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* AdvaNced airCraft Infrastructure-Less Launch And RecoverY X-Plane (ANCILLARY) (2022): The program is to develop and demonstrate a vertical takeoff and landing ([[VTOL]]) plane that can launch without the supporting infrastructure, with low-weight, high-payload, and long-endurance capabilities.<ref>{{Cite web |title=DARPA Seeks Leap-Ahead Capabilities for Vertical Takeoff and Landing X-Plane |url=https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2022-09-07 |access-date=June 25, 2023 |website=darpa.mil}}</ref> In June 2023, DARPA selected nine companies to produce initial operational system and demonstration system conceptual designs for an uncrewed aerial system (UAS).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hill |first=John |date=2023-06-23 |title=DARPA selects teams to propose VTOL UAS designs with no infrastructure |url=https://www.airforce-technology.com/news/darpa-selects-teams-to-propose-vtol-uas-designs-that-need-no-infrastructure/ |access-date=2023-06-25 |website=Airforce Technology |language=en-US}}</ref>
* AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC) (2023): It is a two-year competition to identify and fix software vulnerabilities using AI in partnership with Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI which will provide their expertise and their platforms for this competition.<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 9, 2023 |title=White House Press Release: Biden-⁠Harris Administration Launches Artificial Intelligence Cyber Challenge to Protect America's Critical Software |url=https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/08/09/biden-harris-administration-launches-artificial-intelligence-cyber-challenge-to-protect-americas-critical-software/ |access-date=August 10, 2023 |website=The White House}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-08-09 |title=DARPA competition will use AI to find, fix software vulnerabilities |url=https://federalnewsnetwork.com/artificial-intelligence/2023/08/darpa-competition-will-use-ai-to-find-fix-software-vulnerabilities/ |access-date=2023-08-10 |website=Federal News Network |language=en-US}}</ref> There will be a semifinal phase and the final phase. Both competitions will be held at [[DEF CON]] in Las Vegas in 2024 and 2025, respectively.<ref>{{Cite press release |last=OpenSSF |title=OpenSSF to Support DARPA on New AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC) |url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/openssf-to-support-darpa-on-new-ai-cyber-challenge-aixcc-301896959.html |access-date=2023-08-10 |website=www.prnewswire.com |language=en}}</ref>
* Air Combat Evolution (ACE) (2019): The goal of ACE is to automate air-to-air combat, enabling reaction times at machine speeds.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Warwick |first=Graham |date=March 10, 2020 |title=DARPA's ACE Wants To Automate Dogfighting To Empower AI |url=https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/aircraft-propulsion/darpas-ace-wants-automate-dogfighting-empower-ai |access-date=April 20, 2024 |website=Aviation Week}}</ref> By using human-machine collaborative dogfighting as its challenge problem, ACE seeks to increase trust in combat autonomy.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Air Combat Evolution (ACE) |url=https://www.darpa.mil/program/air-combat-evolution |access-date=April 20, 2024 |website=darpa.mil}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Keller |first=John |date=February 23, 2022 |title=DARPA to outfit F-16D jet fighter with artificial intelligence (AI) to boost trust in AI as a human partner |url=https://www.militaryaerospace.com/computers/article/14234351/artificial-intelligence-ai-dogfighting-trust |access-date=April 20, 2024 |website=militaryaerospace.com}}</ref> Eight teams from academia and industry were selected in October 2019.<ref name=":0" /> In April 2024, DARPA and U.S. Air Force announced that ACE conducted the first-ever in-air dogfighting tests of AI algorithms autonomously flying an F-16 against a human-piloted F-16.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Henderson |first=Cameron |date=April 18, 2024 |title=History made as US military conducts first ever human vs AI dogfight |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2024/04/18/us-military-conducts-first-ever-human-vs-ai-dogfight/ |access-date=April 20, 2024 |website=The Telegraph}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Revell |first=Eric |date=April 19, 2024 |title=Air Force confirms first successful AI dogfight |url=https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/us-air-force-confirms-first-successful-ai-dogfight |access-date=April 20, 2024 |website=Fox Business}}</ref>
* [[Air Space Total Awareness for Rapid Tactical Execution]] (ASTARTE) (2020): The program is conducted in partnership with the Army and Air Force on sensors, artificial intelligence algorithms, and virtual testing environments in order to create an understandable common operating picture when troops are spread out across battlefields<ref>{{Cite web|title=Contracts for December 29, 2020|url=https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/2458827/|access-date=2021-01-28|website=U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=April 7, 2020 |title=Real-time Airspace Awareness and De-confliction for Future Battles |url=https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2020-04-07 |access-date=May 14, 2023 |website=darpa.mil}}</ref>
*Atmospheric Water Extraction (AWE) program<ref>{{Cite web|title=Contracts for November 18, 2020|url=https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/2420033/|access-date=2021-01-25|website=U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE|language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Biomanufacturing: Survival, Utility, and Reliability beyond Earth (B-SURE)]] (2021): This program aims to address foundational scientific questions to determine how well industrial bio-manufacturing microorganisms perform in space conditions.<ref>{{Cite web |title=B-SURE Teams Ready to Blast Off! |url=https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2023-03-14a |access-date=May 10, 2023 |website=darpa.mil}}</ref>  [[International Space Station]] (ISS) announced in April 2023 that Rhodium-DARPA Biomanufacturing 01 investigation was launched on SpaceX, and ISS crew members are carrying out this project which examines gravity's effect on production of drugs and nutrients from bacteria and yeast.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rhodium Scientific to Test the Concept of Biomanufacturing in Space |url=https://www.issnationallab.org/spxcrs27-rhodium-scientific-darpa/ |access-date=May 10, 2023 |website=ISS National Laboratory|date=6 April 2023 }}</ref>
* [[Big mechanism|Big Mechanism]]: Cancer research. (2015)<ref name="s1">{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1126/science.347.6221.465| title = DARPA sets out to automate research| journal = Science| volume = 347| issue = 6221| page = 465| year = 2015| last1 = You | first1 = J.| pmid=25635066| bibcode = 2015Sci...347..465Y}}</ref> The program aims to develop technology to read research abstracts and papers to extract pieces of causal mechanisms, assemble these pieces into more complete causal models, and reason over these models to produce explanations. The domain of the program is cancer biology with an emphasis on signaling pathways. It has a successor program called [[World Modelers]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=DARPA 1958-2018 |url=https://www.darpa.mil/attachments/DARAPA60_publication-no-ads.pdf |access-date=May 13, 2023 |website=darpa.mil |archive-date=December 29, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181229220305/https://www.darpa.mil/attachments/DARAPA60_publication-no-ads.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Big Mechanism |url=https://www.darpa.mil/program/big-mechanism |access-date=May 13, 2023 |website=darpa.mil |archive-date=May 13, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230513165023/https://www.darpa.mil/program/big-mechanism |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=World Modelers |url=https://www.darpa.mil/program/world-modelers |access-date=May 13, 2023 |website=darpa.mil}}</ref>
