DARPA's space-based adaptive communications node (Space-BACN) program aims to create a low-cost, reconfigurable optical communications terminal that adapts to most optical intersatellite link ...

Researchers at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) today awarded almost $56 million to two contractors it expects will develop the second phase of technologies that it promises will ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is a step closer to being the traffic cop on the final frontier. The agency is developing a network to gather data on spacecraft, debris and other ...

DARPA’s network technology will include support for features like 32 levels of network traffic prioritization. BBN, which was bought by defense giant Raytheon today, got almost $11 million to help ...

"In the 40 years since this breakthrough, the Internet has become an integral part of society and the global economy," said Dr. Regina E. Dugan, director of DARPA, in a statement. "The DARPA Network ...

DARPA’s top crowdsourcing guru is stepping down from his post to join Microsoft, reports Wired.com's Danger Room blog. Peter Lee, head of the agency’s Transformational Convergence Technology Office, ...