The Audacity Incubator: Episode 98
What happens when DARPA bets on early-career scientists with fresh ideas and gives them a chance to solve real world problems? For 20 years,...
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Voices from DARPA
DARPA’s podcast series, "Voices from DARPA," offers a revealing and informative window on the minds of the Agency's program managers. In each episode, a program manager from one of DARPA’s s...
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20 of 106 episodesThe Vertical Lift Challenger: Episode 97
logistics challenge sparked a movement to break a nearly century-old barrier holding back heavy vertical-lift aircraft. Phillip “Donna” Smit...
The Sea Changer: Episode 96
As the landscape of naval warfare changes, traditional defense methods like large convoys and standard object recognition are becoming impra...
The Accidental Chemist: Episode 95
What new capabilities can we unlock by understanding how to rearrange the building blocks of matter? At some time in our lives, most of us h...
The Economics Aficionado: Episode 94
What if we could turn economic complexity into strategic understanding? In this episode, we sit down with David Rushing Dewhurst, Ph.D. , a...
What's in a Name? Episode 93
What does it take to solve the world's most urgent national security and economic challenges? At DARPA, it starts with questioning past assu...
From Cold Call to Critical Care: Episode 92
BTO Program Manager Lt. Col. Adam Willis, M.D., U.S. Air Force, joins Voices from DARPA to share his remarkable journey from a ROTC physics...
From Blockbuster to Biotech Breakthroughs - Episode 91
It started with a movie. It led to a mission. In this episode of "Voices from DARPA," we sit down with Michael Feasel, Ph.D. , a program man...
A DARPA Debrief - Episode 90
What happens after you've worked on projects that could change the world? We go beyond the cutting-edge technology and "secret labs" to expl...
AIxCC: AI Cyber Challenge - Episode 89
The AI Cyber Challenge, AIxCC, marks a pivotal inflection point for cyber defense. Numerous attacks in recent years have illuminated the abi...
The Idea Pollinators: DARPA Service Chiefs Fellows - Episode 88
The Service Chiefs Fellows connect their operational insights with potential DARPA breakthroughs. We explore DARPA’s Service Chiefs Fellowsh...
Racing on the Edge - Episode 87
RACER enables off-road vehicles to travel autonomously and reliably at high speeds over cross-country terrain, enabling new capabilities for...
BETR to BEST - Episode 86
What do smart bandages, ocean-powered sensors, and quantum biology have in common? They’re all part of Dr. Leonard Tender’s work at DARPA. O...
More than Microchips - Episode 85
Microelectronics are the foundation of technology today, but what about tomorrow? Ten years from now? Twenty? Real breakthroughs don’t come...
Episode 84: Hackable Code & the Formal Fix
U.S. national security depends on an aging IT infrastructure that supports a vast network of systems spanning the globe. Over the past three...
Episode 83: When Should Machines Decide?
What characteristics make a person trustworthy? Under what circumstances would a person delegate life or death decisions to artificial intel...
Episode 82: Acquisition Awesomeness
Accomplishing DARPA’s mission of creating and preventing strategic surprise is as much a business challenge as it is a technology challenge....
Episode 81: DTC - Revolutionizing Triage
In this episode, Dr. Jean-Paul Chretien and Elissa Rupley from our Biological Technologies Office provide an exciting update from the recent...
Episode 80: Decentralizing Chemistry
In this episode, Dr. Vishnu Sundaresan from our Defense Sciences Office highlights several technology programs designed to precisely control...
Episode 79: Integrating ELSI
In this episode, we’ll be taking a deeper dive into ELSI – ethical, legal, and societal implications of new technologies and capabilities –...