*Binary structure inference system: extract software properties from binary code to support repository-based reverse engineering for micro-patching that minimizes lifecycle maintenance and costs (2020).<ref>{{Cite web|title=Contracts for July 1, 2020|url=https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/2244841/|access-date=2021-02-05|website=U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE|language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Blackjack (satellite)|Blackjack]] (2017): a program to develop and test military [[satellite constellation]] technologies with a variety of "military-unique sensors and payloads [attached to] commercial [[satellite bus]]es. ...as an 'architecture demonstration intending to show the high military utility of global [[Low Earth orbit|LEO]] constellations and mesh networks of lower size, weight, and cost spacecraft nodes.'  ... The idea is to demonstrate that 'good enough' payloads in LEO can perform military missions, augment existing programs, and potentially perform 'on par or better than currently deployed exquisite space systems.{{'}}"<ref name="sn20180531`">[https://spacenews.com/darpa-to-begin-new-effort-to-build-military-constellations-in-low-earth-orbit/ DARPA to begin new effort to build military constellations in low Earth orbit], [[SpaceNews]], 31 May 2018, accessed 22 August 2018.</ref> Blue Canyon Technologies,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Contracts for June 10, 2020|url=https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/2215443/|access-date=2021-02-05|website=U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE|language=en-US}}</ref> Raytheon,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Contracts for June 12, 2020|url=https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/2218996/|access-date=2021-02-05|website=U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE|language=en-US}}</ref> and SA Photonics Inc.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Contracts for June 9, 2020|url=https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/2213629/|access-date=2021-02-05|website=U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE|language=en-US}}</ref> were working on phases 2 and 3 as of fiscal year 2020. On June 12, 2023, DARPA launched four satellites for a technology demonstration in low Earth orbit on the SpaceX Transporter-8 rideshare.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Erwin |first=Sandra |date=2023-06-14 |title=DARPA downsizes Blackjack space experiment |url=https://spacenews.com/darpa-downsizes-blackjack-space-experiment/ |access-date=2023-07-01 |website=SpaceNews |language=en-US}}</ref>
*broadband, electro-magnetic spectrum receiver system: prototype and demonstration<ref>{{Cite web|title=Contracts for August 26, 2020|url=https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/2326327/|access-date=2021-02-05|website=U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE|language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[BlockADE]]: Rapidly constructed barrier. (2014)<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20141218032021/http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/article/20140705/NEWS04/307050033/DARPA-calls-industry-develop-compact-push-button-wall DARPA calls on industry to develop compact, push-button wall] – MarineCorpstimes.com, 5 July 2014</ref>
* [[DARPA Captive Air Amphibious Transporter|Captive Air Amphibious Transporter]] (CAAT)<ref>{{Cite web|title=DARPA's Captive Air Amphibious Transporter can drive on water, help during disaster relief (video)|url=https://www.engadget.com/2012-08-11-darpa-captive-air-amphibious-transporter.html|access-date=2020-06-05|website=Engadget|date=11 August 2012 |language=en}}</ref><!-- no source to say this remains an active DARPA program in 2018 -->
* Causal Exploration of Complex Operational Environments ("Causal Exploration") – computerized aid to [[military planning]]. (2018)<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.janes.com/article/81590/darpa-seeks-to-model-conflicts-for-military-planners?from_rss=1 |first=Geoff |last=Fein |publisher=[[Jane's Information Group]] |title=DARPA seeks to model conflicts for military planners |date=July 6, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.darpa.mil/attachments/FAQ_CE1-17-1USE.pdf |publisher=DARPA |title=HR001117S0012 Causal Exploration of Complex Operational Environments (Causal Exploration) Frequently Asked Questions |date=January 17, 2017 |access-date=July 9, 2018 |archive-date=July 10, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180710010415/https://www.darpa.mil/attachments/FAQ_CE1-17-1USE.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* Clean-Slate Design of Resilient, Adaptive, Secure Hosts (CRASH), a DARPA Transformation Convergence Technology Office (TCTO) initiative<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fbo.gov/download/82f/82f6068978da5339752c89d2f65d89ca/CRASH_BAA_20100601_RC3.pdf |title=Clean-slate design of Resilient, Adaptive, Secure Hosts (CRASH) |publisher=DARPA |date=2010-06-01 |access-date=2014-09-04 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140724082414/https://www.fbo.gov/download/82f/82f6068978da5339752c89d2f65d89ca/CRASH_BAA_20100601_RC3.pdf |archive-date=2014-07-24 }}</ref>
* [[Collaborative Operations in Denied Environment]] (CODE): Modular software architecture for UAVs to pass information to each other in contested environments to identify and engage targets with limited operator direction. (2015)<ref>[http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/darpa-invites-industry-to-explore-collaborative-uav-408267/ DARPA invites industry to explore collaborative UAV technology] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150203215053/http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/darpa-invites-industry-to-explore-collaborative-uav-408267/ |date=2015-02-03 }} – Flightglobal.com, 23 January 2015</ref><ref>[http://defensesystems.com/articles/2015/01/22/darpa-drones-pack-of-wolves-autonomy.aspx Pentagon issues call for drones that hunt like a pack of wolves] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150203213513/http://defensesystems.com/articles/2015/01/22/darpa-drones-pack-of-wolves-autonomy.aspx |date=2015-02-03 }} – Defensesystems.com, 22 January 2015</ref>
*[[Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors (CRANE)]] (2019): The program seeks to demonstrate an experimental aircraft design based on active flow control (AFC), which is defined as on-demand addition of energy into a boundary layer in order to maintain, recover, or improve aerodynamic performance. The aim is for CRANE to generally improve aircraft performance and reliability while reducing cost.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Contracts for June 19, 2020|url=https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/2226670/|access-date=2021-02-05|website=U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=August 26, 2019 |title=Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effecters (CRANE) Proposers Day (Archived) |url=https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/control-of-revolutionary-aircraft-with-novel-effecters-proposers-day |access-date=May 14, 2023 |website=darpa.mil}}</ref> In May 2023, DARPA designated the experimental uncrewed aircraft the X-65 which will use banks of compressed air nozzles to execute maneuvers without traditional, exterior-moving flight controls.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Meet the X-65: DARPA's New Plane Has No External Control Surfaces |url=https://www.airandspaceforces.com/x-65-darpa-new-plane/ |access-date=May 23, 2023 |website=airandspaceforces.com|date=16 May 2023 }}</ref>
* [[Computational Weapon Optic]] (CWO) (2015): Computer rifle scope that combines various features into one optic.<ref>[https://gizmodo.com/what-it-feels-like-to-shoot-the-military-s-experimental-1700448634 What It Feels Like to Shoot With the Military's Experimental Smart Scope] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150506105808/http://gizmodo.com/what-it-feels-like-to-shoot-the-military-s-experimental-1700448634 |date=2015-05-06 }} – Gizmodo.com, 28 April 2015</ref>
