Today, we welcomed Stephen Winchell as the 24th DARPA Director. Read more about his appointment:

Math + AI = Tomorrow’s breakthroughs! We’re soliciting proposals for Exponentiating Mathematics (expMath), a new program managed by @patrickshafto that aims to create an AI coauthor that exponentially increases the rate of progress in mathematics. More:

🎤 We are at @ RSA Conference!. The DARPA AI Cyber Challenge Experience is open at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Come by to see our interactive, futuristic city and hear about how the competition is advancing AI-driven cybersecurity to protect critical infrastructure.

🔒 How can we secure critical infrastructure from cyber threats—and what role does #AI play in the solution? .Join the conversation at @RSAConference on April 29. 👉 Details: .

Smart bandages on the battlefield? 🤯.Dr. Leonard Tender discusses the future of wound care on the latest Voices from DARPA podcast. #biotech #innovation #biomanufacturing

We’re counting down the days until #RSAConference! .The DARPA AI Cyber Challenge Experience will be there from April 28 - May 1 in the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

🔥 More than a dozen quantum computing companies are entering Stage A of the Quantum Benchmarking Initiative! (QBI) . To learn more please visit: . #Quantum

Using the Earth’s #atmosphere / #ionosphere as a global #sensor shows promise. We’re hosting a hybrid in-person/virtual workshop April 15-17 at Embry-Riddle in Daytona Beach to share modeling tools & other results from the Atmosphere as a Sensor program.

Math is the source of enormous technological innovation and surprise, but it can take decades to make breakthroughs. @patrickshafto is leading our new Exponentiating Mathematics program that will explore how AI can radically accelerate the rate of progress in mathematics.

📢  For those interested in attending the expMath Proposers Day (April 23), the deadline to register is April 8 for non-U.S. residents, and April 16 for U.S. residents. Learn more:

DARPA is proud of its R&D efforts driving the design of two X-planes as risk reduction for the NGAD platform and now the F-47.

USX-1 Defiant has officially launched! The No Manning Required Ship (NOMARS) program has built a vessel designed to operate autonomously for long durations at sea. #USV For more info and images:

The AIxCC Semifinal Competition proved AI-driven systems can auto-find & fix cybersecurity vulnerabilities—even uncovering a zero-day! Missed this breakthrough? . Catch up here: . The journey to secure our critical infrastructure continues!

Researchers with our Moment (ITM) program are tackling the fundamental question of alignment in the context of human decision-makers and autonomous decision-making tools. More on this topic from a recent Voices from DARPA episode:

Calling all mathematicians! We need novel advancements for science and security. We recently announced an Advanced Research Concepts (ARC) topic called COMPASS — Critical Orientation of Mathematics to Produce Advancements in Science and Security.

🛜 🪨 We developed machine-learning tools to automate and accelerate key, time-consuming parts of the @USGS critical mineral assessment workflow. Resulting tools show promise in shrinking the assessment process to days compared to years using traditional methods.

DARPA demos will test novel tech for building future large structures in space. Manufacturing experiment will move from the lab to in-orbit evaluation:

DARPA selects two discrete utility-scale quantum computing approaches for evaluation. Microsoft and PsiQuantum will work with a government team to verify and validate their concepts as part of DARPA’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative:

👇And we think formal methods hold the key to a world with significantly less vulnerabilities. Check out DARPA’s podcast, Voices from DARPA: Hackable Code and the Formal Fix, to learn about tools that could revolutionize software security. 🔗

⚡Don’t miss DARPA’s Robust Quantum Sensors (RoQS) Proposers Day on Jan. 31, 2025! Dive into the future of quantum sensing and explore teaming opportunities to take #quantum out of the lab and into real-world settings. Learn more and register by Jan. 24: