Sometimes you see a vintage plane that makes you scratch your head. Case in point is the US Air Force's X-29 of the 1980s ...

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Founded in 1958, DARPA operates under the US Department of Defense (DoD) with a straightforward mission: to fund high-risk technological programmes that could lead to radical innovation.

And don’t get comfortable with this long password; it has to be changed every 90 days or so. With DARPA’s new Active Authentication program, program manager Richard Guidorizzi would like to change ...

The Next Generation Intra-theater Airlift programme aims to enhance the air force's existing airlift capability with a ...

Built in collaboration with Scaled Composites, a Northrop Grumman subsidiary, the XRQ-73 SHEPARD is a DARPA "X-prime" program leveraging hybrid electric architecture and component technologies to ...