* [[DARPA Triage Challenge (DTC)]] (2023): The DTC will use a series of challenge events to spur development of novel physiological features for medical triage. The three-year competition focuses on improving emergency medical response in military and civilian mass casualty incidents.<ref>{{Cite web |title=DARPA Triage Challenge |url=https://triagechallenge.darpa.mil/ |access-date=May 13, 2023 |website=darpa.mil}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=DARPA Triage Challenge to Promote Tech Use in Medical Response to Mass Casualty Incidents |url=https://executivegov.com/2022/11/darpa-challenge-to-promote-tech-use-in-medical-response-to-mass-casualties/ |access-date=May 13, 2023 |website=executivegov.com|date=18 November 2022 }}</ref>
* [[DARPA XG|DARPA XG (2005)]] : technology for Dynamic Spectrum Access for assured military communications.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sharedspectrum.com/resources/darpa-next-generation-communications-program/|title=DARPA neXt Generation Communications Program - SSC|language=en|access-date=2019-09-19|archive-date=2019-01-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190101223820/http://www.sharedspectrum.com/resources/darpa-next-generation-communications-program/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO)]] (2021): The program is to demonstrate a [[nuclear thermal rocket]] (NTR) in orbit by 2027 in collaboration with NASA (nuclear thermal engine) and U.S. Space Force (launch).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hitchens |first=Theresa |date=2023-07-26 |title=DARPA, NASA tap Lockheed Martin to design, build DRACO nuclear rocket for deep space missions |url=https://breakingdefense.sites.breakingmedia.com/2023/07/darpa-nasa-tap-lockheed-martin-to-design-build-draco-nuclear-rocket-for-deep-space-missions/ |access-date=2023-07-28 |website=Breaking Defense |language=en-US |archive-date=March 16, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240316085306/https://breakingdefense.com/2023/07/darpa-nasa-tap-lockheed-martin-to-design-build-draco-nuclear-rocket-for-deep-space-missions/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> 
*Detection system consisting of Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)-based assays paired with reconfigurable point-of-need and massively multi-plexed devices for diagnostics and surveillance<ref>{{Cite web|title=Contracts for October 27, 2020|url=https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/2396088/|access-date=2021-01-25|website=U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE|language=en-US}}</ref>
*[[Electronics Resurgence Initiative]] (ERI) (2019): Started in 2019, the initiative aims at both national security capabilities and commercial economic competitiveness and sustainability. These programs emphasize forward-looking partnerships with U.S. industry, the defense industrial base, and university researchers. In 2023, DARPA expanded ERI's focus with the announcement of ERI 2.0 seeking to reinvent domestic microelectronics manufacturing.<ref>{{Cite web |date=May 17, 2023 |title=DARPA's ERI Summit 2023: microelectronics innovation |url=https://turtletimeline.com/darpas-eri-summit-2023-microelectronics-innovation/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230517173949/https://turtletimeline.com/darpas-eri-summit-2023-microelectronics-innovation/ |url-status=usurped |archive-date=May 17, 2023 |access-date=May 21, 2023 |website=TurtleTimeline.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=March 6, 2023 |title=ERI Overview and Structure |url=https://www.darpa.mil/work-with-us/electronics-resurgence-initiative |access-date=May 21, 2023 |website=darpa.mil |archive-date=May 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230521183242/https://www.darpa.mil/work-with-us/electronics-resurgence-initiative |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Experimental Spaceplane 1]] (formerly XS-1): In 2017, Boeing was selected for Phases 2 and 3 for the fabrication and flight of a reusable unmanned space transport after it completed the initial design in Phase 1 as one of the three teams.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.darpa.mil/program/experimental-space-plane|title=Experimental Spaceplane|website=www.darpa.mil|access-date=2019-02-25}}</ref>  In January 2020, Boeing ended its role in the program.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Foust |first=Jeff |date=2020-01-22 |title=Boeing drops out of DARPA Experimental Spaceplane program |url=https://spacenews.com/boeing-drops-out-of-darpa-experimental-spaceplane-program/ |access-date=2023-07-01 |website=SpaceNews |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Fast Lightweight Autonomy]]: Software algorithms that enable small UAVs to fly fast in cluttered environments without [[GPS]] or external communications. (2014)<ref>[http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/darpa-solicits-tender-for-uav-urban-operation-algorithms-407418/ DARPA solicits tender for UAV urban operation algorithms] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150203214839/http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/darpa-solicits-tender-for-uav-urban-operation-algorithms-407418/ |date=2015-02-03 }} – Flightglobal.com, 23 December 2014</ref>
*Fast Network Interface Cards (FastNICs): develop and integrate new, clean-slate network subsystems in order to speed up applications, such as the distributed training of machine learning classifiers by 100x.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Smith|first=Dr. Jonathan M.|date=|title=Fast Network Interface Cards (FastNICs)|url=https://www.darpa.mil/program/fast-network-interface-cards|access-date=February 5, 2021|website=Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency}}</ref> Perspecta Labs<ref>{{Cite web|title=Contracts for May 5, 2020|url=https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/2177362/|access-date=2021-02-05|website=U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE|language=en-US}}</ref> and Raytheon BBN<ref>{{Cite web|title=Contracts for June 11, 2020|url=https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/2217371/|access-date=2021-02-05|website=U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE|language=en-US}}</ref> were working on FastNICs as of fiscal year 2020.
* [[Force Application and Launch from Continental United States]] (FALCON): a research effort to develop a small satellite [[launch vehicle]]. (2008)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.darpa.mil/tto/programs/Falcon.htm|title=Falcon|year=2008|publisher=DARPA|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080822050303/http://www.darpa.mil/tto/programs/Falcon.htm|archive-date=2008-08-22}}</ref> This vehicle is under development by [[AirLaunch LLC]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.airlaunchllc.com/News.htm|title=Airlaunchllc News|publisher=Airlaunch|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080514093237/http://airlaunchllc.com/News.htm|archive-date=2008-05-14}}</ref> 
*Gamma Ray Inspection Technology (GRIT) program: research and develop high-intensity, tunable, and narrow-bandwidth gamma ray production in compact, transportable form. This technology can be utilized for discovering smuggled nuclear material in cargo via new inspection techniques, and enabling new medical diagnostics and therapies.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Wrobel|first=Dr. Mark|date=|title=Gamma Ray Inspection Technology (GRIT)|url=https://www.darpa.mil/program/gamma-ray-inspection-technology|access-date=2021-02-05|website=www.darpa.mil}}</ref> RadiaBeam Technologies LLC was working on a phase 1 of the program, Laser-Compton approach, in fiscal year 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Contracts for March 20, 2020|url=https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/2120442/|access-date=2021-02-05|website=U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE|language=en-US}}</ref> 
*Glide Breaker program: technology for an advanced interceptor capable of engaging maneuvering hypersonic vehicles or missiles in the upper atmosphere. Northrop Grumman<ref>{{Cite web|title=Contracts for January 24, 2020|url=https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/2065636/|access-date=2021-02-05|website=U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE|language=en-US}}</ref> and Aerojet Rocketdyne<ref>{{Cite web|title=Contracts for February 10, 2020|url=https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/2080211/|access-date=2021-02-05|website=U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE|language=en-US}}</ref> were working on this program as of fiscal year 2020. 
