DARPA exploring growing bio structures of "unprecedented size" in microgravity — https://sam.gov/opp/426e5868fcf74dd4ada3768b00b09234/view
#HackerNews #DARPA #bioengineering #microgravity #spaceinnovation #biostructures #technews

Watching #BattlestarGalactica (new series) season 2 finale. As the army of #DARPA bots (#Elon's army) marches onto #NewCaprica! Ugh! Too close to home?

#DARPA seeks ideas for 'large bio-mechanical space structures' - https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/27/darpa_biomech_space_structures/ "looking for structures more than 500 meters long. It envisages uses including vast nets for orbital debris collection, tethers for a space elevator, or self-assembled wings for a commercial space station."

DARPA Large Bio-Mechanical Space Structures — https://sam.gov/opp/49c9fac62ef249f19cda8b436a095d3b/view
#HackerNews #DARPA #BioMechanical #Space #Structures #SpaceInnovation #AdvancedEngineering #FutureTech #NASA

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (#DARPA) has selected #Microsoft as 1 of 2 organizations to participate in the final phase of the Underexplored Systems for Utility-Scale #QuantumComputing (#US2QC) program.

DARPA Selects Microsoft, PsiQuantum For Final Phase of Its Useful #Quantum Computer Program
https://thequantuminsider.com/2025/02/07/darpa-selects-microsoft-psiquantum-for-final-phase-of-its-useful-quantum-computer-program/
#msftadvocate

#DARPA just announced a forthcoming program entitled "Exponentiating Mathematics", focusing on challenges to auto-formalization (and auto-decomposition of large proofs into small lemmas). The preliminary announcement (still short on many details) can be found at https://sam.gov/opp/4def3c13ca3947069b1779e7ff697c6a/view

[As mentioned in previous posts, there is significant uncertainty in the federal funding environment at present, nevertheless there is still activity in launching new proposals.]