Engadget is reporting that DARPA is looking at creating their own app store, to bring software quickly to combatants. DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is the research wing of the American military, and has thrown it...

By Eric Savitz, Blogger and Columnist, Barron’s The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency–DARPA–yesterday unveiled a proposal seeking new apps useful in, well, waging wars. And–sorry, Apple (AAPL)–it wants those apps to be writt...

Humor, Gear, Weird Science, Weird, Asylum Exclusive When the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) was founded in 1958, its primary mission was to make the Commies stain their Party-issued boxers. The Soviet...

Image credit: Grist In response to the technological threat posed by Sputnik, Grist reminds us, the United States established DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, to spark new innovations in space and military tec...

ComputersWhat better way to fight the dangers of biological warfare than with... biological warfare? As Wired's Danger Room reports, DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is set on investing a full $6 millio...

DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, likes big challenges. They don't want to touch projects that are merely hard, or just really difficult. They only want to take on those that are so hard, so seemingly impossible,...

The brainiacs at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency have an idea for a robotic frigate could autonomously hunt down and follow super-quiet diesel-electric submarines. The Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned V...

DARPA is the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a US government organization that performs research in military technology. One of their current projects, the Fine Detail Optical Surveillance (FDOS), hopes to develop optica...

Flying cars soon may not only be a figment of an imaginative mind now that the U.S. military has announced a program it's calling "Transformer." The Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) research group is brai...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will host a Proposers' Day Workshop in support of a planned Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for the Transformer (TX) program. The workshop will occur at 0700-1500 EST on January ...

The US Army wants to send an optionally-manned hybrid airship to Afghanistan (see today's news article). The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is experimenting with a lighter-than-air replacement for JSTARS and AWACS (see Ap...

All bacon jokes aside and as serious as one can be when talking about pigs, considering the recent Swine Flu pandemic, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency or DARPA as they’re called by those who know and love them, are wor...

A great story, here, about the use of social media to solve a difficult computational problem. The U.S. Defense Department’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) was holding a competition that weekend: on Saturday morni...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) launched a contest this month to celebrate the 40th anniversary of ARPANet, the first packet switching network. The contest, called the DARPA Network Challe...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) launched a contest this month to celebrate the 40th anniversary of ARPANet, the first packet switching network. The contest, called the DARPA Network Challe...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) last week ran a competition that involved identifying the location of 10 fixed red balloons throughout the United States. It was an exercise designed to see how people can self-o...

A contest hatched by DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), offered $40,000 to the first group to find ten red weather balloons at secret locations across the US. More than 4000 groups participated in the project, de...

If you look up and see red weather balloons this weekend, take note. You’ve unwittingly entered into a social experiment. The Defense Department’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or Darpa, launched 10 balloons, each ei...

Tomorrow morning, teams from all across the US will try to find 10 red balloons. The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) plans to launch 10 moored red weather balloons at 10 fixed locations in the continental US and...

In an effort to  explore the roles the internet and social networking play when solving broad-scope, time-critical problems, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is challenging......