* [[DARPA Gremlins|Gremlins]] (2015): Air-launched and recoverable [[Unmanned aerial vehicle|UAVs]] with distributed capabilities to provide low-cost flexibility over expensive multirole platforms.<ref>[http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2015/08/military-wants-swarm-bots-retrieve-midair/119795/?oref=d-river The Military Wants Swarm Bots It Can Retrieve in Midair] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150901041853/http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2015/08/military-wants-swarm-bots-retrieve-midair/119795/?oref=d-river |date=2015-09-01 }} – Defenseone.com, 28 August 2015</ref> In October 2021, two X-61 Gremlin air vehicles were tested at the Army's Dugway Proving Ground, Utah.<ref>{{Cite web |date=December 9, 2021 |title=DARPA's latest 'Gremlins' test shows how the US military's biggest planes could be motherships in future wars |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/darpa-gremlins-test-shows-how-planes-can-be-drone-mothership-2021-12?op=1 |access-date=July 10, 2023 |website=businessinsider.com}}</ref>
* [[DARPA GXV-T|Ground X-Vehicle Technology]] (GXV-T) (2015): This program aims to improve mobility, survivability, safety, and effectiveness of future combat vehicles without piling on armor.<ref>{{Cite web |title=GXV-T Advances Radical Technology for Future Combat Vehicles |url=https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2018-06-22 |access-date=May 10, 2023 |website=darpa.mil}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Ground X-Vehicle Technologies (GXV-T) |url=https://www.darpa.mil/program/ground-x-vehicle-technologies |access-date=May 10, 2023 |website=darpa.mil}}</ref>
* [[High Productivity Computing Systems]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/20671.wss|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070208100223/http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/20671.wss|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 8, 2007|title=DARPA Selects IBM for Supercomputing Grand Challenge|date=2006-11-21|website=www-03.ibm.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-11-21}}</ref><!-- no source to say this remains an active DARPA program in 2018 -->
* [[High Operational Temperature Sensors]] (HOTS)(2023): The program is to develop sensor microelectronics consisting of transducers, signal conditioning microelectronics, and integration that operate with high bandwidth (>1&nbsp;MHz) and dynamic range (>90&nbsp;dB) at extreme temperatures (i.e., at least 800&nbsp;°C).<ref>{{Cite web |title=High Operational Temperature Sensors (HOTS) Proposers Day |url=https://sam.gov/opp/8835c355e3b442e6b3b79f75ad0f1653/view |website=SAM.gov}}</ref>
*[[HIVE (Hierarchical Identify Verify Exploit)]] [[CPU architecture]]. (2017)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.engadget.com/2017/06/11/american-military-backs-an-entirely-new-kind-of-processor/ |title=American military backs an entirely new kind of processor |publisher=Engadget.com |date=2017-06-11 |access-date=2018-01-14}}</ref>
*[[Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept]] (HAWC).  This program is a joint DARPA/[[United States Department of the Air Force|U.S. Air Force]] effort that seeks to develop and demonstrate critical technologies to enable an effective and affordable air-launched hypersonic cruise missile.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) |url=https://www.darpa.mil/program/hypersonic-air-breathing-weapon-concept |access-date=May 10, 2023 |website=darpa.mil}}</ref>
*Hypersonic Boost Glide Systems Research<ref>{{Cite web|title=Contracts for July 10, 2020|url=https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/2270757/|access-date=2021-02-05|website=U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE|language=en-US}}</ref>
*[[Genetically modified virus#Insect Allies program|Insect Allies]] (2017–2021)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2016-10-19|title=DARPA Enlists Insects to Protect Agricultural Food Supply and Commodity Crops|website=www.darpa.mil|access-date=2019-06-10}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fbo.gov/utils/view?id=40638c9e7d45ed8310f9d4f4671b4a7b|title=Broad Agency Announcement Insect Allies, Biological Technologies Office, HR001117S0002 November 1, 2016|date=2016|website=FedBizOpps.gov}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Insect Allies |url=https://www.darpa.mil/program/insect-allies |access-date=May 13, 2023 |website=darpa.mil}}</ref>
* [[Integrated Sensor is Structure]] (ISIS): This was a joint DARPA and U.S. Air Force program to develop a sensor of unprecedented proportions to be fully integrated into a stratospheric airship.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Integrated Sensor is Structure (ISIS) (Archived) |url=https://www.darpa.mil/program/integrated-sensor-is-structure |access-date=May 10, 2023 |website=darpa.mil |archive-date=May 11, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230511005030/https://www.darpa.mil/program/integrated-sensor-is-structure |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* Intelligent Integration of Information (I3) in SISTO, 1994–2000 – supported database research and with ARPA CISTO and [[NASA]] funded the [[National Science Foundation|NSF]] [[Digital Library]] program, that led. a.o. to [[Google]].<ref>{{cite journal | url=https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=170118|title = Intelligent integration of information|journal = ACM SIGMOD Record|date = June 1993|doi = 10.1145/170036.170118|last1 = Wiederhold|first1 = Gio|volume = 22|issue = 2|pages = 434–437| s2cid=215916846 }}</ref>
*Joint All-Domain Warfighting Software (JAWS): software suite featuring automation and [[predictive analytics]] for battle management and command & control with tactical coordination for capture ("target custody") and kill missions.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Contracts for December 21, 2020|url=https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/2454191/|access-date=2021-01-26|website=U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE|language=en-US}}</ref> Systems & Technology Research of Woburn, Massachusetts, is working on this project, with an expected completion date of March 2022.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Contracts for December 21, 2020|url=https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/2454191/|access-date=2021-02-11|website=U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE|language=en-US}}</ref> Raytheon is also working on this project, with an expected completion date of April 2022.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Contracts for January 15, 2021|url=https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/2474326/|access-date=2021-02-11|website=U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE|language=en-US}}</ref>
*Lasers for Universal Microscale Optical Systems (LUMOS): integrate heterogeneous materials to bring high performance lasers and amplifiers to manufacturable photonics platforms.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Keeler|first=Dr. Gordon|date=|title=Lasers for Universal Microscale Optical Systems (LUMOS)|url=https://www.darpa.mil/program/lasers-for-universal-microscale-optical-systems|access-date=February 5, 2021|website=Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency}}</ref> As of fiscal year 2020, the Research Foundation for the State University of New York (SUNY) was working to enable "on-chip optical gain" to integrated photonics platforms, and enable complete photonics functionality "on a single substrate for disruptive optical microsystems."<ref>{{Cite web|title=Contracts for September 14, 2020|url=https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/2347324/|access-date=2021-02-05|website=U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE|language=en-US}}</ref>
*LongShot (2021): The program is to demonstrate an unmanned air-launched vehicle (UAV) capable of employing air-to-air weapons.<ref>{{Cite web |title=LongShot |url=https://www.darpa.mil/program/longshot |access-date=July 16, 2023 |website=darpa.mil}}</ref> Phase 1 design work started in early 2021. In June 2023, DARPA awarded a Phase 3 contract to General Atomics for the manufacturing and a flight demonstration in 2025 of an air-launched, flying and potentially recoverable missile carrier.<ref>{{Cite web |title=DARPA LongShot Cleared To Move Into Flight Demonstration Phase {{!}} Aviation Week Network |url=https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/missile-defense-weapons/darpa-longshot-cleared-move-flight-demonstration-phase |access-date=2023-07-16 |website=aviationweek.com}}</ref>
