors, researchers have created what are believed to be the first self-powered nanometer-scale sensing devices that draw power from the conversion of...
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