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1. Long range US X-Ray vision system sees threats from a mile awaySecurity and privacy15 Feb 2026
2. AI chip firm Cerebras wins $45M from DARPA to speed up chip connectionsComputing10 Sep 2025
3. In new tests GPT-4 was itching to start a nuclear warSecurity and privacy8 Jul 2025
4. DARPA seeks Algorithmic Theory of Mind AI model to deter cyber attacksSecurity and privacy30 May 2025
5. DARPA show off their massive Manta Ray stealthy sea droneRobotics21 May 2025
6. Low energy Analogue AI chips gets a $100 Million boost from DARPAComputing31 Mar 2025
7. DARPA tests ideas to create Hidden Networks to aid people in authoritarian regimesConnected society7 Mar 2025
8. Senior Pentagon officials reveal new autonomous killer robot policyRobotics5 Mar 2025
9. US military’s next gen fighter jet helmet lets pilots control everything with thoughtBiotech and enhanced humans19 Jan 2025
10. UK and US accelerate Quantum Computing research after China advancesComputing12 Oct 2024
11. DARPA announces first of a kind project to allow real time drug approvalsBiotech and enhanced humans13 Jul 2024
12. DARPA’s revolutionary quantum laser is unlike anything anyone’s seen beforeEarth and energy27 Jun 2024
13. The world’s first dogfight between an AI and a human pilot has taken placeRobotics7 Jun 2024
14. DARPA gets green light to build first of a kind X65 CRANE jetTransport and mobility13 Mar 2024
15. This new AI proof generator helps debug software and secure codeSecurity and privacy31 Jan 2024
16. New IARPA cyber attribution program hunts down hackers via their codeSecurity and privacy24 Jan 2024
17. Paralysis used to be for life, but it isn’t any longer, and this and other breakthroughs are just the start of a new era of medicine.Transport and mobility11 Oct 2023
18. An AI controlled drone killed – didn’t kill its operator in battle simulationsVirtual worlds17 Jun 2023
19. NASA’s hypersonic Rotating Detonation Engine passes first crucial testsTransport and mobility29 May 2023
20. The USAF’s Project VENOM is turning old F-16’s into drone wingmenSecurity and privacy21 May 2023
21. China’s space agency tests a first of a kind Stirling EngineEarth and energy17 Apr 2023
22. Ultra high capacity bacterial made DNA hard drives get a boost with new funding roundComputing29 Mar 2023
23. In a first an AI pilot flew a real uncrewed F16 in simulated aerial dog fightsSecurity and privacy26 Mar 2023
24. DARPA’s unveils its revolutionary CRANE X-Plane with no moving partsTransport and mobility28 Jan 2023
25. NIST created the first atomic communications system, played games, and watched TVConnected society27 Dec 2022
26. The US military is significantly ramping up its interest in quantum communicationsConnected society24 Dec 2022
27. The US Navy asks for massive drone swarms to overcome future adversariesSecurity and privacy16 Nov 2022
28. An autonomous Blackhawk just successfully completed its first mock rescue missionSecurity and privacy3 Nov 2022
29. As Arctic tensions heat up DARPA wants to control iceIndustry and manufacturing19 Oct 2022
30. A new DARPA project is experimenting with living factories in spaceIndustry and manufacturing25 Mar 2022
31. World’s first real warp bubble created by accident as scientists mull future warp driveTransport and mobility14 Feb 2022
32. Sensors that detect Covid-19 in the air get major US military fundingBiotech and enhanced humans11 Jan 2022
33. World’s first living robots made by AI surprise scientists by spontaneously reproducing themselvesRobotics28 Dec 2021
34. DARPA and GE developing truck mounted labs to churn out synthetic DNA and RNA vaccinesBiotech and enhanced humans14 Nov 2021
35. GE teams up with NIH to put a COVID-19 sensor in your smartphoneIndustry and manufacturing4 Nov 2021
36. This 3D printed heat exchanger extracts up to 500 litres of pure water from airEarth and energy22 Sep 2021
37. Living pharmacies within our bodies could help cure jet lag and diseaseBiotech and enhanced humans2 Sep 2021
38. Molecular farming means your next vaccine could be grown in a plantBiotech and enhanced humans1 Sep 2021