* Manta Ray: A 2020 DARPA program to develop a series of autonomous, large-size, [[unmanned underwater vehicle]]s (UUVs) capable of long-duration missions and having large payload capacities.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Contracts for February 21, 2020|url=https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/2091020/|access-date=2021-02-05|website=U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>[https://idstch.com/military/navy/darpa-manta-ray-developing-new-class-of-uuvs-capable-of-carrying-large-payloads-and-long-endurance-missions-to-support-persistent-operations/ DARPA Manta Ray Developing New Class of UUVs Capable of Carrying Large Payloads and Long Endurance Missions to Support Persistent Operations] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230505002601/https://idstch.com/military/navy/darpa-manta-ray-developing-new-class-of-uuvs-capable-of-carrying-large-payloads-and-long-endurance-missions-to-support-persistent-operations/ |date=2023-05-05 }} idstch.com April 21, 2022</ref> In December 2021, DARPA awarded Phase 2 contracts to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation and Martin Defense Group to work on subsystem testing followed by fabrication and in-water demonstrations of full-scale integrated vehicles.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Staff |first=Naval News |date=2021-12-20 |title=DARPA Selects Two Teams to Build, Test Innovative Manta Ray UUV |url=https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2021/12/darpa-selects-two-teams-to-build-test-innovative-manta-ray-uuv/ |access-date=2023-07-01 |website=Naval News |language=en-US}}</ref>
:By May 2024, Manta Ray was not only the descriptor for the DARPA R&D program, but was also the name of a specific prototype UUV built by [[Northrop Grumman]], with initial tests conducted in the Pacific Ocean during 1Q2024. Manta Ray has been designed to be broken down and fit into 5 standard [[shipping container]]s, shipped to where it will be deployed, and be reassembled in the theatre of operations where it will be used. DARPA is working with the [[US Navy]] to further test and then transition the technology.<ref name=cnn20240513>{{cite news |title=Ghost Shark and Manta Ray: Australia and US unveil undersea drones |last=Lendon|first=Brad |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/13/tech/australia-us-undersea-drones-ml-hnk-intl/index.html |work=[[CNN]] |date=13 May 2024 |access-date=14 May 2024}}</ref>
*Media Forensics (MediFor): A project aimed at automatically spotting digital manipulation in images and videos, including [[Deepfakes]]. (2018).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.darpa.mil/program/media-forensics |publisher=DARPA |title=Media Forensics (MediFor) |access-date=June 25, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/robotics/artificial-intelligence/experts-bet-on-first-deepfakes-political-scandal |archive-url=https://archive.today/20180625170659/https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/robotics/artificial-intelligence/experts-bet-on-first-deepfakes-political-scandal |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 25, 2018 |quote=The threat is real enough that the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has funded a Media Forensics project aimed at finding ways to automatically screen for Deepfake videos and similarly deceptive examples of digital media. |title=Experts Bet on First Deepfakes Political Scandal |first=Jeremy |last=Hsu |date=June 22, 2018 |publisher=[[IEEE Spectrum]]}}</ref> MediFor largely ended in 2020 and DARPA launched a follow-on program in 2021 called the semantic forensics, or SemaFor.<ref>{{Cite web |title=DARPA Launches New Programs to Detect Falsified Media |url=https://governmentciomedia.com/darpa-launches-new-programs-detect-falsified-media |access-date=May 10, 2023 |website=governmentciomedia.com|date=16 September 2021 }}</ref>
* [[MEMS Exchange]]: Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) Implementation Environment (MX)<ref>[https://www.mems-exchange.org/about/ mems-exchange.org]</ref><ref>[https://www.darpa.mil/about-us/timeline/micrelectromechanical-systems/ DARPA.mil]</ref>
*Millimeter-wave GaN Maturation (MGM) program: develop new GaN transistor technology to attain high-speed and large voltage swing at the same time.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Hancock|first=Dr. Timothy|date=|title=Millimeter-wave GaN Maturation (MGM)|url=https://www.darpa.mil/program/millimeter-wave-gan-maturation|access-date=February 5, 2021|website=Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency}}</ref> HRL Laboratories LLC, a joint venture between Boeing and General Motors, is working on phase 2 as of fiscal year 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Contracts for September 8, 2020|url=https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/2340084/|access-date=2021-02-05|website=U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE|language=en-US}}</ref>
*Modular Optical Aperture Building Blocks (MOABB) program (2015): design free-space optical components (e.g., telescope, bulk lasers with mechanical beam-steering, detectors, electronics) in a single device. Create a wafer-scale system that is one hundred times smaller and lighter than existing systems and can steer the optical beam far faster than mechanical components. Research and design electronic-photonic unit cells that can be tiled together to form large-scale planar apertures (up to 10 centimeters in diameter) that can run at 100 watts of optical power. The overall goals of such technology are (1) rapid 3D scanning using devices smaller than a cell-phone camera; (2) high-speed laser communications without mechanical steering; (3) and foliage-penetrating perimeter sensing, remote wind sensing, and long-range 3-D mapping.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Keeler|first= Gordon|date=|title=Modular Optical Aperture Building Blocks (MOABB)|url=https://www.darpa.mil/program/modular-optical-aperture-building-blocks|access-date=February 5, 2021|website=Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency}}</ref> As of fiscal year 2020, Analog Photonics LLC of Boston, Massachusetts, was working on phase 3 of the program and is expected to finish by May 2022.<ref name="U.S. Department of Defense  Contract">{{Cite web|title=Contracts for September 10, 2020|url=https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/2343624/|access-date=2021-02-05|website=U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE|language=en-US}}</ref>
*Multi- Azimuth Defense Fast Intercept Round Engagement System (MAD-FIRES) program: develop technologies that combine advantages of a missile (guidance, precision, accuracy) with advantages of a bullet (speed, rapid-fire, large ammunition capacity) to be used on a medium-caliber guided projectile in defending ships.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Raytheon tests motor for DARPA's MAD-FIRES self-defense interceptor|url=https://www.upi.com/Defense-News/2019/05/07/Raytheon-tests-motor-for-DARPAs-MAD-FIRES-self-defense-interceptor/8511557240419/|access-date=2021-02-05|website=UPI|language=en}}</ref> Raytheon is currently working on MAD-FIRES phase 3 (enhance seeker performance, and develop a functional demonstration illuminator and engagement manager to engage and defeat a representative surrogate target) and is expected to be finished by November 2022.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Contracts for August 31, 2020|url=https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/2331179/|access-date=2021-02-05|website=U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE|language=en-US}}</ref> 
* [[Near Zero Power RF and Sensor Operations]] (N-ZERO): Reducing or eliminating the standby power unattended ground sensors consume. (2015)<ref>[http://www.militaryaerospace.com/articles/2015/02/darpa-nzero-program.html DARPA N-ZERO program seeks to reduce or eliminate need for standby power on unattended sensors] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215183927/http://www.militaryaerospace.com/articles/2015/02/darpa-nzero-program.html |date=2015-02-15 }} – Militaryaerospace.com, 9 February 2015</ref>
* [[Neural implant]]s for soldiers. (2014)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://therundownlive.com/pentagon-rolls-out-darpa-plan-to-implant-chip-in-soldiers-brain/ |title=Pentagon Rolls Out DARPA Plan To Implant Chips In Soldiers' Brains – The Rundown Live |website=therundownlive.com |date=15 February 2014 |access-date=6 June 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170603194645/http://therundownlive.com/pentagon-rolls-out-darpa-plan-to-implant-chip-in-soldiers-brain/ |archive-date=3 June 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.geek.com/science/pentagon-wants-to-fit-soldiers-with-a-little-black-box-brain-implant-1584484/ |title=Pentagon wants to fit soldiers with a little black box brain implant - Geek.com |date=10 February 2014 |website=geek.com |access-date=6 June 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170330085123/http://www.geek.com/science/pentagon-wants-to-fit-soldiers-with-a-little-black-box-brain-implant-1584484/ |archive-date=30 March 2017 }}</ref>
*No Manning Required Ship ([[NOMARS]]): [[USX-1 Defiant]], a medium uncrewed surface vessel (USV) was first seen in public in March 2025<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.twz.com/sea/mysterious-naval-vessel-spotted-in-washington-state-is-a-new-darpa-drone-ship|title=Mysterious Naval Vessel Spotted In Washington State Is A New DARPA Drone Ship|author=Joseph Trevithick|publisher=The War Zone|date=4 March 2025|access-date=5 March 2025}}</ref>
*Novel, nonsurgical, bi-directional brain-computer interface with high spacio-temporal resolution and low latency for potential human use.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Contracts for October 30, 2020|url=https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/2400904/|access-date=2021-01-25|website=U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE|language=en-US}}</ref>
*Open, Programmable, Secure 5G (OPS-5G) (2020): The program is to address security risks of 5G networks by pursuing research leading to the development of a portable standards-compliant network stack for 5G mobile that is open source and secure by design. OPS-5G seeks to create open source software and systems that enable secure 5G and subsequent mobile networks such as 6G.<ref>{{Cite web |date=February 5, 2020 |title=Improving 5G Network Security |url=https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2020-02-05 |access-date=May 21, 2023 |website=darpa.mil}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=February 17, 2021 |title=DARPA and the Linux Foundation Create Open Software Initiative to Accelerate US R&D Innovation, 5G End to End Stack |url=https://usgovops.org/press-release/darpa-and-the-linux-foundation-create-open-software-initiative-to-accelerate-us-rd-innovation-5g-end-to-end-stack/ |access-date=May 21, 2023 |website=US GOV OPS |archive-date=May 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230521185531/https://usgovops.org/press-release/darpa-and-the-linux-foundation-create-open-software-initiative-to-accelerate-us-rd-innovation-5g-end-to-end-stack/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*Operational Fires ([[OpFires]]): developing a new mobile ground-launched booster that helps hypersonic boost glide weapons penetrate enemy air defenses.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Stults|first=Lt. Col. Joshua|date=|title=Operational Fires (OpFires)|url=https://www.darpa.mil/program/operational-fires|access-date=January 31, 2021|website=Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency}}</ref> As of 17 July 2020, Lockheed Martin was working on phase 3 of the program (develop propulsion components for the missile's Stage 2 section) to be completed by January 2022.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Contracts for July 17, 2020|url=https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/2278883/|access-date=2021-02-05|website=U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE|language=en-US}}</ref> The system was successfully tested in July 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Operational Fires Program Successfully Completes First Flight Test |url=https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2022-07-13a |access-date=May 6, 2023 |website=DARPA.mil}}</ref>
* [[Persistent Close Air Support]] (PCAS): DARPA created the program in 2010 to seek to fundamentally increase Close Air Support effectiveness by enabling dismounted ground agents—Joint Terminal Attack Controllers—and combat aircrews to share real-time situational awareness and weapons systems data.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Persistent Close Air Support (PCAS) (Archived) |url=https://www.darpa.mil/program/persistent-close-air-support |access-date=May 10, 2023 |website=darpa.mil}}</ref>
*PREventing EMerging Pathogenic Threats (PREEMPT)<ref>{{Cite web|title=PREventing EMerging Pathogenic Threats|url=https://www.darpa.mil/program/preventing-emerging-pathogenic-threats|website=www.darpa.mil|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200406122410/https://www.darpa.mil/program/preventing-emerging-pathogenic-threats|archive-date=2020-04-06|access-date=2020-04-06}}</ref>
* [[QuASAR]]: Quantum Assisted Sensing and Readout{{when|date=August 2018}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.darpa.mil/program/quantum-assisted-sensing-and-readout|title=Quantum-Assisted Sensing and Readout (QuASAR)|website=www.darpa.mil|language=en-US|access-date=2018-01-12|archive-date=January 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180113092959/https://www.darpa.mil/program/quantum-assisted-sensing-and-readout|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* QuBE: Quantum Effects in Biological Environments{{when|date=August 2018}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.darpa.mil/program/quantum-effects-in-biological-environments|title=Quantum effects in Biological Environments (QuBE)|website=www.darpa.mil|language=en-US|access-date=2018-01-12|archive-date=January 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180112214812/https://www.darpa.mil/program/quantum-effects-in-biological-environments|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[QuEST|QUEST]]: Quantum Entanglement Science and Technology<ref>{{cite web|url=http://open-grants.insidegov.com/l/23368/Quantum-Entanglement-Science-and-Technology-QuEST-DARPA-BAA-08-24-PDF|title=Quantum Entanglement Science and Technology (QuEST) – DARPA-BAA-08-24-PDF|website=open-grants.insidegov.com|language=en-us|access-date=2018-01-11}}{{Dead link|date=November 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* Quiness: Macroscopic Quantum Communications<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.darpa.mil/program/quiness|title=Quiness|website=www.darpa.mil|language=en-US|access-date=2018-01-11|archive-date=January 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180112042556/https://www.darpa.mil/program/quiness|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/2012/10/quantum-satellite-teleportation/|title=The Race to Bring Quantum Teleportation to Your World|magazine=WIRED|access-date=2018-01-11|language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[QUIST]]: Quantum Information Science and Technology{{when|date=August 2018}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.darpa.mil/about-us/timeline/quantum-key-distribution-network|title=Quantum Key Distribution Network|website=www.darpa.mil|language=en-US|access-date=2018-01-11}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://arxiv.org/ftp/quant-ph/papers/0503/0503058.pdf|title=Status of the DARPA/BBN Quantum Network}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.govcon.com/doc/darpa-announces-quist-program-baa-0001|title=DARPA announces QuIST Program BAA|website=www.govcon.com|language=en|access-date=2018-01-11}}</ref>
*RADICS: Rapid Attack Detection, Isolation and Characterization Systems<ref>{{Cite web|last=Weiss|first=Walter|title=Rapid Attack Detection, Isolation and Characterization Systems (RADICS)|url=https://www.darpa.mil/program/rapid-attack-detection-isolation-and-characterization-systems|access-date=March 1, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=March 1, 2021|title=Technologies to rapidly restore the electrical grid after cyberattack come online|work=[[Tech Xplore]]|url=https://techxplore.com/news/2021-03-technologies-rapidly-electrical-grid-cyberattack.html|access-date=March 1, 2021}}</ref>
*Rational Integrated Design of Energetics (RIDE): developing tools that speed up and facilitate energetics research.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Contracts for December 10, 2020|url=https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/2443378/|access-date=2021-01-26|website=U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE|language=en-US}}</ref>
*[[Remote-controlled insect]]s<ref>{{cite magazine |author=Ewen Callaway |date=2009-10-01 |title=Free-flying cyborg insects steered from a distance |url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17895-freeflying-cyborg-insects-steered-from-a-distance.html |url-status=live |magazine=New Scientist |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100413210119/http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17895-freeflying-cyborg-insects-steered-from-a-distance.html |archive-date=2010-04-13 |access-date=2010-04-04}}</ref>
