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Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Defense and Space Manufacturing
Arlington, VA 284,049 followers
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DARPA is an agency of the U.S. Department of Defense with a singular and enduring mission: to make pivotal investments in breakthrough technologies for national security. The Agency explicitly reaches for transformational change instead of incremental advances. To do so, it works within an innovation ecosystem that includes academic, corporate and governmental partners, with a constant focus on the Nation’s military Services, which work with DARPA to create new strategic opportunities and novel tactical options. DARPA comprises approximately 220 government employees in six technical offices, including nearly 100 program managers, who together oversee about 250 research and development programs. DARPA goes to great lengths to identify, recruit and support excellent program managers—extraordinary individuals who are at the top of their fields and are hungry for the opportunity to push the limits of their disciplines. These leaders, who are at the very heart of DARPA’s history of success, come from academia, industry and government agencies for limited stints, generally three to five years. That deadline fuels the signature DARPA urgency to achieve success in less time than might be considered reasonable in a conventional setting. Program managers address challenges broadly, spanning the spectrum from deep science to systems to capabilities, but ultimately they are driven by the desire to make a difference. They define their programs, set milestones, meet with their performers and assiduously track progress. But they are also constantly probing for the next big thing in their fields, communicating with leaders in the scientific and engineering community to identify new challenges and potential solutions. DARPA is always on the lookout for outstanding individuals who can meet our demanding needs in the Agency’s technical and support offices. Interested individuals may submit a resume/CV to employment@darpa.mil.
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http://www.darpa.mil
External link for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
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- Defense and Space Manufacturing
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- 201-500 employees
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- Arlington, VA
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- Government Agency
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- Innovation and Research and Development
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🗣📢 Announcing the 2026 Young Faculty Award (YFA) Research Announcement! This year, we are soliciting revolutionary proposals across 24 topic areas. New this year: DARPA is interested in expanding its pool of U.S. Persons for future programs. In support of that goal, proposers may include an additional option effort for a U.S. Person Graduate Student. For full details of each topic area (see topic list below), eligibility, option effort for a U.S. Person Graduate Student, and submission guidelines and deadlines, click the YFA 2026 Research Announcement button at https://ow.ly/cZs650X4FTP. Note: Executive summaries are due by Oct. 15, 2025, 4 p.m. ET List of the 2026 YFA Research Announcement Topic Areas: 1. Coherence and Entanglement in Nuclear Processes 2. Relativistic Quantum Information Processing with Spacetime Diamonds 3. 3D Micromachined MEMS Microsystems 4. Biomarkers of Mild Psychological and Neural Damage 5. The Numerical Analysis of Agentic Artificial Intelligence (AI) Interactions 6. Calibrated Plasma Measurement with Traceable Uncertainty 7. Enhancing Underwater Communication and Detection 8. DNA Rapid Access Memory 9. Designer Biocondensates 10. Combat-Oriented Magnetic Physiological Assessment Sensor Systems (COMPASS) 11. Unlocking Next Generation Separations 12. Bioprinted Living Meta-Materials (BioLiMMa) 13. Formal Assurance and Loss of Control Containment of AI 14. Control theory of Large Language Models (LLM) 15. AI and the Future of Work: Surfacing Task-Level Opportunities for AI Adoption 16. Formal foundations for Informal Math (FIM) 17. Grounding Symbolic Robotic Knowledge 18. Compiler Infrastructure Beyond Traditional Compilation 19. Molecular Machines for Advanced Materials 20. Energy Harvesting in Lunar Regolith 21. Visible and UV Photonic Integrated Circuits 22. Pliable Packaging for Polymorphic Power (PPPP) 23. Optical Memory for Photonic Integrated Circuits 24. Advancing Fully Integrated Microfluidic Systems About YFA: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award (YFA) program aims to identify and engage rising stars in junior research positions in academia and equivalent positions at non-profit research institutions, particularly those without prior DARPA funding, to expose them to national security needs and DARPA’s mission to create and prevent technological surprise for national security. The YFA program will provide high-impact funding to researchers early in their careers to develop innovative new research that enables transformative battlefield capabilities. Ultimately, the YFA program is developing the next generation of researchers focused on national security issues.
