Voices from DARPA
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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 six technical offices—Biological Technologies, Defense Sciences, Information Innovation, Microsystems Technolog...
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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...
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 Fello...
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 our warfi...
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. On the late...
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 co...
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 decades,...
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 intelligence (A...
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 DARPA Tri...
Episode 80: Decentralizing Chemistry
In this episode, Dr. Vishnu Sundaresan from our Defense Sciences Office highlights several technology programs designed to precisely control chemical...
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 – and specif...
Episode 78: Introducing ELSI
As a global leader in innovation, DARPA starts an average of 50 new programs each year. These programs span a variety of technical disciplines to deve...
Episode 77: Meet DARPAConnect
Good ideas can come from anywhere, but what is the best way to find them, or help them find you?
In 2022, DARPA hit the road in pursuit...
Episode 76: The Quantum Logician
In this episode we hear from quantum physicist Dr. Mukund Vengalattore, a program manager in DARPA’s Defense Sciences Office, who oversees a portfolio...
Episode 75: The Metamaterial Visionary
We usually think of materials based on our experience in the natural world. For example, something that’s light is usually fragile (like a feather) or...
Episode 74: Young Faculty Award
Established in 2006, the Young Faculty Award (YFA) program aims to identify and engage rising academics in early-career research positions - particula...
Episode 73: The AI Cyber Challenge - CTF, Code, and Critical Infrastructure
Ahead of the AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC) Open Track registration period, which begins later this year, this episode of Voices from DARPA features Perri...
Episode 72: Reinventing Microelectronics Manufacturing
Supply chain disruptions stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, among other issues, shined a bright light on the global reliance on microchips. The nati...
Episode 71: The Quantum Mechanic
In popular culture, quantum is a descriptive term often added to various technical topics and projects to make them sound cool. But what is quantum me...
Episode 70: Innovating How We Innovate
There are many ideas in the world, but truly good ones are few and far between – especially when it comes to breakthrough technologies that can change...
Episode 69: Demystifying Deepfakes
Generative artificial intelligence has captured the world’s attention after recent advances in the commercial sector. Its ability to create deepfakes,...
Episode 68: Space Manufacturing
Imagine you are going to space. There is a long list of items and supplies you definitely will need, but there is an even longer list of things you mi...
Episode 67: Wireless Power Beaming
This episode of the Voices from DARPA podcast series explores the possibility of an “energy web” that, much like the World Wide Web easily and quickly...
Episode 66: How to Create AI Tech We Can Trust
At a time when the race to create the best artificial intelligence-enabled technology is at its fiercest, experts at DARPA say we need to recalibrate...
Episode 65: A Sprint to Tomorrow, Powered by Teamwork
If it seems like microchips have been a consistent conversation topic lately, it’s for good reason. Supply chain disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pa...
Episode 64: DARPA Triage Challenge
For this episode of the Voices from DARPA podcast, we will be hearing from CDR Jean-Paul Chretien about the newly-launched DARPA Triage Challenge. Pre...
Episode 63: So Many Maps, So Little Time: Using AI to Locate Critical Minerals
In this episode of the Voices from DARPA podcast, we talk with DARPA program manager Dr. Joshua Elliott, and Dr. Graham Lederer, research geologist at...
Episode 62: The Model (& Simulation) Researcher
For this episode of the Voices from DARPA podcast, we talk with new DARPA program manager, Dr. Alvaro Velasquez, a self-described “researcher at heart...
Episode 61: Manta Ray - Unleashing Robotic Undersea Endurance
DARPA’s Manta Ray program seeks to demonstrate innovative technologies allowing payload-capable autonomous unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) to oper...
Episode 60: The Neuroethicist
For this episode of the Voices from DARPA podcast, we spoke with Dr. Joeanna Arthur who joined DARPA in August 2022 as a program manager, or PM, in th...
Episode 59: DARPA Forward
For this episode of the Voices from DARPA podcast, we sat down with DARPA Director, Dr. Stefanie Tompkins, to discuss the agency’s upcoming DARPA Forw...
Episode 58: The Cryptoprivacist
In this episode of the Voices from DARPA podcast, we explore the portfolio of cryptography expert, privacy advocate, and DARPA program manager, Dr. Jo...
Episode 57: Unmasking Misinformation and Manipulation
In this episode of the Voices from DARPA podcast, we will discuss DARPA’s Influence Campaign Awareness and Sensemaking (INCAS) program. Adversaries ex...
Episode 56: The Future of Food - Meals from Microbes
Did you know that there’s more energy in the packaging of an MRE than what’s in the food?
In this episode of the Voices from DARPA podca...
Episode 55: Sensorized Prosthetics
In this episode, we’ll hear from some of the key stakeholders - including Drs. Al Emondi and Dustin J. Tyler - related to the DARPA Hand Proprioceptio...
Episode 54: Climate Tipping Points
In this episode of the Voices from DARPA podcast, we’ll explore a new program with the goal of better identifying and predicting sudden and catastroph...
Episode 53: So, You Want to Become a DARPA Program Manager?
In this episode of the Voices from DARPA podcast, listeners will hear a “best hits” medley from program managers (PMs), who since 2016 have chronicled...
Episode 52: The Embedded Entrepreneurship Initiative
In this episode of the Voices from DARPA podcast, listeners will learn about an emerging component of DARPA’s institutional culture for delivering tec...
Episode 51: The Cybersecurity Sleuth
In this episode of the Voices from DARPA podcast, Sergey Bratus, a program manager since 2018 in the agency’s Information Innovation Office, shares hi...
Episode 50: The Photonicist
In this episode of the Voices from DARPA podcast, Gordon Keeler, a program manager since 2017 in the agency’s Microsystems Technology Office, takes li...