* [[Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites program]] (RSGS): a [[telerobotic]] and [[autonomous robot|autonomous]] robotic satellite-servicing project, conceived in 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://spectrum.ieee.org/robot-mechanic-could-prevent-satellites-from-becoming-space-junk|title=Robot Mechanic Could Prevent Satellites From Becoming Space Junk|website=IEEE Spectrum: Technology, Engineering, and Science News|date=29 Jul 2017|first1=Gordon|last1=Roesler|first2=Paul|last2=Jaffe|first3=Glen|last3=Henshaw|first4=Alyssa|last4=Pagano}}</ref> In 2020, DARPA selected Northrop Grumman's SpaceLogistics as its RSGS partner. The [[United States Naval Research Laboratory|U.S. Naval Research Laboratory]] designed and developed the RSGS robotic arm with DARPA funding. The RSGS system is anticipated to start servicing satellites in space in 2025.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sharma |first=Soumya |date=2022-11-09 |title=US DARPA completes component-level tests for RSGS programme |url=https://www.airforce-technology.com/news/us-darpa-tests-rsgs-programme/ |access-date=2023-06-18 |website=Airforce Technology |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER)]] (2020): This is a four-year program and aims to make sure algorithms aren't the limiting part of the system and that autonomous combat vehicles can meet or exceed soldier driving abilities'''.'''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER) |url=https://www.darpa.mil/program/robotic-autonomy-in-complex-environments-with-resiliency |access-date=May 13, 2023 |website=darpa.mil}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=DARPA Project Strives for Off-Road Unmanned Vehicles that React Like Humans |url=https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2020-10-07 |access-date=May 13, 2023 |website=darpa.mil}}</ref> RACER conducted its third experiment to assess the performance of off-road unmanned vehicles March 12–27, 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |date=April 11, 2023 |title=RACER's Off-Road Autonomous Vehicles Teams Navigate Third Test |url=https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2023-04-11 |access-date=May 13, 2023 |website=darpa.mil}}</ref>
* SafeGenes: a synthetic biology project to program "undo" sequences into gene editing programs (2016)<ref>[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-military-preps-for-gene-drives-run-amok/ U.S. Military Preps for Gene Drives Run Amok] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161221090429/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-military-preps-for-gene-drives-run-amok/ |date=2016-12-21 }} – ScientificAmerican.com, 18 November 2016</ref>
* Sea Train (2019): The program goal is to develop and demonstrate ways to overcome range limitations in medium unmanned surface vessels by exploiting wave-making resistance reductions.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sea Train |url=https://www.darpa.mil/program/sea-train |access-date=May 20, 2023 |website=darpa.mil}}</ref><ref name="U.S. Department of Defense Contract" /> Applied Physical Sciences Corp. of Groton, Connecticut, is undertaking Phase 1 of the Sea Train program, with an expected completion date of March 2022.<ref name="U.S. Department of Defense Contract" /> Sea Train, NOMARS and Manta Ray are the three programs that could significantly impact naval operations by extending the range and payloads for unmanned vessels on and below the surface.<ref>{{Cite web |date=February 1, 2023 |title=DARPA Lays Course for Unmanned Maritime Future |url=https://www.afcea.org/signal-media/darpa-lays-course-unmanned-maritime-future |access-date=May 20, 2023 |website=afcea.org}}</ref>
* Secure Advanced Framework for Simulation & Modeling (SAFE-SiM) program: build a rapid modeling and simulation environment to enable quick analysis in support of senior-level decision-making. As of fiscal year 2020, Radiance Technologies<ref>{{Cite web|title=Contracts for August 25, 2020|url=https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/2324805/|access-date=2021-02-05|website=U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE|language=en-US}}</ref> and L3Harris<ref>{{Cite web|title=Contracts for September 11, 2020|url=https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/2345436/|access-date=2021-02-05|website=U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE|language=en-US}}</ref> were working on portions of the program, with expected completion in August and September 2021, respectively.
*Securing Information for Encrypted Verification and Evaluation (SIEVE) program: use zero knowledge proofs to enable the verification of capabilities for the US military "without revealing the sensitive details associated with those capabilities."<ref>{{Cite web|last=Baron|first=Dr. Joshua|date=|title=Securing Information for Encrypted Verification and Evaluation (SIEVE)|url=https://www.darpa.mil/program/securing-information-for-encrypted-verification-and-evaluation|access-date=February 5, 2021|website=Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency}}</ref> Galois Inc. of Portland, Oregon, and Stealth Software Technologies of Los Angeles, California, are currently working on the SIEVE program, with a projected completion date of May 2024.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Contracts for April 17, 2020|url=https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/2155142/|access-date=2021-02-05|website=U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Contracts for April 30, 2020|url=https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/2171906/|access-date=2021-02-05|website=U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE|language=en-US}}</ref>
* Semantic Forensics (SemaFor) program: develop technologies to automatically detect, attribute, and characterize falsified media (e.g., text, audio, image, video) to defend against automated disinformation. SRI International of Menlo Park, California, and Kitware Inc. of Clifton, New York, are working on the SemaFor program, with an expected completion date of July 2024.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Contracts for July 23, 2020|url=https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/2286392/|access-date=2021-02-05|website=U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Contracts for July 29, 2020|url=https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/2293268/|access-date=2021-02-05|website=U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE|language=en-US}}</ref>
* Sensor plants: DARPA "is working on a plan to use plants to gather intelligence information" through DARPA's Advanced Plant Technologies (APT) program, which aims to control the physiology of plants in order to detect chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats. (2017)<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://homelandprepnews.com/stories/25698-department-defense-develops-plant-biotechnology-program-latest-surveillance-tool-cbrn-threats/|title=Department of Defense develops plant biotechnology program as latest surveillance tool against CBRN threats|last=Williams|first=Terri|date=2017-12-11|work=Homeland Preparedness News|access-date=2017-12-27|language=en-US}}</ref>
* Synthetic Hemo-technologIEs to Locate and Disinfect (SHIELD) (2023): The program aims to develop prophylaxes and prevent [[bloodstream infections]] (BSI) caused by bacterial/fungal agents, a threat to military and civilian populations.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Synthetic Hemo-technologIEs to Locate and Disinfect (SHIELD) |url=https://www.darpa.mil/program/SHEILD |access-date=July 16, 2023 |website=darpa.mil |archive-date=July 16, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230716185435/https://www.darpa.mil/program/SHEILD |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* SIGMA: A network of radiological detection devices the size of smart phones that can detect small amounts of radioactive materials. The devices are paired with larger detector devices along major roads and bridges. (2016)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Murtha |first1=Alex |title=DARPA develops pocket-sized, affordable, networked radiation sensor |url=https://homelandprepnews.com/countermeasures/19585-darpa-develops-pocket-sized-affordable-networked-radiation-sensor/ |access-date=29 August 2016 |work=Homeland Preparedness News |issue=26 August 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170330000216/https://homelandprepnews.com/countermeasures/19585-darpa-develops-pocket-sized-affordable-networked-radiation-sensor/ |archive-date=30 March 2017 }}</ref>