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In our Friction for Accountability in Conversational Transactions (FACT) AI Exploration, we are actively engaging the research community in addressing the challenges of accountable AI. As part of this effort, a team of researchers from Colorado State University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Brandeis University, Tufts University, University of Southern California, and Northeastern University — performers on FACT—will convene the first workshop on Optimal Reliance and Accountability in Interactions with Generative Language Models (ORIGen) at the second annual Conference on Language Modeling (COLM). This conference showcases advances in the field of natural language processing (NLP). The workshop will take place on October 10, in Montreal. Please see the first comment for relevant links.
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Malicious cyber actors are increasingly targeting vulnerable software that runs everything from financial systems and public utilities to the health care ecosystem. Through the DARPA AI Cyber Challenge, competitors successfully built novel AI-driven systems to secure the open-source software that underlies critical infrastructure. In the latest Voices from DARPA episode, you can hear from DARPA and ARPA-H about how the competition results are poised to change the world, and from teams about their competition experiences and how they’re making their systems available to cyber defenders. Listen here: https://lnkd.in/eFTjP5aD #AI #cyber #AIxCC
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Introducing Dr. Jeremy Pamplin, the new DARPA program manager leading the DARPA Triage Challenge. The Triage Challenge is advancing autonomous systems and AI-enabled tools to help first responders and medics make faster, more accurate decisions in mass casualty scenarios—when every second counts. With Challenge Event 2 taking place later this month, Dr. Pamplin sat down to share insights on what makes this phase critical: ✔️ What the Challenge is trying to accomplish—and why it matters. ✔️ How the Systems and Data challenges work together to generate insights for future medical response. ✔️ The demanding courses that teams will face and the obstacles designed to test real-world readiness. We look forward to seeing how the teams rise to the challenge and push the boundaries of what’s possible for future medical response. To learn more visit: https://lnkd.in/ecZXbPch #TriageChallenge #DefenseInnovation
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Calling experts in electrical engineering, mathematics, logic, and machine learning — we want your ideas to design a new generation of “energy-aware” machine learning (ML). Traditional machine learning models are designed with a single focus: maximizing performance. But with AI increasingly deployed in power-constrained environments, such as at the tactical edge, energy efficiency is no longer optional. Our Mapping Machine Learning to Physics (ML2P) program aims to transform how AI systems balance performance with energy use. Learn more at: https://lnkd.in/ejFXdE2v Abstracts for ML2P are due October 6.
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We’re excited to share that DARPA Director Stephen Winchell will be joining us at the Next Generation Microelectronics Manufacturing (NGMM) Summit this October in Austin, Texas! Don’t miss the opportunity to hear from the DARPA Director about how we're seeding the next wave of revolutionary microsystems designed and built on American soil. Be sure to register by October 6 to secure your spot: https://lnkd.in/e7nSbHQq
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Two more DARPA alumni are training for space! Congratulations to former DARPA military fellows, Air Force Maj. Cameron Jones and Navy Lt. Cmdr. Erin Overcash, who are members of NASA's new astronaut candidate class🚀 For military service members interested in immersing themselves in our world of innovative science and tech research for national security, visit our Service Chiefs Fellowship Program page: https://lnkd.in/eErdYVVk
Meet our new class of future astronauts! On Monday, Sept. 22, we're introducing our 2025 class of astronaut candidates, selected from over 8,000 applications. Tune in at 12:30 p.m. EDT (1630 UTC) for the reveal: https://lnkd.in/e9SA9Ajy Afterwards, they'll be taking your questions in a Reddit AMA ("Ask Me Anything") on the r/nasa Reddit community. Send in your questions anytime Monday afternoon, and our newly-announced explorers will be on to respond at 5:30 p.m. EDT (2130 UTC): https://lnkd.in/eiv5Hdxc Our astronaut candidates will undergo two years of training before graduating as flight-eligible astronauts for missions to low Earth orbit, the Moon, and ultimately Mars. Ad astra!
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From photonics to quantum to biologically-inspired microsystems, our Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) is seeking bold new ideas. ICYMI: For more on the MTO perspective and how to get involved, explore the Spark Tank Rewind from this summer's inaugural event in Aurora, Colorado. Get full session replays, presentation decks, RFIs, recaps, and more. Highlights included: 20+ presentations from MTO PMs and DARPA leaders on technical areas of interest and ways to work with DARPA 7 new RFIs announced by MTO PMs 36 live pitches and 19 winners of rapid-turnaround funding https://lnkd.in/ew-Tu3YA
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