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DARPA's XRQ-73 SHEPARD hybrid-electric flying wing prototype takes flight

Designed by Northrop Grumman and subsidiary Scaled Composites, the unmanned XRQ-73 features an ultra-quiet propulsion system ...
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DARPA's XRQ-73 hybrid-electric drone completes secretive first flight

DARPA has confirmed the first flight of the XRQ-73 SHEPARD, a hybrid-electric unmanned aircraft developed by Northrop Grumman and Scaled Composites. The April 14, 2026 flight at Edwards Air Force Base ...
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DARPA Wants Autonomous UAS Swarms, Storage

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Laminar-Flow Drone From Otto Aerospace Clears Flight-Test Campaign for DARPA

Otto Aerospace completes flight tests of its laminar-flow drone at Spaceport America, advancing DARPA's Energy Web Aircraft ...
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Otto Flies Laminar-Flow UAS Developed For DARPA

Otto Aerospace has completed flight tests of an uncrewed aircraft designed around its drag-reducing natural laminar flow technology, validating the aerodynamic efficiency. The flight test campaign ...
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DARPA chief says agency must harness commercial space boom

About a year into the job, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency director Stephen Winchell is looking to reshape the agency’s space portfolio, arguing it must function less as a collection of high ...
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11 companies move to second stage of DARPA’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative

The selected companies will undergo evaluation to determine if their concepts for a viable quantum computer can be constructed and work as intended. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has ...

IonQ Selected for DARPA’s Heterogeneous Architectures for Quantum (HARQ) Program

IonQ (NYSE: IONQ), the world’s leading quantum technology company, today announced that it has been awarded a contract in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)’s Heterogeneous ...
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DARPA begins scaling a quantum computer with 15 companies

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency unveiled the first set of tech companies selected to participate in its Quantum Benchmarking Initiative as the U.S. government continues to investigate ...
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DARPA Designates MDE's Fuel Technology Pre-qualified for Rapid Acquisition

Marine Dolphin Enterprises, LLC ("MDE"), a leading innovator in hydrogen fuel production from seawater, today announced that it has achieved "Awardable" status through DARPA Expedited Research ...

IvySys Awarded DARPA Embedded Entrepreneur Funding to Accelerate Synthetic Data Commercialization

IvySys Technologies, LLC has been awarded funding under the Embedded Entrepreneur Initiative (EEI), sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The award will accelerate ...