39. This new chemical programming language could revolutionise digital chemistryComputing29 Jun 2021
40. Pentagon scientists microchip detects COVID-19 in the blood before symptoms showBiotech and enhanced humans14 Apr 2021
41. DARPA looks for new ways to decouple legacy code from hardwareComputing12 Apr 2021
42. 500 hackers spent three months trying to hack a radical new computer chip and failedSecurity and privacy19 Mar 2021
43. Wireless Brain to Brain telepathy gets another DARPA funding boost to go next levelBiotech and enhanced humans7 Mar 2021
44. AI everywhere as DARPA spins up new intelligent edge computing projectsAI and intelligence29 Dec 2020
45. DARPA AI learns to autonomously build computer networks on the fly in minutesComputing18 Dec 2020
46. The US military found a way to use AI to turn humans into living sensor networksBiotech and enhanced humans19 Nov 2020
47. US military starts using human gamers brainwaves to train killer robot swarmsRobotics3 Nov 2020
48. DARPA selects Gryphon to build world’s first ever nuclear rocket engineEarth and energy11 Oct 2020
49. AI fighter pilot obliterates human USAF pilot in simulated dogfightsAI and intelligence28 Aug 2020
50. A patient in the US controlled two prosthetic arms simultaneously with just his thoughtsBiotech and enhanced humans17 Aug 2020
51. Georgia Tech secures grant to smash an Exabyte of data into a DNA sugarcubeComputing11 Aug 2020
52. Mind control breakthrough gives patients fine grained control of prosthetic limbsRobotics12 Apr 2020
53. Lack of Covid-19 vaccine pushes DARPA to develop a therapeutic “Shield”Security and privacy30 Mar 2020
54. DARPA announces “Counter-Hypersonics” program to counter the catastrophic threat from hypersonic weaponsSecurity and privacy12 Mar 2020
55. DARPA closes in on its ambitions to build the worlds first flying aircraft carriersRobotics3 Mar 2020
56. The world’s first living robots were created by an AI and a supercomputerRobotics22 Jan 2020
57. World leaders can rest easy for now after researchers find new ways to reveal DeepFakesSecurity and privacy13 Jan 2020
58. World’s most advanced nanotube computer keeps Moore’s Law alive, for nowComputing9 Oct 2019
59. DARPA human telepathy project will let people transmit images into other people’s brainsBiotech and enhanced humans19 Sep 2019
60. Molecular storage breakthrough stores information for millions of years without energyComputing27 Aug 2019
61. Liquid computers get a step closer after liquid storage breakthroughComputing14 Aug 2019
62. Watch DARPA’s smart EXACTO bullets change path mid flightSecurity and privacy8 Jul 2019
63. Mission Impossible style smart contact lens gets US military’s attentionBiotech and enhanced humans26 Jun 2019
64. New military virtual reality system lets operators control swarms of dronesVirtual worlds21 Jun 2019
65. Scientists hunt for “Kryptonite to stop CRISPR,” the world’s most powerful gene editing toolBiotech and enhanced humans29 May 2019
66. Game changing “Unhackable” MORPHEUS computer chip re-configures itself every 50 millisecondsSecurity and privacy16 May 2019
67. Researchers have created a digital nose that can sniff out diseaseIndustry and manufacturing14 Mar 2019
68. US Military puts the call out for autonomous AI’s that can defend its networksSecurity and privacy10 Mar 2019
69. Shooting lasers at drones helps DARPA keep them airborne foreverEarth and energy18 Feb 2019
70. DARPA propose creating an AI that can monitor the whole world for threatsSecurity and privacy25 Jan 2019
71. DARPA announces plans to build conscious robots using insect brainsAI and intelligence22 Jan 2019
72. US military genetics program to turn marine life into giant living sensor networksSecurity and privacy31 Dec 2018
73. US researchers get $1.7m grant to create wonder bio-material that lasts 500 million yearsIndustry and manufacturing30 Dec 2018
74. Revolutionary brain prosthetic that boosts human memory by 35 percent unveiledBiotech and enhanced humans21 Dec 2018
75. Neural implants let military pilots control three jets at once with their mindsBiotech and enhanced humans3 Oct 2018
76. Telepathic warfare takes center stage as US military bets big on neuro techBiotech and enhanced humans14 Sep 2018
77. DARPA splashes $1.5bn to re-invent the electronics industryComputing21 Aug 2018
78. Revolutionary injectable brain implant restores mobility in paralysed patientsBiotech and enhanced humans5 Jul 2018
79. US military and DARPA team up to develop tech to uncover fake newsAI and intelligence16 Jun 2018
80. Editing living memories demonstrated for the first timeBiotech and enhanced humans7 Jun 2018
81. DARPA funds programs to get black box AI’s to explain their decisionsAI and intelligence18 Apr 2018
82. DARPA hands the world’s first fully autonomous drone warship to the US NavySecurity and privacy18 Feb 2018
83. DARPA drops $4m to build the world’s first unhackable ‘self-reconfiguring’ computer systemComputing28 Dec 2017
84. The US Military just put out a contract for the world’s first flying aircraft carriersSecurity and privacy21 Dec 2017
85. DARPA wants to genetically engineer smart plants to act as surveillance devicesSecurity and privacy2 Dec 2017
86. DARPA invests hard cash to bring telepathy to the massesAI and intelligence15 Nov 2017
87. DARPA splurges $50million to help spies upload information to their brains ‘Matrix’ styleBiotech and enhanced humans6 May 2017
88. World’s top AI experts met to discuss Doomsday scenarios, and solutionsAI and intelligence14 Mar 2017
89. DARPA’s TERN drone gives US Marines a new wingmanRobotics16 Feb 2017
90. New mind reading machine lets people with locked in syndrome communicateAI and intelligence9 Feb 2017
91. New US military intercept tech lets operators take control of enemy dronesSecurity and privacy9 Feb 2017
92. DARPA’s new P3 program aims to stop all pandemics dead within 60 daysBiotech and enhanced humans8 Feb 2017
93. World’s best AI robo-hacker takes on BotnetsSecurity and privacy4 Feb 2017
94. DARPA wants to build “Vampire Drones” that turn into gas at sunriseSecurity and privacy19 Jan 2017
95. DARPA is bringing the internet to the world’s deepest oceans and minesSecurity and privacy16 Jan 2017
96. US Navy’s autonomous submarine hunter begins operational trialsSecurity and privacy18 Dec 2016
97. DARPA is giving its deep web search tech a huge upgradeSecurity and privacy13 Dec 2016
98. DARPA wants to use genetically modified bugs to rejuvenate dead and dying cropsEarth and energy7 Dec 2016
99. Drones are fighting back against laser attacksSecurity and privacy28 Nov 2016
100. US Navy will soon be able to launch surprise drone attacks from the deep seaSecurity and privacy27 Nov 2016
101. The US Navy announced it will build a global network of undersea drone highwaysSecurity and privacy26 Nov 2016
102. The US Marines want to build a fully autonomous F-35Robotics16 Nov 2016
103. ISS SPHERE drones learn to see and fly around in space all by themselvesRobotics3 Nov 2016
104. New US Navy launcher fires swarms of autonomous drones into the skySecurity and privacy24 Oct 2016
105. World first as Microsofts speech recognition software becomes as accurate as humansAI and intelligence21 Oct 2016
106. DARPA’s hack proof code protects military systems from hackersSecurity and privacy20 Oct 2016
107. Pentagon mulls putting the whole US military onto blockchainSecurity and privacy12 Oct 2016
108. DARPA launches dragnet program to monitor drones in citiesSecurity and privacy23 Sep 2016
109. Pentagon tests Artificial Intelligence electronic warfare systemsSecurity and privacy8 Sep 2016
110. The US airforce will rule the air with swarms of dronesSecurity and privacy22 Aug 2016
111. DARPA’s king Robo-hacker “Mayhem” proves no match for humansSecurity and privacy12 Aug 2016
112. The world’s first fully autonomous warship aces sea trialsSecurity and privacy9 Aug 2016
113. US military funds cameras that can see round cornersSecurity and privacy3 Aug 2016
114. Human on a chip development signals the end of animal testingBiotech and enhanced humans1 Aug 2016
115. DARPA teams go head to head to find the worlds best robo-hackerSecurity and privacy1 Aug 2016
116. DARPA pushes autonomous Mach 20 drone program undergroundSecurity and privacy13 Jul 2016
117. America launches the worlds first fully autonomous submarine hunterSecurity and privacy28 Apr 2016