*[[SIGMA+ program]] (2018): by building on concepts theorized in the SIGMA program, develop new sensors and analytics to detect small traces of explosives and chemical and biological weaponry throughout any given large metropolitan area.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Wrobel|first=Dr. Mark|date=|title=SIGMA+|url=https://www.darpa.mil/program/sigma-plus|access-date=February 5, 2021|website=Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency}}</ref> In October 2021, SIGMA+ program, in collaboration with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD), concluded a three-month-long pilot study with new sensors to support early detection and interdictions of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) threats.<ref>{{Cite web |title=CHIPS Articles: WMD Threat Sensors Integrated, Tested in Police Vehicles |url=https://www.doncio.navy.mil/CHIPS/ArticleDetails.aspx?ID=15217 |access-date=2023-06-26 |website=www.doncio.navy.mil}}</ref>
* SoSITE: [[System of Systems Integration Technology and Experimentation]]: Combinations of aircraft, weapons, sensors, and mission systems that distribute air warfare capabilities across a large number of interoperable manned and unmanned platforms. (2015)<ref>[http://www.airrecognition.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1644 DARPA unveils new SoSITE program for maintaining air superiority] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305112235/http://airrecognition.com/index.php?id=1644&option=com_content&task=view |date=2016-03-05 }} – Airrecognition.com, 1 April 2015</ref>
*SSITH: System Security Integrated Through Hardware and Firmware - secure hardware platform (2017); basis for open-source, hack-proof voting system project and 2019 system prototype contract<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/darpa-is-building-a-dollar10-million-open-source-secure-voting-system/|title=DARPA Is Building a $10 Million, Open Source, Secure Voting System|last1=Zetter|first1=Kim|last2=Maiberg|first2=Emanuel|date=2019-03-14|website=Vice|language=en-US|access-date=2019-06-01}}</ref>
* SXCT: [[Squad X Core Technologies]]: Digitized, integrated technologies that improve infantry squads' awareness, precision, and influence. (2015)<ref>[http://www.gizmag.com/darpa-squad-x-core-technologies-infantry/36020/ DARPA's Squad X Core Technologies program looks to create smarter, more aware infantry squads] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150214010300/http://www.gizmag.com/darpa-squad-x-core-technologies-infantry/36020/ |date=2015-02-14 }} – Gizmag.com, 10 February 2015</ref>
* [[SyNAPSE]]: Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Srinivasa|first1=N.|last2=Cruz-Albrecht|first2=J. M.|date=January 2012|title=Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics: Analog Learning Systems|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/mpul.2011.2175639|journal=IEEE Pulse|volume=3|issue=1|pages=51–56|doi=10.1109/mpul.2011.2175639|pmid=22344953|s2cid=20042976|issn=2154-2287}}</ref><!-- no source to say this remains an active DARPA program in 2021 needs confirmation of closure -->
* Tactical Boost Glide (TBG): Air-launched [[hypersonic]] boost glide missile. (2016)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2016/09/darpa-gives-lockheed-1473-million-to.html |title=DARPA gives Lockheed $147.3 million to research Hypersonic Tactical Boost Glide Missiles - NextBigFuture.com |date=20 September 2016 |website=nextbigfuture.com |access-date=6 June 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170330180048/http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2016/09/darpa-gives-lockheed-1473-million-to.html |archive-date=30 March 2017 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.shephardmedia.com/news/defence-notes/raytheon-wins-darpa-tbg-contract-modification/ Raytheon wins DARPA TBG contract modification] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518063039/http://www.shephardmedia.com/news/defence-notes/raytheon-wins-darpa-tbg-contract-modification/ |date=2015-05-18 }} – Shephardmedia.com, 4 May 2015</ref><ref name= erblandStults >{{cite web| url = https://www.darpa.mil/program/tactical-boost-glide| title = Dr. Peter Erbland, Lt. Col. Joshua Stults: Tactical Boost Glide (TBG) }}</ref>
* [[Tactically Exploited Reconnaissance Node]] (Tern)(2014): The program seeks to develop ship based UAS systems and technologies to enable a future air vehicle that could provide persistent ISR and strike capabilities beyond the limited range and endurance provided by existing helicopter platforms.<ref>[http://defensesystems.com/articles/2014/06/13/darpa-onr-tern-long-range-isr.aspx DARPA, Navy want long-range ISR drones for smaller ships] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141112000124/http://defensesystems.com/articles/2014/06/13/darpa-onr-tern-long-range-isr.aspx |date=2014-11-12 }} – Defensesystems.com, 13 June 2014</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Tern (Archived) |url=https://www.darpa.mil/program/tern |access-date=May 14, 2023 |website=darpa.mil}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=December 28, 2015 |title=Tern Moves Closer to Full-Scale Demonstration of Unmanned VTOL Aircraft Designed for Small Ships |url=https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2015-12-28 |access-date=May 14, 2023 |website=darpa.mil}}</ref>
* [[TransApps]] (Transformative Applications), rapid development and fielding of secure mobile apps in the battlefield
* [[ULTRA-Vis]] (Urban Leader Tactical Response, Awareness and Visualization): Heads-up display for individual soldiers. (2014)<ref>[http://breakingdefense.com/2014/05/darpas-wearable-display-augments-reality-for-foot-troops/ DARPA's ULTRA-Vis Augments Reality For Foot Troops] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141221000601/http://breakingdefense.com/2014/05/darpas-wearable-display-augments-reality-for-foot-troops/ |date=2014-12-21 }} – Breakingdefense.com, 21 May 2014</ref>
*underwater network, heterogeneous: develop concepts and reconfigurable architecture, leveraging advancement in undersea communications and autonomous ocean systems, to demonstrate utility at sea.<ref name="U.S. Department of Defense Contract 2">{{Cite web|title=Contracts for March 5, 2020|url=https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/2103659/|access-date=2021-02-05|website=U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE|language=en-US}}</ref> Raytheon BBN is currently working on this program, with work expected through 4 May 2021, though if the government exercises all options on the contract then work will continue through 4 February 2024.<ref name="U.S. Department of Defense Contract 2" />
* [[Upward Falling Payloads]]: Payloads stored on the ocean floor that can be activated and retrieved when needed. (2014)<ref>[http://defensesystems.com/articles/2014/03/27/upward-falling-payloads-darpa.aspx Pentagon plans to seed ocean floor with payloads waiting to be activated] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141111235935/http://defensesystems.com/articles/2014/03/27/upward-falling-payloads-darpa.aspx |date=2014-11-11 }} – Defensesystems.com, 27 March 2014</ref>
*Urban Reconnaissance through Supervised Autonomy (URSA) program: develop technology for use in cities to enable autonomous systems that U.S. infantry and ground forces operate to detect and identify enemies before U.S. troops come across them. Program will factor in algorithms, multiple sensors, and scientific knowledge about human behavior to determine subtle differences between hostiles and innocent civilians.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Russell|first=Dr. Bartlett|date=|title=Urban Reconnaissance through Supervised Autonomy (URSA)|url=https://www.darpa.mil/program/urban-reconnaissance-through-supervised-autonomy|access-date=February 5, 2021|website=Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency}}</ref> Soar Technology Inc. of Ann Arbor, Michigan, is currently working on pertinent vehicle autonomy technology, with work expected completed by March 2022.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Contracts for September 30, 2020|url=https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/2367105/|access-date=2021-02-05|website=U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE|language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Warrior Web]]: Soft exosuit to alleviate musculoskeletal stress on soldiers when carrying heavy loads. (2014)<ref>[https://www.army.mil/article/125315/DARPA_s_Warrior_Web_project_may_provide_super_human_enhancements/ DARPA's Warrior Web project may provide super-human enhancements]  – Army.mil, 5 May 2014</ref> 
* Waste Upcycling for Defense (WUD) (2023): to turn scrap wood, cardboard, paper, and other cellulose-derived matter into sustainable materials such as building materials for re-use.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hu |first=Charlotte |date=2023-07-24 |title=DARPA would like to make scrap wood stronger with WUD |url=https://www.popsci.com/technology/darpa-wud/ |access-date=2023-08-06 |website=Popular Science |language=en-US}}</ref>